An important decision was recently handed down by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals concerning law enforcement's ability to track suspects through GPS. Previously, appeals courts have allowed this tracking to take place without a warrant, a trend that the majority on the ...
Read MoreA recent Sixth Circuit opinion concerned a Tennessee man, Ronald Michael Cauthern v. Roland Colson , who was convicted of murder and rape and ...
View MoreLast week, the Supreme Court heard two important criminal law cases involving drugs, both of which fit with a larger theme of clarifying what ...
View MoreU.S. v. Hughes In another confusing and unfortunate case involving the Fair Sentencing Act, the Sixth Circuit recently ruled against a man who had ...
View MoreThe Supreme Court announced that it would hear an appeal from a death row inmate in Florida who was ruled mentally disabled in 1992 but later found to ...
View MoreJasubhai K Desai v. Raymond Booker This case begins with a doctor, Jasubhai Desai, and a nurse, Anna Marie Turetzky, agreeing to open a medical clinic ...
View MoreThe Tennessee Supreme Court released an opinion,Tennessee v. Kevin Anthony Dickson, earlier this week that affirmed the attempted murder conviction ...
View MoreA recent New York Times story dealt with the surprising issue of mug shots available online and how these commercial operations can end up haunting ...
View MoreU.S. v. Castleman The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a Tennessee case about whether one man's conviction for domestic assault is sufficient to ...
View MoreThe U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear a criminal case out of California so it can decide whether police are allowed to stop cars based solely on an ...
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