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First degree murder
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Category Archives: Supreme Court
Coming up with the Supremes….
Today’s crim law and procedure cert grants Issue summaries are from ScotusBlog, which also links to cert documents and opinions below for some of the cases (and likely in all of the cases soon): Kentucky v. King: Under what circumstances … Continue reading
Make sure you ask the right questions….
The trial court erroneously failed to ask potential jurors if they understood and accepted four basic constitutional guarantees afforded criminal defendants at trial. The Illinois Appellate Court, 4th District, has reversed the armed robbery conviction of the defendant, Ahmed A. … Continue reading
The Exclusionary Rule…
Robert M. Bloom (pictured) and David H. Fentin (Boston College – Law School and Boston College) have posted ‘A More Majestic Conception:’ The Importance of Judicial Integrity in Preserving the Exclusionary Rule (University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Forthcoming) … Continue reading
Only in America…
This issue will be argued this week in Supreme Court….. City of Ontario v. Quon: (1) Whether a SWAT team member has a reasonable expectation of privacy in text messages transmitted on his SWAT pager, where the police department has … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal defense, search and seizure, Supreme Court
Tagged Criminal defense, Legal, search and seizure, Supreme Court
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ON Justice Ginsburg…
Slobogin on Justice Ginsburg’s Gradualism in Criminal Procedure Christopher Slobogin (Vanderbilt University – School of Law) has posted Justice Ginsburg’s Gradualism in Criminal Procedure (Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 70, No. 4, p. 870, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the … Continue reading
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens retiring By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the court’s oldest member and leader of its liberal bloc, is retiring. President Barack Obama now has his … Continue reading
Latest from the Supremes…..
opinion in fair-cross-section case The opinion in Berghuis v. Smith is here. Here is the syllabus: Criminal defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to trial by an impartial jury drawn from a fair cross section of the community. See Taylor … Continue reading
The Next Justice……
March 25, 2010 In Possible Retirement, the Likelihood of an Election-Year Confrontation By PETER BAKER WASHINGTON — No announcement has been made, but the widely anticipated retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens in coming weeks has the White House, Senate … Continue reading
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Tagged Diane P. Wood, Elena Kagan, Merrick B. Garland, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court
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“Victory for U.S. on detainees”
ScotusBlog has the story here: The Supreme Court voted on Monday to leave intact a lower court ruling that took away almost all of the power of federal judges to block, even temporarily, the transfer of detainees out of Guantanamo … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal defense, Evidence, Guantanamo Bay, Kiyemba v. Obama, Legal, Supreme Court
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Judicial Conflict?
Clarence Thomas’ Wife Joins Tea Party Virginia Thomas is no ordinary activist. In fact, she’s the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and she has founded a Tea Party-linked group, which could stretch the court’s traditional sense of impartiality. … Continue reading
