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SCOTUS grants cert on three new (sort-of) criminal justice cases

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this SCOTUSblog post, this morning the Supreme Court grant cert on three new cases.  Here is the SCOTUSblog description of the new grants: The three newly granted cases raised these issues: whether the Fourth Amendment protects the privacy of text messages that a government employee sends by an electronic paging device (Ontario, Calif., et al., v. Quon, et al., 08-1332); whether prosecution for criminal contempt of a court created by Congress may be brought by a private individual in her own name (Robertson v. U.S. ex rel. Watson, 08-6261), and whether a legal alien living permanently in the U.S. is subject to deportation for simple possession of a drug, if that was a second or third such prosecution but the individual was not formally charged as a repeat offender (Carachuri-Rosendo v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 14, 2009 (boomark / email).