by Douglas Ankney
Florida Senate Bill 184 (“SB 184”) makes it a second-degree misdemeanor to approach within 25 feet of a first responder after receiving a verbal warning to stay away. Included under the provisions of the law is a requirement of intent to interfere, threaten, or harass …
by Douglas Ankney
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on the Judiciary (“Committee “) released a report on March 6, 2024, entitled “Financial Surveillance in the United States: How Federal Law Enforcement Commandeered Financial Institutions to Spy on Americans” (“Report”) that described in detail federal law enforcement agencies’ …
by Douglas Ankney
According to an article appearing on June 10, 2024, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have concluded that wire-cutting evidence should not be admissible in court unless additional information about the number of comparisons made is provided. A study entitled “Hidden …
by Douglas Ankney
The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) has an impressive cache of surveillance technology that includes, inter alia, automated license plate readers (“ALPR”) and cell-site simulators (“CSS”). The latest tracking and surveillance revelation is that DHS and other law enforcement agencies have been using TraffiCatch since …
by Douglas Ankney
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that a conviction for assault resulting in serious bodily injury under 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(6) is not a qualifying predicate “crime of violence” for purposes of U.S. Sentencing Guidelines (“USSG”) § 2K2.1(a)(3).
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by Douglas Ankney
The Supreme Court of Ohio held that the 365-day deadline set forth in R.C. 2953.21(A)(2)(a) for filing a postconviction motion begins from the date of the filing of the trial transcript in a delayed appeal.
Michael Dudas was sentenced to prison for …
by Douglas Ankney
The new “Transitional Analysis Dental Age” (“TADA”) estimation tool – funded by the National Institute of Justice (“NIJ”) – is now available online to assist forensic analysts with estimating the age of unidentified skeletal remains of infants and teens. The age of the …
by Douglas Ankney
The Supreme Court of Minnesota declined to extend the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule, as adopted under the Minnesota Constitution, to a search and arrest based on a quashed warrant that appears active to law enforcement because of a clerical error by …
by Douglas Ankney
In a case involving three issues of first impression, the Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, ruled that Penal Code Section 1509(1)(c)’s 10- and 60-day deadlines are directory, not mandatory; the section’s “substantiality standard” is met where the applicant makes a strong enough …
by Douglas Ankney
The Supreme Court of Tennessee abrogated the common law accomplice-corroboration rule on a prospective basis and dismissed the murder conviction of Laronda Turner due to insufficient evidence.
Turner, along with codefendants Tony Thomas and Demarco Hawkins, were involved in the triple homicide …
