SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 10, 2021
In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence. Texas , a capital defendant’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington. CLS Transportation Los Angeles LLC.
The Crime Report
APRIL 8, 2022
However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. But they were still frog-marched into a plea bargain by their defense attorney or the prosecutor or the judge or some combination thereof. Photo by Brandy Brewer.
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SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 1, 2021
But today, the only attendees will be the three arguing lawyers (and their second chairs), essential court personnel, most if not all of the justices’ law clerks, two spouses of justices, three sketch artists, and 18 news correspondents. Even before the justices take the bench, Stewart is chomping at the bit. Casey did that,” she replies. “No,
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Since about the time these lawyers were born, the days were waning when the Constitution was only for men; we attended law school when, for the first time in history, female students began to equal the number of male students. As lawyers, as women, as mothers, as advocates for children’s rights, we could easily despair.
JonathanTurley
MAY 4, 2022
After all, in 1985, Alito wrote as a Justice Department lawyer that the Constitution does not contain a right protecting abortions. He first repeated the facts (by noting that he was a Justice Department attorney at the time) and then went rote: “Today if the issue were to come before me. However, appearances had to be observed.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Against stare decisis. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case. Americans United for Life argues that “ Roe and Casey contradict the stare decisis values of consistency, dependability, and predictability and are entitled to minimal stare decisis respect.”
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