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CRIMINAL LAW CASES SET FOR ARGUMENT TO DATE Military Justice-Statute of Limitations United States v Briggs, No 19-108, and United States v Collins, No 19-184 Question Presented: Whether the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces erred in concluding-contrary to its own longstanding precedent-that the Uniform Code of Military Justice allows prosecution of a rape that occurred between 1986 and 2006 only if it was discovered and charged within five years Retroactive Effect of Unanimous Jury Ruling Edwards v Vannoy, No 19-5807 Question Presented: Whether the Supreme Court\'s decision in Ramos v Louisiana, 590 U S _(2020) applies retroactively to cases on federal collateral review Disclosure of Grand Jury Materials in Mueller Report Department of Justice v House Committee on the Judiciary, No 19-1328 Question Presented: Whether an impeachment trial before a legislative body is a \'judicial proceeding\' under Rule 6(e)(3)(E) (i) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
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Justice Kagan\'s majority opinion held that the limitation was permissible, reasoning that the so-called moral-incapacity test for insanity was not sufficiently rooted in the history of Anglo-American criminal law to be a required component of due process [ ]for decades, the Court has refused to make constitutional judgments about how philosophical, moral, practical, and medical judgments about insanity translate into constitutional rules about criminal culpability \' In Kansas v Garcia, the Court held that state laws used to prosecute noncitizens who used stolen social security numbers on their employment forms were not preempted by the Immigration Reform and Control Act [Disclosure: Arnold & Porter is counsel for the State of Oklahoma in McGirt ] CASES SET FOR NEXT TERM The 2020-21 term already is chock-full of criminal lawrelated cases, including three recent cert grants and cases carried over from the 2019-20 term because of COVID-19: Military Justice-Statute of Limitations United States v Briggs, No 19-108 and United States v Collins, No 19-184 Question Presented: Whether the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces erred in concluding-contrary to its own longstanding precedent-that the Uniform Code of Military Justice allows prosecution of a rape that occurred between 1986 and 2006 only if it was discovered and charged within five years
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