In Kobielusz v. Wyoming, the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled that Wyoming’s voyeurism statute does not require proof of “looking,” and that the defendant’s wife had authority to consent to the search…
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In Trappman v. State, the Supreme Court of Florida ruled that the Double Jeopardy Clause of the U.S. and Florida Constitutions does not apply when the defendant is convicted and punished for two…
In State v. James, the Supreme Court of Hawaii ruled that the victim was acting as a government agent when she texted the defendant and elicited incriminating responses, but was…
In Commonwealth v. Dobson, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a police officer’s pat-down frisk of a passenger in a vehicle was unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment because there was no reasonable…
In United States v. Everett, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that a protective sweep conducted by police did not violate the Fourth Amendment. The…
In People v. Messano, a divided New York Court of Appeals ruled that police did not have reasonable suspicion to detain the defendant, and that the subsequent seizure of a…
The people of Oregon voted to decriminalize possession of small amounts of hard drugs like cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and other controlled substances in 2020 under Ballot Measure 110. Unsurprisingly, the social experiment failed…
In Commonwealth v. Mattis, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in a split 4-3 vote, ruled that life without parole (LWOP) sentences for adults aged 18-20 violate the Constitution of Massachusetts.…
In United States v. Lundy, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that Federal Rule of Evidence 803(2), which provides an exception for an “excited utterance” to the rule against hearsay, applies even if there is testimony contradicting the existence of an excited utterance.