Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Criminal Law & Procedure : From 10/01/05 To 07/01/06
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Health Law |
| Title: | Clark v. Arizona |
| Date: | 06/29/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–5966 |
| Summary: | Due process does not prohibit Arizona's use of an insanity test stated solely in terms of the capacity to tell whether an act charged as a crime was right or wrong. Further, Arizona does not violate due process in restricting consideration of defense evidence of mental illness and incapacity to its bearing on a claim of insanity, thus eliminating its significance directly on the issue of the mental element of the crime charged. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Habeas Corpus, International Law, Military Law |
| Title: | Hamdan v. Rumsfeld |
| Date: | 06/29/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–184 |
| Summary: | In a challenge brought by a Guantanamo detainee, a judgment of a court of appeals reversing an earlier grant of habeas relief is reversed where the military commission convened to try petitioner lacks the power to proceed because its structure and procedures violate both the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the Geneva Conventions. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, International Law |
| Title: | Sanchez-LLamas v. Oregon |
| Date: | 06/28/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–10566, 05–51 |
| Summary: | In the context of detained foreign nationals, even assuming that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations creates judicially enforceable rights, suppression is not an appropriate remedy for a violation of Article 36 of the Convention, and a state may apply its regular rules of procedural default to Article 36 claims. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Media Law |
| Title: | Beard v. Banks |
| Date: | 06/28/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1739 |
| Summary: | A circuit court judgment holding that a prison policy, forbidding certain inmates any access to newspapers, magazines, and photographs violated the First Amendment, could not be supported as a matter of law is reversed and the case is remanded. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure |
| Title: | US v. Gonzalez-Lopez |
| Date: | 06/26/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–352 |
| Summary: | A trial court's erroneous deprivation of a criminal defendant's choice of counsel is not subject to harmless-error analysis and entitles the defendant to reversal of his conviction. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | Kansas v. Marsh |
| Date: | 06/26/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1170 |
| Summary: | Kansas' capital sentencing statute, which requires the imposition of the death penalty when the sentencing jury determines that aggravating evidence and mitigating evidence are in equipoise, is constitutional. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | Washington v. Recuenco |
| Date: | 06/26/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–83 |
| Summary: | In the context of criminal sentencing, failure to submit a sentencing factor to the jury is not structural error. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure |
| Title: | Dixon v. US |
| Date: | 06/22/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–7053 |
| Summary: | A conviction for receiving a firearm while under indictment and making false statements in connection with the acquisition of a firearm is affirmed over a claim that a trial judge's instructions to the jury erroneously required her to prove duress by a preponderance of the evidence instead of requiring the government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she did not act under duress. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | Woodford v. Ngo |
| Date: | 06/22/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–416 |
| Summary: | The Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) exhaustion requirement requires proper exhaustion of administrative remedies. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Construction, Criminal Law & Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | Rapanos v. US |
| Date: | 06/19/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1034 |
| Summary: | In cases involving certain state wetlands lying near ditches or man-made drains that eventually empty into traditional navigable waters, judgments against petitioners-landowners are vacated and remanded for further proceedings as to whether the specific wetlands at issue possessed a significant nexus with navigable waters for purposes of regulation under the Clean Water Act (CWA). |