First Circuit Finds No Issue With Prosecutor Critiquing Defense Counsel’s Citation to the Indonesian Tsunami & Walter Raleigh’s Trial in Identity Theft Case June 9, 2025
10th Circuit Reverses Second Degree Murder Conviction Based on Expert Improperly Testifying That Defendant’s Conduct Was the “Ultimate Expression of Recklessness” June 6, 2025
Court of Appeals of Idaho Precludes Testimony on Juror Saying the Plaintiff Didn’t Need Money Because She’d Just Purchased a New Pickup June 5, 2025
Supreme Court of Georgia Finds No Ineffective Assistance in Defense Counsel Failing to Ask For Further Inquiry Into Juror Who Expressed Fear That Guilty Verdict Would Lead to Retaliation June 4, 2025
Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Reverses Murder Conviction Based on the State Introducing a “Veritable Flood of Evidence Concerning the Character of the Victim” June 3, 2025
Court of Appeals of Nebraska Refuses to Apply the “Common Knowledge” Exception to the Requirement of Expert Evidence for Proximate Causation in Professional Negligence Cases June 2, 2025
Tia Johnson Moves to Dismiss Her Murder Conviction, Claiming a Brady Violation Because the State Failed to Disclose Record of 911 Call She Made May 30, 2025
Fifth Circuit Finds DEA Agent Properly Testified as a Lay Witness That “A Bird and a Half” Was Code For 3 Pounds of Meth May 29, 2025
Court of Appeals of Utah Finds Deficient Performance, But No Prejudice, In Defense Counsel’s Failure to Object to Sergeant’s Legal Conclusion May 28, 2025
