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Federal Courts Grand Jury Spite Warrants Criminal Contempt Conviction

Grand Jury Spite Warrants Criminal Contempt Conviction

By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on March 21, 2019

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, like many federal courts, thinks grand jury proceedings are serious, and will not save witnesses who don't share that view...

Federal Courts What Has it Got in its Pocketses? No Terry Search Guessing Game

What Has it Got in its Pocketses? No Terry Search Guessing Game

By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on March 21, 2019

Terry searches, and their subsequent suppression appeals, would be far more interesting had Ivan Rochin won this case before the Tenth Circuit Court of...

Federal Courts Wyoming Governor Asks for En Banc Review of Roadless Rule

Wyoming Governor Asks for En Banc Review of Roadless Rule

By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on March 21, 2019

Wyoming Governor Matt Mead is leading the charge for a Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals en banc review of the Clinton-era Roadless Rule. The state filed a...

Federal Courts UHP Modifies Crosses after SCOTUS Denial

UHP Modifies Crosses after SCOTUS Denial

By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on March 21, 2019

Last month, the Supreme Court declined to review the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals’ Utah highway cross decision. As the Tenth Circuit previously held that...

Federal Courts Tenth Cir: No Relief for Nathan Dunlap in Chuck E. Cheese Murders

Tenth Cir: No Relief for Nathan Dunlap in Chuck E. Cheese Murders

By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on March 21, 2019

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals denied Chuck E. Cheese killer Nathan Dunlap's presumptive and actual prejudice challenges to an armed-robbery conviction...

Federal Courts No Reasonable Person Here: Court Refuses to Suppress Evidence

No Reasonable Person Here: Court Refuses to Suppress Evidence

By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on March 21, 2019

Every time we read an opinion, like the one in this Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals case, in which a court determines that a search was consensual because a...

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