May 4 -8, 2009 To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. U.S. Supreme Court, May 04, 2009 Flores-Figueroa v. US, No. 08-108 Defendant’s aggravated identity theft conviction is reversed where 18 U.S.C. section 1028A(a)(1) requires the government to show…
Update from the Lexis Alert Service, May 11, 2009. 1. People v. Acevedo, 511 70/06, 512 70/06, SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT, 2009 NY Slip Op 3673; 2009 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3554, May 7, 2009, Decided, May 7, 2009, Entered, THE LEXIS PAGINATION OF THIS…
A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust Flores-Figueroa v. United States (No. 08-108) Decided: May 4, 2009 Petitioner Flores-Figueroa, a Mexican citizen, gave his employer counterfeit Social Security and alien registration cards containing his name but other people’s identification numbers, he was arrested and charged with two immigration…
April 27 – May 1, 2009 To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. U.S. Supreme Court, April 28, 2009 Cone v. Bell, No. 07-1114 In a capital habeas proceeding, the denial of Petitioner’s habeas petition is reversed where the…
April 27 – May 1, 2009 To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, April 28, 2009 Molinari v. Bloomberg , No. 09-0331 In an action challenging amendments to New York term limits legislation,…
May 1, 2009. Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust DEAN v. UNITED STATES (No. 08-5274) United States Supreme Court Opinion Decided: April 29, 2009 Petitioner Dean was convicted of conspiring to commit a bank robbery and discharging a firearm during an armed robbery. Because the firearm was “discharged”…
United States Supreme Court Decision: April 28, 2009 A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust SYNOPSIS. At trial the State discredited Mr. Cone’s defense that he killed two people while suffering from acute psychosis caused by drug addiction, he was then convicted and sentenced to death. The Tennessee…
Update from the Lexis Alert Service, April 29, 2009. 1. People v. Jackson, 195, 3988/04, SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT, 2009 NY Slip Op 2450; 874 N.Y.S.2d 908; 2009 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 2503, March 31, 2009, Decided, March 31, 2009, Entered, THE LEXIS PAGINATION OF…
Update from the Lexis Alert Service, 1. People v. Hinton, 304, 2530/06, SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT, 2009 NY Slip Op 2836; 2009 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 2782, April 14, 2009, Decided, April 14, 2009, Entered, THE LEXIS PAGINATION OF THIS DOCUMENT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, SENTENCING US v. Borden , No. 08-1625 Sentence for drug crimes is affirmed where the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant a sentence reduction…