Table of ContentsLATEST SUMMARIESConstitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
• Sweeney v. Bartow
Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
• US v. Faulds
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LATEST SUMMARIESConstitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Sweeney v. Bartow
Defendant's petition for a certificate of appealability challenging state court proceedings to commit him civilly as a sexually violent person, claiming that the use of his assault convictions as the basis for civil detention as a sexually violent person would infringe the ex post facto clause, is denied as, if all a defendant in a state proceeding had to do in order to obtain federal court review of his federal claims before the proceeding was over was to move to dismiss and exhaust state remedies, Younger would be a dead letter. Read more...Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
US v. Faulds
Defendant's convictions for distributing and possessing child pornography are affirmed where no double jeopardy violation has been shown as the Blockburger test is implicated only where the same act or transaction constitutes a violation of two distinct statutory provisions, and here, defendant's two convictions are based on different acts that occurred over a period of more than a month. Read more...
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