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New Jersey Law Journal

By Extending 'Henderson,' NJ Justices Staunch Problematic Eyewitness Identification Issue

Why would an impermissibly suggestive identification procedure on the eve of trial be less pernicious than one occurring earlier in the case?
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Tinkering With the Machinery of Death: Alabama Turns to Nitrogen to Execute a Condemned Person

Since the early days of capital punishment, our nation has moved from the hangman's noose to the gas chamber to the electric chair to lethal injection. Now we are facing a new machine—and a new dissenter on the Supreme Court.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Murdaugh Is Denied New Double-Murder Trial After SC Judge Hears Jury-Tampering Allegations

The judge said she couldn't overturn the verdict based "on the strength of some fleeting and foolish comments by a publicity-seeking clerk of court."
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

'Diaz': SCOTUS to Consider Expert Law Enforcement Testimony

In November of 2023, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in United States v. Diaz, which raises a question about the admissibility of expert law enforcement testimony offered to support the prosecution's theory that the defendant knew she was transporting drugs. In his article, Yale Law Professor Paul Schechtman discusses the case and its potential implications.
12 minute read

Daily Report Online

Eleventh Circuit Sets March Court Date to Hear Ahmaud Arbery's Killers' Appeals of Their Hate Crime Convictions

Arbery, 25, was chased by pickup trucks and fatally shot in the streets of a subdivision outside the port city of Brunswick on Feb. 23, 2020. His killing sparked a national outcry when cellphone video Bryan recorded of the shooting leaked online more than two months later.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Justices Will Review Condemned Oklahoman's Murder Conviction That State's AG Disavows

Attorney General Gentner Drummond's office concluded prosecutors withheld from the defense evidence that the witness had seen a psychiatrist and was diagnosed with a potentially violent psychiatric condition.
6 minute read

The Recorder

California Chief Justice Says Court's Frequent Unanimity Doesn't Squelch Voices

In a meeting with reporters, Patricia Guerrero talked about her court's opinion output, term limits for judges and why the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling overturning "Roe v. Wade" may have soured public opinion.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

5 Cases That Have Divided New Jersey's Largely Unified Supreme Court

Criminal matters seem to sew the most discord among the typically aligned justices, with rulings in criminal appeals making up four of the five decisions that have attracted dissents in recent months.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Alex Murdaugh Faces Uphill Battle for New Murder Trial as Judge Limits Permissible Evidence

The South Carolina judge's narrow rules were tougher than those sought by Murdaugh's lawyers during the Tuesday hearing, held to determine the scope of the three-day evidentiary hearing later this month.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Use of Police Dogs Constitutes Search Implicating Fourth Amendment Protections

In 'People v. Butler', the Court of Appeals recently decided an issue of first impression concerning the use of police dogs to detect the presence of illegal drugs on a suspect's body. In a unanimous opinion, it ruled that the use of a narcotics-detecting dog to sniff a suspect's body for evidence of a crime constitutes a search for purposes of the Fourth Amendment.
7 minute read

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