Criminal Law Cases

Up to the midterm

US v. Dauray

Collage of illicit pictures. (rule of lenity)

Sessions v. Dimaya

Deportation proceeding where it was unclear what "violent felony" meant.

Kolender v. Lawson

Case of guy who was arrested 15 times in 2 years for loitering (discretion)

People v. Suitte

Case of guy who had a loaded pistol in NY that was registered to a different state.

Smith v. Doe

Case of sex offender registry

Dalton

Journal with stories of violent crimes

Wisconsin v. Mitchell

Case of a black man that encouraged his friends to beat up a white man.

Martin v. State

Man was forcibly removed from his home and charged with being drunk in public.

State v. Decina

Man suffers epileptic seize at the wheel of his car.

Commonwealth v. Howard

Woman lets her daughter get severely abused by step-father until she ultimately dies.

Robinson v. California

Constitutionality of a law that said it was illegal to be addicted to the use of narcotics.

Powell v. Texas

Criminalizing intoxication in a public space

Jones v. City of Los Angeles

Skid Row case (criminalizing sitting, lying, or sleeping on the street)

Regina v. Cunningham

Woman ripped off gas meter in an unoccupied home to steal what was inside. Forgot to turn it off when they left and it seeped into an adjacent house. Elderly woman died.

U.S. v. Yermian

Guy who applied for government job and lied on the application claims he didn't know the job app would go to the feds.

State v. Fugate

Man enters a parking garage to rob the owner, but ends up killing him with the loaded shotgun he had in his hand.

United States v. Jewell

Man convicted of transporting a large amount of MJ in a secret contained of his car. Claims he had no knowledge of the drugs, but did know of the secret compartment and the possibility there would be drugs.

Morissette v. United States

Man who steals bomb casings from the Air Force claims he did not think he was stalking them because he honestly believed the government abandoned them.

Garnett v. State

Mentally handicapped boy has sex with minor girl. Law against this has no mens rea.

Atkins v. United States

Man told his friend he was going to burn down the house of an individual. House ends up burning down after he burned the weeds around the house while intoxicated. Arguing it's a specific intent crime and so the intoxication negated the intent to commit the crime.

Elonis v. United States

Man who wrote violent rap lyrics alleged that he did not intend them to be threats.

People v. Marrero

Guy convicted of carrying a weapon while not a "peace officer", unsure what that even meant.

Lambert v. California

Guy who left city limits because they did not know they were not allowed to.

Henderson v. Kibber

People who left someone on the side of a rode and then got that individual run over.

Commonwealth v. Mills

Man who fraudulently stated that he was earning below a certain amount in order to receive disability pension.

United States v. Eichman

Individuals who poured gasoline on top of a building to protest Gulf War. Did not enter the 4 walls of the building.

State v. Thibeault

Individual that was allowed to enter the apartment "at any time" stole from it. Prosecution unable to say if he had license to be there.

Crocker v. State

Houseguest accused of stealing $500 from a wallet while owner was away.

State v. Bingham

Boy who got off a bus with a girl and SAed and murdered her. Pre-mediation?

Gilbert v. State

Man who killed his wife because she was extremely sick and suffering.

People v. Ambro

Man kills wife that says shes going to leave him and take the kids away.

People v. Berry

Man who kills his wife after she comes home form a trip to Israel and says she is in love with someone else.

State v. Dumblao

Person kills their MIL because they had been hurt by women in the past. Driven to murder by extreme pathological jealousy.

Commonwealth v. Malone

Russian roulette between two young boys.

People v. Knoller

Two defendants care for a dog that has dangerous propensities.

State v. Williams

Native American couple did not take their child to the dentist because they fear the government would take the child away. Child dies from lack of medical care.

People v. Beardsley

Man lets woman into his home. Woman ODs.