1682 ABA Journal Criminal Procedure articles.
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler this week ordered the U.S. not to transfer a detainee in Afghanistan without giving his attorney at least 30 days’ notice.
The ruling, considered a…
Oct 5, 2007 11:16 AM CDT
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have approved a bill that, if enacted, will bring U.S. contractors in Iraq under the jurisdiction of American criminal courts.
That means private contractors, including the…
Oct 5, 2007 10:56 AM CDT
After three days of unsuccessful jury selection, a judge in Nevada has ordered a venue change in the case of a man accused of killing his estranged wife and shooting…
Oct 5, 2007 10:27 AM CDT
Congressional committees are launching investigations, after a New York Times article today revealed that two secret Department of Justice opinions in 2005 endorsed prisoner interrogation techniques some consider tantamount to…
Oct 4, 2007 9:22 PM CDT
Updated: In a ruling that could sound the death knell for Sen. Larry Craig’s career in office, a Minnesota judge has ruled that the Idaho Republican can’t withdraw his guilty…
Oct 4, 2007 6:16 PM CDT
A former prosecutor who was appointed a California state court judge nearly 20 years ago has been removed from the bench for “misconduct” and “gross neglect” of his judicial duties.
…Oct 2, 2007 10:20 PM CDT
Two U.S. Supreme Court justices had a message for the state of Virginia: Slow down the machinery of death.
Justice John Paul Stevens issued a statement questioning Virginia’s rush to…
Oct 2, 2007 11:43 AM CDT
Although he had never met Mychal Bell, a doctor living elsewhere in the state posted the bond the 17-year-old needed to get out of jail and return home to the…
Sep 28, 2007 11:17 PM CDT
If Sen. Larry Craig is lucky, a Minnesota judge, as expected, will refuse to let him revoke his guilty plea to a disorderly conduct charge.
That’s because a trial over…
Sep 28, 2007 5:11 PM CDT
The prosecution in a controversial case against one of the so-called Jena Six defendants has accepted a Louisiana appellate court ruling that he should be tried as a juvenile.
Mychal…
Sep 27, 2007 12:50 AM CDT
A recent ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal offers a startling view of the hard-hitting office politics at a venerable Toronto law firm.
When attorney Benjamin Moss trudged back…
Sep 26, 2007 9:35 PM CDT
Updated: A mistrial has been declared in the second-degree murder trial of Phil Spector, after the judge polled the jury, who all agreed they were deadlocked.
The foreman said the…
Sep 26, 2007 8:46 PM CDT
After a hearing today over Sen. Larry Craig’s request to withdraw his guilty plea in a Minnesota restroom sex sting case, the judge is not expected to rule until next…
Sep 26, 2007 8:28 PM CDT
Ordinarily, the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals looks with “great disfavor,” according to its own rules, on long-winded briefs.
But the appellate court should make an exception…
Sep 26, 2007 7:29 PM CDT
Warrantless searches allegedly are being conducted by armed U.S. immigration authorities on Latino-occupied homes in the New York City area where they have no good reason to believe immigrant fugitives…
Sep 21, 2007 11:26 PM CDT
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