Civil Rights
Civil Case Updates for Criminal Practitioners Archive (March 2020)
Gang evidence “almost always prejudicial.”
Gilmore v. Lockard,
936 F.3d 857, 859 (9th Cir. 2019)
In Gilmore v. Lockard, 936 F.3d 857, 859 (9th Cir. 2019), the Ninth Circuit reversed a defense verdict in favor of prison officials who, a prisoner alleged, used excessive force against him
What is California AB 2799 (the Bill Restricting Use of Rap Lyrics in Criminal Trials)?
Discrimination in the jury selection process is an ongoing reality within the American criminal justice system, but measures have been taken for over a century to address the issue at both the national and state levels.
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were ratified in 1868 and 1870, respectively,
Korematsu v. United States was ‘Gravely Wrong the Day it Was Decided’
Even though Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944)-which condoned the forced relocation of all persons of Japanese ancestry in certain West coast zones during World War II pursuant to Executive Order 9066-was broadly criticized for decades within the legal profession and by American society at large, it was
