Posts Tagged ‘sentence reversal’
Prosecutor’s Non-Disclosure Leads to High Court Reversal of Death-Row Prisoner’s Conviction
By Christopher Zoukis The U.S. Supreme Court has handed down a per curiam (“by the court”) order reversing the murder conviction 14 years earlier of a Louisiana death-row inmate. In the fairly unusual per curiam procedure, the Justices decided the case based only on briefs filed by both sides on whether the case should be…
Read MoreAmount of Drugs a Factor for Departure Sentence
The Kansas Supreme Court reversed a prisoner’s sentence for possession of contraband – a small amount of marijuana – after it held the sentencing court misinterpreted its statutory authority by concluding it could not consider a downward departure to the presumptive criminal sentence. Prisoner Waddell Warren was convicted of introducing a controlled substance into a…
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