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Criminal – Woman dodges disorderly conduct conviction

Teona Seqouya Rose's disorderly conduct conviction was reversed by the Virginia court due to the other-crimes proviso allowing assault charges instead. The post Criminal – Woman do...

North Carolina’s Double Jeopardy Clause

Constitutional protection against double jeopardy is understood to extend no further than the Fifth Amendment requires. Two recent cases from the Court of Appeals, however, seem to...

Utah's New Rule Allowing Propensity Evidence in Sexual Assault Prosecutions

While propensity evidence is generally inadmissible in criminal cases, an exception for sexual assault cases is both common practice and good public policy.

Sixth Amendment-Third-Party Perpetrator Evidence

Steinhoff was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide. He subsequently argued that the trial court wrongly excluded evidence suggesting a third party, George Welch, may have...

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Criminal – Fourth Circuit splits from First Circuit over Virginia robbery statute

The divided court held that the use or display of a firearm while committing Virginia robbery does not qualify as a crime of violence under the elements clause. In so […] The post...

The Other Vindictive Part of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Case

A judge last week threw out a criminal indictment against him on the grounds that it was tainted by vindictiveness. But that same spirit infects another part of his story that few...