[PDF] Top 20 Recent Developments in Criminal Law

... 2d, 1937 the Circuit Court held that trial court could not permit the defendant to waive trial by jury unless the prosecution consented... The maximum penalty for violation of the regula[r] ... See full document

... minority disagreed with this argument. Marijuana is a psychoactive drug that causes the alteration of mental function. That is why people use it. Lower courts made findings that marijuana can be harmful, especially for ... See full document

... The court accepted the Supreme Court's invitation to "authoritatively construe" the state statute, unlike the Massachusetts court in Horton and Capri.2 6 The Alabama court construed Mill[r] ... See full document

... Thermal Pollution Suit Filed.:" On March 13, the Justice Department filed suit in United States District Court, on recommendation of Secretary Hickel, against the [r] ... See full document

... Shelf was established on March 17, 1975, when the United States Supreme Court held that the United States, to the exclusion of 13 Atlantic coastal states, was entitl[r] ... See full document

... Court for the Central District of California to block the anticipated mid-1975 sale of the 1.6 million acres off the Southern California coast 4 9 Brought on behalf o[r] ... See full document

... Relations Committee. In addition, the cost for filing certain applications, petitions, appeals, and motions under the Immigration and Nationality Act has been changed. P[r] ... See full document

... In our 174 standard metropolitan areas there are 15,658 units of local government.9 More than 3,600 of these are involved in the administration of at least a portion of the police functi[r] ... See full document

... Political concerns were raised as the island nations of the South Pacific asserted their independence, while the United States and Libya engaged in a vio- lent conf[r] ... See full document

... (2) The court shall not modify a prior custody decree unless it finds upon the basis of facts that have arisen since the prior decree or that were unknown to th[r] ... See full document

... Young Recent Canadian Developments in the Treatment of Children and Their Evidence in Criminal Sexual Abuse Cases , 1 Annals Health L.I. Recent Canadian Developments in the Treatment[r] ... See full document

... Recent United States circuit court decisions on the legality of airport searches focus on several key issues: 1 whether the search is a private, administrative or police search; 2 assumi[r] ... See full document

... 764 1973, the United States Supreme Court resolved a conflict between two federal circuit courts by holding that a federal grand jury can subpoena voice exemplars without making a prelim[r] ... See full document

... COMMENT there will remain certain cases inwhich fundamental fairness-the touchstone of due prcoess-will require that the state provide at its expense counsel for indigent probationers or[r] ... See full document

... State,3 the Supreme Court of Alaska held that a warrantless search of a parolee is constitutional when the parolee has signed a condition agreeing to such a search, if the condition is r[r] ... See full document

... Eley,2 this court had required the government to search its files for any information that ' might be helpful" to the defense and to turn over to the court for in camera determination an[r] ... See full document

... "0Hawaii Employment Relations Act gives discrimination on the basis of conviction records the same status as discrimination on the basis of race: It shall be an unlawful employment pract[r] ... See full document

... The United States Supreme Court has recognized that the label that attaches to a criminal statute or procedure should not be determinative of which due process guarantees must be afforde[r] ... See full document

... 3 6 However, the Seventh Circuit spoke of a "material fact." 37 The Thomas court used "material to the establishment of probable cause," 3 while the Sixth Circuit most closely resembles [r] ... See full document

... Beniin~ger.' In this recent opinion the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, adding an alternative objective standard to its traditional subjective good faith test for liability, adopted a [r] ... See full document