Criminal Law Reporter Index

RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS (RICO) ACT

– Conspiracy by police officers to steal from drug dealers (7th Cir.), 88:123
– Enterprise, actual existence of (2d Cir.), 88:756

RAPE

– Evidence

– – Prior accusations by victim (Fla.), 88:779
– – Prior sex acts between spouses (Ky.), 88:11

– Expert testimony, developmental disability of victim (Cal. Ct. App.), 88:756
– General description and DNA profile sufficient to toll limitations period re rape prosecution (Mass.), 88:344
– Shield laws, sex-for-drugs defense (Vt.), 88:641

RECORDS

– Bank records, expectation of privacy (Ill. App. Ct.), 88:254
– Exclusionary rule, driving record of defendant (U.S., rev grant), 88:203; (cert dismissed), 88:815
– Expungement

– – Defamation, defense of truth (N.J.), 88:547
– – Separation of powers (W. Va.), 88:170

– Hospital records, statements re domestic violence not hearsay (N.Y.), 88:245

RELIGION

– RLUIPA actions against state officials in individual capacity (U.S., rev grant), 88:50; (oral arg set), 88:126; (oral arg), 88:177
– RLUIPA, institutions, courthouse holding cell (9th Cir., en banc), 88:781

RESTITUTION

– Calculation, sale price of stolen goods (Wyo.), 88:374
– Child pornography, payment to child depicted, proximate cause

– – (5th Cir.), 88:806
– – (11th Cir.), 88:542

– Child support order, priority (Cal. Ct. App.), 88:782
– Co-conspirator qualification as victim (9th Cir.), 88:160
– Disenfranchisement of felons, conditional restoration (6th Cir.), 88:161
– Federal sentencing guidelines, inability to pay restitution (9th Cir.), 88:550
– Guilty pleas, apprisal of obligation in colloquy (Ill. App. Ct.), 88:402
– Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA)

– – Medicare fraud, U.S. government as victim (11th Cir.), 88:124
– – Prejudgment interest (2d Cir.), 88:816
– – South Africa, smuggled lobsters (2d Cir.), 88:518; BNA Insights, 88:577

– Music piracy victims (Cal. Ct. App.), 88:142
– Statutory basis, specification of (4th Cir.), 88:403
– Transformation into fine improper, sentencing error found (3d Cir.), 88:318

RHODE ISLAND

– Conflicts of interest, judge's duty to inquire re joint representation (R.I.), 88:752
– Habeas corpus, tolling of limitations period during post-sentence leniency motion (U.S., oral arg), 88:275; (aff), 88:685; text, 88:720

RICO

See RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS (RICO) ACT

RIGHT TO COUNSEL

– Conflicts of interest

– – Dual representation of prosecution witness and defendant (Miss.), 88:696
– – R.I., judge's duty to inquire re joint representation (R.I.), 88:752

– DNA testing, hearing on motion to compel (9th Cir.), 88:141
– Effectiveness

See INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL

– Indigents, appointed counsel

See APPOINTED COUNSEL

– Informers as government agents (6th Cir.), 88:69
– Interrogations and confessions, invocation of right

See INTERROGATIONS AND CONFESSIONS

– Pro se defendants, guilty plea advisory (Ind.), 88:3

RIGHT TO SILENCE

See INTERROGATIONS AND CONFESSIONS; SELF-INCRIMINATION

ROBBERY

– Accomplice liability, jury instruction request (Del.), 88:374
– Federal sentencing guidelines, taking property by intimidation (11th Cir.), 88:754