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The week’s edition is now available available here.
Notable in this relatively light edition is the Supreme Court’s decision in Virginia v. Moore. The holding in Moore is relatively straight forward: where a police officer violates state law in making an arrest and, during a search incident to that arrest, finds evidence of unlawful conduct, the Fourth Amendment is not offended. Orin Kerr gives his thoughts on Virginia v. Moore.
In other SCOTUS news, the Court heard oral arguments in Giles v. California. University of Michigan Law School’s Prof Richard Friedman reflects on the oral arguments in Giles, the SCOTUS’s latest examination of the Confrontation Clause & related post-Crawford issues like forfeiture by wrongdoing, here, here, here & here. Long story short, the Court chose a poor in Giles to decide forfeiture by wrong-doing. The oral argument transcript is here.
In other news of the week, Christopher Hill of the ACLU’s Capital Punishment Project has “Racial Bias Highlights Rampant Problems in Death Penalty System” at Daily Kos. Week at a Glance at CapDefNet nails a home run on where lethal injection litigation is headed & where we are today on a challenge by challenge basis. Daniel Siebert in Alabama, who came within a day of being executed on Oct. 24 before being granted a stay by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta pending Baze, died of natural causes Tuesday. The latest in DNA evidence, using familial DNA to look for suspects.
Looking ahead to the next edition one favorable published decision is noted. The Fifth Circuit has granted a COA in Anthony Cardell Haynes v. Quarterman “In light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Snyder v. Louisiana.”
As always, thanks for reading, as well as for suffering through the typos & formatting errors. – k
Monday, 28. April 2008 7:34
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