Monday, June 29, 2015

BREAKING NEWS: SCOTUS Allows Oklahoma to Use Midazolam for Executions

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The Supreme Court has just issued its decision in Glossip v. Gross , a petition on behalf of Oklahoma inmates along the familiar lines of ti...
Friday, June 26, 2015

BREAKING NEWS: Has SCOTUS Lost Its Appetite for Sentencing Enhancements and Risk?

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Amidst the good news that are not this blog's topic , about which you can read here  and  here,  the Supreme Court also decided an impor...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Must Motel Owners Keep Detailed Registries and Give Them to the Police?

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The Fourth Amendment protects "people, not places", but in applying it the courts seem to care quite a bit about places, too. As J...
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Monday, June 22, 2015

How Should People in Pretrial Detention Be Treated? And--a Primer on the "Reasonable Man"

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Most issues reviewed on this blog that pertain to prison conditions are legally assessed under the Eighth Amendment 's prohibition again...
Friday, June 19, 2015

Are Mass Murderers and Serial Murderers Inherently Mentally Ill?

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Goodbye, Friends. As we were all still reeling from the horrific mass murder in Charleston, still too shocked to properly mourn the ni...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

What Happens If the Court Disallowed Your Attorney from Attending a Batson Hearing?

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The Sixth Amendment requires that defendants be tried by a jury of their peers; this raises serious questions when partisan interests bring ...

How to Determine Intellectual Disability for Death Penalty Purposes?

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This morning, the Supreme Court decided Brumfield v. Cain , a Louisiana case that raised the question how to determine intellectual disabili...