United States v. Easter
In United States v. Easter, the 3rd Circuit broke with the holdings of several other circuits and ruled that, when deciding whether to exercise its discretion under § 404(b) of
September 15, 2020
In United States v. Easter, the 3rd Circuit broke with the holdings of several other circuits and ruled that, when deciding whether to exercise its discretion under § 404(b) of
In United States v. Williams, the 3rd Circuit affirmed the convictions of ten codefendants whose claims of error involved the right to a public trial, suppression as well as other evidentiary
In State v. Faber, the Appellate Division remanded, holding that the lower court failed to reference either the Intoxicated Driver Resource Center (IDRC) or the necessity of an ignition interlock
In Commonwealth v. Widger, the Superior Court tap-danced around Commonwealth v. Wolf and held that Section 9718(a)(3) — imposing a 10-year mandatory minimum for aggravated indecent assault of a child less
In United States v. Bullock, the 3rd Circuit ruled that the crime of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees of, in violation of 18 U.S. Code § 111, is categorically a crime of
The Superior Court affirmed the aggregate sentence — 17 to 34 years of incarceration for non-violent offenses — but remanded for the trial court to impose a RRRI minimum term.
In Commonwealth v. LeClair, the Superior Court affirmed the defendant’s murder conviction but vacated the judgment of sentence because the U.S. Coast Guard does not qualify as a “victim” for
In Commonwealth v. King, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated the defendant’s sentence, holding that he entered into one agreement with his co-conspirator to murder the victim and, because the co-conspirator failed,
In USA v. Seighman, the 3rd Circuit distinguished subsection (g) of the federal supervised release statute — 18 U.S.C. § 3583 — from subsection (k), which the Supreme Court in USA
In United States v. Birt, the Third Circuit held that a conviction under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C) is not a “covered offense” within the meaning of the First
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