Pretrial depositions generally are disfavored in criminal cases, but Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 15 permits depositions in “exceptional circumstances” for purposes of preserving evidence for ...

The Supreme Court did not grant certiorari in any cases this morning, but Justices Alito and Gorsuch both suggested it may be time to grant a case to reconsider aspects of the Court's Confrontation ...

The Supreme Court on Monday morning sent the case of a Mississippi man convicted of abusing his daughter back to the state courts for another look. It also reversed, without […] The post Supreme Court ...

On Monday, the Court denied cert in Franklin v. New York, a Confrontation Clause case. Justices Alito and Gorsuch wrote statements regarding the denial of certiorari. Alito's statement calls into ...

When the Supreme Court heard arguments Jan. 11 in the confrontation clause case Briscoe v. Virginia some wondered why the Court would review a case so similar to Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, which ...

Statements by very young children or to persons other than law enforcement officials will rarely trigger a criminal defendant's right to confront his accuser at trial, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa’s top prosecutor is proposing an amendment to the state constitution to solve what one lawmaker called an “interesting conundrum," weighing a person's constitutional right to ...

The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. The Sixth Amendment gives ...

FILE – Associate Justice Samuel Alito joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, Oct. 7, 2022, at the Supreme Court building in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott ...

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2017, file photo, the Supreme Court in Washington, at sunset. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case that could deal a painful financial blow to organized labor. All ...