Falmouth, MA
Criminal defense Lawyer at Falmouth, MA
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense
OUTCOME: Conviction reversed and not guilty outcome entered.
Defendant's conviction for disorderly conduct based upon a verbal confrontation with a traffic officer was reversed as contrary to the defendant's first amendment right of free speech.
OUTCOME: The case anticipated defects in USSC constitutional jurisprudence.
Attorney Russell argued to the state Supreme Court that allowing hearsay evidence against a criminal defendant was contrary to a defendant's constitutional right to confront his|her accusers. United St ... ates Supreme Court precedent at that time established that hearsay was not a constitutional violation. The United States Supreme Court soon reconsidered and reversed its thinking (Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004))--adopting the arguments Attorney Russell advocated just a few years prior.
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