Criminal Law Reporter Index

HABEAS CORPUS

– Actual-innocence claim, new evidence (3d Cir.), 88:224
– Appeals, Supreme Court exercise of original jurisdiction (11th Cir.), 88:192; (U.S., rev sought), 88:798
– Carjacking, right to counsel re state habeas claim (Ill.), 88:243
– Civil commitment, pending action (4th Cir.), 88:373
– Civil rights, favorable-termination rule (10th Cir.), 88:168
– Confrontation right

– – Attorney-client privilege of witness (U.S., rev sought), 88:554
– – Change in testimony of state witness (11th Cir., rehear en banc grant), 88:195
– – Unavailability of witness, inadequate effort to locate (7th Cir.), 88:511

– Defense strategy, query by prosecution psychiatrist (6th Cir.), 88:437
– Evidence not before state court (U.S., oral arg), 88:207
– Financial responsibility program, inmate challenge to (3d Cir.), 88:350
– Ineffective assistance of counsel, N.Y. standard (U.S., rev sought), 88:582
– Jailhouse informer, deal with prosecution not adequately disclosed (9th Cir.), 88:293
– Judicial recusal, state habeas proceeding (Tex. Crim. App.), 88:225
– Jury instructions

– – Dictionary use by jurors to check terms (4th Cir.), 88:696
– – Limited use of codefendant's confession (3d Cir.), 88:780
– – Setting aside life experience, opinion withdrawn (9th Cir.), 88:404

– Jury trial right

– – Cal., prior conviction exception (9th Cir.), 88:565
– – N.Y., sentencing under persistent offender law (2d Cir., en banc), 88:114

– Mens rea, remand to consider, due process (8th Cir.), 88:253; (U.S., rev sought), 88:799; (rev den), 88:844
– Mental retardation

– – Burden of proof (11th Cir., rehear en banc grant), 88:194
– – Capital punishment, timeliness of petition (5th Cir.), 88:215
– – Tolling of filing limitations period (9th Cir.), 88:340

– Murder and arson conviction, court cannot order specific judgment (9th Cir.), 88:250
– Parole, interference in state decisions (U.S., rvs), 88:464
– Relief based on violation of state law (U.S., vac and rem), 88:164
– Second or successive petitions

– – Actual innocence exception, career-offender predicate invalidation (11th Cir., rehear en banc grant), 88:173
– – Collateral attack under §2255 (2d Cir.), 88:121
– – Savings clause under §2255 (10th Cir.), 88:686

– State court adjudication of federal claim on merits

– – Cal., flexible deadline for collateral attack (U.S., rvs), 88:631; text, 88:665
– – Conviction becoming final, timing (U.S., rev sought), 88:761
– – Denial of claim by state court, timing (U.S., rev sought), 88:386
– – Reasonableness of factfinding (U.S., rev den), 88:27
– – Summary affirmance by state court (11th Cir.), 88:632
– – Summary denial, presumption (U.S., oral arg), 88:104; qualification as adjudication on the merits (rvs and rem), 88:453; Harrington text, 88:474; Premo text, 88:482

– Statute of limitations

– – Commencement of limitations period (5th Cir.), 88:68; (U.S., rev sought), 88:761
– – Deferred adjudication rule (5th Cir.), 88:436
– – Equitable tolling

– – – ABA resolution, 88:605
– – – Availability for federal prisoners (1st Cir.), 88:818

– – Sentence reduction for substantial assistance (11th Cir.), 88:753
– – State motion to reduce lawful sentence (U.S., rev grant), 88:52; (oral arg set), 88:126; (oral arg), 88:236
– – Tolling of habeas period during post-sentence leniency motion (U.S., oral arg), 88:275; (aff), 88:685; text, 88:720

HARASSMENT

– Freedom of speech, telephone calls (Tex. Crim. App.), 88:88; (U.S., rev sought), 88:583
– Instant messaging harassment, repeated communications (N.H.), 88:315

HARMLESS ERROR

– Federal sentencing guidelines, mistaken range calculation (5th Cir.), 88:395
– Grand juries, indictment error review (Tex. Crim. App.), 88:95
– Guarding accused while on stand (Cal.), 88:755
– Jury instructions, capital aggravating factor (U.S., rev den), 88:735

HATE CRIMES

– Iowa, mixed motives (Iowa), 88:404

HEALTH CARE

– Fraud

– – Federal sentencing guidelines proposal ignores range, 88:604
– – Money laundering proceeds (4th Cir.), 88:779

– Medical marijuana, legal advice, Ariz. ethics opinion, 88:785
– Medicare fraud

– – Federal sentencing guidelines, loss calculation and mass marketing enhancement (5th Cir.), 88:749
– – Plain error (11th Cir.), 88:365
– – Restitution (11th Cir.), 88:124

– Terrorism, material support, provision of medical care (2d Cir.), 88:564

HEARSAY

– Business records exception

– – Drug dealer transaction ledgers (5th Cir.), 88:186
– – Fingerprint examiner testimony barred (N.H.), 88:292

– Drunken-driving defendant, nurse's statement to police officer admissible (W.Va.), 88:252
– Hospital records, statements re domestic violence (N.Y.), 88:245
– Rebuttal testimony re other suspects' confessions (3d Cir.), 88:169
– State of mind exception, Sixth Am. redaction (N.J.), 88:745
– Testimonial statements

See CONFRONTATION RIGHT, subheading: Testimonial statements

HOMICIDE

– Battered-woman syndrome defense, mental exam by state expert (Ohio), 88:429
– Death penalty

See CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

– Evidence, other crimes by third party (Ariz.), 88:593
– Felony murder, drug trafficking, proof of quantity (Fla.), 88:403
– Juvenile offenders

– – Capital murder, sentence upheld (Tex. Crim. App.), 88:226
– – Life without parole

– – – Accomplice liability (Ark.), 88:639
– – – First-degree murder conviction (Mo.), 88:398

– Manslaughter, generic definition for federal sentencing guidelines enhancement (4th Cir.), 88:519
– Mens rea, expert testimony on Asperger's syndrome (Minn.), 88:118
– Proximate cause, pneumonia death years after shooting (Ill.), 88:253
– Sentencing, consecutive sentence for firearm offense resulting in death (11th Cir.), 88:633
– Solicitation of murder, prior crime of violence under federal sentencing guidelines (9th Cir.), 88:437
– Vehicular homicide, consecutive sentences (Wyo.), 88:402