By Katheryn Tucker | July 2, 2018
The Georgia Supreme Court has tossed out a conviction over a judge's words encouraging a man to plead guilty to charges related to a drive-by shooting…
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | June 28, 2018
Meek Mill's appeal, which was filed late Wednesday, marks the third time since March that the embattled hip hop star has asked the state's highest court to intervene in the proceedings.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | June 28, 2018
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision last week to halt the publication of a widely anticipated grand jury report about alleged sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church caused a stir across the state, but, perhaps, for the wrong reasons.
By Marcia Coyle | June 28, 2018
"I remain of the view that the court should grant the petitions now before us to consider whether the death penalty as currently administered violates the Constitution's Eighth Amendment," Justice Breyer wrote on Thursday.
By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida | June 27, 2018
The controversial 2017 change shifted a key burden of proof in “stand your ground” cases, a shift that can play a role in determining whether people claiming self-defense should be shielded from prosecution.
The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Ben Seal | June 27, 2018
Lawyers around the country devoted their pro bono time to ensuring juveniles sentenced to mandatory life without parole were given a shot at freedom following two U.S. Supreme Court rulings.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | June 26, 2018
A split three-judge panel ruled Tuesday to affirm the guilty verdict a Dauphin County jury handed up last year on a single count of endangering the welfare of a child.
By Dan Clark | June 26, 2018
The court unanimously agreed in a reversal from the Appellate Term that a trial court should not have denied William Harris' attorney the opportunity to give closing remarks at his trial in 2013.
New York Law Journal | Analysis|Expert Opinion
By Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp | June 26, 2018
The main doctrinal source of the modern federal sentencing regime is United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005). The U.S. Supreme Court in Booker famously ruled that the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, which had been binding, must be advisory to be constitutional.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | June 26, 2018
Rapper Meek Mill's bid to overturn a decade-old conviction has been denied by the trial judge his team had tried to remove from the case.
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