7. Sester v. United States - Docket No., 10-7387 -- The question is whether a district court has authority to order a federal sentence to run consecutive to an anticipated, but not-yet-imposed, state sentence ? 8. Williams v. Illinois - Docket No., 10-8505 -- The question is whether a state rule of evidence allowing an expert witness to testify about the results of DNA testing performed by non-testifying analysts, where the

Is the EEOC's understanding of its rule entitled to respect under Long Island Care at Home, Ltd. v. Coke, 127 S. Ct. 2339 (2007) -- a case decided twelve days after the Eighth Circuit delivered its decision in this case? Martel v. Clair - Docket No., 10-1265 In this case after ten years of capital federal habeas corpus proceedings in the district court, respondent abruptly complained about and sought substitution of his

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Marbury v. Madison Supreme Court Case Study Every year Supreme Court provides decision in cases that really impact the American citizen's rights. The aim of this analysis is to keenly check cases handled by the Supreme Court and the way they were given their final verdict. The parties involved sometimes get that the cases favor them or not depending on the existing laws or even through undermining the constitution. The case in

Supreme Court Decision in Wooden vs. the United StatesWooden vs. the United StatesCase BriefIn 1997, William Wooden Broke into a storage facility in Georgia and stole ten different units, resulting in a guilty plea to 10 counts of burglary. In 2014, a plainclothes officer visited Wooden’s home where he asked to see his wife and was invited in and realized Wooden had a riffle. Soon after, he was arrested for being a felon in

Indianapolis vs. Edmond 531 U.S. 32, 121S. ct.447, 148 L. Ed. 2D 333(2000) Facts: In an attempt to discover and intercept unlawful narcotics on transit across the city, Indianapolis police implemented a highway checkpoint program, where motorists would be stopped at designated checkpoints, and their vehicles searched for narcotics. The checks lasted no more than five minutes and involved both an open-view examination, and a sniffer dog program. Two motorists, one of