…of Government seeking new faculty member to work with defenders. Finally, in case you didn’t see John Rubin’s post announcing his shift into half-time work and the resulting opening on…
…lawful after defendant’s impaired driving arrest because “[i]t was reasonable to believe that the car might contain one or more bottles of open liquor or drugs”) United States v. Martinez,…
…to apply the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard to her contempt conviction was likewise rejected. The trial court announced in open court its use of that standard but failed to check the appropriate…
…open cell phone and observed on the display screen an image of [the defendant] smoking what appeared to be a marijuana blunt . . . the officer kept the phone,…
…about the “open rebellion” among federal judges regarding the implementation of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. The Act reduces the disparity between crack and powder sentences, but does so…
…If an officer feels something through clothing and he suspects that the “something” is drugs, not a gun, he can’t pull out the something and open it to look for…
…prosecutors can make plea offers in open court at an administrative setting, as is apparently done in at least one North Carolina district. Or they can put the status of…
…to order a 14-day split without at least a 56-day suspended sentence, and 45 days is the maximum for Class 1, Level II offender. It is an open question whether…
…summary (p. iv–v) that opens the report. There you can learn (among other things) that of the 28,000 felony convictions in North Carolina in Fiscal Year 2011/12: 44 percent were…
…caselaw, and pointing out the issues created by the Chambers holding, noting that “[t]he Chambers Court did not explain how or why a verdict delivered in open court by a…
