United States v. Dunnigan

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Sentences may be enhanced based on perjury; sentence enhancement; defendant's right to testify on his or her own behalf; sentencing guidelines.

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Illinois v. Somerville

The manifest necessity requirement, which authorizes granting a mistrial in a criminal case and precludes the defendant from successfully raising a plea of double jeopardy, is met when the indictment is insufficient to charge a crime. Impanel.

Blockburger v. United States

Continuing offense; separate and distinct offenses, even if of the same nature, do not constitute a continuing offense, such as two sales of narcotics to the same purchaser, but at different times. The narcotics act penalizes each individual sale.

Wainwright v. Sykes

Contemporaneous objection rule. absent a showing of cause and prejudice attendant to a state procedural waiver, a federal habeas corpus review of a waived objection to the admission of a confession at trial is barred. Coram nobis.

Apprendi v. New Jersey

Due process considerations of Fifth Amendment, applied to states through Fourteenth Amendment, requires an increase in maximum prison sentence to be based on facts found by jury beyond a reasonable doubt. Evidentiary hearing; hate crime.

Hoffman v. United States

Fifth Amendment applies to grand jury testimony; privilege against self-incrimination may be invoked if there is a possibility that the answers sought would have a tendency to incriminate the witness.

United States v. Resendiz-Ponce

United States v. Resendiz-Ponce; indictments need not ordinarily plead specific conduct by the defendant to be constitutional.

Search of Incident to Mistaken Arrest

Herring v. United States; The exclusionary rule is not an individual right and applies only where it results in appreciable police deterrence; respondeat superior.

Compulsion of Testimony

McKune v. Lile; limiting inmate privileges is not compution of testimony. Fifth Amendment. Right to remain silent. Miranda.

Double Jeopardy Clause

Renico v. Lett; trail judge is entitled to deference in declaring a mistrial due to jury deadlock.

Reject Plea Bargain

Lafler v. Cooper; Ineffective assistance of counsel; malpractice; Strickland standard; Strickland prejudice; federal habeas relief; false promise; bad attorney; reject plea offer.

Selective Prosecution

United States v. Armstrong; claim of selective prosecution based on race; claimant must produce evidence that similarly situated offenders of a different race could have been prosecuted but were not.

Miranda Warnings

Florida v. Powell; Although the four warnings Miranda requires are invariable, there are no specific words that must be used to adequately convey them.

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