Payton v. New York

Holding that a New York statute "authoriz[ing] police officers to enter a private residence without a warrant and with force, if necessary, to make a routine felony arrest" was "not consistent with the Fourth Amendment"

California v. Trombetta

Holding that the Constitution does not require the state to preserve a breath sample used in a breath-analysis test in a DUI prosecution

Oregon v. Ice

Holding that Apprendi and Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296, 124 S.Ct. 2531, 159 L.Ed.2d 403 do not apply to findings of fact necessary for the imposition of consecutive sentences

Minnesota v. Carter

Holding that a guest lacked a legitimate expectation of privacy in his host's apartment because there was nothing "similar to the overnight guest relationship in Olson to suggest a degree of acceptance into the household"

Maryland v. Buie

Holding that, incident to arrest, an officer may conduct a limited protective sweep of those areas of a house in which he reasonably suspects a dangerous person may be hiding

Brown v. Ohio

Holding that double jeopardy bars successive prosecutions for greater and lesser included offenses

Ashe v. Swenson

Holding that the Double Jeopardy Clause prevents a defendant acquitted of robbing one participant at a poker game from being prosecuted for robbing any of the other participants at the same game

State v. Yarbough

Finding "the Code's paramount sentencing goals [are] that punishment fit the crime, not the criminal, and that there be a predictable degree of uniformity in sentencing"

People v. Ramirez

Finding the fellow officer rule provides that even if an arresting officer lacks personal knowledge sufficient to establish probable cause, the arrest will be lawful if the officer acts upon the direction of or as a result of communication with a superior or fellow officer or another police department provided that the police as a whole were in possession of information sufficient to constitute probable cause

People v. Laureano

Construing N.Y. Penal Law § 70.25

Section 470.05 - Determination of appeals; general criteria

Providing that a question of law is presented when "a protest thereto was registered, by the party claiming error, at the time of such ruling . . . or at any subsequent time when the court had an opportunity of effectively changing the same."

Section 265.03 - Criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree

Finding a person guilty of second degree criminal possession of a weapon when he or she "possesses any loaded firearm . . . [outside of a] person's home or place of business."

Section 70.25 - Concurrent and consecutive terms of imprisonment

Granting a sentencing court the power to specify that a term of imprisonment runs either concurrently or consecutively with respect to "any undischarged term of imprisonment imposed at a previous time"

Section 120.10 - Assault in the first degree

Causing serious physical injury with a dangerous instrument

Section 240.20 - [Repealed] Discovery; upon demand of defendant

Section 265.15 - Presumptions of possession, unlawful intent and defacement