1701 ABA Journal Criminal Procedure articles.
Justice Antonin Scalia is having a good year, while Justice Anthony M. Kennedy isn’t quite the influential swing voter he used to be.
Those conclusions can be drawn from
Lawyers for Britney Spears persuaded a California judge today to postpone a misdemeanor traffic case against the troubled pop star, saying that she isn’t able to participate fully in her…
Feb 20, 2008 10:29 PM CST
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled its criminal procedure decisions can be applied retroactively under state laws or constitutions, even when federal courts follow a different standard, SCOTUSblog…
Feb 20, 2008 4:24 PM CST
After being flown in from Texas and held in a Florida jail for two months, protesting all the while that he was not the man authorities thought he was, the…
Feb 12, 2008 8:33 PM CST
Law student Matthew Sinor of Ohio State law school had an early victory in his legal career. He interceded on behalf of an old Army buddy and persuaded a judge…
Feb 12, 2008 2:03 PM CST
A defendant in a capital murder case who was represented for more than a year by private lawyers paid for by the state of Georgia has sued his trial judge…
Feb 11, 2008 8:56 PM CST
A Kentucky judge has threatened to hold prosecutors in contempt if they don’t stop making “obnoxious, ridiculous, abundant and useless objections” during probable cause hearings.
Jefferson District Judge Sean Delahanty…
Feb 7, 2008 12:08 AM CST
A new—and short-lived—state law in Rhode Island that put 17-year-olds in adult court was constitutional, a judge says.
But because teens didn’t get probable cause hearings before being “referred” to…
Feb 6, 2008 6:45 PM CST
In a discovery that has fanned fears that British inmates’ phone calls to their attorneys are routinely bugged, a lawyer in the U.K. reportedly has received transcripts of secretly recorded…
Feb 5, 2008 5:38 PM CST
A twice-convicted drunken driver got the maximum prison term for her latest offense—a little over 10 years—after a jailhouse phone call in which she laughed about driving into and killing…
Jan 25, 2008 6:03 PM CST
An almost-forgotten law in Kansas that allows citizens to convene grand juries reportedly has become a tool for local conservatives to use to force prosecutors to pursue abortion and pornography…
Jan 18, 2008 6:29 PM CST
Updated: Former football hero O.J. Simpson appeared in a Nevada court today, and was granted release on $250,000 bail prior to his upcoming trial in an armed robbery case. The…
Jan 16, 2008 5:08 PM CST
Florida prosecutors are now deciding whether to charge as an adult a 12-year-old babysitter who has been accused of murdering a 17-month-old second cousin left in his care.
Because Shaloh…
Jan 8, 2008 12:00 AM CST
A Florida appeals court has removed a state judge from presiding over a blackmail case in which her comments implied that she might not be fair to the prosecution.
After…
Dec 20, 2007 6:26 PM CST
In an unusual and much-watched manslaughter case against one of the companies working on the controversial “Big Dig” tunnel project in Boston, a Massachusetts judge refused yesterday to dismiss the…
Dec 19, 2007 6:31 PM CST
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