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MassLive.com
January 20, 2018
Crichlow, with a lifelong criminal history that includes drug dealing, car jacking, assault and kidnapping, was arrested in 2015 by agents from the U.S. Bureau of ... Meanwhile, a U.S. Supreme Court decision that had a trickle-down effect regarding classifications for "armed career criminals" by diluting priorÃÂ ...
The Dickinson Press
January 20, 2018
The Eighth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed that decision twice. Grand Forks attorney Howard Swanson, who is representing Braathen, Janke and Nelson County in the case, filed a waiver Tuesday, Jan. 16, to the Supreme Court saying he did not intend to respond to the brief. About 7,000ÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
January 19, 2018
But what if that “assistance” takes the form of an admission by a defense lawyer that his client committed the crime — even though the client insists he is ... This week, lawyers for McCoy asked the U.S. Supreme Court to grant him a new trial at which he can assert that the murders were actually committed byÃÂ ...
Richmond.com
January 19, 2018
Last year, U.S. District Judge Raymond Jackson ordered a new sentencing for Malvo, now 32, in light of U.S. Supreme Court decisions issued since Malvo was sentenced. ... "The Supreme Court of Virginia's recent opinion that such a sentence could be suspended contradicted years of criminal practice.".
Law & Crime
January 17, 2018
Three reasons show why the Supreme Court is likely to reverse U.S. District Judge William Alsup, invalidate the injunction, and reinstate President's Trump's ... But then, Alsup claimed the executive cannot revisit a prior deferment determination if based on a “mistake of law” about the reason for its decision.
University of Virginia
January 12, 2018
Professor Aditya Bamzai of the University of Virginia School of Law will make his debut Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court after a rare decision by the justices to ... The cases involve challenges to the appointment of various judges who serve on the U.S. Courts of Criminal Appeals for the military services.
NBCNews.com
January 12, 2018
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on the case, which explores the boundaries of two tenets of the American justice system: the ... In those cases, the lawyer may decide that it would appear insincere to argue in the first phase that the defendant didn't commit the crime, then turnÃÂ ...
Allentown Morning Call
January 9, 2018
Supreme Court hearing Pa. vehicle search case; decision could impact millions of car rentals ... and Hispanic drivers, who are more likely to rent cars than white drivers, according to the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense lawyers, who filed a brief in the case.
NPR
January 9, 2018
Tuesday was car day at the U.S. Supreme Court, as the justices heard arguments in two cases testing when police can search a motor vehicle without a warrant. While both cases challenged criminal convictions, both involved searches in circumstances that could well be encountered every day byÃÂ ...
Palm Beach Post
January 5, 2018
According to court records, the nearly 70-page petition was distributed to the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices on Dec. 14 and added to the list of several hundred cases that they discussed Friday at one of their regularly scheduled conferences to review which cases they will take up. As of late Friday, it wasÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
November 26, 2017
Prosecutors, who sponsored Proposition 66, and crime victims also are ... The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision in 2015 that ...
Pensacola News Journal
November 26, 2017
With more research on brain development, the U.S. Supreme Court ... to ascertain their crime was heinous enough to warrant a life sentence, ...
New York Times
November 16, 2017
Though Mr. Moore sometimes stood alone in criminal cases, he remained ... Douglas Inge Johnstone, a justice on the Alabama Supreme Court during Mr. ... for the United States Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage.
JURIST
October 31, 2017
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments [day call, PDF] in two criminal procedure cases. In Ayestas v.
Politico
October 31, 2017
U.S. Supreme Court decision weighs heavily on Menendez jury ... did not act with a criminal intent in failing to disclose that thing of value,” the ...
WIRED
October 28, 2017
One of the biggest cases for the US Supreme Court's current term could ... from law enforcement to access CSLI for criminal investigations.
Pleasanton Weekly
August 29, 2017
The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld most of a voter initiative ... attorney general's office and the Sacramento-based Criminal Justice Legal Foundation. The decision left in place a provision of the initiative that generally limits ... by the state is now pending in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
Green Rush Daily
August 29, 2017
Earlier this summer, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made ... The decision also agreed with the Reillys' claim that the smell of ... If the district court does not reach any different conclusions, and if the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't get ... The laws were originally written to go after organized crime andÃÂ ...
EFF
August 29, 2017
The CFAA is a criminal law with serious penalties. ... The U.S. Supreme Court has the opportunity to change that, and we urge them to do ... Within weeks after the decisions came out, LinkedIn started sending out cease andÃÂ ...
Twin Falls Times-News
August 29, 2017
Local ÷ Mini-Cassia ÷ Crime & Courts ÷ The Big Story ÷ Agriculture ... Twin Falls judge Richard Bevan will be moving to the Idaho Supreme Court. ... to be a faithful servant of the United States and Idaho constitutions, to the rule ... “Judge Bevan's judicial demeanor, his sound and well-reasoned decisions, andà...
Houston Press
August 29, 2017
U.S. Supreme Court Stalls Texas Redistricting Case ... In a blistering decision from April, a federal appeals court in San Antonio ruled the stateÃÂ ...
BuzzFeed News
August 28, 2017
A presidential pardon does not automatically undo a criminal conviction. ... Arpaio still has a petition pending before the US Supreme Court. He had previously challenged a federal district judge's decision to reject his requestÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
August 27, 2017
Supreme Court justices live in a different world than most of us. ... But what if the issue behind present cases is whether, four or ten years henceÃÂ ...
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