By Mason Lawlor | October 5, 2022
"The fact that the district attorneys could help Dukes does not mean that they offered to do so, much less that they offered an improper hope of benefit in the form of reduced criminal punishment."
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Law Journal Editorial Board | October 2, 2022
A search of the Constitution reveals no exception, no special consideration, no dispensation, no pause, and certainly no provision for appointment of a special master to review for executive privilege evidence seized pursuant to a lawfully issued warrant from a potential defendant, including a former president.
By Jason Grant | September 30, 2022
"Apart from determining that a mere proffer [that screening or Chinese Wall inside the prosecutor's office existed] was insufficient and suggesting that affidavits about a screening procedure may be relevant evidence, we have never affirmatively identified the various factors a court should consider in determining whether a former defense attorney was 'effectively screened' from a related matter," wrote the Virginia Court of Appeals in the case before it.
By Adolfo Pesquera | September 29, 2022
"If we ruled that the legislature could give the Attorney General the unfettered power to prosecute all election cases, we would be giving every future Attorney General the power to bring possibly fabricated criminal charges against every candidate running for public office ... who disagrees with the Attorney General's political ideals," Judge Scott Walker said.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Robert M. Simels | September 29, 2022
Lack of knowledge may cause federal judges to impose sentences far more onerous than they intend without sufficient pushback from the defendants' lawyers.
By Dan Roe | September 29, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court is the last remedy for the longtime Crowell & Moring pro bono client, who spent 32 years in prison for a murder that legal scholars have called a racial hoax.
By The Associated Press | September 28, 2022
Sirhan Sirhan's attorney, Angela Berry, says there is no evidence her now 78-year-old client remains dangerous. She is filing what's known as a writ of habeas corpus asking a judge to rule that Gov. Gavin Newsom violated state law, which holds that inmates should be paroled unless they pose a current unreasonable public safety risk.
By Colleen Murphy | September 28, 2022
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has issued an invitation for amicus briefs regarding whether state law requires an accused to be notified of the right to counsel—and to clearly waive that right—before being interrogated while in custody.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp | September 27, 2022
Overall, the Court issued opinions in 66 cases, four of which arose out of the Second Circuit. The Supreme Court reversed in all four of those cases, but the Second Circuit was not an outlier in that respect.
By The Associated Press | September 26, 2022
Weaknesses in the case were detailed in a book published this year, "The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson."
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