Lawrence Eugene Shaw was convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 1344(1) for executing a scheme to obtain funds from a Bank of America (“BoA”) account belonging to Stanley Hsu, a Taiwanese businessman. See United States v. Shaw, 781 F.3d 1130, 1133 (9th Cir. 2015...
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Barry Lee Jones
After the death of his girlfriend’s daughter, Respondent Barry Lee Jones was convicted of felony murder and sentenced to death. Jones v. Shinn at 1216–17. Upon appeal, the Arizona Supreme Court affirmed. Id. at 1218.
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Shoplifting is generally defined as the unauthorized removal of merchandise from a store without paying for it, or intentionally paying less for an item than its sale price. However, shoplifting can include carrying, hiding, concealing, or...
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Petitioner Eddie Shular pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and being a felon in possession of a fire arm. U.S. v. Shular at 876. Shular was sentenced to 180-months under the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”). Id. The ACCA...
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The Confrontation Clause in the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution provides defendants with the right to “be confronted with the witnesses against [them],” allowing them to challenge the validity of the testimony before a jury. U.S. Const. amend. VI....
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Whether requiring the defendant to bear the burden of proving withdrawal from a conspiracy as an affirmative defense violates Due Process.
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FactsDuring the late 1980s and...
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Petitioner Timothy Smith is a software engineer and avid fisherman. United States v. Smith at 1238. While living in Alabama, Smith used his computer skills to obtain data from the website of a business called StrikeLines without paying for them. Id....
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James Snyder became mayor of Portage, Indiana, in 2012. United States v. Snyder at 2. At the time, he was behind on both his personal taxes and his business’s payroll taxes. Id. at 2–3. The IRS had levied on his personal and business bank accounts,...
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Southern Union Company (“Southern Union”), a distributor of natural gas, acquired an old gas manufacturing plant in Rhode Island (“the Tidewater property”) as part of its new operations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island in 2000. See United States v....
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In 2016, Petitioner Denard Stokeling, a convicted felon, pled guilty to one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida....