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The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Lankford, PICS Case No. 17-0948 (Pa. Super. May 30, 2017) Lazarus, J. (11 pages).

Sentence did not violate constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment where it was not grossly disproportionate to convicted crimes, nor would it inhibit defendant's access to allegedly necessary mental health treatment. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Bond, PICS Case No. 17-0915 (C.P. Lycoming May 30, 2017) Lovecchio, J. (8 pages).

Under the "plain feel doctrine," police had probable cause to arrest defendant where the arresting officer frisked him and detected what he immediately recognized as narcotic packaging hidden in defendant's groin area. The court denied defendant's omnibus pretrial motion to suppress evidence.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Hopkins, PICS Case No. 17-0927 (C.P. Lycoming May 10, 2017) Gray, P.J. (7 pages).

In connection with criminal charges for possession of firearms, defendant waived his argument regarding his constitutional right to bear arms by failing to raise it in his pretrial motion. The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss the remaining firearms charges because the trial on the firearms matters was properly severed from the trial on the drug charges.
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Commonwealth v. Monarch, PICS Case No. 17-0950 (Pa. Super. June 6, 2017) Panella, J. (11 pages).

Prior inconsistent recorded statement about defendant's intoxication was properly admitted, under the trial court's discretion, to impeach a witness, where the jury as factfinder could determine whether the recorded statement was inconsistent with the witness' trial testimony and weigh the witness' testimony and credibility accordingly. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Lawrence, PICS Case No. 17-0949 (Pa. Super. May 30, 2017) Stevens, J. (23 pages).

Appellate counsel's concession that the evidence was sufficient to establish a killing with malice constituted a strategic concession and was not ineffective assistance of counsel. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.
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Daily Report Online

Laurel Boatright, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Northern District of Georgia

Practice Profile: Boatright as a community outreach coordinator implements programs aimed at crime prevention and reducing recidivism in metro Atlanta.…
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New York Law Journal

The People v. Boyd

Court Properly Dismissed BB Gun Possession Charge So Jury Could Not Resort to Nullification
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The Recorder

Turner v. United States

U.S. Sup. Ct.; 15-1503 Petitioners—Timothy Catlett, Russell Overton, Levy Rouse, Kelvin Smith, Charles and Christopher Turner, and Clifton Yarborough—and…
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The Recorder

Weaver v. Massachusetts

U.S. Sup. Ct.; 16-240 When petitioner was tried in a Massachusetts trial court, the courtroom could not accommodate all the potential jurors. As a result,…
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The Recorder

Maslenjak v. United States

U.S. Sup. Ct.; 16–309 Petitioner Divna Maslenjak is an ethnic Serb who resided in Bosnia during the 1990’s, when a civil war divided the…
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