Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Emily Cousins | July 19, 2024
"It is long past time that the petitioner be afforded the opportunity to challenge the procedures related to the eyewitness identification used in his criminal case in light of the principles we articulated in 'Dickson,'" the high court held.
By Kim Chandler | The Associated Press | July 18, 2024
It was the state's third execution this year and the 10th in the nation, joining others in Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma and Missouri.
By Jim Saunders | News Service of Florida | July 18, 2024
Nearly two years after Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials drew widespread attention by announcing voter-fraud charges against convicted felons, two South Florida appeals courts Wednesday overturned rulings that dismissed charges against a pair of defendants.
By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press | July 18, 2024
Hoping for a new trial, lawyers for the condemned man say they have evidence that the assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case made a previously undisclosed deal with the only eyewitness to the crime.
By Jimmy Hoover | July 17, 2024
Ruben Gutierrez has been fighting to obtain DNA testing to show the murder was committed by his accomplices and that he should therefore be spared the death penalty.
By Avalon Zoppo | July 17, 2024
The three-judge panel rejected David Lesh's argument that he was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial, citing Supreme Court decisions that the right is limited to "serious" infractions defined as those punishable by six or more months of imprisonment.
By Lee A. Spielmann | July 17, 2024
In recent years, a number of cases have sought compensation from Germany or Hungary for property the Nazis or their allies seized. Plaintiffs relied upon the "expropriation exception" of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) to secure jurisdiction over the foreign sovereign. The authors discuss two such cases, 'Toren v. Federal Republic of Germany' and' Republic of Hungary v. Simon.'
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press | July 16, 2024
The appeal is to be decided by a three-judge panel of the intermediate appeals court, which will then have until mid-March to rule.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Jules Epstein | July 12, 2024
At least some facial identifications are reliable (see, e.g., familiar identifications of a previously well-known individual). The question is—can the same be said when the perpetrator was fully masked and all that was visible were his eyes?
By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman | July 10, 2024
The decision means Marilyn J. Mosby may remain an active attorney as she appeals her federal convictions. But a dissenting justice said she "presents an unacceptable risk of harm to the public" if she's allowed to practice law.
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