Case Reviews

SENTENCING - Retroactivity

SENTENCING - Post-prison supervision

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

SENTENCING - Special probation conditions EXPUNCTION - Findings of fact JUVENILE DELINQUENCY - Sex-offender reporting POSSESSION - Constructive possession COERCION - Sufficiency SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Scope of traffic stop

EVIDENCE - Reputation for truthfulness CONTEMPT - Willfulness POST-CONVICTION RELIEF - Statute-of-limitations escape clause JOINDER, SEVERANCE, AND ELECTION - Concurrence instructions JOINDER, SEVERANCE, AND ELECTION - Substantial prejudice TRIAL PROCEDURE - Amended judgments EVIDENCE - Chain of custody TRIAL PROCEDURE - Closing argument

DEFENDANT'S STATEMENTS - Attachment of right to counsel EXPUNGEMENT - Basis for denial SENTENCING - Consecutive sentences SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Exigency EVIDENCE - Vouching SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Scope of traffic stop DEFENDANT'S STATEMENTS - Statements in connection with disciplinary hearing EVIDENCE - Expert and opinion testimony SENTENCING - Enhanced sex-offender sentences DEFENDANT'S STATEMENTS - Miranda warnings in translation

SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Search incident to arrest SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Probable cause CONTEMPT - Sufficiency RIGHT TO COUNSEL - Waiver SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Particularity of search warrant application SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Conduct constituting a stop

CIVIL COMMITMENT - Sufficiency DUII - Premises open to the public PRESERVATION - Invited error

DEFENDANT'S STATEMENTS - Voluntariness SUPERVISION - No-contact provisions

CIVIL COMMITMENT - Record and burden of proof RESTITUTION - Time limitations SENTENCING - Merger

CIVIL COMMITMENT - Record and burden of proof

CIVIL COMMITMENT - Record and burden of proof SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Refusal to take a breath test SENTENCING - Consecutive sentences EVIDENCE - Hearsay and probation-violation hearings SENTENCING - Restitution SENTENCING - PSIs

DUII - Breath test procedure FINES, FEES, AND COSTS - Ability to pay UNLAWFUL USE OF A VEHICLE - Knowledge that car is stolen

FAPA, STALKING, AND RESTRAINING ORDERS - Contact EVIDENCE - Other-bad-acts APPEAL AND REVIEW - Preservation SENTENCING - Restitution PRELIMINARY HEARING - Consideration of defenses SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Reasonable grounds INITIATING A FALSE REPORT - Elements BURGLARY - Building SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Reasonable suspicion

SELF-DEFENSE - Initial aggressor TRESPASSING - Boundaries SENTENCING - Compensatory fines SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Particularity of warrant for electronic data DEFENSES - Choice of evils THEFT - Mens rea JURY UNANIMITY - Concurrence instructions TRAFFIC OFFENSES - Juvenile offenders

EVIDENCE - Eyewitness identifications SENTENCING - Probation conditions NATIVE AMERICAN LAW - Treaty defenses SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Officer safety POST-CONVICTION RELIEF - Church hearings SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Reasonable suspicion BURGLARY - Dwelling SENTENCING - Consecutive sentences APPEALS - Post-opinion dismissal

SENTENCING - Merger SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Police conduct constituting seizure SENTENCING - Reviewability DEFENDANT'S STATEMENTS - Invocation DUII - FSTs CIVIL COMMITMENT - Dangerousness

POST-CONVICTION RELIEF - Effect of failure to appeal

EVIDENCE - 403 balancing DEFENSES - Choice of evils RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL - Nonunanimous verdicts TRIAL PROCEDURE - Telephone testimony

ACCUSATORY INSTRUMENTS - Waiver of preliminary hearing