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A double victory for criminal defendants

By Glen Ashman

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A double victory for criminal defendants

National Law Journal
The Supreme Court issued two opinions this morning, both of them striking down lower court opinions that had favored prosecutors. In one decision, the justices agreed that a failure to report to prison is not the kind of prior "violent felony" conviction that triggers a 15-year mandatory prison sentence for someone found guilty of illegal possession of a firearm. The other decision ruled that the clock for filing a federal habeas appeal should not start ticking until after the appeal is completed.

Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on January 13, 2009 (boomark / email).

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