Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Criminal Law & Procedure : From 10/01/02 To 07/01/03
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | WIGGINS v. SMITH |
| Date: | 06/26/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-311 |
| Summary: | An objective review of the performance by a criminal defendant's counsel in a capital case shows that the client's Sixth Amendment rights were violated by counsel's failure to conduct a reasonable investigation of the defendant's social history and mitigating factors. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure |
| Title: | STOGNER v. CALIFORNIA |
| Date: | 06/26/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1757 |
| Summary: | California's law extending the statute of limitations for prosecuting sex-related child abuse, which had the effect of revising previously time-barred prosecutions under earlier statutes of limitations, violates the Constitution's Ex-Post Facto Clause, Art. I, section 10, cl. 1. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure |
| Title: | SELL v. US |
| Date: | 06/16/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-5664 |
| Summary: | The government may involuntarily administer anti-psychotic drugs to render a mentally ill defendant competent to stand trial on serious criminal charges if the treatment is 1) medically appropriate, 2) substantially unlikely to have side effects that may undermine the trial's fairness, and 3) necessary significantly to further important government trial-related interests. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure |
| Title: | CHAVEZ v. MARTINEZ |
| Date: | 05/27/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1444 |
| Summary: | A 42 U.S.C. section 1983 plaintiff's Fifth Amendment rights were not violated through questioning by police, where he was never charged and no statements were used against him. Questioning of plaintiff while he was being treated for gunshot wounds after an altercation with police did not violate his Fourteenth Amendment rights. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | BUNKLEY v. FLORIDA |
| Date: | 05/27/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-8636 |
| Summary: | In failing to determine whether the "common pocketknife" exception to Florida's definition of a weapon encompassed petitioner's pocketknife at the time his conviction became final, the Florida Supreme Court contradicted Fiore v. White, 531 U.S. 225 (2001). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | PRICE v. VINCENT |
| Date: | 05/19/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-524 |
| Summary: | Michigan Supreme Court's finding, that a judge's comments were not sufficiently final to terminate jeopardy, was not contrary to or an unreasonable application of clearly established U.S. Supreme Court precedent. Federal circuit court erred in reviewing Double Jeopardy issue de novo, and finding that habeas relief was warranted. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Indian Law |
| Title: | INYO COUNTY v. PAIUTE-SHOSHONE INDIANS OF THE BISHOP CMTY. |
| Date: | 05/19/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-281 |
| Summary: | An Indian tribe did not qualify as a "person" who may sue under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, under the circumstances, in an action asserting sovereign immunity from state court processes arising from a county investigation into alleged off-reservation crimes. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure |
| Title: | KAUPP v. TEXAS |
| Date: | 05/05/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-5636 |
| Summary: | Where a criminal defendant was arrested without probable cause prior to his being questioned by police, his subsequent confession must be suppressed where the state failed to allege any meaningful intervening event between the illegal arrest and the confession. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law |
| Title: | DEMORE v. KIM |
| Date: | 04/29/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1491 |
| Summary: | Congress may require that deportable criminal aliens be detained for the brief period necessary for removal proceedings. Federal courts have jurisdiction to review a constitutional challenge to a detention under the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. section 1226(c). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | MASSARO v. US |
| Date: | 04/23/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1559 |
| Summary: | An ineffective assistance of counsel claim may be brought in a collateral proceeding under 28 U.S.C. section 2255, whether or not the petitioner could have raised the claim on direct appeal. |