The Ninth Circuit affirmed denial of a compassionate release motion because the defendant asked the warden for relief only after filing in district court, which was too late under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) and Keller.
The Third District reversed an order restoring Adam Kendall’s custody credits, holding that High Desert State Prison’s practice of retrieving laboratory results after collecting tested evidence was reasonably diligent and did not deliberately delay his disciplinary proceedings.
A Central District of California judge adopted a magistrate judge’s recommendation and dismissed without prejudice a federal prisoner’s habeas petition seeking residential reentry placement, finding his First Step Act claim abandoned and his Second Chance Act claim unripe.
In an unpublished memorandum, the Ninth Circuit affirmed Robert L. West’s three convictions for violating federal property regulations at a Portland Social Security hearings office, rejecting his nondelegation challenge, finding any Rule 404(b) error harmless, and holding the evidence sufficie
The Third District reversed both transfers. Although juvenile-court jurisdiction can continue after age 18, the Legislature used “minor” deliberately in section 750. Once C.M. became an adult, his residence could not automatically be derived from his parents’ residence. The transfer courts therefore
The Commonwealth Court dismissed parole-violation charges with prejudice because the Board failed to prove a timely revocation hearing and could not cure its evidentiary failure after the hearing.
The court dismissed a First Step Act habeas petition because earned credits did not yet equal the remainder of the prisoner’s term and were not yet applicable.
The Commonwealth Court vacated four Williamsport property-maintenance convictions because the citations charged violations of a code edition the city had never adopted.
The Superior Court held that Pennsylvania’s Sentencing Commission could apply the domestic-violence enhancement even when no minor witnessed the assault.
The Commonwealth Court held that Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Act did not prevent the Parole Board from denying street-time credit after a parolee’s third drug-related DUI.
The Commonwealth Court held that the Parole Board timely conducted a revocation hearing after a federal prisoner returned to Pennsylvania custody and had no duty to seek an earlier interstate transfer.
The Commonwealth Court held that a dog attack is without provocation when, under all surrounding circumstances, the victim could not reasonably foresee that her conduct would trigger the attack.
The Massachusetts SJC held that SORB abused its discretion by denying an indigent registrant funds for an expert to address whether multiple pre-arrest offenses predict future dangerousness.
The Ninth Circuit remanded asylum and cancellation issues because immigration adjudicators relied on non-elements of the conviction and failed to address material evidence of responsibility.
The agency permissibly treated a California DUI involving severe intoxication and an accessible loaded firearm as a particularly serious crime.
The Ninth Circuit upheld the statutory good-moral-character bar because the petitioner served more than 180 days in custody as a result of a DUI conviction.
The Commonwealth Court held that prison discipline delaying parole eligibility does not deprive a Pennsylvania inmate of a protected liberty interest.
Court issues a substantive appellate ruling [J-64-2025] IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN DISTRICT TODD, C.J., DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, BROBSON, McCAFFERY, JJ.
The Superior Court erred in concluding otherwise, and we reverse that portion of its decision. [J-85-2025] IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA MIDDLE DISTRICT TODD, C.J., DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, BROBSON, McCAFFERY, JJ.
Court issues a substantive appellate ruling [J-20-2025] IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA WESTERN DISTRICT TODD, C.J., DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, BROBSON, McCAFFERY, JJ.
Court issues a substantive appellate ruling [J-88-2025] IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA MIDDLE DISTRICT TODD, C.J., DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, BROBSON, McCAFFERY, JJ.
Drugs carried in a car supported mandatory license revocation.
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania held that the 2020 amendment changing mandatory parole review for rape convicts from annual to triennial (61 Pa.C.S. § 6139(a)(3.3)) does not violate the ex post facto clause, because it alters only when the Board must conduct review—not the standards for granting parole or the Board’s authority to act on its own motion sooner.
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reversed the denial of a license suspension appeal, holding that Court Administration’s ten-year failure to schedule a hearing — despite repeated court orders to do so — constituted an extraordinary government-caused delay that violated the licensee’s due process rights under the Middaugh framework and mandated dismissal of the suspension.