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Whereas Thomas plants the beacon on where SCOTUS should be on an issue, Alito is willing to stake out a milder position to help get it there over time.
The Supreme Court on Thursday left in place a ruling by a federal appeals court in favor of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than two decades. In a on...
The Supreme Court on Monday in Whitton v. Dixon sided with a death row inmate for the second time in less than a week, holding in an unsigned opinion that the U.S. Court of Appeals...
Where the trial court applied a sentencing enhancement for use or possession of a “firearm or ammunition cited in the offense of conviction in connection with the commission or att...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Mississippi unreasonably found a death row inmate waived his Batson objection to peremptory strikes of black jurors. The post SCOTUS News: Death row in...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the First Step Act's anti-stacking amendment to 18 U.S.C. §924(c) does not justify retroactive sentence reductions. The post SCOTUS News: Retro ap...
Where a man convicted of possessing 200 grams or more of a mixture containing methamphetamine with intent to distribute argued the trial court erred by finding that he did not […]...
The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a Mississippi man’s conviction and death sentence. By a vote of 5-4, the court in Pitchford v. Cain agreed with Terry Pitchford that the jud...
Newton was convicted of first degree reckless homicide for supplying heroin that contributed to a fatal overdose. The post 6th Amendment-Postconviction Motion first appeared on Wis...
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Plus, the justices released three opinions in argued cases on Thursday.
Where an inmate sought to appeal the district court’s order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition, but he failed to make the requisite showing, he was denied […] The post...
To put it plainly, nitrogen hypoxia kills by starving someone of the oxygen needed to sustain lifeThe eighth amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment is among the most...
The jury was not instructed that the government had to prove a former federal prison supervisor’s conduct was the proximate cause of an inmate’s bodily injuries. The Fourth Circuit...
Where a jury convicted the defendant on multiple charges stemming from a fatal shooting, the Court of Appeals erred when it vacated his convictions. Under the proper standard of re...
The Supreme Court divided 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining the three liberal justices in the majority.
Even if there was an actual "national consensus" against capital punishment for child rape in 2008, the facts are different today.
Where the evidence showed that the defendant acted with premeditation, his aggravated murder convictions were affirmed. Background Following a jury trial, the circuit court convict...
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The court's action means Victor Saldaño is likely to be executed even though both defense and state experts determined he was not eligible for execution under the law.
Where a defendant argued his motion for a sentence reduction initiated a plenary resentencing, with its concomitant explanatory rigor, this argument failed. The district court’s re...
The Supreme Court on Monday morning added one new case to its argument docket for the 2026-27 term, granting another case involving the First Step Act, a 2018 criminal justice law...
The majority dismissed on procedural grounds the case of Joseph Clifton Smith, whose mental faculties skirt the threshold for being spared the death penalty.
Washington Post: “The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a Mississippi man who was sent to death row for his role in the murder of shopkeeper, upholding a lower court’s decision...
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