Criminal Law Reporter Index-Summary

HABEAS CORPUS

– Capital punishment, guilty plea offer to withdraw request did not coerce jury trial waiver (U.S., vac and rem), 86:110; text, 86:115
– DNA testing, sufficiency of evidence, standard of review (U.S., rev grant), 86:45
– Pro se representation, late invocation of right (U.S., rev den), 86:22
– Sentencing, jury trial, federal remedy for sentence imposed in violation of Cunningham (9th Cir.), 86:14
– State court adjudication of federal claim on merits, absence of case citation (1st Cir.), 86:137
– Statutes of limitations, equitable tolling, counsel gross negligence in filing (U.S., rev sought), 86:83

HARMLESS ERROR

– Testimonial statements, ballistics statement confirming firearm operability (Mass. App. Ct.), 86:108

HEALTH CARE

– Mental health

See MENTAL HEALTH

HEARSAY

– Laboratory analysis reports, requiring accused to demand presence of preparer, confrontation right (U.S., rev grant), 86:45

HOMICIDE

– Death penalty

See CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

– Jury instructions, inference of malice from use of deadly weapon (S.C.), 86:109
– Jury selection, fair cross-section requirement, comparative-disparity test (U.S., rev grant), 86:18
– Prosecutorial misconduct, exploitation of defendant's suggestive nickname, due process (2d Cir.), 86:109
– Question first, warn later interrogations (U.S., rev den), 86:19
– Remedy for sentence above statutory maximum, new sentencing hearing (Va.), 86:78