…The New York Times reports that several law schools are retroactively increasing all students’ grades, on the theory that students with (meaninglessly) high GPAs will look better to employers. Sentencing…
…obtain a warrant before placing a GPS device on a vehicle. Given the potential application of the court of appeals’ “aggregation” theory to other, non-GPS forms of surveillance, this Court’s…
…The Gomola court found this holding inapplicable to the case before it because the State’s theory was that the defendant intentionally committed an unlawful act by participating in an affray….
…Google.” It distinguished Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. 296 (2018), the long-term historical cell site location information case, on the theory that the data at issue here was short-term…
…the officer, Edward Nero, being acquitted on all charges. According to the report, Nero’s acquittal on several misdemeanors came after a five-day bench trial that involved a novel theory of…
…making armed and dangerous a unitary concept. The concurring opinion rejected the court’s unitary concept theory and also raised an issue whether the court’s opinion was intended to apply to…
…The gist is this: “The theory behind the . . . Act was that more intensive supervision of offenders who had been released into the community would prevent them from…
…other than the new criminal offense violation were revocation-eligible. Nevertheless, the court said, “a trial court’s ruling must be upheld if it is correct upon any theory of law.” Slip…
…close of all evidence, or really at any time (an indictment could be found “fatally defective” on appeal or in post-conviction proceedings, long after the trial had concluded). The theory…
