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Analysis of major changes to criminal law and its impact
By Colleen Murphy | June 5, 2023
"This case presents an issue of first impression," said Gass. "Arizona's appellate courts have accepted special action jurisdiction in cases involving motions to compel mental-health examinations but have not addressed whether non-expert witness testimony opens the door to a court-ordered examination for rebuttal purposes."
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By Colleen Murphy | June 2, 2023
"Among other things, the Appellate Court in its opinion compared Belton—an African American man—to Grendel, the mythical monster in the Old English epic, Beowulf," stated Justice Jonathan Biran, in his written opinion for the court. "Belton asserts that this analogy evokes racist tropes of African Americans as subhuman. He raises similar objections concerning several other passages in the Appellate Court's dicta."
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By Kevin McGill | The Associated Press | May 30, 2023
Ramos v. Louisiana outlawed nonunanimous jury convictions as unconstitutional, with justices on the 6-3 majority acknowledging the practice as a vestige of racism from the era of laws legalizing racial segregation.
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By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press | May 25, 2023
The Georgia Supreme Court in November voted 6-3 to overturn his murder and child cruelty convictions. The Cobb County district attorney's office, which prosecuted the case, said in a statement that while it disagrees with that ruling, crucial motive evidence is no longer available to the state as a result of it. Therefore, prosecutors decided not to retry Harris on the reversed counts.
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By Avalon Zoppo | May 25, 2023
Just going through the (Post-Trial) motions would be a waste of time, the Supreme Court says.
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By Riley Brennan | May 23, 2023
Other courts across the country have "uniformly rejected" challenges to the "pandemic-induced jury selection procedures" similar to Bell's, while this is the first time a Washington court has addressed the matter.
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By Lisa Willis | May 23, 2023
"What the Fourth District Court of Appeal says here is that given this particular piece of evidence, and the way it was withheld, and then used in rebuttal, completely prejudiced the defendant," said Craig Joseph Trocino, who is not involved in the litigation.
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By Brian Lee | May 23, 2023
The decisions were both unanimous, and the majority opinions were written by Associate Judges Jenny Rivera and Anthony Cannataro, whom many court observers suggest are on opposing ends of the ideological spectrum, with the former seen as part of the high court's liberal-progressive group.
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By Mason Lawlor | May 23, 2023
"[T]he district court—whose decision to disqualify was informed, in part, by a comparison to an internal investigation of a private company—does not appear to have sufficiently appreciated the separation-of-powers concern," the appeals court said.
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By The Associated Press | May 22, 2023
Joseph Clifton Smith, 52, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1997 beating death of Durk Van Dam. Van Dam died as a result of 35 blunt-force injuries to his body, according to testimony from a forensic pathologist.
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