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Article • March 16, 2019 • from CLN April, 2019
Ninth Circuit Holds Juror Who Wouldn’t Unequivocally State She Could Be Impartial Should Have Been Excused; New Trial Ordered Because Biased Juror Can’t Be Harmless Error by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In a case where a juror did not unequivocally state that she could be unbiased because she had …
Article • March 16, 2019 • from CLN April, 2019
Fourth Circuit Grants Habeas Relief for Death Row Prisoner Because Trial Court Excluded Expert Testimony Defendant Represents Low Risk of Violence in Prison by David Reutter by David Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed the denial of habeas corpus relief to a death row prisoner. …
Article • March 16, 2019 • from CLN April, 2019
Supreme Court of Alaska Announces Court System Bears Costs of Expert Evaluation When Insanity or Diminished Capacity Raised as Defense by Chad Marks by Chad Marks The Supreme Court of Alaska held that a trial court was required under Alaska state law to appoint at least two qualified psychiatrists or …
Appeals court provides new vehicle to challenge registration by Larry N. by Larry N., NARSOL We are excited to report that registrants in Pennsylvania now will have a new vehicle to challenge sex offender registration. The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Court handed down a precedential …
Article • March 15, 2019 • from CLN April, 2019
Filed under: junk science, FBI
The FBI Says Its Photo Analysis Is Scientific Evidence. Scientists Disagree. by Ryan Gabrielson The bureau’s image unit has linked defendants to crime photographs for decades using unproven techniques and baseless statistics. Studies have begun to raise doubts about the unit’s methods. by Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica At the FBI Laboratory …
Filing • March 11, 2019
HRDC v. ICE, D.C., Complaint, Public Records, 2019 Case 1:19-cv-00673 Document 1 Filed 03/11/19 Page 1 of 7 U N I T E D S TAT E S D I S C T R I C T C O U RT F O R T H E D I S …
Filing • March 8, 2019
Filed under: Complaints, Public Records
HRDC v. NY State AG, FOIL public records complaint and MOL, 2019 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF ALBANY HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER Petitioner, Index No. -againstNEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL; MICHAEL JERRY, in his official capacity as Records Access Officer; and KATHRYN …
Brief • March 6, 2019
Filed under: Public Records
Tremaine v. USCBP, WA, Complaint, Denial of Records, 2019 Case 2:19-cv-00334-RSM Document 1 Filed 03/06/19 Page 1 of 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 7 8 DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE, LLP, 9 10 11 12 13 ) ) Plaintiff, ) …
Wright, et al. v. Family Support Division of the Missouri Department of Social Services, et al., MO., class action, jury demand, driver license suspensions without due process, 2019 Case: 4:19-cv-00398 Doc. #: 1 Filed: 03/04/19 Page: 1 of 37 PageID #: 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE …
Article • February 15, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Filed under: Juries, Trials
Jurors Showing More and More Savvy Toward Trial Evidence by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  For many decades, prosecutors have been the true kings of U.S. courtrooms. Longtime Dallas, Texas, prosecutor Henry Wade attained infamy for stating, “Guilty ones are easy to convict. It takes real effort to convict the …
$175,000 Settlement to Public Protester with Profanity-laced Sign Tased by Police Officer by One of two men protesting police brutality while carrying a sign reading “Fuck Bad Cops” was tased by a police officer, after which he sued for violation of his First and Fourth Amendment rights. In December 2018, …
Article • February 15, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Filed under: junk science
Agencies: Bite-mark Forensics Outdated Science by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Critics contend that bite-mark evidence is an inconclusive forensic science and should be supported by other evidence when used in the prosecution of a defendant for any crime. To date, there have been 31 exonerations from re-examination of cases …
Article • February 15, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
New California Laws Peel Back Secrecy Surrounding Police Discipline Amid Pushback by Betty Nelander by Betty Nelander The tide is changing on police accountability and transparency in California with the passage and signing of the California Records Act (“SB-1421”) and Assembly Bill 748. But SB-1421, which was scheduled to take …
Article • February 15, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Sixth Circuit Vacates a Witness Tampering Conviction, Principally on the Ground that the District Court Erroneously Instructed the Jury on the Intent Element of Witness Tampering by Punch & Jurists By Punch & Jurists In a rare reversal of a witness tampering conviction, the Sixth Circuit, in Lobbins, held that …
Article • February 15, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Bronx Prosecutors Trained to Manipulate System to Delay Trials by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Recently revealed internal training documents from the Bronx District Attorney’s Office show that prosecutors are being trained in courtroom techniques designed to delay trial, undermining defendants’ speedy trial rights and extending the pretrial incarceration of …
Article • February 15, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Filed under: junk science
Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rosenstein Defends Junk Science Forensics by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Criminal Legal News and its sister publication, Prison Legal News, have long covered prosecutors’ use of questionable forensics and unscientific lab techniques to secure convictions [PLN Oct. 2010, p. l; Apr. 2015, p. l, and …
Article • February 15, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Fifth Circuit: Introduction of Deposition Video Without Making Good-Faith Effort to Secure Witnesses’ Presence at Trial Violates Confrontation Clause by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause was violated when the Government introduced videotaped deposition testimony …
Article • February 14, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Clarifies Proper Evidentiary Standard and Type of Evidence for Informal Competency Hearing by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas reversed a trial court’s refusal to grant a criminal defendant a formal competency evaluation, finding that the trial court and …
Article • February 14, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Filed under: Expert Witnesses
Ninth Circuit Announces Expert Testimony on Battered Woman Syndrome Not Categorically Excludable, Relevant to Duress Defense by Richard Resch by Richard Resch The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated Lashay Lopez’s three convictions on federal charges, ruling that the trial court committed prejudicial error in excluding expert …
Article • February 14, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Filed under: Appeals, Sentencing
Fifth Circuit Holds Special Conditions in PSR Appendix but Not Orally Pronounced by District Court Must Be Removed From Sentence Where Conflict With Written Judgment by David Reutter by David Reutter The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that where a defendant did not have an opportunity to object to …
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