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Earlier this summer, I noted here the North Dakota story of a mother who pleaded guilty to child neglect after police found her “extremely intoxicated†while breast-feeding her 6-week-old baby. As detailed in this new piece...
The party switch of Senator Spector, after big losses in the last two elections, has conservative pundits talking about how the Republican party can get its mojo back. For example, I heard on...
At least in Washington state, it appears that when the litigation going gets tough, the not-so-tough resign. That's what I take away from this local story, headlined "State's execution team...
I had a chance to read closely this federal complaint filed last week by the ACLU of Pennsylvania against a local district attorney who threatened three high school girls with child porn charges...
I have not followed closely the crime and possible punishment of Clifford Harris, aka rap star T.I. But today was his sentencing, and this early AP story provides the basics:
A judge has...
The latest Sidebar feature from Adam Liptak in the New York Times has an interesting little discussion of rules and standards in the development of the Eighth Amendment jurisprudence. The piece is headlined "Bright Lines Blur in Juvenile Sentencing,"...
The title of this post is the headline of this piece from today's Washington Post. Here are a few excerpts:
At last week's International Drug Reform Conference, activists gamed specific proposals for taxing and regulating pot along the lines of...
As noted in this post, today Sixth Circuit panels in two cases split over whether district judges had sentenced reasonably in two drug cases. Beyond the specifics of the two rulings, I find especially noteworthy the fact that the "swing" voter...
Anyone longing for some juicy federal circuit court opinions on reasonableness review to discuss over the long weekend now need look no further than a couple of split panel rulings — dare I say turkeys? — handed down by the Sixth Circuit this...
This morning's Washington Post has this fascinating and important new article headlined "Tracking sex-crime offenders gets trickier: Violator registry is growing as tech-savvy predators put a greater burden on officers." Here are excerpts:
The...
