Justice Samuel Alito expressed interest in reconsidering a ruling issued by the Supreme Court over 20 years ago. The Court decided to not consider a case before it on Monday. Alito agreed with the ...

Pretrial depositions generally are disfavored in criminal cases, but Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 15 permits depositions in “exceptional circumstances” for purposes of preserving evidence for ...

On Monday, the Court denied cert in Franklin v. New York, a Confrontation Clause case. Justices Alito and Gorsuch wrote statements regarding the denial of certiorari. Alito's statement calls into ...

The Supreme Court on Monday morning sent the case of a Mississippi man convicted of abusing his daughter back to the state courts for another look. It also reversed, without briefing on the merits or ...

Deep in the Constitution’s Sixth Amendment is an important but perplexing guarantee: that “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right … to be confronted with the witnesses against ...

The 9th Circuit has fractured on a case pitting the attorney-client privilege against the Confrontation Clause, with a plurality finding that a defendant wasn't entitled to habeas relief even though ...