Case State of Connecticut v. Raeon A. Court Connecticut Supreme Court Date Decided June 23, 2026 Docket No. SC 21028 […]
Case People of the State of Michigan v. Garrett Jennings Van Net Court Michigan Court of Appeals Date Decided June
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.
Case Eric Desmond Parrish v. State of Florida Court Supreme Court of Florida Date Decided June 18, 2026 Docket No.
Case Shelby Elizabeth Gregorwicz v. Sean Villa-Kennedy Court Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One Date Decided June 17, 2026 Docket
Case Joseph Price v. The State Court Supreme Court of Georgia Date Decided June 16, 2026 Docket No. S26A0159 Topics
Case State of Iowa v. Austin Dean Mahana Court Iowa Supreme Court Date Decided June 12, 2026 Docket No. 24-0239
When a SWAT team uses gas, drones, and robots to flush a suspect from his apartment, the resulting arrest is treated as an in-home arrest — but California’s First District upheld the conviction anyway because the underlying warrant affidavit, even with false statements excised, still establish
In the first California published decision on investigative genetic genealogy, the Fourth District held that a rapist has no reasonable expectation of privacy in semen left at a crime scene — and that law enforcement’s use of that DNA for genealogical database searches to identify him did not
Third Department affirms civil confinement under Mental Hygiene Law Article 10, joining the First and Fourth Departments in holding that due process does not require the ‘sexual motivation’ element of a pre-SOMTA offense to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt — clear and convincing evidence is constitutionally sufficient.