By therecorder | The Recorder | July 7, 2017
9th Cir.; 15-30279 The court of appeals affirmed district court orders denying motions for sentence reduction. The court held that Amendment 782 did…
By therecorder | The Recorder | July 7, 2017
9th Cir.; 14-99006 The court of appeals affirmed in part and reversed in part the district court’s denial of a petition for writ of habeas corpus.…
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 Josefa Velasquez | July 7, 2017
The lawyer for Rochester City Court Judge Leticia Astacio, who received a 60-day jail sentence and three years of probation on a driving while intoxicated charge has filed an appeal of the sentence.
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 Alan E. Sash | July 7, 2017
They teach us in school how the three branches of government in the Constitution check and balance one another. The Bill of Rights, however, has two other checks and balances in place: The First Amendment guarantees us the freedom of the press and the Sixth Amendment guarantees us the assistance of counsel in criminal prosecutions.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | July 7, 2017
The owners of a now-defunct Philadelphia hospice have agreed to pay $8.8 million to settle claims that they received taxpayer money for services that were either unnecessary or never provided, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
By Michael Booth | July 6, 2017
Two Colts Neck brothers have been sentenced to six-and-a-half-year prison terms for operating an insurance fraud ring in which they paid "runners" to recruit car crash victims as patients for chiropractic facilities they owned and operated.
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
The court deferred decision on defendant's constitutional challenges to the retroactive application of the lifetime registration requirement in the State Offender Registration and Notification Act given the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's recent grant of appeal in three cases challenging the same statute. The court denied defendant's motion for relief nunc pro tunc without prejudice.
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