Reasonable Doubts

Recent Ohio and federal decisions in the area of criminal law and procedure and will profile local criminal cases and decisions of note.

Author: Jeffrey Davis is a solo practitioner in Columbus, Ohio.

Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Criminal Procedure • States • Ohio • Solo / Small Firm

Recent Posts from Reasonable Doubts

UNDER THE GUN - The Other Supreme Court Decision on June 25th
Lost in the attention given to the Court's historic Second Amendment ruling, was another decision rendered by Justice Scalia in the case of Giles v. California. This case concerned the admissibility of statements made by…
SCORE ONE FOR THE CONSTITUTION
The U.S. Supreme Court has today gutted the Guantanamo Gulag in a 5-4 ruling holding that the Congress may not strip away the right of Habeas Corpus, except as the Constitution itself provides - in…
Growth Industry
Riding the wave of the housing market meltdown, the number of mortgage, corporate, and securities case being investigated by the FBI has risen significantly. As reported in the National Law Journal: Corporate, mortgage and securities…
Just a Matter of Time
You know its just a matter of time until attorneys start doing this for real:
9th Circuit Dismisses Securites Prosecution for Brady Violation
The 9th Circuit recently dismissed, with prejudice, a 64-count stock fraud indictment and publicly excoriated the prosecutor for failing to turn over 650 pages of potentially exculpatory documents to the defense. As reported on Law.com:…
Practicing Justice
A recent post on the ABA Journal website gives well deserved recognition to Pittsburgh attorney Keenan Holmes and gives us all an example to aspire to: After a conflict arose that made a Pittsburgh lawyer…
SPECIAL COMMENT
Everything Old is New Again
For anyone who thought that concern as to the reliability of jailhouse snitches was a recent problem:
Not Merely to Obtain Convictions, But to Seek Justice
A recent story which did not get the mainstream press coverage which it deserved has given critics of the Military Commissions Act and the Guantanamo Bay prison provides additional evidence of just how far the…
DANNIMAL HOUSE: The Morning After
Frat parties are often fun, however, the hangovers can be terrible. With the the release of the Espy-Pfeiffer Report, the house-cleaning of Anthony Gutierrez, Leo Jennings, Edgar Simpson and Jessica Utovich, and the revelation of…