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II.The Buie Decision In Maryland v. Buie, a Godfather’s pizza restaurant in Prince George’s County Maryland was robbed by two men.
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Above the line: Two years after Crawford overhauled the Confrontation Clause analysis, the Second Circuit confronted the newly important question of whether autopsy reports are testimonial such that they must be barred in the absence of cross-examination of the conducting medical examiner.
What is Crawford should be in italics
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Id. at 343 (applying the rational regarding search incident to arrest from Chimel, 395 U.S. 752). The passenger component of the car includes the entire interior of the car.
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United States v. Biggs, 70 F.3d 913, 914 (6th Cir. 1995); see also United States v. Colbert, 76 F.3d, 773, 778 (6th Cir. 1996)).
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See generally Miller v. Alabama, 132 S. Ct. 2455, 2459 (2012) (the Court issued a joint opinion for Miller and Jackson v. Hobbs).
What is -If "see generally" do not cite a specific pincite. -Provide cite for Hobbs Jackson v. Hobbs, 132 S. Ct. 548 (2011).
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See State v. El-Tabech, 610 N.W.2d 737, 744 (Neb. 2000) (commenting that there must be a proceeding pending to make a discovery request as discovery relates to specific proceedings).
What is See should be in italics and State must be changed to Nebraska.
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Id.83 Smith, 920 N.E. 2d at 950.
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There are a range of statutes that involve criminal forfeiture but three prevalent statutes are:18 U.S.C. § 982 (money laundering and financial crimes); 18 U.S.C. § 1963 (RICO); and 21 U.S.C. § 853 (narcotics).
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See e.g. Melendez-Diaz, 557 U.S. at 346-47 (Kennedy, J., dissenting) (arguing that the majority, without any reasoning or supporting authority, stretched the Confrontation Clause beyond the “conventional witnesses” to which it was meant to apply.).
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See Katz, 389 U.S. at 357 (citing Won Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471, 481-82).
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Instead of discussing the intricacies of Fifth Amendment doctrine, the Court emphasized the practical effects of the plea stating, “The Constitution is concerned with the practical consequences, not the formal categorizations, of state law”.
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U.S. Const. Amend. IV (regarding reasonableness and the warrant requirement); Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347, 357 (1967) (noting that searches conducted without warrant have been held unlawful “notwithstanding facts unquestionably showing probable cause” (quoting Agnello v. United States, 269 U.S. 20, 33 (1925))
What is Amend should be lower case; comma after ...cause,"; period at end of citation sentence
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18 Arizona v. Gant, 556 U.S. 332 (2009); see also Chimel v. California, 395 U.S. 752 (1969), abrogated by Davis v. United States, 131 S.Ct. 2419 (2011). 19 Id. at 343
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See Smallwood v. Florida, 113 So. 3d 724,738 (Fla. 2013); Ohio v. Smith, 920 N.E.2d 949, 956 (Ohio 2009), cert. denied, 131 S. Ct. 102 (2010).
What is delete "Fla." and "Ohio" because they are in the case name.
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Carmichael v. People, 206 P.3d 800, 809-10 (Colo. 2009).
What is People should be changed to Colorado. No Colorado in parenthesis
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Kentucky has implied that the attorney-client privilege is waived by the filing of a post-conviction motion and has affirmed the trial Court’s decision to provide the prosecution with a copy of the postconviction litigant’s trial attorney file, in order that he may respond to the litigants claims.
What is Three things: one, post-conviction should be hyphenated two, litigant's should have an apostrophe three, court should not be capitalized
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D.C., however, is not the only jurisdiction to prosecute DUI cases with blood-alcohol contents below 0.08. See e.g., George Fredrick Mueller, Alcohol Level .07% or Less Yet Still Arrested in California for DUI/ DWI, How?
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Ronald Coleman & Paul Rothstein, Grabbing the Bullcoming by the Horns, 90 Neb. L. Rev. 502, 542 (2011)
What is "Grabbing the...by the Horns" should be in italics and Law Review article should be in small caps. Period at end of citation sentence.
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See e.g., United States v. James Daniel Good Real Prop., 510 U.S. 43, 52-53 (1993) (holding that government violated procedural due process rights by seizing real property ex parte without notice or hearing for the owner, reasoning that property cannot be moved or hidden, thus concerns about defendant moving, losing, or hiding property are not present.)
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