An Arizona-based criminal drug case will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court during their ongoing 2023 term. Related to the Sixth Amendment, the case will clarify a part of the law which has ...

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 Friday sent the case of an Arizona man convicted of drug possession back to the state courts. Jason Smith argued that when an expert witness testified for the prosecution about ...

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 on Wednesday appeared sympathetic to an Arizona man who contends that his constitutional rights were violated when an expert witness testified for the prosecution about drug analysis ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday sided with an Arizona criminal defendant who claimed the state's use of a "substitute expert" violated his constitutional right to confront a witness against him.

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 ...

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 ...