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People v. Contreras

By | December 12, 2013
5 minute read

The Recorder

People v. Freidt

By | December 12, 2013
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Jordan Defense Lawyer Continues Attack on D.A. Team

Another month, another twist in the pretrial saga of Gigi Jordan. Last week, the defense, which had accused the initial lead prosecutor of wide-ranging misconduct, moved to recuse the new lead prosecutor, whose wife works for the firm that represents Jordan's ex-husband in an action accusing her of defamation.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Bronx Felony Backlog Drops, Misdemeanors Next, Lippman Says

A program implemented earlier this year to speed up felony cases in the Bronx has slashed the borough's backlog of felonies pending for at least two years by more than half, according to data released Wednesday.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Mandatory Minimums: Time for a Change?

In their Sentencing Guidelines column, Covington & Burling's Alan Vinegrad and Jason Levine write: Mandatory minimum sentences have, for years, been the subject of complaints from the bench, the defense bar and academics. But this year, these criticisms are taking hold—and all three branches of the federal government are getting into the fray.
14 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Hints of Change in China

By | December 11, 2013
A recent announcement shows the Chinese government feels the need to at least pay lip service to due process in criminal cases.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Use of Race in Peremptory Challenges Before Justices

In the 102 cases during the past 20 years in which the California Supreme Court reviewed a claim that prosecutors struck prospective jurors on the basis of their race, that court found error only once—and that was 12 years ago. That "improbable record," California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu has observed, was attributable, at least in part, to his court's "erroneous legal framework" for evaluating so-called Batson claims.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Justices Give Prosecutors Win in Kansas Death Case

A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that prosecutors may use evidence from a court-ordered mental evaluation against a capital defendant to rebut the defendant's own psychiatric testimony.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Massey Settlement Came as Discovery Stay Was Set to End

The $265 million shareholder settlement with coal producer Massey Energy Co. came after the U.S. attorney's office in West Virginia, citing its criminal investigation into the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, intervened to halt discovery in the civil case.
3 minute read

Law.com

School Board Attorneys Indicted for Complicity in Free-Lunch-Plan Scam

Two lawyers representing a New Jersey school board were indicted Monday on charges they covered up evidence implicating one of its members in a fraud upon the school district's lunch program.
4 minute read

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