While it was a quiet week in the Circuit, there were significant and interesting decisions from three of NY’s appellate divisions. AD1’s decision in Feliciano, AD2’s decision in Hollmond, and AD3’s decision in Holtslander are all worth a read. Second Circuit In United...
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Month: February 2021
DECISIONS OF THE WEEK ENDED NOVEMBER 27, 2020
This week, in Portillo, CA2 expressed its frustration with the now more than thirty-year-old decision to eliminate parole. But CA2 was not frustrated enough by the consequence of parole elimination to find a 55-year sentence imposed upon a 15-year-old, substantively...
DECISIONS OF THE WEEK ENDED NOVEMBER 20, 2020
After several busy weeks, the Circuit was quiet this week, with no precedential opinions and only two summary orders in criminal cases. The state courts were busier. NYCA released several decisions this week, including an interesting one in Pena, which continued to...
DECISIONS OF THE WEEK ENDED NOVEMBER 13, 2020
While there were several interesting precedential opinions from the Circuit this week—Ramos, Houtar, & Gray—none of them granted relief to defendants. In the state courts, on the other hand, there were a number of significant decisions from the Second and Fourth...
DECISIONS OF THE WEEK ENDED NOVEMBER 6, 2020
It was an unusually busy week in the Circuit, with five precedential opinions. None of them, however, benefitted defendants. Most interesting among the opinions was Moseley, where CA2 addressed conflict of laws provisions in payday loan agreements, finding that NY...
DECISIONS OF THE WEEK ENDED OCTOBER 30, 2020
Two interesting decisions from the Circuit this week addressed the authority of a district court to reduce a sentence under the First Step Act: the precedential decision in Echeverry, which addressed eligibility in the face of a mandatory minimum sentence resulting...