Professor Joel Johnson, "Cert Alert: Supreme Court Cases of Interest," Spring 2024 -- ABA Criminal Justice Magazine

Professor Joel S. Johnson's latest installment of his quarterly column, "Cert Alert: Supreme Court Cases of Interest," has been published in the Spring 2024 edition of the ABA Criminal Justice Magazine. The column discusses pending criminal cases before the Supreme Court.

From Cert Alert: Supreme Court Cases of Interest, Spring 2024:

Over the winter, the Court heard argument in several cases on this Term’s criminal docket, including some involving constitutional rights of the accused. During the argument in Smith v. Arizona, the Court appeared sympathetic to the claim that the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is violated when the prosecution’s expert witness testifies about drug analysis performed by another forensic scientist. Similarly, during the argument in McElrath v. Georgia, the Court seemed poised to hold that the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prevents a state from retrying a criminal defendant for an acquitted charge when that acquittal was inconsistent with the same jury’s guilty verdict for a lesser charge. Sure enough, the Court unanimously reached that result in a decision issued in late February.

The complete column may be found at American Bar Association