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Article • December 19, 2017 • from CLN January, 2018
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Habeas Relief Citing AEDPA Deference by Brandon Sample by Brandon Sample, Esq. If you are a state prisoner hoping to find a sympathetic ear for a federal habeas petition, two recent decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court illustrate the challenges one must overcome. Kernan v. Cuero …
Article • December 19, 2017 • from CLN January, 2018
New York City Quietly Assembling Massive Unregulated DNA Database by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Add overly aggressive collection of DNA samples from often unwitting individuals to the list of questionable police tactics in New York City with which criminal defense attorneys and the general public must now deal. Operating …
Article • December 19, 2017 • from CLN January, 2018
Supreme Court Holds Texas May Not Use Outdated Standards to Determine Intellectual Disability in Death Penalty Cases by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In a 5-3 opinion handed down on March 28, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (“CCA”) violated the Eighth Amendment …
Article • December 19, 2017 • from CLN January, 2018
Filed under: Searches, Expert Witnesses
Ninth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment on Unreasonable Seizure Claim by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the dismissal of unreasonable seizure and First Amendment violation claims. The Court held that there were disputed issues of material fact on whether police had …
Article • December 19, 2017 • from CLN January, 2018
Ninth Circuit: Discovery Rule Applies to Judicial Deception Claims by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson Applying the Discovery Rule in determining when the applicable two-year statute of limitations (“SOL”) begins to run on “judicial deception” claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a claim brought …
Article • December 19, 2017 • from CLN January, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Richard Resch by Richard Resch Happy New Year and welcome to Criminal Legal News (“CLN”). If you’re reading this, you’re likely familiar with the Human Rights Defense Center (“HRDC”) and its companion publication, Prison Legal News (“PLN”). We’ve sent the first issue of CLN to all …
Article • December 19, 2017 • from CLN January, 2018
U.S. Supreme Court Decision Temporarily Throws Florida’s Death Machine Into Disarray and Prompts Change to State’s Death Penalty by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Following the 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), which concluded that Florida’s death penalty sentencing scheme violated …
Article • December 19, 2017
Petition Asks Massachusetts High Court to Dismiss 18,000 Drug Convictions Tainted by Chemist Who Falsified Results by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Committee for Public Counsel Services, Hampden County Lawyers for Justice, Inc., American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (“ACLUM”), and two individuals who were convicted in cases that …
Article • December 19, 2017 • from CLN January, 2018
News in Brief by Arkansas: On October 16, 2017, former Gateway Police Chief and Benton County Constable Grant Hardin, 48, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after admitting to fatally shooting James Appleton in February. He pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in a plea agreement in which the prosecution …
Brief • December 18, 2017
Garcia v. County of Los Angeles, CA, Complaint, Wrongful Death (Negligent Police Shooting), 2017 l PANISH SHEA & BOYLE LLP BRIAN J. PANISH, State Bar No. 116060 2 panish(@psblaw.com THOMAS. A SCHULTZ, State Bar No. 149578 3 schultz@psblaw.com JOHN W. SHALLER, State Bar No. 276084 4 shaller@psblaw.com 11111 Santa Monica …
Brief • December 18, 2017
Parada De Turcios v. County of Los Angeles, CA, Request and Order for Dismissal, Negligence (Motor Vehicle), 2017 CIV-110 ATTORNEY OR PARTf WITHOUT ATTORNEY: STATE BAR NO: Mark A. Anderson, Esq. KUZYK LAW, LLP STREET ADDRESS: 1700 West Avenue K, Suite 101 c1w Lan caster TELEPHONE NO.: (661) 945-6969 263655 …
Second Chance Reforms 2017 CCRC Limiting Second Chance Reforms in 2017 Roundup of new expungement and restoration laws December 2017 COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES RESOURCE CENTER The Collateral Consequences Resource Center is a non-profit organization established in 2014 to promote public discussion of the collateral consequences of conviction, the legal restrictions and …
Article • December 14, 2017
Filed under: War on Terror, Terrorism, FBI
D.C. Circuit Holds Bivens Not Available for Extraterritorial Incidents by On October 23, 2015, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that a man who had been detained, interrogated and tortured for four months in three African countries by and with the consent of FBI agents could not …
Article • December 14, 2017
Changes to California’s Parole Scheme Not Unconstitutional by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held the most recent voter approved changes to California’s parole laws do not violate the ex post facto clause. In 1988, California voters passed proposition 89, which amended the California constitution to grant the governor the …
Article • December 14, 2017
Filed under: Appeals, Bail Bonds
Second Circuit Certifies Question of Law in Bail Forfeiture Case to New York Court of Appeals by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On November 15, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit asked the New York Court of Appeals to resolve a question of New York law …
Article • December 14, 2017
Texas Court of Appeals Upholds Dismissal of Suit Against Parole Board by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 23, 2016, a Texas court of appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit brought against a parole board member and two parole commissioners. John Henry Boykin, a Texas state prisoner, filed …
Article • December 14, 2017
Wyoming Supreme Court Upholds Probation Officer's Conviction for Sexual Assault by Christopher Yager was employed by the Wyoming Department of Corrections (DOC) as a probation officer when he began supervising M.C. as a result of her participation in drug treatment. She completed the treatment, and his supervision of her ended. …
Article • December 14, 2017
Filed under: Appeals, Parole, Habeas Corpus
California Court of Appeals Vacates Parole Denial for Claiming Innocence by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 1, 2015, a California court of appeal vacated the decision of the Board of Parole Hearings to deny parole to a prisoner who had been convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to …
Article • December 14, 2017
Filed under: Parole
California Court of Appeals Holds Consecutive Sentence Begins When Prisoner Found Suitable for Parole by In a decision handed down on May 14, 2015, a California court of appeals held that a prisoner's consecutive sentence for a felony committed while incarcerated (custodial felony) begins on the date he is found …
Article • December 14, 2017
North Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Social Media Ban for Registered Sex Offenders by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In an opinion handed down on November 6, 2015, the Supreme Court of North Carolina upheld a state law banning registered sex offenders from accessing commercial social media websites on the Internet. …
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