Cases & Results: Tag Archive - "Criminal Litigation"
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U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
This post-conviction case involved a request under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 for relief from judgment and sentence after judgment and sentence had already been affirmed on direct appeal. Section 2255 functions much like the writ of habeas corpus, though it applies…
United States Supreme Court
Successfully obtained certiorari review in case challenging the “separate sovereigns” exception to the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy Clause. Client had been convicted as a felon-in-possession of a firearm in both federal and state court in Alabama. Emmett, one of three…
Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals
Appellant, while represented by other counsel, pled guilty to several white-collar offenses—including money laundering, forgery, and aggravated theft—stemming from alleged diversion and personal use of hundreds of thousands of dollars belonging to appellant’s employer. Appellant was sentenced to consecutive maximum…
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
In this challenging habeas corpus case, Emmett represented a client who had been convicted in Michigan state court a decade earlier of assault with intent to commit murder. The conviction had previously been affirmed by the Michigan Court of Appeals,…