The Appellate Division, Second Department reverses a weapon possession conviction after finding that officers lacked reasonable suspicion to pursue a man who walked between two residential driveways, rendering the subsequent discovery of a discarded firearm the product of an unlawful seizure.
The South Carolina Court of Appeals dismissed a pretrial detainee’s appeal of a circuit court order releasing his jail telephone calls to the media, holding the order was non-appealable as interlocutory, and reaffirming that South Carolina requires evidence of actual juror bias rather than presumed prejudice from pretrial publicity.
The Indiana Supreme Court held that when the State proves the constitutionality of a search or seizure at a pretrial suppression hearing, it is not required to re-establish constitutional compliance at trial; courts assessing the stop’s validity may consider evidence from both the suppression hearing and the trial, and the exclusionary rule’s aims are fully served by requiring proof once.
Case State of Ohio v. Darrell Quarles Court Ohio Court of Appeals, First Appellate District (Hamilton County) Judge Kinsley (elected
Case State of Iowa v. Steven James McAllister Court Iowa Court of Appeals Judge Doyle (Chet Culver, 2008) Date Decided
Case Jason P. Brown v. The People of the State of Colorado Court Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc Judge
Case State of Connecticut v. Raeon A. Court Connecticut Supreme Court Judge Mullins (Dannel P. Malloy, 2017) Date Decided June
Case Dedrick Dewayne Davis v. The State of Texas Court Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District of Texas (Fort Worth)
Case People of the State of Michigan v. Garrett Jennings Van Net Court Michigan Court of Appeals Judge TREBILCOCK (Gretchen
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 Judge Labarga (Charlie Crist, 2009) Date Decided
Case Shelby Elizabeth Gregorwicz v. Sean Villa-Kennedy Court Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One Judge Veronika Fabian (Katie Hobbs, 2025)
Case United States v. Patrick Baxter Court U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Judge Gelpí; Thompson; Montecalvo Date
Case Joseph Price v. The State Court Supreme Court of Georgia Judge BETHEL (Nathan Deal, 2018) Date Decided June 16,
Case State of Iowa v. Austin Dean Mahana Court Iowa Supreme Court Judge Mansfield (Terry Branstad, 2011) Date Decided June
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.
Case Brett George Kleng v. Erin Reyes, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution Court Oregon Court of Appeals Date Decided June
Case State of Ohio v. William Dupree Court Ohio Court of Appeals, Tenth Appellate District Judge BOGGS (elected 2022) Date
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.
The First District reverses dismissal of a successive postconviction petition by a defendant sentenced to mandatory life at age 18, finding evolving neuroscience on young-adult brain development constitutes cause for the new claim.
The First District affirms suppression of evidence where the State could not show reasonable articulable suspicion beyond mere firearm possession to justify a Terry stop, applying People v. Aguilar.
The Fourth District affirms a felon-in-possession conviction, finding the inventory search valid despite procedural shortcomings and rejecting both facial and as-applied Second Amendment challenges under Bruen.