By Paul Shechtman | January 26, 2024
In November of 2023, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in United States v. Diaz, which raises a question about the admissibility of expert law enforcement testimony offered to support the prosecution's theory that the defendant knew she was transporting drugs. In his article, Yale Law Professor Paul Schechtman discusses the case and its potential implications.
By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press | January 25, 2024
Arbery, 25, was chased by pickup trucks and fatally shot in the streets of a subdivision outside the port city of Brunswick on Feb. 23, 2020. His killing sparked a national outcry when cellphone video Bryan recorded of the shooting leaked online more than two months later.
By Jimmy Hoover | January 22, 2024
Attorney General Gentner Drummond's office concluded prosecutors withheld from the defense evidence that the witness had seen a psychiatrist and was diagnosed with a potentially violent psychiatric condition.
By Cheryl Miller | January 18, 2024
In a meeting with reporters, Patricia Guerrero talked about her court's opinion output, term limits for judges and why the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling overturning "Roe v. Wade" may have soured public opinion.
By Colleen Murphy | January 18, 2024
Criminal matters seem to sew the most discord among the typically aligned justices, with rulings in criminal appeals making up four of the five decisions that have attracted dissents in recent months.
By James Pollard | The Associated Press | January 17, 2024
The South Carolina judge's narrow rules were tougher than those sought by Murdaugh's lawyers during the Tuesday hearing, held to determine the scope of the three-day evidentiary hearing later this month.
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By Linton Mann III and William T. Russell Jr. | January 16, 2024
In 'People v. Butler', the Court of Appeals recently decided an issue of first impression concerning the use of police dogs to detect the presence of illegal drugs on a suspect's body. In a unanimous opinion, it ruled that the use of a narcotics-detecting dog to sniff a suspect's body for evidence of a crime constitutes a search for purposes of the Fourth Amendment.
By Allison Dunn | January 12, 2024
"Counsel's constructive absence during either a significant portion of trial or an important aspect of trial so offends the constitutional protections surrounding the right to assistance of counsel that it renders the entire adversary process 'presumptively unreliable' and creates an uncurable error," Chief Justice Kimberly S. Budd wrote.
By Cheryl Miller | January 10, 2024
In its annual review of the high court, the California Constitution Center found the seven justices in sync in their legal views.
By Avalon Zoppo | January 9, 2024
Vacancy enables Biden to make a fourth pick for the Richmond, Virginia-based appeals court.
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