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News Scan

Posted on October 07, 2008
Mom Who Drove Kids to Gang Fight Convicted of Murder: An article from the KTLA News reports that a Long Beach woman accused of driving her teenage son and his friends to confront a rival gang has been convicted of...

Blog Scan

Posted on October 06, 2008
The Blogs Are Alive With The Sound of Opening Arguments: With the first Monday in October came opening arguments at the United States Supreme Court, as well as several blog posts reporting on its activities. SCOTUSblog has a post reporting...

Cert. denial for Abu-Jamal

Posted on October 06, 2008
Deep in today's orders list is a denial of certiorari in Abu-Jamal v. Pennsylvania, No. 08-5456. An AP story reports, "The justices did not comment on their action Monday, which leaves in place a federal appeals court ruling that upholds...

News Scan

Posted on October 06, 2008
New Law Prohibits Sex Offenders From 'Clustering': An article from Bay News 9 reports that leaders in Hillsborough County, Florida recently passed a new law that prohibits groups of sex offenders from clustering in one neighborhood. The law prohibits sex...

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Nebraska's Death Penalty

Posted on October 06, 2008
Among the cases denied review by the Supreme Court today was Mata v. Nebraska, No. 08-5204. As previously noted here, Nebraska's Supreme Court held that the electric chair, the only method of execution authorized by state statute, violates the state's...

Nonbarking dogs from the Long Conference

Posted on October 06, 2008
Last week the Supreme Court announced that it had granted review of 10 cases, 7 of them criminal, from the "long conference" preceding the opening of the term. Today, the Court issued the opening orders list of the term. As...

Bell v. Kelly: What is a "Claim"?

Posted on October 03, 2008
In 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), the cornerstone reform of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Congress provided that a federal court cannot grant relief on a claim denied on the merits by a state court unless certain...

News Scan

Posted on October 03, 2008
Army to Focus on Sexual Assault: Responding to Pentagon data indicating that 2.6 soldiers per 1,000 reported a sexual assault last year, the U.S. Army is launching a new effort to prevent the crime. A Wall Street Journal piece by...

Blog Scan

Posted on October 02, 2008
President Bush to Speak on Presidency and the Courts in Cincinnati: Tony Mauro reports at the BLT that President Bush will be speaking at a Federalist Society's conference on The Presidency and The Courts next Monday. Both the Cincinnati chapter...

News Scan

Posted on October 02, 2008
Ohio Court Upholds Retroactive Application of Sex Offender Law: According to an article by Mary Beth Lane, from the Columbus Dispatch, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled yesterday that it is constitutional to retroactively enforce a 2003 law that toughened reporting...

Obama as Victims' Advocate?

Posted on October 01, 2008
Jonathan Martin has this story at Politico. Barack Obama's campaign earlier this month sought to find a rape victim to appear in a campaign commercial, according to an e-mail obtained by Politico. Kiersten Steward, director of public policy at the...

News Scan

Posted on October 01, 2008
October Marks Crime Prevention Month, Identity Theft is #1 Crime: According to an article from the MarketWatch News, the U.S. Department of Justice has reported identity theft is the number one crime in the nation. This fast-growing crime is costing....

No Rehearing for Kennedy

Posted on October 01, 2008
As predicted, the Supreme Court has denied rehearing for Kennedy v. Louisiana. The Supreme Court had asked for additional briefing in early September, but today, the Court refused to rehear its June decision. Instead, the Court has modified the Kennedy...

No SCOTUS Orders Today

Posted on September 30, 2008
Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog reports that the Supreme Court will not release an orders list today. Yesterday was the "long conference" at which the Court considered all the petitions built up over the summer asking the Court to accept cases...

Blog Scan

Posted on September 30, 2008
Supreme Court Review of Military Convictions: Wall Street Journal's Law Blog has a post from Dan Slater concerning legislation that could allow for Supreme Court review of certain petitions by military service members convicted of crimes. The current law, the...

News Scan

Posted on September 30, 2008
New Hampshire Poll: Support For Death Penalty In Cop Killing: An article from the Boston News reports that a new poll shows more than half of New Hampshire residents believe the death penalty is an appropriate punishment for someone who...

News Scan

Posted on September 29, 2008
Gun Groups To Appeal Decision To Toss Ga. Lawsuit: AP reports that gun rights groups are appealing a ruling that dismissed a lawsuit seeking the right to carry guns in parts of the world's busiest airport. U.S. District Judge Marvin...

Blog Scan

Posted on September 29, 2008
Supreme Court's Opening Conference: SCOTUSblog posted yesterday on the Court's upcoming week. The Supremes will hold their opening conference today, and are scheduled to review a petition for rehearing in Kennedy v. Louisiana. SCOTUSblog expects the Court to release orders...

News Scan

Posted on September 26, 2008
Longer Sentence for Hamdan? Military prosecutors have asked for a new sentencing hearing for Salim Hamdan, who had previously received 5 1/2 years for supporting terrorism. AP writer Mike Melia reports that Hamdan, who was Osama bin Laden's driver, received...

Blog Scan

Posted on September 25, 2008
The Bailout and Separation of Powers: Bench Memos has a post from Robert Alt that directs readers to a Heritage Foundation piece discussing some of "fundamental constitutional values at stake" in the bailout debate. Some of the concerns the article...

News Scan

Posted on September 24, 2008
Fed. judge in Va. rejects sniper Muhammad's appeal: That's the headline of an AP story on both the WaPo and SFChron sites, but the story doesn't seem to have any text as of this writing. Next stop, the Fourth Circuit....

The Troy Davis Stay

Posted on September 24, 2008
Robbie Brown has this story in the NYT on the Supreme Court's stay of execution for Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis. Yours truly is quoted near the end: Kent Scheidegger, a death penalty expert at the Criminal Justice Legal...

News Scan

Posted on September 23, 2008
Florida Killer's Execution Scheduled Tonight: From the Orlando Sentinel, writer Stephen Hudak reports that Richard Henyard is scheduled for execution for the murders of two Lake County girls. Today he will become the 66th person executed by the state since...

Troy Davis and the Georgia Parole Board

Posted on September 23, 2008
The Georgia Parole Board issued this press release Monday on the Troy Davis case. The full text is also quoted after the jump, in case they remove the page linked here. It's good that they made an exception to their...

Blog Scan

Posted on September 23, 2008
District Court Nominees Stalled: Jonathan Adler and Matthew Franck each have a post on Bench Memos reporting on stalled district court nominations. Adler reports the Senate Judiciary Committee was supposed to approve five nominees last Thursday, but because Senator Jon...

News Scan

Posted on September 22, 2008
S.C. To Consider Ex-Judge?s Duty to Disclose Censure: According to a story by the MetNews, the California Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a retired L.A. Superior Court judge had a duty to disclose his censure for making offensive...

Blog Scan

Posted on September 22, 2008
October Oral Arguments: Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog reports the Supreme Court has released a new calendar for oral arguments in October. The new calendar can be found here. The revised sitting schedule has the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in...

News Scan

Posted on September 19, 2008
The Maryland Death Penalty should "stand as written, and be used more often to serve the citizens" writes Paul Highbarger in an Op Ed in today's Baltimore Sun. Governor Martin O'Malley has received legislative authorization to appoint a commission to...

Blog Scan

Posted on September 18, 2008
A Reason to Be A Skeptical Reader and A Careful Author: At Wall Street Journal's Law Blog, Dan Slater reports that the Dean of Tulane Law School has apologized to the Louisiana Supreme Court for errors in a professor-authored law...

Blog Scan

Posted on September 17, 2008
Federal Sentencing Data from US Sentencing Commission: Doug Berman posted the links to three new data sets that the US Sentencing Commission posted on its website this morning. His post has links to the September 2008 update of the U.S....

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