Fight ‘Em ‘Til We Can’t

The Supreme Court of Montana (SCOMT) released a number of decisions on Tuesday, including the following involving criminal law:

• Hardin v. State, 2006 MT 272 (involving postconviction releif, sentencing, IAC, and plea bargaining)
• State v. Thompson, 2006 MT 274 (involving DUI and particularized suspicion)
• State v. Benders, 2006 MT 275 (involving DUI, conlaw, vagueness, and particularized suspicion) (sort of an unfortunate name for a DUI case, no?)

We haven’t had time to read (and therefore summarize) these opinions, but if anyone else has, we’d be happy to post your summaries and/or commentary right here on Fight ‘Em ‘Til We Can’t. Just send ‘em in.

The links above (and other links on this blog to recent SCOMT decisions) are to the Montana State Law Library Newsfeed. The links to each case will take you to a PDF download of the actual opinion, and the posts about each case include the keywords listed above that give you some idea of what each case is about. Thus, the Newsfeed is invaluable on several levels. First, if you use a newsreader and know how to subscribe to an RSS feed, the Law Library’s Newsfeed will make sure you stay up-to-the-minute on new decisions from the SCOMT. Second, the keywords for each opinion make it easy to scan new decisions for those that might be relevant to your cases or interests.

Here at FETWCthe Law Library’s Newsfeed is an invaluable service. Kudos to the Law Library for making such great use of available technology.