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Criminal law—Sentencing—R.C. 2929.14(C)(4)—Consecutive-sentence findings—R.C. 2953.08(G)(2)—Appellate review of consecutive sentences—Motion for reconsideration granted and court of appeals' judgment ...

Consecutive sentences R.C. 2929.14(C) findings. Defendant was convicted of four felony offenses aggravated assault, abduction, theft, and menacing by stalking, and a misdemeanor offense of cruelty aga...

Criminal law—Plea hearings—Crim.R. 11(C)(2)(A)—A trial court must advise a criminal defendant on postrelease control for a prior felony, during plea hearing in a new felony case, of trial court's auth...

Criminal law—State forfeits the right to argue that a court of appeals is barred from reviewing a sentencing appeal when the state does not timely invoke a defendant's appeal waiver—R.C. 2929.11 and 2...

Criminal law—Sentencing—R.C.2929.14(C)(4)—Consecutive-sentence findings are not simply threshold findings that, once made, permit any amount of consecutively stacked individual sentences—Consecutive-s...

Criminal law—R.C. 2941.25—Plain-error doctrine—A defendant who fails to preserve the issue of merger of allied offenses under R.C. 2941.25 by raising an objection in the trial court forfeits all but p...

E-A-G-, 24 I&N Dec. 591 (BIA 2008) ID 3618 (PDF) (1) The respondent, a young Honduran male, failed to establish that he was a member of a particular social group of "persons resistant to gang membersh...

VELAZQUEZ-HERRERA, 24 I&N Dec. 503 (BIA 2008) ID 3610 (PDF) (1) For purposes of the ground of removal set forth at section 237(a)(2)(E)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)...

Criminal law—Fourth Amendment—When the state does not assert in the trial court that a defendant lacks Fourth Amendment standing to challenge a contested search or seizure, the state may not assert th...

When an officer encounters a vehicle the whole of which is painted a different color from the color listed in the vehicle-registration records and the officer believes, based on his experience, that t...

Under N.D.C.C. § 12.1-32-08, a district court may enter restitution for damages or expenses sustained by a victim that are immediate, intimate, causally connected and directly related to the criminal ...

Criminal law—Crim.R. 32.1—A presentence motion to withdraw a guilty plea should be freely and liberally granted—The determination whether there is a reasonable and legitimate basis for a defendant's r...

Criminal law—R.C. 2953.21—Postconviction-relief petitions—Evidentiary hearing—Ineffective assistance of counsel—Eyewitness-identification expert testimony—When core of a defendant's claim or defense t...

Criminal law—Abuse of discretion—Crim.R. 11—Trial court abused its discretion by denying defendant's request to enter a no-contest plea based on trial court's own review of the appealable issues—Judgm...

Criminal law—R.C. 2929.14(B)(1)(g)—R.C. 2941.25(A)—R.C. 2929.14(B)(1)(g) permits imposing prison sentences for multiple firearm specifications attached to felonies committed as part of the same act or...

Criminal law—Waiver of attorney-client privilege—Sixth Amendment right to confrontation—R.C. 2929.12(D)(5)—Fifth Amendment right to remain silent—Codefendant who became a state witness pursuant to pro...

We granted this appeal to determine what showing, if any, a defendant must make to prevail on a motion for reduction of sentence under Rule 35 of the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure, where the d...

Marsy's Law, Article I, Section 10a of the Ohio Constitution—Restitution—R.C. 2929.18(A)(1)—Statutory meaning of restitution was not altered or expanded by Marsy's Law—Wages lost by crime victim as a ...