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Analysis of major changes to criminal law and its impact
By The Associated Press | February 13, 2024
Eric Robert Rudolph remains bound to the terms of his 2005 plea agreement in which he accepted multiple life sentences to escape the death penalty.
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By Cedra Mayfield | February 12, 2024
"If we give police officers the idea that they can illegally access a cellphone, see whatever's on there and then go get a warrant based upon the warrantless stuff that they've seen, they can reverse engineer enough probable cause," argued appellant counsel John Jay McArthur.
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By The Law Journal Editorial Board | February 9, 2024
We know that Oklahoma and Mississippi have approved use of the nitrogen hypoxia execution method but not yet carried it out. Ohio and Louisiana are among the states that are considering it. We hope that none of them fall prey to the Alabama attorney general's hucksterism.
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By Thomas Kissane and John Moore | February 8, 2024
This column reports on several significant representative decisions from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto denied defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea and dismiss the indictment charging him as a felon in possession. Judge Frederic Block dismissed an action for a declaration holding New York's ban on assault weapons unconstitutional. Magistrate Judge Lee G. Dunst granted a motion to disqualify counsel.
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By ALM Staff | February 6, 2024
The District Attorneys Association of the State of New York feted three prosecutors on Feb. 2 in New York City at the organization's annual winter board of directors and membership meeting.
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By Avalon Zoppo | February 6, 2024
"We cannot accept former President Trump's claim that a President has unbounded authority to commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on executive power—the recognition and implementation of election results," the court stated.
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By Barry Kamins | February 5, 2024
In 'People v. Bay', the court acknowledged the raison d'etre of the new law: that the People cannot be ready for trial without having fully complied with their discovery obligations.
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By The Law Journal Editorial Board | February 2, 2024
Why would an impermissibly suggestive identification procedure on the eve of trial be less pernicious than one occurring earlier in the case?
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By Michael Mears | February 1, 2024
Since the early days of capital punishment, our nation has moved from the hangman's noose to the gas chamber to the electric chair to lethal injection. Now we are facing a new machine—and a new dissenter on the Supreme Court.
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By Jeffrey Collins | The Associated Press | January 30, 2024
The judge said she couldn't overturn the verdict based "on the strength of some fleeting and foolish comments by a publicity-seeking clerk of court."
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