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Kilgore v. Hines
Order
Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2000
Nolan v. Poppel
Order
Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2000
U.S. v. Bredy
'Show-up' identification procedure, allowing witnesses to immediately identify robbery suspect at place where crime took place, is not unnecessarily suggestive and prejudicial.
Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2000
U.S. v. Zanghi
Court must provide justification for decision to impose supervised release and home detention.
Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2000
U.S. v. Turner
Patrol officer may record detainee's conversation without consent and use it to find evidence during involvement in law enforcement function.
Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2000
U.S. v. Bazile
Judge can only impose sentence above minimum required if defendant is charged with other crimes that raise the offense level.
Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2000
Habteselassie v. Novak
To be 'properly filed' under 28 U.S.C. Section 2244(d)(2), post-conviction petition must merely be recognized as such under state procedures.
Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2000
People v. Johnson
District Attorney doesn't breach plea agreement when it refuses to administer polygraph test that defendant needs to pass for sentence reduction.
Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2000
U.S. v. Zamudio
Order
Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2000
U.S. v. Boyd
Order
Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2000
People v. Fisher
Trial courts instruction regarding complicity was appropriate in a felony murder trial.
Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2000
People v. Sloan
Defendant released pending appeal not entitled to credit against sentence.
Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2000
People v. Munoz
Failure to advise defendant of period of mandatory parole harmless error where sentence within maximum allowed.
Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2000
U.S. v. Millet
Order
Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2000
Harris v. Everett
Order
Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2000
U.S. v. Johnson
Order
Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2000
State v. Eagle
Kidnapping and sexual assault are not same offense and, therefore, defendant may be sentences consecutively for two offenses without violating double jeopardy principles.
Criminal Law and Procedure May 1, 2000
Foster v. Irwin (Buckelew)
Defedant convicted of possession of dangerous drugs is eligible for probation.
Criminal Law and Procedure May 1, 2000
People v. Gadlin
Expert testimony explaining Battered Women's Syndrome is admissible even though victim did not recant incidents of abuse at time of trial.
Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 28, 2000
People v. Leonard
Court is not required to appoint new counsel when defendant's complaints are not based on counsel's competence.
Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 28, 2000
People v. Mendoza
Third strike defendant can be sentenced by tripling minimum parole eligibility date.
Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 28, 2000
People v. Regalado
Proof by preponderance of evidence is required before jury may consider prior sexual offenses as evidence that defendant committed lewd act on child.
Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 28, 2000
People v. Martin
Penal Code Section 22, which disallows evidence of voluntary intoxication to negate capacity to form mental state of crime, is constitutional.
Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 28, 2000
People v. Williams
In spousal abuse case, court must consider defendant's argument that men were excluded from jury based solely on presumed group bias.
Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 28, 2000
People v. Turner
Retrial is permitted if jury is unable to reach unanimous decision on whether defendant is sexually violent predator.
Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 28, 2000
People v. Rodriguez
Home office burglary constitutes burglary of dwelling even though home and office were not connected by interior door.
Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 28, 2000
People v. Valentine
Threatened 'hardship' is not form of 'duress' for crimes of forcible oral copulation and forcible penetration by foreign object.
Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 27, 2000
People v. Hernandez
'Sanity' determination requires hearing regardless of judicial inconvenience.
Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 27, 2000
U.S. v. Lorson
Order
Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 19, 2000
U.S. v. Whiters
Order
Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 19, 2000