Sixth Circuit Vacates Sentencing Enhancement Based On Defendant False Identification
This recent Sixth Circuit case has it roots in a 1999 conviction of Kwame Williams , a Trinidadian who was arrested in New York on a gun charge and deported. Williams eventually reentered the country illegally and, in 2002, was arrested for kidnapping, robbery and assault ...
Sixth Circuit Hears Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Appeal From Lillelid Murderer
The recently decided Sixth Circuit case of Howell v. Hodge began in 1997 when Karen Howell and five of her friends set off from Pikeville, Kentucky to ...
Sixth Circuit Overules Judge For 99% Sentencing Reduction
Michael Peppel, a former CEO of MCSi Inc., who pleaded guilty to a scheme that ultimately led to the bankruptcy of his company, was facing 10 years in ...
Trial Begins in NYC as Plaintiffs Attack Police Stop-and-Frisk Practices
By Jay Perry The trial of a class action suit challenging the “stop and frisk” procedures of the New York Police Department began today in a New York ...
Sixth Circuit Rules On Case About Calculating Child Pornography Restitution
At the end of last month, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on two unrelated child pornography cases, U.S. v. Gamble and U.S. v. Crawford . In ...
Supreme Court Refuses To Apply Immigrant Deportation Case Retroactively
In an important decision regarding immigrant criminal defendants, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion, Chaidez v. U.S. , late last month refusing ...
Sixth Circuit Excludes Evidence After Officers Search Wrong House
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals recently heard an interesting case out of Tennessee involving evidence that was uncovered during the search of a ...
Corrections Corporation of America's legal settlements are subject to TN Open Records law.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled that Corrections Corporation of America's legal settlements are subject to the state ...