Last month, a federal court in Michigan had the opportunity to confront the constitutional problems that sex offender registries present. The court ducked them by resolving the case on a narrow question of statutory interpretation, missing the chance to examine whether the registrations are constitutionally acceptable.
[Update3 – 10PM February 8] Edwin Hart Turner was executed at 7:21PM EST after receiving a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. Turner, represented by attorneys from the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center, had filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court arguing that the execution would violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments because at the time of his offense Mr. Turner suffered from a serious mental illness.
In the upcoming weeks, the legislators of my home state of North Carolina will be faced with a dilemma: how
Next week, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Setser v. United States. The cases addresses whether a federal
You know oral argument isn’t going well when a justice of the Court asks you to defend your decision not
This past Monday, Fourth Amendment watchers began gathering at the Supreme Court on the eve of oral argument in United
Members of the Supreme Court seemed skeptical last Wednesday when asked to establish a new constitutional rule prohibiting the use
Eyewitness identification is widely considered to be one of the most powerful pieces of evidence a prosecutor can offer at
The defense attorneys for Tarek Mehanna, on trial in federal court in Boston accused of providing material support for terrorism, will try to convince a jury that Mehanna is being denied his “freedom of thought and the right of private judgment,” and that in fact it was his opinions about the United States and its military involvement in the Muslim world that the prosecution seeks to punish.
On November 8th the Supreme Court is to hear oral argument for the case United States v. Jones, which questions the
A French court last week ordered internet service providers in the country to block all access to a “Copwatch” site
