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Article • May 17, 2003
Delaware v. Fensterer, No. 85-214 (U.S. Supreme Court) (474 U.S. 15; 106 S.Ct. 292) (November 4, 1985) (Per Curiam) by In this case the Court held that there is no Confrontation Clause violation when an expert witness testified as to what opinion he had formed, but could not recollect the …
Article • May 13, 2003
Bousley v. U.S., No. 96-8516 (U.S. Supreme Court) (523 U.S. 614; 118 S.Ct. 1604) (May 18, 1998) (Justice Rehnquist) by Here the Court held that a petitioner who has procedurally defaulted a Bailey-type claim by failing to raise it on direct appeal can raise it on collateral review by showing …
Article • May 13, 2003
Ashe v. Swenson, No. 57 (U.S. Supreme Court) (397 U.S. 436; 90 S.Ct. 1189) (April 6, 1970) (Justice Stewart) by This case arose out of an armed robbery of six men, who were playing poker at the time of the robbery. Bob Ashe was charged with the robbery of one …
Article • May 12, 2003
Salinas v. U.S., No. 96-738 (U.S. Supreme Court) (522 U.S. 52; 118 S.Ct. 469) (December 2, 1997) (Justice Kennedy) by Salinas was a deputy sheriff at a county jail in Texas where a federal prisoner was being housed. The prisoner paid him designer watches and a pickup truck for "contact …
Article • May 9, 2003 • from P&J April, 2003
Kaupp v. Texas, No. 02-5636 (U.S. Supreme Court) (538 U.S. 626; 123 S.Ct. 1843) (May 5, 2003) (Per Curiam) by Here the Court vacated a Texas state court's decision that officers did not violate the Fourth Amendment when they entered a suspect's house without a warrant, woke him with a …
Article • May 5, 2003
Fex v. Michigan, No. 91-7873 (U.S. Supreme Court) (507 U.S. 43; 113 S.Ct. 1085) (February 23, 1993) (Justice Scalia) by Five years after the Supreme Court established the prison mailbox rule in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988), it returned to that rule in the instant case. Here, the …
Article • May 5, 2003
Houston v. Lack, No. 87-5428 (U.S. Supreme Court) (487 U.S. 266; 108 S.Ct. 2379) (June 24, 1988) (Justice Brennan) by Case held that under Fed.R.App.P. 4(a)(1) a pro se prisoner's notice of appeal is deemed filed at the moment of delivery to prison authorities for forwarding to the district court. …
Article • May 1, 2003 • from P&J May, 2003
U.S. v. Denis, No. 99-714-CR-MORENO (S.D.Fla.) (246 F.Supp.2d 1250) (December 3, 2002) (Judge Federico A. Moreno) by Defendant moved to preclude the government from seeking the death penalty by filing a motion challenging the constitutionality of the Federal Death Penalty Act (FDPA), 18 U.S.C.S. §§ 3591-3598, and to strike the …
Article • May 1, 2003 • from P&J May, 2003
U.S. v. Sullivan, No. CRIM.A.02-45-JBC (E.D.Ky.) (246 F.Supp.2d 696) (January 31, 2003) (Judge Jennifer B. Coffman) by
Article • May 1, 2003 • from P&J May, 2003
Alvarez-Machain v. U.S., No. 99-56762 (9th Cir.) (331 F.3d 604) (June 3, 2003) (Judge M. Margaret McKeown) by This case started back in 1990 with abduction at gunpoint of Dr. Alvarez-Machain, a Mexican citizen, from his office in Guadalajara by DEA agents and his subsequent removal to the United States …
Article • May 1, 2003 • from P&J May, 2003
Filed under: Punch And Jurists
U.S. v. Cockett, No. 01-1956 (6th Cir.) (330 F.3d 706) (June 2, 2003) (Judge Danny J. Boggs) by This is one of those slippery and highly fact-specific cases in which sympathy for the defendant appeared to win out over logic and the technical mandates of the law. The defendant, Virginia …
Article • May 1, 2003 • from P&J May, 2003
U.S. v. Ruhbayan, No. 02-4331 (4th Cir.) (325 F.3d 197) (April 7, 2003) (Judge Robert Bruce King) by Defendant appealed from the decision of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk, which refused to dismiss charges of perjury and subornation of perjury. Defendant maintained …
Article • May 1, 2003 • from P&J May, 2003
Filed under: Punch And Jurists
U.S. v. Smith, No. 01-50006 (9th Cir.) (330 F.3d 1209) (June 4, 2003) (Judge Johnnie B. Rawlinson) by Here the Court held that the “catchall” provisions of U.S.S.G. § 5K2.0 do not trump the specific prohibition in § 5K2.13 against departures when the significantly reduced mental capacity “was caused by …
Article • May 1, 2003 • from P&J May, 2003
U.S. v. Bailey, No. 02-3187 (10th Cir.) (327 F.3d 1131) (April 25, 2003) (Judge Stephen H. Anderson) by The defendant in this case appealed from his convictions upon a jury verdict on 17 counts of wire fraud and 5 counts of money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343 …
Article • May 1, 2003 • from P&J May, 2003
U.S. v. Ruiz, No. 01 CR.864 (S.D.N.Y.) (246 F.Supp.2d 263) (November 27, 2002) (Judge Gerard E. Lynch) by The defendant in this case was convicted by a jury of two counts of conspiring to import the controlled substance methylenedioxymethamphetamine (commonly known as ecstasy) in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 963 …
Article • May 1, 2003 • from P&J May, 2003
Center for Natl. Security Studies v. U.S.D.O.J., No. 02-5254 (D.C. Cir.) (331 F.3d 918) (June 17, 2003) (Judge David B. Sentelle) by In this case a bitterly divided panel from the D.C. Circuit upheld the right of the Government to refuse to disclose to the press and the public any …
Article • May 1, 2003 • from P&J May, 2003
U.S. v. Booe, No. 1:02-CR-135 (E.D.Tenn.) (252 F.Supp.2d 584) (March 19, 2003) (Judge Curtis L. Collier) by In the summer of 2002, the defendant in this case, Amielia Booe, robbed a bank in Tennessee using a threatening note. She was caught within 30 minutes; and she quickly confessed to the …
Article • May 1, 2003 • from P&J May, 2003
U.S. v. Tinoso, No. 02-10128 (9th Cir.) (327 F.3d 864) (April 25, 2003) (Judge A. Wallace Tashima) by Here, joining six other Circuits, the Court held that the district court exceeded its statutory authority under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d) by ordering the immediate deportatioon of the defendant as a condition …
Article • May 1, 2003 • from P&J May, 2003
U.S. v. Joaquin, No. 01-3134 (D.C. Cir.) (326 F.3d 1287) (May 2, 2003) (Judge David S. Tatel) by In this case, when imposing its sentence of the defendant for illegal possession and distribution of crack cocaine, the district court denied defendant's motion for a downward departure under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.3, …
Article • May 1, 2003 • from P&J May, 2003
U.S. v. Gandara-Salinas, No. 02-2225 (10th Cir.) (327 F.3d 1127) (April 25, 2003) (Judge Stephanie K. Seymour) by In U.S. v. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S. 873 (1975), the Supreme Court established the principle that the fourth Amendment requires a finding of "reasonable suspicion" in order to conduct roving border patrol stops. …
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