prior convictions

Climbing the Hill

September 08, 2008 13:47

Always mighty grateful to guest bloggers, here is Charles Dedmon describing the courts' flip-flopping in US v. Jay Hill:The January 15 decision of the Tenth Circuit in United States v. Jay Hill 512 F.3d. 1277 has been vacated. The decision was reheard by the original panel and the Judgment in Mr....

Chambers: Out for a Stroll

August 28, 2008 16:34

Your client has a prior conviction for felony escape. In reality, he just walked away from work release, or didn't go back to the half-way house. But he is still tagged with an escape conviction.Later on, that conviction can trigger (with two other qualifying convictions) a 15 year-mandatory...

Trial Courts must have discretion to consider sanitization in other circumstances that pose a risk of undue prejudice to a defendant.

March 22, 2008 17:58

State v. Frederick T. Hamilton, 1/16/2008 (NJ SC) The NJ Supreme Court held that the trial court erred in concluding that it had no ability to ameliorate the undue prejudice to defendant through sanitization of his earlier conviction. Additionally, the Court's prior holding that sanitization is...