A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer By ADAM LIPTAK Published: New York Times February 9, 2010 EXCER[TS FROM ARTICLE: While in prison, a former bank robber transformed himself into an accomplished Supreme Court practitioner…. Mr. Hopwood spent much of that time in the prison law library, and it…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw U.S. Supreme Court, January 25, 2010 Hemi Group, LLC v. City of N.Y., No. 08–969 In an action by New York City against an online cigarette seller under the civil enforcement provision…
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BY: Michael Chernicoff President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has promsed to make its statistical body free from political manipulation. In making an independent statistical body, James Lynch may hope to reverse that likelihood that the BJS and its official are, “inappropriately…
A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against a defendant convicted of the rape of a 9-year-old girl after a night of heavy drinking. The Supreme Court said in a per curiam opinion that overstated estimates of a DNA match at trial…
January 18, 2010 – January 1, 2010 To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw Supreme Court, January 19, 2010 Wellons v. Hall, No. 09–5731 In a capital habeas matter, the petition for certiorari is granted and the court of…
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David Badertscher* A giant of New York politics and law enforcement recently retired from public office– Robert Morgenthau. Scion to a powerful family, Robert Morgenthau’s grandfather served as United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and his father was Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin Delano Roosevelt. While his famous…
January 11, 2010 No. 08-809. The defendant, Troy Brown, had alleged on appeal that the state mischaracterized the probability that his DNA matched that of someone in the general population. He also claimed that a prosecution expert had misstated the chances of a DNA match between himself and his two…
What recourse does a criminal defense defense attorney have if he or she learns a client has committed a crime ascribed to someone else? On the one hand, as Ken Strutin writes in his article “Wrongful Convictions and Attorney-Client Confidentiality” published at LLRX.COM, “When an innocent person faces conviction, imprisonment,…