…the statute authorizing electronic monitoring was intended to ensure appearance in court rather than to deter crime generally, id. at 336-38). The court left open the larger question of whether…
…due process and equal protection rights when there is no meaningful consideration of their ability to pay and alternative methods of assuring their appearance at trial. The plaintiff in the…
…sentence was affirmed. Still, the Earls court gave a final reminder that trial judges should take care to avoid using language that could create an appearance of impropriety. That is…
…agency or officer for the purpose of interfering with the operation of a law enforcement agency, which would cover swatting behavior. If the false report relates to the disappearance of…
…she may object to the admission of the evidence absent the analyst’s appearance live at trial. Approving of these statutes, the Court noted that states are free to adopt procedural…
…also consider objecting, invoking the Sixth Amendment speedy trial guarantee and Fifth Amendment due process protections, thus making a record of the disappearance of the matter from the trial calendar…
…many hours in holding cells prior to their initial appearances, which I imagine is due to an overwhelming number of arrestees for a limited number of magistrates. I’m sure that…
…Likewise, the officers lacked a description of the suspect’s appearance or, more importantly, any indication that the suspect was in the vicinity. . . Id. at 21 (emphasis in original)…
…as a reward for information related to the disappearance of Jayme Closs directly to Closs herself. Last Fall, Closs’s parents, each of whom worked for Jennie-O, were found murdered in…
…different analysis in this earlier post. McKenzie, a commercial truck driver for a logging company, was arrested in 2010 for impaired driving in a non-commercial vehicle. At McKenzie’s initial appearance,…