Kent Scheidegger, author of the blog Crime and Consequences, provides an interesting piece here on the impact of the Medellin v. Texas case, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court two days ago. Despite all the…
Judgment Day Posts
SCOTUSblog released today its latest installment of “Petitions to Watch“, a list of cases the SCOTUS insiders believe have a reasonable chance of going to the main stage when the…
Here’s a recap provided by SCOTUSblog on Indiana v. Edwards , a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether states can require a defendant to have a…
The New York Court of Appeals decided People v. Hall on Tuesday and held that police can strip-search someone under arrest and look inside his or her body cavities without a warrant,…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ended any hope Texas murderer Jose Ernesto Medellin had of further extending his delay of execution. This press release below by the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation provides…
Odell Corey, now known as Nasih Kahlil Ra’id, was convicted of bank robbery that ended with the death of two bank tellers and left a security guard paralyzed. Ra’id appealed to…
Yassin M. Aref and Mohammed M. Hossain of Albany were convicted on charges of money laundering and providing material support to terrorism in March of 2007 and sentenced to 15…