By John Council | September 17, 2018
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has turned down the appeals of two death row inmates who argued their convictions should be overturned because their trials were presided over by a disgraced former federal judge whom they allege was “impaired” during their proceedings.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | September 17, 2018
Disbarred Bucks County lawyer Joseph P. Guarrasi could have expected stern treatment from the justice system after being convicted of plotting to murder a man so he could turn his house into a sex club. But having to pay for his rides to and from prison?
By Colby Hamilton | September 16, 2018
Queens Supreme Court Justice Ronald Hollie has repeatedly interjected himself into trial proceedings, forcing appellate panels over the past two years to order new trials before new judges at least four times.
By Jim Saunders | September 14, 2018
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rejected arguments by Jeffrey Koeppel that the Valencia College had violated his First Amendment and due-process rights and the federal education law known as Title IX, which addresses discrimination based on sex.
By Colby Hamilton | September 13, 2018
Mohammed Khalid, the youngest person ever prosecuted on terrorism charges, insisted his citizenship status remained intact, despite being in juvenile detention at the time his father was naturalized.
By Cheryl Miller | September 13, 2018
A new Ninth Circuit ruling confronts the clash between federal and state marijuana laws. "If [Charles] Lynch was not compliant with state law, he is not covered by the rider and is subject to the penalties of his conviction," the Ninth Circuit said.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Matthew T. Mangino | September 13, 2018
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro's bombshell grand jury report on sex abuse of children by priests in six Pennsylvania dioceses has been met with universal derision and unrelenting criticism of the Catholic Church.
By Andrew Denney | September 12, 2018
A Brooklyn appeals court said a man's 20-year-old murder conviction that a lower court tossed out last year should have stuck, finding that the prosecution in the case played by the rules and did not withhold key evidence from the defense.
By John Council | September 11, 2018
Five years after his initial indictment for illegally soliciting cases as a lawyer, Texas state Rep. Ron Reynolds recently entered the Montgomery County Jail and began serving a one-year sentence for barratry, though he has vowed to continue fighting the charge.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Joseph Nohavicka | September 10, 2018
Explaining to a client the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule that permits the statement of a person who cannot be cross-examined at trial is embarrassing, and for them, often frightening.
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