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SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Last year, the court restricted the ability of state prisoners to develop new evidence to support claims that their attorneys failed to investigate leads that could have shown they were factually innocent. Jones involves a federal prisoner who is legally innocent – the conduct a jury found he committed isn’t a crime.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Share On Tuesday, the court heard argument in Jones v. Two decades into his prison term, the Supreme Court decided in Rehaif v. 2255 , which funneled challenges to federal convictions and sentences into a “motion to vacate” before the sentencing court. 922(g) and sentenced to more than 27 years’ incarceration.
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JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
The statement could effectively knock out the misdemeanor gun possession count — the one count that could still be in play for the jury after the prosecution’s case on the more serious offense appeared to collapse in court. I have a legal education.”
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Below is my column in The Hill on what is shaping up to be a major Supreme Court term on the issues of parody and satire under the First Amendment. The Court could reframe the constitutional limits for criminal and civil liability in two cases currently on the docket, including one recently granted review. VIP Products LLC.
JURIST
AUGUST 6, 2023
The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that an 1890 state constitutional provision permanently preventing people convicted of certain felonies from voting, Section 241, is unconstitutional. This end-justifies-means analysis has no place in constitutional law.”
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 27, 2023
I have previously written how Hamas is morally and legally a terrorist organization. Nevertheless, Rodrigues declared “it is a felony under Florida law to ‘knowingly provide material support … to a designated foreign terrorist organization.’” The Supreme Court has protected speech that is vile and prejudicial.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 9, 2023
.” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law.
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