all - Opinion Summaries

VARGAS-GARCIA v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERV.

Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
Summary dismissal of appeal of ruling denying suspension of deportation, without notice, and use of a deficient INS Notice of Appeal form (which fails...

US v. MURILLO

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
A thirteen-month delay between indictment and trial did not violate right to a speedy trial where evidence showed that government sought no tactical...

US v. TAYLOR

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
The Constitution does not require a judge nor a defense attorney to tell the accused in open court or in a specific form that he is entitled to...

HICKEY v. O'BANNON

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law
Where appellants received notice and opportunity to be heard, and allege only that the Indiana State Board of Funeral and Cemetery Service failed to...

SHEETS v. MULLINS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Police sergeant's acts in handling a domestic violence case, even if wrongful, were too remote from a death that eventually resulted from the incident...

STEVENSON v. STATE OF TEXAS

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Evidence of a low IQ score, and of unusual behavior indicative of mental illness, will not support a finding of mental retardation, and appellant's...

MARTINEZ v. STATE OF TEXAS

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Appellant's affidavit supporting a new trial motion was sufficient to put the trial judge on notice that reasonable grounds existed to believe that...

PEOPLE v. CANO

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Absent appellant's admission that his conviction constituted a probation violation, under the circumstances appellant is entitled to the benefits of...

US v. TRETO-HARO

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Surveillance by agents and information from an informant, among other facts, provided sufficient justification for stop of defendant prior to his drug...

MELENDEZ v. PLILER

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Where a conclusion that appellant waived a Sixth Amendment claim was not based on a "clear, consistently applied, and well-established principle" of...