By Tony Mauro | August 15, 2017
A Hogan Lovells team is asking the court to decide whether "the death penalty in and of itself violates the Eighth Amendment." A sharp drop in death sentences and executions makes capital punishment "rare and freakish," the brief contends.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 11, 2017
Trial court could not require defendant undergo Court Reporting Network evaluation as a condition of bail, as trial court was statutorily limited to imposing nonmonetary conditions of bail aimed solely at ensuring defendant's continued appearance and preventing violation of standard conditions of bail. Order of the trial court reversed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 11, 2017
A work-release prisoner's failure to go to work after being released to do so and having his whereabouts unknown for a majority of his absence from prison constituted a sufficiently significant deviation from the route of travel to constitute the offense of escape. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 11, 2017
Penalty provisions of sex offender registration statute did not violate Ex Post Facto Clause, where defendant had failed to comply with registration requirement after the legislature had already criminalized such failure. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 11, 2017
The suppression court appropriately denied defendant's motion to suppress a handgun seized by police from a public bathroom in a barbershop where defendant worked since he failed to establish a subjective expectation of privacy such that the warrantless police entry implicated his own personal privacy rights. The court affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 11, 2017
The Post Conviction Relief Act court appropriately granted defendant a preclusion order since the private interview prosecutors sought with defendant's trial counsel could easily have become a freewheeling inquiry into privileged matters falling outside the scope of defendant's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. The court affirmed an order of preclusion.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 11, 2017
Evidence of refusal of blood alcohol test properly excluded where commonwealth permitted to submit other evidence of defendant's reckless driving, including his consumption of alcohol, high rate of speed, and failure to stop at a red light, as evidence of refusal of test presented risk of unfair prejudice or confusion of issues. Order of the trial court affirmed.
By Carley Meiners | The Legal Intelligencer | August 11, 2017
The trial court did not err in finding that defendant's consent to a blood test was invalid where he only consented to the blood draw after being informed by police that he faced enhanced criminal penalties for failing to do so. The court affirmed an order granting defendant's motion to suppress evidence of a blood draw.
By Dara Kam | August 8, 2017
A death row inmate scheduled to be executed this month continues to mount challenges to the state's newly adopted lethal-injection procedure — never before used in Florida or any other state — but Attorney General Pam Bondi's lawyers are urging the Florida Supreme Court to reject the latest attempt.
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | August 8, 2017
Ex-New York Senate leader Dean Skelos asked an appeals court Monday for a new trial, citing the precedent set when former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver last month was granted a new trial on corruption charges.
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