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7 May 2015, 3:40 pm by Cindy Cohn and Hanni Fakhoury
Despite winning the appeal, the government nonetheless convinced the entire Eleventh Circuit to rehear the case before an eleven-judge en banc panel. [read post]
5 May 2015, 12:12 pm by Kali Borkoski
Nixon announced his intention to nominate Mildred Lillie, a Catholic appeals court judge in California (who would have been the first woman appointed to the Court) and Arkansas attorney Hershel Friday. [read post]
1 May 2015, 9:19 am by John Elwood
Jordan asks: (1) whether it is error to deny a habeas petitioner a certificate of appealability in a case in which the state supreme court was divided and another federal court of appeals would recognize the claim; and (2) whether the fact that the prosecutor did not expand the sentence to which the defendant was exposed prohibits a finding of prosecutorial vindictiveness. [read post]
24 Apr 2015, 7:29 am by John Elwood
Alabama, 14-8194, both one-time relists, asked whether a judge’s override of a jury’s decision to recommend a sentence of life imprisonment without parole violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on arbitrary and capricious sentences and cruel and unusual punishment, or the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee to a trial by jury in criminal cases. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 2:19 am by INFORRM
An Alabama blogger has been ordered to pay $3.5 million in a defamation lawsuit filed by a former campaign manager for Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange. [read post]
10 Apr 2015, 6:55 am by John Elwood
Circuit Courts of Appeal, by allowing a trial judge who has expressly found reasonable doubt regarding a defendant's competency to proceed to allow that defendant to waive counsel and represent himself at his own competency hearing. [read post]
6 Apr 2015, 9:58 am by Rachel, Law Clerk and Office Manager
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26 Mar 2015, 9:14 am by Steven Eversole
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has ruled it should not be applied to older cases. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 5:00 pm
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has ruled it should not be applied to older cases. [read post]
10 Mar 2015, 7:32 am
Recently, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the trial court's dismissal of the charges based on the new indictment, finding prosecutors never sought modification of that "with prejudice" order, and therefore had not covered all their procedural bases. [read post]
5 Mar 2015, 2:56 pm by John Elwood
Elsewhere on the criminal docket, Hurst v. [read post]
5 Mar 2015, 6:00 am by Maureen Johnston
Wagner 14-615Issue: Whether a district court judge may recall a jury on discovery of its own error in the receipt or recording of a jury's verdict and, if the jury has remained an undispersed unit within the court's control since discharge, may accept its verdict. [read post]
27 Feb 2015, 6:15 am by John Elwood
On to the criminal side of the docket. [read post]