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27 Apr 2017, 8:59 am by John Elwood
That case involves a follow-on to the spellcheck-challenging case Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians v. [read post]
27 Apr 2017, 7:59 am by Kate Howard
North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP 16-833 Issues: (1) Whether a federal court has the authority to reimpose, under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the same “anti-retrogression” preclearance standard invalidated as to Section 5 by Shelby County v. [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 8:23 am by Elizabeth Kruska
The jury was instructed on the law, deliberated, and found Mr. [read post]
19 Apr 2017, 1:26 pm by Amy Howe
At the same time, though, the criminal denaturalization statute also requires the government to meet a higher standard than is imposed under the civil statute: It must bring the charges within 10 years of the false statement, prove its case to the jury “beyond a reasonable doubt,” and provide the defendant with due process. [read post]
18 Apr 2017, 7:33 am by Phil Dixon
Topics include discovery and investigation, pretrial motions, voir dire, and jury instructions, among others. [read post]
17 Apr 2017, 12:08 pm
What absolutely drives me crazy is that we can never tell a jury everything that we know about the facts of the case. [read post]
16 Apr 2017, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
  The most important individual right, trial by jury in criminal cases, was already in the Philadelphia Constitution. [read post]
5 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
Yet in most cases, criminal defendants convicted after juries were given (likely ineffective) instructions do not have their convictions reversed by a higher court.Beyond the law of evidence, we can look to how the U.S. [read post]
31 Mar 2017, 9:00 am by Sarah Tate Chambers
As to the first question, Judge Gorsuch finds that a reasonable jury could have been persuaded by the government’s substantial evidence from a variety of sources that SafeTrust and IntegraRx’s physicians were acting outside of medical standards of care and contemporary medical practices. [read post]
24 Mar 2017, 2:43 pm
Ali's counsel persuaded the trial court to instruct the jury that willfulness involves a significantly higher level of culpability—knowingly engaging in conduct for which there is no reasonable excuse. [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 1:36 pm
A jury found Billups guilty of the charged offense. [read post]
13 Mar 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
  Courtrooms were full of these cases, and juries often rewarded plaintiffs with handsome judgments—fueling even more claims. [read post]
7 Mar 2017, 11:41 am by James E. Novak, P.L.L.C.
In a recent Arizona appellate case, a jury convicted a man of two counts of aggravated assault and two counts of murder. [read post]
6 Mar 2017, 1:57 pm by Amy Howe
Sotomayor pointed out that the instructions given to the jury allowed it to “convict Perez based on what he ‘stated’ alone. [read post]
2 Mar 2017, 1:37 pm by John Elwood
Florida16-6250Issues: (1) Whether a special jury instruction as to Section 790.162, Florida Statutes, that an accused may be convicted of that offense with the “stated intent” to do bodily harm to any person or damage to the property of any person, amounts to an unconstitutional diminishment of the required criminal mens rea or scienter under the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Elonis v. [read post]
26 Feb 2017, 9:30 pm by David Rudovsky
Criminal prosecutions are extremely rare as prosecutors must rely on police for the investigation of criminal cases and are reluctant to prosecute officers unless there is overwhelming evidence of serious misconduct. [read post]
25 Feb 2017, 1:42 pm by Andrew Delaney
” That’s a really high standard. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 12:04 pm by John Elwood
Florida16-6250Issues: (1) Whether a special jury instruction as to Section 790.162, Florida Statutes, that an accused may be convicted of that offense with the “stated intent” to do bodily harm to any person or damage to the property of any person, amounts to an unconstitutional diminishment of the required criminal mens rea or scienter under the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Elonis v. [read post]