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A case supreme.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Supreme Court spiral staircase. Law school presented me with a challenge of maintaining harmony in the face of such Supreme Court criminal law abominations as Chimel v. California, 395 U. S. 752 (1969), which authorized police to search an arrested person and the area around his or her "lunge and grasp" even once s/he is handcuffed; Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986), which upheld the constitutionality of criminalizing consensual adult sodomy (fortunately later overturned by Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003)); and Gregg v. Georgia (1976), McClesky v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), and their progeny that kept the death penalty too alive and well. Giving me continued hope in the Supreme Court soon before my first semester in law school was Batson v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on April 24, 2009 (boomark / email).