By Riley Brennan | June 13, 2023
"The defendants here are not immune from suit under the Eleventh Amendment because Johnson seeks prospective declaratory and injunction relief and has alleged a sufficient connection between the defendants and Act 1780's enforcement," Judge Jane Kelly wrote on behalf of the court. "The Sevier County Prosecuting Attorney and the Director of the State Crime Lab have a sufficient connection because they possess and control evidence that Johnson seeks to test, and they have refused to provide it to him."
By Emily Saul | June 13, 2023
In an advisory opinion, an ethics panel said Judge Juan Merchan should be able to continue to presiding over litigation in the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Louis F. Locascio | June 13, 2023
In 1994, an offender's violation of the registration requirements constituted a fourth-degree offense. However, the statute was amended in 2007, elevating a violation to a third-degree offense. If a defendant is sentenced as a sex offender between 1994 and 2007, but violates the registration requirements after 2007, does charging the defendant with a third-degree offense constitute an ex post facto violation?
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Joel Cohen | June 12, 2023
But what if the prosecutor's office determines that a convicted defendant in jail may have been wrongly convicted but is actually guilty? What is their obligation then? Can they just sit on their hands and do nothing? Or, if only as a matter of legal ethics, must they try to repair the wrongful conviction by asking the courts to set it aside, even if they believe the defendant is guilty?
By Lisa Willis | June 9, 2023
"[This is] going to make the O.J. case seem like Minor-League baseball," University of Miami School of Law professor Craig Trocino said.
By Kathleen Foody and Teresa Crawford | June 9, 2023
Supraja Alaparthi, center, was killed after being dragged across the water and slamming into a bridge last June while strapped into a parasail.
By Curt Anderson | June 9, 2023
Susan Louise Lorincz has been charged with the first-degree felony of manslaughter with a firearm, as well as culpable negligence, battery and two counts of assault.
By Emily Saul | June 9, 2023
The privacy interests of the co-signers outweigh the right of access, defense attorney Joe Murray wrote.
By The Associated Press | June 9, 2023
Rodolfo Arzola-Carrillo, 39, a Mexican national living in Georgia, pleaded guilty in federal court in Fargo, North Dakota, on Wednesday, the Bismarck Tribune reported.
By Eric Tucker, Jill Colvin and Michael Balsamo | The Associated Press | June 9, 2023
The indictment carries unmistakably grave legal consequences, including the possibility of prison if Trump's convicted.
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