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New York Law Journal

USA v. Krug

By | December 08, 2016
Rulings on Motions in Limine in Rights Breach Prosecution Against Police Officers Explained
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Bolivia Detains Airline's President as Crash Probe Advances

The head of the charter airline whose plane crashed in the Andes last week was detained by Bolivian prosecutors for questioning as authorities look into whether the tragedy that killed 71 people stemmed from negligence.
6 minute read

The Recorder

People v. Burroughs

By | December 06, 2016
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

AG's Bid for Special Master in Alcotest Suits Met With Pushback

The New Jersey Attorney General's Office is getting an earful of complaints over its request that the Supreme Court name a special master to consider relaxing the rules for calibration of the Alcotest 7110 MKIII-c, which is used to estimate from a breath test the blood-alcohol level of persons suspected of drunken driving.
8 minute read

The Recorder

People v. Williams

By | December 05, 2016
4 minute read

The Recorder

People v. Sanghera

By | December 05, 2016
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Cosby Deposition to Be Allowed at Trial

Bill Cosby has lost in his attempt to keep his deposition testimony from a 2005 lawsuit out of the courtroom in his ongoing criminal case.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Reviewing Credibility of Police Officer Testimony

In his Criminal Law and Procedure column, Barry Kamins explores suppression where the People have not sustained their initial evidentiary burden. While in the overwhelming number of suppression hearings, prosecutors are able to satisfy their burden of going forward with testimony that is found to be credible by the suppression court, in two recent cases suppression courts did not credit the testimony of police officers who testified that they were able to smell the odor of marijuana emanating from a vehicle that they had stopped.
17 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Gregury v. Greguras, PICS Case No. 16-1453 (Pa. Super. Nov. 22, 2016) Strassburger, J. (20 pages).

By | December 02, 2016
Trial court properly disallowed evidence of oral testimony, handwritten documents about decedent's purported severe emotional distress in action over the distribution of his estate but trial court erred in allowing stepmother to waive her attorney-client privilege at trial after asserting it during discovery. Vacated and reversed.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Hicks, PICS Case No. 16-1446 (Pa. Super. Nov. 18, 2016) Shogan, J. (24 pages).

By | December 02, 2016
Appellant was properly convicted of first-degree murder, aggravated assault and other charges because evidence of a second shooting four months later was relevant to allow the jury to weigh the evidence of a witness who at first refused to cooperate with the police. Sentence vacated and case remanded.
6 minute read

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