By Alexa Woronowicz | September 29, 2017
The trial court erred in precluding the commonwealth from offering as evidence two jail call recordings in which defendant allegedly made inculpatory statements as a sanction for failing to fulfill an earlier promise to provide transcriptions of all his recorded phone calls where the scope of the earlier promise was unclear and the bulk of the other recordings immaterial. The court reversed and remanded.
By Alexa Woronowicz | September 28, 2017
Parole Board Erred in Treating Application to Move Abroad as Request to Terminate CSL
By Meredith Hobbs | September 27, 2017
After seeing a video of one of appellate public defender Andrew Fleischman's oral arguments before the Georgia Supreme Court in a contested murder case, criminal defense lawyer Noah Pines hired him.
By Kate Brumback | September 27, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court granted a temporary stay of execution for a Georgia inmate whose attorneys argue that the 59-year-old black man's death sentence was tainted by a juror's racial bias.
By B. Colby Hamilton | September 26, 2017
The Second Circuit, again finding that jury instructions in public corruption trials after the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in 'McDonnell v. U.S.' require greater clarity to sustain convictions, vacated the convictions of former New York state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in a summary order issued Tuesday.
By Meredith Hobbs | September 26, 2017
After seeing a video of one of appellate public defender Andrew Fleischman's oral arguments before the Georgia Supreme Court in a contested murder case, criminal defense lawyer Noah Pines hired him.
By Colby Hamilton | September 26, 2017
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, again finding that jury instructions in public corruption trials after the U.S. Supreme Court's McDonnell…
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 22, 2017
Defendant's contention that his 1978 conviction for criminal trespass did not constitute an "enumerated offense" under Section 6105 of the Uniform Firearms Act, thus barring him from owning a gun, was meritless; therefore, trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to raise the claim. The court affirmed an order denying defendant relief under the Post Conviction Relief Act.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 22, 2017
The compulsory joinder rule requiring joinder of DUI and summary traffic offenses did not apply in judicial districts that had separate traffic courts with exclusive and limited jurisdiction to dispose of summary offenses, which required DUI charges held for trial in general jurisdiction courts. Order of the trial court reversed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 22, 2017
The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting defendant's extrajudicial statements to police and a nurse caring for an abused elder where the Commonwealth had already proffered sufficient evidence of the corpus delicti, or body of the crimes charged, to entitle the case to go to the trier of fact. The appellate court affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence.
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