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Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #32 6-14-2024

Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #32  6-14-2024 Theme Juries Using the State’s Weak Analogies to Expand Voir Dire Authority Proving WPICs are not authority – ONE EXCEPTION WPIC 4.02 The Reasonble Doubt WPIC MUST BE USED ...

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Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #31 5-31-2024

Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #31  5-31-2024 BREAKING NEWS – THIS IS THE LAST SHERI’S SIDEBAR EDITION THAT WILL BE SENT OUT ON LISTSERV. ACCESS SHERI’S SIDEBAR ON THE WEBSITE FROM NOW ON. Theme: Touch DNA, Trans...

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Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #30 5-3-2024

Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #30  5-3-2024 1. Defense has a right to schedule interviews without the Prosecutor present. 2. CORRECTION – The prosecutor has the ultimate veto for therapeutic courts. There is a section that ...

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Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #29 4-19-24

Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #29  4-19-24 Theme Defending Alleged Possession of Child Sex Abuse Materials (CSAM) 1. More witness unavailability authority. 2. An IP address alone is insufficient to get PC for a warrant! (Sex offe...

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Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #28 4-5-24

Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #28  4-5-24 1. Some counties are using AI to summarize jail calls. Watch for this and for errors! 2. Some counties are using cell site simulators or Sting Rays – it is an illegal search requiri...

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Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #27 3-22-24

Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #27  3-22-24 Pre: File motions to exclude State irrelevant information, known inappropriate arguments, and commonly misrepresented facts. 1. Did you know the blood drawn for medical purposes is DIFFE...

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Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #26 3-8-24

Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #26  3-8-24 Pre: Important Counterman v. Colorado information in #5, especially for non-citizen clients! Theme perspective and perception. 1. More about bias during jury deliberations. 2. Perspective...

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Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #25 2-23-24

Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #25  2-23-24 Pre: Theme Righteous Indignation – Dalton’s Roadhouse Rules – Ethics & Duty to the Client 1. The Constitutional Right to Confrontation IS WAIVED if not preserved at...

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Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #24 2-9-24

Sheri’s Sidebar Edition #24   2-9-24 Pre:  Discussion of strategy of putting the client near the jury and in front of the witness box. 1. The limited circumstances you can get a deputy prosecutor disqualified as a materia...

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Pathways in the relapse-treatment-recovery cycle over 3 years

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