Criminal Law Reporter Index

WARRANTS

– Community caretaking doctrine

– – Adoption re warrantless searches (W. Va.), 88:289
– – Home entry, applicability (3d Cir.), 88:290

– Confrontation right, arrest warrant not testimonial (Or. Ct. App.), 88:219
– E-mail privacy, SCA does not preclude warrant requirement (6th Cir.), 88:339; BNA Insights, 88:522
– Exclusionary rule

– – Arrest warrant, taint not remedied by (6th Cir.), 88:111
– – Good-faith exception, gun found during warrantless search (6th Cir.), 88:640

– Motor vehicle searches, cell phone found in vehicle (W. Va.), 88:640
– Particularity, multifamily housing (2d Cir.), 88:754
– Probable cause

See PROBABLE CAUSE

– Warrantless DNA collection, privacy and accuracy concerns, BNA Insights, 88:320

WASHINGTON

– Attorneys, guilty plea conclusive proof of criminal act (Wash.), 88:513
– Competency of child to testify, burden of proof (Wash.), 88:15
– Cruel and unusual punishment, life without parole, repeat sex offender (9th Cir.), 88:4
– Disenfranchisement of felons, racial bias (9th Cir., en banc), 88:90
– DNA testing, court order to obtain sample (Wash.), 88:95
– Ineffective assistance of counsel, jury instructions re lesser offenses (Wash.), 88:592
– Investigative detentions, suspect approach of drug house (Wash.), 88:12
– Presence of accused, jury selection via e-mail (Wash.), 88:544
– Prosecutorial misconduct, direct examination of cooperating witness (Wash.), 88:115
– Search and seizure, state emergency aid doctrine, domestic violence concerns (Wash.), 88:545
– Sex offender civil commitment, treatment and possible release (Wash.), 88:164

WASHINGTON, D.C.

See DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

WEAPONS

See FIREARMS AND WEAPONS

WEST VIRGINIA

– Attorney malpractice, forum selection (N.D.W. Va.), 88:119
– Community caretaking doctrine adopted re warrantless searches (W. Va.), 88:289
– Domestic battery, third-offense felony (W. Va.), 88:173
– Record expungement, separation of powers (W. Va.), 88:170

WHITE COLLAR CRIME

– Money laundering

See MONEY LAUNDERING

– Public corruption

– – Appropriation of public money, spending by school superintendent (Cal. Ct. App.), 88:438
– – Civilly imposed duty and false statements (La.), 88:769

WIRE FRAUD

– Federal sentencing guidelines, reasonableness of above-guidelines sentence (7th Cir.), 88:814

WIRETAPPING

– Cell phone location tracking

– – BNA Insights, 88:19
– – Legislative proposal forthcoming, 88:521

– Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act

– – FBI official testimony before House panel, 88:603
– – Senate Judiciary Comm. to review, 88:439

– Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform, Special Report, 88:607
– Foreign wiretapping program (2d Cir.), 88:809
– GPS surveillance of motor vehicles, BNA Insights, 88:468
– Translated transcripts admissible (Ind.), 88:600
– Warrantless recording of cell phone conversations (Mont.), 88:140

WITNESSES AND TESTIMONY

– Accused, testimony by

– – Cross-examination re truth of other witnesses' testimony (11th Cir.), 88:746
– – Harmless error, guarding accused while on stand (Cal.), 88:755

– Attorneys

– – Criminal liability for arranging drug buy to discredit witness (Ind. Ct. App.), 88:752
– – Fairness to opposing party and counsel, Special Report, 88:525

– Competency of child to testify, burden of proof (Wash.), 88:15
– Confrontation right

See CONFRONTATION RIGHT

– Discovery, failure to disclose sex offense investigation (9th Cir.), 88:778
– Experts

See EXPERT WITNESSES

– Hearsay

See HEARSAY

– Impeachment, cross-examination of police officer re unrelated matter improper (8th Cir.), 88:349
– Intimidation, partial closure of courtroom (Md.), 88:138
– Jury instructions

– – Missing witnesses (5th Cir.), 88:818
– – Reading back testimony (Fla.), 88:122

– Lay testimony, restrictions on insanity evidence (10th Cir.), 88:573
– Prosecutors

– – Misconduct

– – – Communication with represented parties through cooperating witness (9th Cir.), 88:466
– – – Direct examination of cooperating witness (Wash.), 88:115

– – Solicitation of false testimony (U.S., rev sought), 88:500
– – Vouching, police officers' veracity (Md.), 88:166

– Recorded testimony, playback for jury (N.J.), 88:775
– Restraints on defense witnesses, retroactivity (N.J.), 88:818
– Right to testify, revocation of waiver (Pa. Super. Ct.), 88:227
– Sequestration, capital penalty phase (Tenn.), 88:64
– Text messages between FBI agents and witness discoverable under Jencks Act (D.N.J.), 88:222
– Victim-impact statements

See VICTIMS

– Witness tampering, urging spouse to invoke marital privilege (9th Cir.), 88:505

WYOMING

– Fair trial, prosecutor's reference to races of defendant and victim (Wyo.), 88:121
– Restitution calculation, sale price of stolen goods (Wyo.), 88:374
– Vehicular homicide, consecutive sentences (Wyo.), 88:402