Daily Report Online | Letter to the Editor
By Leah Ward Sears | September 25, 2018
"Public confidence in our courts is stronger when the judiciary bears some broad resemblance to the community it serves, rather than an exclusive segment of it."
By Andrew Denney | September 25, 2018
An appeals court has denied bail in the case of a psychiatrist who has been in jail for almost a year while she awaits trial for charges that she orchestrated a botched murder plot for her child's father, who has a court-ordered $1.5 million life insurance policy as part of a child custody agreement.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | September 25, 2018
The policy implications of whether taking a drug during pregnancy constitutes child abuse are vast and could implicate everything from the definition of a "child" to the pre-conception conduct of the mother. But, in resolving a dispute involving a mother who tested positive for opiates after giving birth, some members of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court seemed to indicate they would focus less on the broader policy implications and more on the specific language of the statute.
By Jonathan Ringel | September 24, 2018
Deal expanded the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals by a total of five jurists in a series of moves that reduced the representation of blacks on those courts and women at the high court. But the proportion of women rose at the Court of Appeals.
By Katheryn Tucker | September 24, 2018
Georgia Supreme Court Justice Keith Blackwell said anyone who has ever seen an episode of "Law & Order" would know that Michael Grant tried to assert his "Miranda" rights and that police kept badgering him after he claimed his right to remain silent.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp | September 24, 2018
In their Second Circuit Review, Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp conduct their 34th annual review of the performance of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit over the past Supreme Court term, and briefly discuss the court's decisions scheduled for review during the upcoming term.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Ken Strutin | September 24, 2018
Ken Strutin writes: Until a generation ago, wrongful conviction was perceived as an oddity in the well-oiled machinery of justice. But 30 years of exonerations, forensic reforms and wrongful conviction statistics have redrawn the landscape, which now includes computerized risk assessment.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Peter F. Vaira | September 24, 2018
This column discusses the major differences in state and federal grand jury procedures. This is especially important as Pennsylvania state prosecutors have increased their use of the investigating grand jury over the past five years.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Scott M. Himes | September 21, 2018
Think about these pointers the next time you put pen to paper for an appellate brief. They will make a difference in persuading the appellate court to right a lower court's wrong.
National Law Journal | Commentary
By Gerald Kogan | September 20, 2018
'Jones v. Oklahoma' presents a key chance for the U.S. Supreme Court to address racism in the criminal justice system and in application of Oklahoma's death penalty.
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