1 May 2018

10th Circuit affirms ground for revoking supervised release.

by William Gaskill

23 April 2018

Utah Court of Appeals vacates convictions due to improperly admitted expert testimony; affirms attorney fee award; affirms drug convictions; and affirms dismissal of a declaratory judgment action.

by William Gaskill

18 May 2016

10th Circuit rejects ex post facto challenge to Oklahoma’s sex offender statute and orders motion to intervene be granted based on mandatory statutory right.

by William Gaskill

4 April 2016

10th Circuit reduces a punitive damages award; reverses sex offender registration conviction due to incorrect jury instructions; and holds no qualified immunity for tasering a restrained traffic offender 10 times in 2 minutes.

by William Gaskill

4 April 2016

The United States Supreme Court approves use of total population in legislative redistricting; reversed conviction for failing to update sex offender registration after moving out of country; and summarily reverses another 6th Circuit grant of habeas relief.

by William Gaskill

21 September 2015

10th Circuit holds sex offenses based on fear of injury created through deception are not consensual offenses and the Supreme Court ruling that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional does not apply retroactively.

by William Gaskill

15 April 2015

10th Circuit rejects en banc review of conviction for failure to update sex offender registration when moving out of the country and an excessive force claim based on felon’s claim he did nothing wrong.

by William Gaskill

6 April 2015

10th Circuit rejects challenge to federal sex registration statute and reverses suppression order.

by William Gaskill

30 December 2014

10th Circuit rejects nondelegation doctrine attack on SONRA; leaves open whether using handheld Doppler radar to look inside a house violates 4th Amendment; issues one other published opinion.

by William Gaskill

9 December 2014

10th Circuit holds appellate jurisdiction exists to review denials of motions to stay and compel arbitration in most collective bargaining agreement settings and issues three other published opinions.

by William Gaskill

31 October 2014

10th Circuit allows man who failed to update his sex offender registration to be alone with his children and limits scope of treatment that can be ordered by probation officer.

by William Gaskill