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Grand Jury Spite Warrants Criminal Contempt Conviction
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
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...
What Has it Got in its Pocketses? No Terry Search Guessing Game
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
Terry searches, and their subsequent suppression appeals, would be far more interesting had Ivan Rochin won this case before the Tenth Circuit Court of...
Wyoming Governor Asks for En Banc Review of Roadless Rule
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
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...
UHP Modifies Crosses after SCOTUS Denial
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
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...
Tenth Cir: No Relief for Nathan Dunlap in Chuck E. Cheese Murders
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals denied Chuck E. Cheese killer Nathan Dunlap's presumptive and actual prejudice challenges to an armed-robbery conviction...
No Reasonable Person Here: Court Refuses to Suppress Evidence
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
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...