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“In a criminal trial it’s unlikely that an action taken in an internal employee disciplinary matter will be entered into evidence of that case,” says John F. Stoviak ’73, an attorney in Philadelphia who has handled several fraud...
But a Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) decision five months afterwards has breathed new life into the case that brought Cambridge’s town-gown tension to the fore and to homes nationwide. In a precedent-setting move, the SJC ruled that evidence of a victim’s violent...
His case, Crawford vs. Washington, involved a criminal trial in which a videotape was used as evidence against the defendant, Crawford. But because Crawford’s lawyer was not able to cross-examine the videotaped witness, they took the case to the Washington State Supreme Court. There they argued...
“The lawyer didn’t want to appeal the case, in part because the criminal trial scene is so under-litigated and he didn’t have the time, but Crawford then told me to go for it,” Fisher says.
The Blakely case involved a question over the state of Washington’s sentencing guidelines and whether judges had the right to increase the severity of a criminal sentence decided by a jury.