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First, the Court noted that "there is a societal interest in providing a speedy trial which exists separate from, and at times in opposition to, the interests of the accused". The Court commented on the backlog of cases, mainly in urban courts, that often enable defendants to negotiate a plea for a lesser offense.
The Kentucky State Police Laboratory has a debilitating evidence testing backlog that leaves a negative trickle down affect in the state’s criminal justice system by causing delays that affect ...
Opinion announcement: Opinion announcement: Holding; At the time of the decision of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, clearly established federal law provided that the erroneous admission of unduly prejudicial evidence could render a criminal trial fundamentally unfair in violation of due process; the judgment below is vacated and the case is remanded for further proceedings.
Case by case, the untested kits piled up in evidence rooms and storage sheds across the country. Almost nobody thought it was a problem – until an assistant prosecutor walked into a Detroit ...
The immigration courts aren’t part of the judicial branch. They’re housed within the Department of Justice and run from an obscure corner of the bureaucracy called the Executive Office for ...
In one case that received media attention, Michael Ikoli was charged with murder, accused of shooting two people at a roller-skating rink with a friend in 2004. [6] He waited in Rikers Island for five years without a trial because of the backlog in the Bronx courts; it wasn't until October 2009 when the New York Daily News exposed the case as part of a story on the severe backlog of felony ...
This has caused a massive increase in the immigration court’s backlog. It was just under 1.3 million cases when the Biden-Harris administration began, ... In any case, his decision to ...
Other admissible evidence may be excluded, at the discretion of the trial judge under 78 PACE, or at common law, if the judge can be persuaded that having regard to all the circumstances including how the evidence was obtained "admission of the evidence would have such an adverse effect on the fairness of the proceedings that the court ought ...