U.S. v. Robinson, 255 F.Supp.3d 199 (D.D.C. June 15, 2017) (District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly)
U.S. v. Robinson, 258 F.Supp.3d 87 (D.D.C. June 28, 2017) (District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly)

These two decisions are part of a series of rulings by Judge Kollar-Kotelly in response to at least seven separate pre-trial motions ...

Here the Court held that districy court committed reversible error by allowing the Government to use criminal profile testimony as substantive evidence of guilt without regard to Rules 403, 404(a)(1) and 404(b) of the Fed.R.Evid.

In this case, the Ninth Circuit reversed double first degree murder convictions due to the ...

Here the Court held that admissions made by a defendant during his mandatory sex-offender treatment may be used against him to revoke his supervised release because revocation proceedings are not a "criminal case" for purposes of the Fifth Amendment.

This is an interesting decision in which the Ninth Circuit held ...

Here the Court addressed an interesting question about appellate waivers in plea agreements, namely whether the Government should be imlicitely barred from filing an appeal when the defendant has agreed to waive his appellate rights

The Defendant in this case, Julian Zuk, was indicted on seven counts for transmitting, receiving, ...

Here the Court reversed a drug convictions and dismissed the Indictment “with prejudice” after finding that the defendant's nearly seven years of pretrial incarceration were“egregiously oppressive” and constituted a violation of his speedy trial rights.

This decision is a rare example of a criminal defendant actually getting permanent relief based ...