by Sam Rutherford
On April 17, 2024, the Human Rights Defense Center (“HRDC”), CLN’s non-profit publisher, and the civil rights law firm of Loevy and Loevy filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida on behalf of a Jacksonville man who spent nearly ...
by Sam Rutherford
In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement spurred by the police-involved killing of George Floyd, citizens across the country elected reform-minded prosecutors who ran on platforms promising accountability for police who break the law and murder defenseless citizens. Conservative politicians, police unions, and the ...
by Sam Rutherford
The Court of Appeals of New York, the state’s highest court, held that the People violated a defendant’s statutory right to a speedy trial by filing a certificate of readiness and then appearing at several court dates to request a post-readiness adjournment (continuance) without any explanation ...
by Sam Rutherford
In a case of first impression, the Supreme Court of Colorado held that the parole board is not statutorily required to consider a juvenile sex offender’s “maturity,” though is permitted to do so, but is required to consider the offender’s “rehabilitation” when making release decisions where ...
by Samuel Rutherford
As reported by the Associated Press, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced the creation of a database designed to track serious misconduct complaints against federal law enforcement officers. The purpose of the database is to ensure that other agencies do not unknowingly hire officers who ...
by Sam Rutherford
The Supreme Court of Idaho held that a trial court violated a defendant’s Confrontation Clause rights by admitting video recorded interviews of a child witness at his trial on charges that he sexually assaulted the child where the child did not testify, thereby depriving the defendant ...
by Sam Rutherford
On April 17, 2024, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously to limit consideration of conduct for which a person was acquitted in federal court from being used in calculating the sentence range under the federal guidelines for a related conviction.
The U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines ...
by Sam Rutherford
TheSupreme Court of Washington held that the terms “community custody” and “community supervision” are synonymous within the meaning of the second sentence of RCW 9.94A.589(5) for offenses that occurred after July 1, 2000, and that trial courts may not impose consecutive terms of community custody that exceed ...
by Sam Rutherford
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that a defendant’s statement in response to Miranda warnings that “I guess my best bet would probably be to not talk” until she had a lawyer was an unequivocal invocation of her right to counsel during custodial ...
by Sam Rutherford
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a defendant’s live-in girlfriend could not validly consent to police searching their shared residence where the defendant, who was detained nearby, yelled to her “Don’t let the cops in, and don’t talk to them.”
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