The Sixth District Court of Appeal affirmed a felon-in-possession conviction, rejecting a facial Second Amendment challenge to section 790.23(1)(a), Florida Statutes, and joining multiple other DCAs in finding the statute constitutional under Bruen.
The Fourth Department affirms a second-degree murder conviction upon a jury verdict in consolidated appeals, conducting a comprehensive review of constitutional, evidentiary, and procedural claims.
The Fourth Department affirms the defendant’s jury conviction for second-degree murder, first-degree robbery, and weapon possession, addressing challenges to the sufficiency and weight of evidence and various trial rulings.
The Fourth Department affirms County Court’s acceptance of a grand jury report under CPL 190.85 recommending the removal of a City Court Judge for misconduct in office, rejecting challenges to the grand jury proceedings.
The Ninth Circuit denies qualified immunity to two former SFPD inspectors accused of fabricating evidence that led to Joaquin Ciria’s 32-year wrongful imprisonment, holding that the right not to be charged based on deliberately fabricated evidence was clearly established by 1990.
In a companion to the published Ciria v. Gerrans opinion, the Ninth Circuit grants qualified immunity on the wrongfully imprisoned man’s son’s familial association claim, finding the specific right was not clearly established in 1990 — even though the father’s own fabrication-of-ev
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The Texas Thirteenth Court of Appeals reversed a ten-year deferred-adjudication conviction, holding the trial court violated Magnuson’s Faretta right to self-representation at the adjudication hearing when it denied his unequivocal request to proceed pro se—over the State’s delay-tactic objection—without making the required findings that the request was knowing, voluntary, and timely.
The Texas Fifteenth Court of Appeals reversed the trial court and dismissed challenges to Texas Occupations Code § 108.052(2)’s automatic denial of social worker licenses to applicants with prior violent felony convictions, holding that the categorical disqualification survives rational-basis review under Patel because protecting vulnerable patients is a legitimate government interest and the bar is not oppressively burdensome.
The Eighth District reversed and vacated two contempt findings, holding the trial court improperly charged a defendant with indirect contempt without providing the statutory notice and hearing required by R.C. 2705.03.
The Third Department affirms the defendant’s conviction after conducting a comprehensive review of multiple appellate claims including evidentiary, procedural, and constitutional challenges.
The Court of Appeals vacated a portion of a criminal sentence that directed probation conditions to ‘be considered as conditions of parole,’ holding the language improperly invaded the executive branch’s exclusive parole authority.
The Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed the denial of self-defense immunity to a man who shot and killed his neighbor during a dispute over property boundaries, holding that Wyoming’s castle doctrine presumptions under § 6-2-602(b) and (d) do not extend to outdoor areas such as driveways, and that a defendant’s subjective belief that an intruder was about to enter his home — without objective corroboration — is insufficient to trigger the statutory presumptions.
The Oregon Court of Appeals remanded for resentencing after holding that the trial court violated the Sixth Amendment by imposing a true-life sentence under ORS 163.107(2)(b) based solely on its own factual findings, confirming that a constitutionally valid LWOP sentence for first-degree murder requires jury-found enhancement facts submitted through the Blakely-remedy procedure of ORS 136.760–136.792.
The First DCA affirms a first-degree murder conviction, holding that a trial court’s failure to hold a competency hearing is not fundamental error where the record lacks reasonable grounds to doubt the defendant’s competency.
The Third DCA affirmed a habitual violent felony offender sentence, holding that the trial court’s failure to submit prior-conviction findings to a jury under Erlinger v. United States was subject to harmless error review and was harmless where the record unambiguously established qualifying priors.
The Fourth DCA affirmed convictions for sexual battery of a child, holding that a six-person jury was proper where the death penalty was not legally available for the offense at the time it was committed, and rejecting the defendant’s Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment arguments for a twelve-person jury.
The Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of a motion to suppress, holding that exigent circumstances justified the warrantless seizure of a computer suspected of containing child sexual exploitation material where the defendant repeatedly entered and exited his room under the guise of searching for a hard drive.
Ninth Circuit affirms firearms convictions, holding that silencers are optional accessories outside the Second Amendment’s plain text and that the NFA’s registration requirements are a constitutional shall-issue licensing regime.
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