Petitioner Sila Luis provided health care to homebound patients through her two businesses, LTC Professional Consultants, Inc. and Professional Home Care Solutions, Inc., of which she was both owner and operator. See Brief for Petitioner, Sila Luis at...
Sixth Amendment
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Petitioner Luis Mariano Martinez was convicted in an Arizona state trial court for sexual conduct with a person under fifteen years old and was sentenced to serve consecutive prison terms of 35 years to life. See Martinez v. Schriro, 623 F.3d 731, 733...
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On May 29, 2008, a grand jury indicted Robert Leroy McCoy for three counts of first degree murder. See State v. McCoy, 218 So. 3d 535, 544 (La. 2016). McCoy entered a plea of not guilty to all charges. See id. The State of Louisiana informed McCoy that...
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In 1984, McWilliams raped and murdered a convenience store attendant. See McWilliams v. Commissioner, D.C. Docket No. 7:04-cv-02923-RDP at 3 (11th Cir. Dec. 16, 2015). For several months leading up to these events, McWilliams had been attending...
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Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts (07-591)
Oral argument: Nov. 10, 2008
Appealed from: Appeals Court of Massachusetts (July 31, 2007)
CONFRONTATION CLAUSE, SIXTH AMENDMENT, CRAWFORD v. WASHINGTON, DRUG... (LIIBULLETIN preview)
On April 29, 2001, Detroit police officers found Anthony Covington lying on the ground next to his car in a gas station, with a gunshot wound in his abdomen. Covington, in response to the officers’ immediate questions about what happened, replied that...
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Oral argument: Oct. 31, 2011
Appealed from: Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District (Sept. 27, 2010)
After being charged with a felony for driving with a revoked license, Respondent Galin E. Frye was offered two plea bargain...
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In 2001, a California jury convicted John Cunningham, a former police officer, of continuous sexual abuse of his minor son. People v. Cunningham, 2005 WL 880983 (Cal.App. 1 Dist. 2005). Pursuant to California’s Determinate Sentencing Law (“DSL”), which...
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Oral argument: Jan. 13, 2009
Appealed from: Louisiana Supreme Court (Jan. 16, 2008)
SIXTH AMENDMENT, RIGHT TO COUNSEL, POLICE INTERROGATION, MIRANDA RIGHTSDoes the sound of silence answer in the affirmative, in the negative, or not at...
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Thomas Eugene Ice was the manager of an apartment complex. On two occasions, Ice entered an apartment at night and sexually touched an 11 year old girl in her bedroom. State v. Ice, 343 Ore. 248, 250 (2007). A grand jury indicted Ice on six crimes: two...