Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Evidence : 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: | 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: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence |
| Title: | Davis v. Washington |
| Date: | 06/19/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–5224, 05–5705 |
| Summary: | In the context of determining whether statements are testimonial for hearsay purposes, statements are nontestimonial when made in the course of police interrogation under circumstances objectively indicating that the primary purpose of the interrogation is to enable police assistance to meet an ongoing emergency. They are testimonial when the circumstances objectively indicate that there is no such ongoing emergency, and that the primary purpose of the interrogation is to establish or prove past events potentially relevant to later criminal prosecution. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence |
| Title: | Samson v. California |
| Date: | 06/19/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–9728 |
| Summary: | The Fourth Amendment does not prohibit a police officer from conducting a suspicionless search of a parolee. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Per Curiam |
| Title: | Youngblood v. W. Virginia |
| Date: | 06/19/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–6997 |
| Summary: | In a sexual assault case, a petition for certiorari is granted and a judgment of a state supreme court affirming a denial of a new trial for defendant is vacated and remanded for further procedings where defendant had clearly presented a federal constitutional Brady claim to the state supreme court. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence |
| Title: | Hudson v. Michigan |
| Date: | 06/15/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1360 |
| Summary: | Petitioner's conviction for drug possession is affirmed over his claim that evidence seized following police's premature entry of his home should have been suppressed since a violation of the "knock-and-announce" rule does not require suppression of evidence found in a search. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing |
| Title: | House v. Bell |
| Date: | 06/12/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–8990 |
| Summary: | Denial of habeas relief for petitioner in a death penalty murder case pursuant to a finding that his claims were procedurally defaulted is reversed where defendant made the stringent showing required by the actual-innocence exception to procedural default, and defendant's federal habeas action could proceed. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Evidence, Government Law, Tax Law |
| Title: | Anza v. Ideal Steel Supply Corp. |
| Date: | 06/05/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–433 |
| Summary: | A judgment reversing dismissal of respondent's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) claims against a competing company is reversed in part where a 18 U.S.C. section 1962(c) claim did not satisfy the requirement of proximate causation with regards to a claim that respondent lost sales due to petitioners' decreased prices, which allegedly resulted from their tax fraud. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence |
| Title: | Brigham City v. Stuart |
| Date: | 05/22/06 |
| Case Number: | 05-502 |
| Summary: | Police may enter a home without a warrant when they have an objectively reasonable basis for believing that an occupant is seriously injured or imminently threatened with such injury. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence |
| Title: | Holmes v. South Carolina |
| Date: | 05/01/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1327 |
| Summary: | A criminal defendant's federal constitutional rights are violated by an evidence rule under which the defendant may not introduce evidence of third-party guilt if the prosecution has introduced forensic evidence that, if believed, strongly supports a guilty verdict. |