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‘Changes Are a Comin’
Loaded on Oct. 16, 2019
by Anthony Accurso
published in Criminal Legal News
November, 2019, page 41
Filed under:
Criminal justice system reform.
Location:
United States of America.
by Anthony Accurso
It seems like everyone is talking about criminal justice reform these days. Cross-partisan reforms are happening throughout the county as politicians of nearly all stripes seem to have emerged from a lock’em up binge into the next morning hangover of mass incarceration.
Most of the attention has ...
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- ‘Changes Are a Comin’, by Anthony Accurso
- Kansas Supreme Court: Expired License Plate Doesn’t Attenuate Evidence from Illegal Seizure, by Douglas Ankney
- Defendant’s Flight From Police’s Illegal Frisk Doesn’t Render Improperly Obtained Evidence Admissible in Maryland, by Anthony Accurso
- Costly Electronic Monitoring Programs Replacing Ineffective Jail Bond Systems, by Kevin Bliss
- Ninth Circuit Clarifies When Warrantless Searches of Cellphones at Border Are Reasonable, by Douglas Ankney
- Faulty Science Still Admissible Evidence in Many States, by Kevin Bliss
- Big Brother, Big Business, Big Law Enforcement, by Edward Lyon
- Third Circuit Announces New Rule for Amending § 2255 Motions on Appeal, by Dale Chappell
- Alabama OKs Chemical Castration for Some Sex Offenders, by Dale Chappell
- California Court of Appeal Announces Defendant Convicted of Felony Accessory Is Eligible for Resentencing Under Proposition 64, by Douglas Ankney
- Connecticut Supreme Court: When Expert’s Testimony Asserts Truth of DNA Profile Prepared by a Different Non-Testifying Expert, Confrontation Clause Is Violated, by Douglas Ankney
- Ex-Felons’ Rights Expanding to Include Jury Duty, by Edward Lyon
- Hundreds of Missouri Prisoners May Be Released Under New Sentencing Reform Law, by Dale Chappell
- U.S. District Court Grants Savings Clause Petition, Vacates Mandatory Life Sentence, by Dale Chappell
- Tenth Circuit: District Court Abused Discretion in Denying § 2255 Petition Without Hearing Where Record Didn’t Conclusively Show Defendant Not Entitled to Relief, by Douglas Ankney
- Ninth Circuit: Drug Quantity in PSR Adopted by Sentencing Court not Binding in § 3582(c)(2) Sentence Reduction Proceedings, by Michael Berk
- 10th Circuit: District Court Must Ensure When Defendant Waives Right to Counsel He Understands He’s Required to Adhere to Federal Procedural and Evidentiary Rules, by Douglas Ankney
- Is Data Mining an Invasion of Privacy?, by Kevin Bliss
- Ninth Circuit Rules IAC for Failure to Investigate Mitigating Evidence During Penalty Phase of Capital Trial, by Anthony Accurso
- Fifth Circuit Vacates § 924 Convictions Based on Davis, by Anthony Accurso
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- Fifth Circuit Reiterates Diligence Under AEDPA Requires Consideration of Actions Both Before and After Filing of Habeas Petition, by Dale Chappell
- 9th Circuit Says Inadvertently Placing Closed Folding Knife on Teller Counter Not Armed Bank Robbery, by Anthony Accurso
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- Fifth Circuit: First Step Act Doesn’t Permit Plenary Resentencing in Retroactive Application of the Fair Sentencing Act, by Douglas Ankney
- California Court of Appeal Explains Procedures to Determine Appropriate Relief When Conviction Is Vacated Based on People v. Chiu and Senate Bill 1437, by Douglas Ankney
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- New Hampshire Ends Death Penalty, by Jayson Hawkins
- Fourth Circuit Grants Habeas Relief to Pre-Trial State Prisoner on Double Jeopardy Grounds, by Dale Chappell
- Tennessee Supreme Court Abandons Doctrine of Abatement Ab Initio, by David Reutter
- New Jersey Supreme Court Announces New Test to Determine When State May Obtain Second DNA Sample After Unlawfully Obtained First Sample, by Douglas Ankney
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- Fifth Circuit: Practices of Orleans Parish Judges in Collecting Fines and Fees Violates Due Process, by Douglas Ankney
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