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Today's Orders

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

Two habeas cases of note were denied certiorari today, and two were conspicuously absent from the orders list. In Quarterman v. Chambers, No. 07-1329, the court denied review of a Fifth Circuit decision overturning the sentence Ronald Chambers, who has been on death row for 32 years. The AP story is here. In this case, the State of Texas committed the outrageous constitutional violation of believing that the Supreme Court meant what it said in Jurek v. Texas, 428 U.S. 262 (1976). The Court also denied certiorari in the child-rape case of Bockting v. Bayer, No. 07-9512. Last year, the Court held in Whorton v. Bockting that Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), rewriting the rules on admission of hearsay, did not apply retroactively to overturn cases already final...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).