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Michigan Dept. of State Police v. Sitz , 496 U.S. 444 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court case involving the constitutionality of police sobriety checkpoints . The Court held 6-3 that these checkpoints met the Fourth Amendment standard of "reasonable search and seizure."
This list of U.S. states by Alford plea usage documents usage of the form of guilty plea known as the Alford plea in each of the U.S. states in the United States. An Alford plea (also referred to as Alford guilty plea [1] [2] [3] and Alford doctrine [4] [5] [6]) in the law of the United States is a guilty plea in criminal court, [7] [8] [9] where the defendant does not admit the act and ...
The incarceration numbers for the states in the chart below are for sentenced and unsentenced inmates in adult facilities in local jails and state prisons. Numbers for federal prisons are in the Federal line. Asterisk (*) indicates "Incarceration in STATE" or "Crime in STATE" links. Correctional supervision numbers for Dec 31, 2018.
Exonerations may be browsed and sorted by name of the exonerated individual, state, county, year convicted, age of the exonerated individual at the time of conviction, race of the exonerated individual, year exonerated, crime for which falsely convicted, whether DNA evidence was involved in the exoneration, and factors that contributed to the wrongful conviction. [8]
In allowing Gordon’s suit to move forward, the Cincinnati-based 6 th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said prison officials have a duty to protect inmates from involuntary exposure to dangerous ...
An unannotated edition of the MCL is published by the state of Michigan in print and online. [8] Unofficial, annotated versions are published by both West and LexisNexis. The West publication is Michigan Compiled Laws Annotated (MCLA); the LexisNexis version is the Michigan Compiled Laws Service (MCLS).
Convicted of killing his wife, mother-in-law, and three children in 2003. [8] [9] Albert Greenwood Brown: C43700 Convicted of the 1980 rape and murder of Susan Jordan, and Brown was supposed to be executed in 2010, but was called off. [10] [11] Luis Bracamontes: BG0828 Convicted of murdering two police officers in 2014. [12] [13] Dean Carter ...
Michigan’s legislature made sweeping changes to car insurance requirements and penalties for failing to purchase coverage, and the state saw the largest drop in the number of uninsured motorists ...