I believe that by adopting the Sawyer standard both for attacks on the sentence and on the judgment of conviction, we would take a step in the direction of simplifying this jurisprudence.
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The Court of Appeals granted the defendant's petition for rehearing, withdrew its prior opinion, and on the strength of Payton v . New York reversed the judgment of conviction.
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In 2009, the Supreme Court clarified that Article I military courts have jurisdiction to entertain coram nobis petitions to consider allegations that an earlier judgment of conviction was flawed in a fundamental respect.
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John Arthur Stieren appeals from the judgment of conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and dispense under 21 U . S . C . ?841 ( a ) ( 1 ).
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On April 7, 2009 federal judge Sullivan formally accepted Holder's motion to set aside the verdict and throw out the indictment, declaring " There was never a judgment of conviction in this case.
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As for the accusation of illogical action resulting in a loss of face for the country, " that applies also to the judge of the lower court whose judgment of conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court,"
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Paul Bender, a law professor at Arizona State University who was formerly the dean of the law school, said federal and state law holds that officeholders need not leave their positions until " judgment of conviction, " or sentencing.
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[T ] he plea is more than an admission of past conduct; it is the defendant's consent that judgment of conviction may be entered without a trial a waiver of his right to trial before a jury or a judge.
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The legitimacy of any successor, and hence his effectiveness, would be impaired severely, not merely while the judicial process was running its course, but during any retrial that a differently constituted Senate might conduct if its first judgment of conviction were invalidated,
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Is a judgment of conviction void when a deposition has been read against a person on trial for crime because he was not confronted with the witness, or because the indictment did not inform him with sufficient clearness of the nature and cause of the accusation?
