By Max Mitchell | July 7, 2017
With the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issuing a much-anticipated ruling on juveniles' prison sentences of life without parole, Pennsylvania courts have begun to move forward toward resentencing hundreds of persons who had sentences struck down as unconstitutional.
By Charles Toutant | July 7, 2017
Sentencing for state-law criminal offenses in federal court is no simple matter, as an appeals court's split ruling vacating sentences in a horrific child abuse case shows.
By Jason Grant | July 7, 2017
A man serving a 25-year sentence will get a new trial because Bronx prosecutors failed to obtain leave from the court before re-presenting his case to a grand jury, leading to an unlawful murder charge, an appeals court has ruled.
By Jonathan Ringel | July 7, 2017
The federal appeals court for the Southeast has started providing audio recordings of oral arguments on its website.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 7, 2017
The trial court did not err in sentencing defendant to a mandatory minimum sentence for violating the Solid Waste Management Act where the sentencing provision of the act did not require proof of any additional elements of a crime and, thus, did not run afoul of the holding in 'Alleyne v. U.S.' The court affirmed the trial court's judgment of sentence.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 7, 2017
Trial court properly sentenced appellant to incarceration after he violated the probation and/or intermediate sentences imposed for his two underlying convictions for the fifth time and the reviewing court granted appellant's counsel's petition to withdraw. Affirmed.
By njlawjournal | New Jersey Law Journal | July 6, 2017
Admission of Video of Defendant Alone in Interrogation Room, Without Limiting Instruction, Not Plain Error
By njlawjournal | New Jersey Law Journal | July 6, 2017
Admission of Prior Bad Acts Evidence to Establish Witness' Bias Erroneous and Harmful Where Testimony Central to Defense
By Emily Wagster Pettus | July 3, 2017
A man who was convicted and later cleared after falsely confessing to murder at 13 says he is grateful a court revived his request for compensation in Mississippi, and that others might benefit from a change in how the state handles wrongful conviction lawsuits.
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | July 3, 2017
Panel Rejects Defendant's Claim City Court Erred in Allowing Him to Proceed Pro Se
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