Punch and Jurists: March 19, 2012

Volume 19, Number 6

In this issue:

U.S. v. McKnight, No. 10-2297 (7th Cir.) ( F.3d ) (February 6, 2012) (Per Curiam) (p None)
Woollard v. Sheridan, No. Civ. No. L-10-2068 (D.Md.) ( F.Supp.2d ) (March 2, 2012) (Judge Bensen W. Legg) (p None)
U.S. v. McKnight, No. 10-2297 (7th Cir.) (665 F.3d 786) (November 22, 2011) (Judge Kenneth F. Ripple) (p None)
U.S. v. Weaver, No. 2:09-cr-00222 (S.D.W.Va.) (2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 29613) (March 7, 2012) (Judge Thomas E. Johnston) (p None)
U.S. v. Flores-Lopez, No. 10-3803 (7th Cir.) (670 F.3d 803) (February 29, 2012) (Judge Richard A. Posner) (p None)
Martel v. Clair, No. 10-1265 (U.S. Supreme Court) (565 U.S. 648; 132 S.Ct. 1276) (March 5, 2012) (Justice Kagan) (p None)
Houston v. City of New Orleans, No. 11-30198 (5th Cir.) (675 F.3d 441) (March 14, 2012) (Judge Rhesa Hawkins Barksdale) (p None)

U.S. v. McKnight, No. 10-2297 (7th Cir.) ( F.3d ) (February 6, 2012) (Per Curiam)

Loaded on March 19, 2012 published in Punch and Jurists March 19, 2012

Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Deceptive Investigative Techniques.

U.S. v. McKnight, 665 F.3d 786 (7th Cir. Nov. 22, 2011) (Judge Kenneth Ripple)
U.S. v. McKnight, No. 10-2297 (7th Cir. Feb. 6, 2012) (Per Curiam)

After a four-year investigation by the DEA and the Chicago police, a Federal grand jury indicted Ondray McKnight and six co-defendants for various crimes ...

Woollard v. Sheridan, No. Civ. No. L-10-2068 (D.Md.) ( F.Supp.2d ) (March 2, 2012) (Judge Bensen W. Legg)

Loaded on March 19, 2012 published in Punch and Jurists March 19, 2012

Filed under: Punch And Jurists.

Here the Court held that (a) the right to bear arms includes the right to carry guns outside the home; and (b) that Maryland’s restrictive gun carrying licensing scheme was unconstitutional since it was not sufficiently tailored to the State’s interests.

There seems to be a new surge in the ...

U.S. v. McKnight, No. 10-2297 (7th Cir.) (665 F.3d 786) (November 22, 2011) (Judge Kenneth F. Ripple)

Loaded on March 19, 2012 published in Punch and Jurists March 19, 2012

Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Deceptive Investigative Techniques.

U.S. v. Weaver, No. 2:09-cr-00222 (S.D.W.Va.) (2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 29613) (March 7, 2012) (Judge Thomas E. Johnston)

Loaded on March 19, 2012 published in Punch and Jurists March 19, 2012

Filed under: Punch And Jurists.

This case is a continuation of efforts by six defendants, who were alleged members of the Pagans Motorcycle Club (“PMC”), to dismiss a number of counts of an Indictment that charged them with possessing firearms “while being employed” for a convicted felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(h). According ...

U.S. v. Flores-Lopez, No. 10-3803 (7th Cir.) (670 F.3d 803) (February 29, 2012) (Judge Richard A. Posner)

Loaded on March 19, 2012 published in Punch and Jurists March 19, 2012

Filed under: Punch And Jurists.

Here the Court held that minimally intrusive searches of a cell phone during a search incident to an arrest are permitted under the Fourth Amendment ; but more extensive searches may require more justification or maybe even a warrant.

With more than a typical dash of his famed flair for ...

Martel v. Clair, No. 10-1265 (U.S. Supreme Court) (565 U.S. 648; 132 S.Ct. 1276) (March 5, 2012) (Justice Kagan)

Loaded on March 19, 2012 published in Punch and Jurists March 19, 2012

Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Interests of Justice.

Here a unanimous Supreme Court held that the proper standard to be used when someone facing a death sentence requests that his appointed counsel be replaced under 18 USC § 3599 is the “interests of justice” standard that used under 18 U.S.C. § 3006A.

The respondent in this case, Kenneth ...

Houston v. City of New Orleans, No. 11-30198 (5th Cir.) (675 F.3d 441) (March 14, 2012) (Judge Rhesa Hawkins Barksdale)

Loaded on March 19, 2012 published in Punch and Jurists March 19, 2012

Filed under: Punch And Jurists.

This is an interesting Second Amendment decision in which a divided panel from the Fifth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit seeking the return of a gun that had been seized by the police on the grounds that “the right protected by the Second Amendment is not a property-like ...