By Ryan Tarinelli | June 1, 2021
The ruling from the state Court of Appeals reverses a decision from a split appellate court panel, which said the circumstances supported "a reasonable belief that the search of the backpack was necessary to ensure the safety of the arresting officers and the public."
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | June 1, 2021
The jury instruction at issue involved the trial judge explaining to the jury that reasonable doubt is the only standard that supports a guilty verdict and that the state "is not required to meet some mathematical certainty" or "to demonstrate the complete impossibility of innocence."
By Cedra Mayfield | June 1, 2021
"Georgia's uniquely high and onerous burden means that people with intellectual disability will be executed," said Brian Stull, senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union Capital Punishment Project.
By Angela Morris | May 27, 2021
A main issue in this appeal is whether a visiting judge who was appointed to preside over the case back when it was in Collin County had the authority to transfer the matter to the Houston court.
By Zack Needles | May 27, 2021
After a year and a half of courts utilizing technology to try to keep their dockets moving, however slowly, two recent cases on appeal highlight the pitfalls of Zoom trials, in which the environment is much less tightly controlled than it would otherwise be in a physical courtroom.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp | May 25, 2021
On March 31, in 'United States v. Felder', the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit resolved three matters of first impression regarding the mens rea and causation requirements of the federal carjacking statute and joined six other circuits in identifying federal carjacking as a predicate crime of violence. In their Second Circuit Review, Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp discuss the case and the court's ruling.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Eric A. Seiff | May 25, 2021
We have learned so much, but this is no longer simply a matter of learning more. Against a background of the wide-spread deterioration of the public's confidence in police practices, and its simultaneous impact on public safety, the time to lead is now.
By Marcia Coyle | May 20, 2021
The case had been expected to generate the latest influential decision about the clash between social media and trial proceedings.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Suzette Parmley | May 20, 2021
The split means an Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas ruling rejecting Fears' Post-Conviction Relief Act claims stands.
By Jacqueline Thomsen | May 20, 2021
U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, tapped for seats on federal appeals courts, were among the nominees sent to the full Senate.
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