Criminal Procedure

Deadline-Error Case Overrules Precedent

The lawyer for a convicted murderer who lost his Supreme Court appeal over a mistaken filing deadline says the court “went for form over substance.” Yesterday’s 5-4 Supreme Court ruling held that the filing deadline was jurisdictional and the appeal was not permitted. Cleveland lawyer Paul Mancino Jr. had filed…

Jun 15, 2007 12:26 PM CDT

Nuremberg Attorney: Gitmo Trials Unfair

An 88-year-old American lawyer who helped try war criminals at Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II says today’s Guantanamo Bay cases fly in the face of the prosecutorial precedent he helped set there. “I think Robert Jackson, who’s the architect of Nuremberg, would turn over in his grave if he…

Jun 12, 2007 12:27 AM CDT

Civil Case Leads to Murder Charge

For years, Mary Miller thought she knew who had murdered her son, Jesse: his father. Chicago police agreed. But there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Leroy Alexander with the 2002 crime, which took place at his home – until now. Mary Miller sued her estranged husband in civil court over…

Jun 11, 2007 6:31 PM CDT

UK Extradites U.S. Citizen on Terror Charges

The extradition of a terror suspect from Britain to the United States is a first, prosecutors say. Syed Hashmi arrived in New York over the weekend, the New York Times reports. He pleaded not guilty to conspiring to send money and military equipment to sympathizers of al-Qaida. Hashmi is an…

May 30, 2007 3:52 PM CDT

Defendant Decks Juror, Doesn’t K.O. Case

Decking an elderly juror in full view of 15 other members of the panel didn’t end a defendant’s ongoing criminal trial in Massachusetts. That’s because it would be unfair to allow the defendant to benefit from his own disruptive behavior, a Boston judge ruled today, when counsel for Richard Glawson,…

May 21, 2007 7:50 PM CDT

Deadline-Error Case Overrules Precedent

Nuremberg Attorney: Gitmo Trials Unfair

Civil Case Leads to Murder Charge

UK Extradites U.S. Citizen on Terror Charges

Defendant Decks Juror, Doesn’t K.O. Case

A Death Sentence Is Brought to Mind

Confronting 911 Evidence

Churning up the Jury Pool

Battle of the Expert

Vive les Class Actions

Challenging Peremptories

The Uncertain Science of Evidence

Rethinking Sentencing

The Paperless Chase

The Verdict on Juries

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