Residential Entries and “Fresh Pursuit”

Residential Entries and “Fresh Pursuit”  

Robert C. Phillips
Deputy District Attorney (Ret.)
June, 2021

We previously reviewed the recent United States Supreme Court decision of Stanton v. Sims (2013) 134 S.Ct. 3, where…

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Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms

For those of you interested in your Second Amendment rights, the United States Supreme Court just granted certiorari in a case out of New York—a very anti-Second Amendment state—in the case of State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Crolett (Apr. 26,…

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Sentencing Minors to Life Without the Possibility of Parole

I don’t typically brief sentencing cases, and I’m not an expert by any means on juvenile law, so I’m kind of speaking out of school here.  But for those of you who have to deal with those little buggers, I thought you might be interested in the U…

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PRETRIAL IDENTIFICATIONS

PRETRIAL IDENTIFICATIONS

May, 2021
DDA Robert C. Phillips (Ret.)

Introduction:

            The “eyewitness identification” of a criminal suspect by victims and/or witnesses         is almost always an integral and…

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