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12 Apr 2009, 5:56 am
The standard jury instruction - given over defense objection - stated that a "prison-made knife is a dangerous weapon if it is used in a way that is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury. [read post]
18 Jun 2024, 12:37 pm
This post summarizes published criminal law and related cases released by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals during May 2024. [read post]
15 Mar 2013, 11:49 am
We review allegations of jury charge error under the standard enunciated in Almanza v. [read post]
20 Jul 2023, 7:59 am
These summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, a free and searchable database of case summaries from 2008 to the present. [read post]
2 Apr 2020, 8:10 am
The trial judge instructed the jury not to consider the informant’s statements on the phone call for the truth of the matter asserted, but only for context of the defendant’s statements on the call. [read post]
6 Jun 2024, 7:05 am
These summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, a free and searchable database of case summaries from 2008 to the present. [read post]
7 Jan 2021, 1:28 pm
As always, these summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, a free and searchable database of case summaries from 2008 to present. [read post]
8 Nov 2021, 2:12 pm
Both cases alleged that their respective juries should have been instructed that it had to be shown that the defendants intended to act outside the bounds of their normal professional practice to be found guilty. [read post]
18 Mar 2020, 10:29 am
They are used to setting the rules and standards—and having others comply. [read post]
15 Jan 2010, 11:23 am
Fred Lewis wrote letters requesting that the Florida Supreme Court Committees for Standard Jury Instructions in Civil and Criminal Cases consider “the problem of jurors engaging in electronic communications, research or the use of technology by jurors during a pending case. [read post]
4 Feb 2012, 10:04 am
STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. 5th District.Criminal law -- Attorney's fees -- Attorney appointed to represent indigent defendant in criminal case -- Where case had been determined to be extraordinary and unusual, court departed from essential requirements of law by limiting fee to double the flat fee without considering the number of hours expended in determining whether the fee award was confiscatoryJOSHUA D. [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 10:21 am
We therefore affirm Brown’s convictions.Judge William Pryor dissents and says the conviction should be reversed:Do each of you solemnly swear that you will well and truly try the case now before this court and render a true verdict, according to the law, evidence, and instructions of this court, so help you God? [read post]
8 May 2013, 8:32 am
May 7, 2013) (Noonan, J.)The Ninth Circuit vacated a criminal conviction and remanded for a new trial, holding that the district court should have given a remedial jury instruction to account for the government's negligent destruction of potentially exculpatory evidence. [read post]
11 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm
Washington standard for the Sixth Amendment guarantee of effective assistance of counsel. [read post]
19 May 2008, 8:55 am
To view these cases distributed by Findlaw.com you must first sign in to Findlaw.com. [read post]
3 Oct 2013, 8:53 am
Federal criminal lawyers and the individuals they represent have no right to be present inside the federal grand jury session considering an indictment, and under current law, federal prosecutors are not even required to present exculpatory evidence to the grand jury or provide the grand jury with legal instructions. [read post]
15 Nov 2017, 12:29 pm
The main question in the case concerns whether the defendant’s first lawyer was ineffective for not challenging a jury instruction. [read post]
11 Feb 2020, 7:48 am
At issue in the case is whether prior acquittal evidence is admissible in a subsequent criminal case. [read post]
19 Nov 2021, 10:54 am
The court relied on earlier cases that held that the omission of an element from a jury instruction did not amount to structural error. [read post]
19 Aug 2020, 11:26 am
On appeal, the defendant argued that the trial court erred by (1) denying his request to instruct the jury on self-defense, (2) failing to instruct the jury on the “stand-your-ground” provision, and (3) denying his request to instruct the jury on the defense of habitation. [read post]
