By Raychel Lean | January 7, 2019
The Florida Supreme Court agreed that Malik Jimer Williams killed one boy out of self defense, but disagreed that he'd injured another for the same reason.
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Michael Marciano | January 7, 2019
Michael Skakel is a nephew of Robert F. Kennedy's widow, Ethel Kennedy. He spent 11 years in prison after being charged in 2000 and convicted in 2002 for beating 15-year-old Martha Moxley to death with a golf club. The state has not announced its intentions regarding a possible retrial.
By Jim Saunders | January 4, 2019
Reiyn Keohane contends that her rights have been violated, at least in part because she has not been allowed to wear women's undergarments and groom as a woman.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Steven Witzel and Amanda Giglio | January 2, 2019
In this Corporate Crime column, Steven Witzel and Amanda Giglio discuss the practice colloquially known as “prison gerrymandering” through which incarcerated people are counted as residents of the towns where they are imprisoned (rather than where they lived before they were incarcerated) for purposes of drawing parameters for legislative districts.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Martin A. Schwartz | January 2, 2019
In his Section 1983 Litigation column, Martin A. Schwartz addresses the question of when may a supervisory official be held liable under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for the unconstitutional conduct of a subordinate? This issue has given the courts and §1983 litigators fits for many years. Prof. Alexander A. Reinert recently made an excellent presentation on the issue of supervisory liability. Reinert offered several important observations concerning the liability of supervisory officials, which Schwartz highlights in this column.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Thomas R. Newman and Steven J. Ahmuty Jr. | December 31, 2018
In their Appellate Practice column, Thomas R. Newman and Steven J. Ahmuty Jr. write: The protection of the record needed to preserve your right to challenge asserted error at trial consists of much more than bobbing up and down during trial to voice objections, although it is certainly necessary that timely and appropriate objections be made.
By Andrew Denney | December 27, 2018
John Gleeson, a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton and a retired federal judge from the Eastern District of New York, didn't wait until his 2016 departure from the bench to make his thoughts known on mandatory minimums.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | December 27, 2018
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled in a high-profile murder case that the state Supreme Court's landmark 2017 decision raising the prosecutorial burden for seeking a life without parole sentence for a juvenile offender should not be applied retroactively.
By Andrew Denney | December 27, 2018
John Gleeson, a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton and a retired federal judge from the Eastern District of New York, made his opinions on mandatory minimums known even while still on the bench.
By Jeff Amy, Associated Press | December 26, 2018
Chief Justice Bill Waller's court has at times questioned problems with forensic evidence but passed when asked to rule on the legality of Mississippi's cap on punitive damages.
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