A little over a week ago I wrote a post titled, “Connecticut looking to overhaul persistent offender law”, detailing Governor Jodi Rell’s proposal to overhaul Connecticut’s persistent felony offender law.…
Judgment Day Posts
From the Wausau Daily Herald: Kara [Neumann] died as a result of untreated diabetes when her parents chose to pray for her recovery rather than seek medical treatment. Wisconsin’s criminal code…
You knew it was coming. The Court’s ruling in Baze, holding a lethal drug procedure may not pose “a substantial risk of serious harm”, left the door open for inmates to…
Highlights from the article in The Providence Journal: Over the strong objections of the attorney general and state police, a key House committee has approved a bill to forever remove thousands of crimes…
April 24, 2008 was Judgment Day for the Appellate Division, Third Department, and a number of criminal case decisions were released. Once again, most of the cases involved plea deals,…
The end of last week got a little busy for me, and I was traveling most of Friday and Saturday. I managed to post a few things, but didn’t get…
SCOTUSblog reports that one of the petitions to watch at today’s private conference is Bell v. Kelly, a criminal case where the issue is “whether 28 U.S.C 2254, the federal habeas provision governing…
Capital Defense Weekly has updates today in three death penalty cases: New Execution Date Georgia officials have set May 6th as the execution date for William Earl Lynd. If executed Lynd…
The Philadelphia Inquirer has this article today, about a New Jersey man who played video games while a 17-year old girl lay on his bed unconscious for 12 hours, and later died of…
The Honolulu Advertiser reports here that the state is considering a shield law that will protect reporters and bloggers from having to disclose sources and notes in court or before state and county…