Rory Little, Author at SCOTUSblog

Rory Little

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Rory Little is a visiting professor at Yale Law School, Professor of Law at U.C. Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, a former clerk to Justices Potter Stewart (ret.) and William Brennan, and author of the American Bar Association’s “Annual Review of the Supreme Court’s Term, Criminal Cases.” He is also “Of Counsel” to the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery on discrete appellate matters.

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Argument preview: When must criminal intent be developed for an unlawful trespass to become a burglary?

By Rory Little on Apr 17, 2019 at 9:56 am

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Argument preview: When must criminal intent be developed for an unlawful trespass to become a burglary?

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