The Superior Court held that offenses arising after a police pursuit ended and a new pursuit began in another county were separate criminal episodes for compulsory-joinder purposes.
The Superior Court affirmed a DUI conviction, holding that the defendant voluntarily consented to a blood draw and failed to establish selective prosecution based on his status as a state trooper.
The Superior Court vacated a probation-revocation sentence because the court relied on obsolete and incorrectly calculated guidelines before imposing what it mistakenly believed was an aggravated-range term.
The Superior Court ordered a new murder trial because evidence supporting defense of others required a justification instruction and the charge omitted the Commonwealth’s burden to disprove justification.
The Superior Court upheld standard probation conditions, including a firearms prohibition and DNA collection, after examining their statutory basis and application to the defendant.
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reversed an intellectual-disability ruling and directed reinstatement of Michael Woolf’s death sentence while affirming denial of his cross-appeal.
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Logan Williams’s child-sex convictions and rejected challenges involving digital evidence, expert testimony, and disclosure.
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed rejection of James McGowan’s Rule 32 petition, including his claim that intellectual disability bars his execution under Atkins.
The Indiana Court of Appeals held that a 2023 amendment stopping parole credit during incarceration could not be applied to a murder committed in 1995, making the later parole revocation unlawful.
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