CRS Report No. R41349; 8/16/2010; Posted 9/7/2010 Author(s): Clare Ribando Seelke, Specialist in Latin American Affairs; Kristin M. Finklea, Analyst in Domestic Security Subject(s): Mexico; Criminal Justice; Drug Abuse No. of Pages: 35 SUMMARY: In recent years, U.S.-Mexican security cooperation has increased significantly, largely as a result of the development…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw August 16-20, 2010. United States First Circuit, 08/17/2010 US v. Donath Defendant’s appeal of his conviction for his participation in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and other drugs and a below-guidelines sentence…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw August 2-6, 2010. United States Second Circuit, 08/02/2010 US v. Johnson Defendant’s sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm is affirmed where a violation of Connecticut General Statute section…
June 29, 2010 RECENT DECISION Defendant involved in fraud scheme claims that investigators were overzealous in their search Mark Phillips was convicted of securities fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, and access device fraud. In early 2003, the United States Postal Inspection Service began a fraud investigation of Phillips. The investigation…
A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section (CJS) *, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust* MCDONALD ET AL. v. CITY OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ET AL. No. 08-1521 United States Supreme Court Decision: Decided: June 28, 2010 In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution protects an…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw June 21-25, 2010. U.S. Supreme Court, June 21, 2010 Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, No. 08–1498 In a constitutional challenge to 18 U.S.C. section 2339B(a)(1), which prohibited knowingly providing material support or…
Supreme Court Case Summaries: Professor Rory Little’s Perspective A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust These summaries are written by Professor Rory K. Little (littler@uchastings.edu), U.C. Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, who has long presented “Annual Review of the Supreme Court’s Term” program at the ABA’s…
A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section (CJS), http://www.abanet.org/crimjust* United States Supreme Court Decisions: Decided: June 24, 2010 1)Black v. United States No. 08-076 2)Skilling v. United States 3)Magwood v. Patterson Black v. United States No. 08-076 In a 9-0 decision today, the Supreme Court held that a criminal…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw June 14 – 18, 2010. U.S. Supreme Court, June 14, 2010 Dolan v. US, No. 09–367 In a prosecution for assault resulting in serious bodily injury, the Tenth Circuit’s affirmance of the…
Apparently prosecutors in Queens County New York think so. This month Queens prosecutors have charged two women with stealing more than $30,000 from three elderly men they had befriended separately. The women were charged with grand larceny as a hate crime. This strategy of treating some hate crimes as larcenous…