- Is Texas About to Execute Another Innocent Defendant?
- New York Test Case Highlights Deplorable Nature of Appointed Counsel System
- New York Perjury Conviction Demonstrates How Easily Some People Will Falsely Claim “Rape.”
- Michigan COA Rules that Vague Anonymous Tips Do Not Justify a Search
- Berghuis v Smith Argued Today in SCOTUS
- SCOTUS Reverses a Second IAC Ruling Based on AEDPA Deference
- SCOTUS Reverses Sixth Circuit Ruling on Ineffective Assistance Based on AEDPA Deference
- Idaho Supreme Court Overturns Ban on Sex Offender Father Contacting His Own Children
- Ohio Supreme Court Rules that Police Cannot Search Personal Electronics as Part of a "Search Incident to an Arrest"
- The Truth is Not Negotiable: Court Dismisses Broadcom Prosecution Based on Prosecution Intimidation of Witnesses
- Innocence Project Wins Release of Man After 35 Years Wrongful Confinement
- Will the Michigan Legislature Reform Our SORA
- SCOTUS Receives Briefs in Skilling Challenging "Honest Services" Fraud
- Michigan Legislature Considers Public Defense Overhall
- Google Announces Realtime Searches
- Michigan Supreme Court Remands 6.500 for Actual Innocence Hearing
- Oakland Circuit Court Finds District Court Judges Cannot Impose Jail Sentence for a Probation Violation on MIP
- First Case of Fake Fingerprints Confirmed
- SCOTUS Finds that Pennsylvania’s Fugitive Disentitlement Rule is a Valid State Procedural Default Rule
- SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Conrad Black Case on “Honest Services” Law
- Scotus: Oral Arguments On Florida v. Powell Look Too Close to Call
- SCOTUS Upholds Warrantless Entry of Home Based on Pretextual Medical Concerns of Officer
- SCOTUS Hears Arguments on Whether Miranda Requires a Suspect to be Told that Counsel Will be Appointed for Him During Questioning
- Michigan Supreme Court Hears Arguments About Whether Prosecutor Can Use Voluntary Dismissals to Create Final Orders for Appellate Purposes.
- New Innocence Project Report Says Michigan and Other States Are Failing to Help Exonerated.
- Amanda Knox: "Justice Served" or "The Italian Job?"
- The Strange Case of Abdul Hamid Salam Al-Ghizzaw
- More on Reconciling Porter and VanHook
- New FRAP Time Limits Go Into Effect
- Michigan Attorney General's Office is on the Roll!
- Sixth Circuit Holds That Time Limits in Conditional Habeas Corpus Grants Are Unenforceable
- SCOTUS Hears Another Michigan Habeas Case
- SCOTUS Hears Federal Good Time Issue
- SCOTUS Finds Death Penalty Counsel Ineffective for Failing to Put on Post Traumatic Stress Evidence in Mitigation Hearing
- Michigan Legislature is Considering Limited Restoration of Good Time, Disciplinary Credits, or Something Similar
- Michigan Supreme Court Adopts New Disqualification Rules: Is the Glass Half Empty or Full?
- Ohio Governor Strickland Grants 78 Commutations
- Sixth Circuit Remands Michigan Habeas for Determination of Whether Counsel Improperly Denied the Defendant Right to Public Trial
- Michigan Court of Appeals Reverses Conviction of Detroit Area Artist
- Google Scholar Takes on Westlaw and Lexis
- Second Circuit Denies Lynne Stewart's Request for Stay
- UK Police Arresting Suspects to Get DNA in System
- Left & Right Come Together on Criminal Justice Reform
- Michigan Court of Appeals Rules that Judge Lacks Authority to Dismiss Criminal Case Based on Prosecution Deliberate Misstatements
- Should a Warrant Be Required for GPS Monitoring of a Suspect?
- Does the Second Amendment Guarantee Domestic Abusers the Right to Own Firearms? (Updated)
- Is KSM’s Conviction a Done Deal?
- Michigan Court of Appeals Reinstates Charges Against Ex-Line Backer
- Macomb Circuit Court Grants 6.500 Motion in a Shaken Baby Syndrome Child Abuse Case. Court Finds Child Might Have Died from a Stroke
- Israeli Researchers Prove that DNA Evidence Can Be Faked
- Attorney General Holder Supports Greater Funding of Indigent Counsel: Cites Michigan as an Example of a State in Need
- ABA Says That the Van Hook Didn't Diminish the Importance of its Standards
- Second Circuit Ups Lynne Stewart's Sentence and Orders Her Detained
- SCOTUS Peremptorily Reverses a Habeas IAC Holding
- SCOTUS to Clarify What is a "Sucessive Petition" Under 2244(b)?
- Sixth Circuit Reverses Felon in Possession Case Based on a Corpus Delecti Violation
- NACDL Supports Decision to Try Terror Suspects in New York City
- AMA Supports Reclassification of Marijuana
- Delaware Supreme Court Rules that a Pardon Removes SORA Registry Obligations
- Kentucky AG Seeks Temporary Enforcement of Its Jessica's Law Pending State's Cert Petition to SCOTUS
- California Supreme Court to Review Jessica's Law
- Illinois Prosecutor's Office Continues Attack on Northwestern Innocence Project
- SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments on Life for Juveniles
- SCOTUS Blasts Overreliance on ABA Standards For Assessing Prevailing Professional Norms
- SCOTUS Hears Arguments on AEDPA Deference
- Michigan Court of Appeals Says a Two Person Prosecutor’s Office Can Effectively Screen for Conflict
- More Innocence Project Bashing
- Michigan's SORA Declared Unconstitutional As Applied to Youthful "Romeo"
- SCOTUS Hears Two Michigan Habeas Cases
- Michigan Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Redd Case On Silence in a Non-Custodial Interview
- SCOTUS Hears Habeas Procedural Default Case With a Twist
- SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Death Penalty IAC
- SCOTUS Ducks Cold Case/Speedy Trial Issues
- Is There a Constitutional Right Not to Be Framed?
- SCOTUS to Revisit Harris?
- SCOTUS Hears Equitable Tolling Case
- New Detainee Case Hearing for SCOTUS
- Arizona Considering Privating Most of Its Prisons
- Prosecutors Go After Northwestern Innocence Project
- Padilla v Kentucky: It is Looking Good!
- Should the US Supreme Court Reconsider Appodoca v Oregon?
- State Seeks Cert from Mich Supreme Court's Ruling in Bryant
- Drafter of AEDPA Tells New York Times that the Court's Are Reading it Too Harshly
- SCOTUS Strikes Down New York's Attempt to Bar Prisoner Civil Rights Suits
- SCOTUS Rejects Fourth Circuit's Attempt to Turn Misdemeanor Drug Purchases Into a Felony Because a Cell Phone Was Used
- Pres. Obama Nominates Second Circuit Judge Sotomayor to SCOTUS
- Supreme Court Overrules Michigan v Jackson & Allows Interrogations Without Attorney
- Detroit Free Press Studies Michigan Parole Reforms
- SCOTUS Overrules NY v Belton and Limits Auto Searches
- SCOTUS Allows Impeachment with Statements Taken in Violation of Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel
- New Mexico Repeals the Death Penalty
- Federal Defender's Can Represent State Capital Defendants in Clemency Proceedings
- SCOTUS Bars Confessions Taken After an Unreasonable Delay
- MI COA Says That An Expungment Does Not Entitle a Defendant to Get His Fingerprints Returned
- Can Police Search Handhelds as Part of a Search Incident to an Arrest?
- Sixth Circuit Withdraws Davis Ruling
- Michigan Supreme Court Again Rejects Halbert Retroactivity
- Michigan Supreme Court Reaffirms Carry-Over Corollary to Declaration Against Penal Interests.
- Sixth Circuit Releases En Banc Opinion on Acquitted Conduct Enhancements
- Sixth Circuit Holds that Ordinary Lane Drift Does Not Constitute Probable Cause to Stop.
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