Superior Court of Pennsylvania Finds Jurors’ Jokes About Italian and Irish People Inadmissible to Impeach Their Verdicts When Defendant Was Neither Italian Nor Irish January 5, 2021
Call for Papers for Prosecutors, Power, and Racial Injustice: Building an Anti-Racist Prosecutorial System, A Virtual Symposium by the Rutgers Law Review January 4, 2021
Illinois Court Finds Prior Identification Hearsay Exclusion Applies to Witnesses Who Were Neither Victims Nor Eyewitnesses January 4, 2021
Ninth Circuit Finds Jurors’ Use of Bible to Give the Death Penalty to the Defendant Was Not Reversible Error January 3, 2021
Rarer Than Steak Tartare: Former New York Prosecutor Suspended 2 Years for Brady Violation January 2, 2021
Court of Appeals of Texas Finds Judge Didn’t Need to Declare a Mistrial After Spectator Shouted “That’s All Lies” During Defense Counsel’s Opening Statement January 1, 2021
Supreme Court of Illinois Finds Defendants Who Pleaded Guilty Can Bring Freestanding Claims of Actual Innocence December 29, 2020
Supreme Court of Oregon Finds Jury Instructions Allowing for Nonunanimous Verdicts Are (Harmless) Error December 28, 2020