by Mark Wilson
THE NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT unanimously held that police lacked reasonable and articulable suspicion to stop a vehicle occupied by three Black men based solely on a radio dispatch that two Black males had just robbed a convenience store in the area and one was armed with ...
by Mark Wilson
THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE Ninth Circuit held that a federal law, 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv), that criminalizes encouraging or inducing an alien to reside in the U.S. for private financial gain of such person is facially overbroad and unconstitutional because it covers a substantial ...
by Mark Wilson
On August 4, 2011, a federal court in Washington state granted attorneys’ fees and costs on a Plaintiff’s Terry stop verdict. Yet the court reduced the $418,000 fee award request to just $90,042.12 because Plaintiff prevailed on just one of five claims, and the jury did not ...
by Mark Wilson
On August 4, 2011, a federal court in Washington state granted attorneys’ fees and costs on a Plaintiff’s Terry stop verdict. Yet the court reduced the $418,000 fee award request to just $90,042.12 because Plaintiff prevailed on just one of five claims, and the jury did not ...
by Mark Wilson
The Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a criminal proceeding when the victim refused to comply with a subpoena to appear for trial.
Alex David Murray Lorenzo was charged with attempted third-degree assault, constituting domestic violence, for attempting to physically injure his stepfather. ...
by Mark Wilson
The Supreme Court of Oregon reversed a conviction for interfering with a peace officer, concluding that the officer did not have reasonable suspicion that a crime had been, or was about to be, committed — and his order was not a “lawful order.”
At about midnight, Beaverton, ...
by Mark Wilson
The Court of Appeals of Oregon reversed and remanded the Parole Board’s order deferring prisoner’s parole release date for eight years, ruling that “ORS 144.280(3) requires the [parole] board to issue a final order that contains findings of fact and conclusions of law when it decides to ...
by Mark Wilson
The Oregon Court of Appeals held that the retroactive application of a new judicial decision allowing imposition of a harsher sentence after a successful appeal does not violate state or federal ex post facto prohibitions or the due process clause.
In 1967, the Oregon Supreme Court held ...
by Mark Wilson
The Oregon Court of Appeals held that a criminal defense attorney’s closing argument was so deficient to constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.
Police searched a large Albany, Oregon, property after receiving a tip that Julie Ann Mitchell’s nephew and another man had hidden controlled substances on the ...
by Mark Wilson
The Oregon Court of Appeals held that misinformation during plea negotiations about time-served credit constitutes ineffective assistance of trial counsel.
On September 9, 2011, the State of Oregon charged Omteme Moni Blayas Sanders with second-degree assault and five other offenses stemming from a single incident against his ...
