Case Reviews

EVIDENCE - Child-sexual-abuse hearsay exception INTERFERENCE WITH MAKING A REPORT - Sufficiency EVIDENCE - Business-records hearsay exception

ACCUSATORY INSTRUMENTS - Dates

SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Automobile exception

SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Conduct constituting a search SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Scope of consent TIME LIMITATIONS - Flight RESTITUTION - Pecuniary damages

SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Investigation connected to stop JURY INSTRUCTIONS - Comments on evidence

EVIDENCE - Domestic-violence hearsay exception APPEAL AND REVIEW - Plain error SENTENCING - Departure based on unadjudicated conduct SENTENCING - Restitution TRIAL PROCEDURE - Mistrial

SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Coercive questioning

SENTENCING - Sanction units INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL - Defendant's competency RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL - Waiver INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL - Filing notice of appeal RESTITUTION - Good cause to extend deadline MENTAL HEALTH DEFENSES - Extreme emotional disturbance

HEARSAY AND CONFRONTATION - Proof of unavailability

SENTENCING - Restitution SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Voluntariness ASSAULT - Substantial pain SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Stop and arrest

JOINDER, SEVERANCE, AND ELECTION - Timing of election

TRIAL PROCEDURE - Waiver of preliminary hearing EVIDENCE - Other-bad-acts and plans FINES, FEES, AND COSTS - Statutory maxima EVIDENCE - Consciousness of guilt

EVIDENCE - Doctrine of chances

DEATH PENALTY - Retroactivity

FALSE INFORMATION TO A PEACE OFFICER - Authority to issue citation MERGER - Defense counsel's obligation SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Probable cause

SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Exploitation

SENTENCING - Judge and jury findings RIGHT TO COUNSEL - Admissibility of invocation WITNESSES - Evidence of bias or interest BURGLARY - Buildings ANIMAL ABUSE - Sufficiency SENTENCING - Special probation conditions SENTENCING - Enhancement facts

WITNESSES - False-in-part instruction CHILD NEGLECT - Sufficiency EVIDENCE - Opinion evidence about reacting to accusation SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Arrest pursuant to warrant CONFLICTS OF INTEREST - Judicial conflicts and recusal DELIVERY OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - Attempted delivery

TRIAL PROCEDURE - Shackles and other restraints DOUBLE JEOPARDY - Jeopardy created by civil proceedings THEFT - Mental state SENTENCING - Life sentences for juveniles SENTENCING - Restitution UNLAWFUL USE OF A VEHICLE - Vehicles PROBATION - Use of hearsay SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Inevitable discovery PLEA AGREEMENTS - Enforceability


DELIVERY OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - Boyd deliveries EVIDENCE - Facts outside the record SEARCH AND SEIZURE - U-turns DEFENDANT'S STATEMENTS - Threats and voluntariness SENTENCING - Special probation conditions