JURIST
DECEMBER 31, 2022
The Oregon Supreme Court ruled Friday that all state criminal convictions which resulted from nonunanimous jury verdicts are invalid. The ruling comes after a 2020 US Supreme Court decision that held non-unanimous jury verdicts violate the US Constitution’s Sixth Amendment.
HowAppealing
MAY 17, 2021
“Ban on Non-Unanimous Verdicts Is Not Retroactive, Supreme Court Rules; The 6-to-3 decision, a sequel to a ruling last year, affects thousands of prisoners in Louisiana and Oregon”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. .”
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The Crime Report
AUGUST 12, 2022
Their cases are about the failure of justice in the Louisiana criminal justice system. I know Louisiana justice. Both were committed to the Louisiana prison system with life sentences. Henry was committed to the Louisiana State Penitentiary when the prison—more commonly known as Angola—was the “bloodiest prison in America.”.
The Crime Report
MAY 18, 2021
The decision follows multiple previous precedents set by the Court over the past decade that sharply limited courts’ ability to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without parole, the lawyers wrote. In Miller v. Four years later, in Montgomery v.
The Crime Report
JULY 13, 2022
Was the Supreme Court decision last month overruling Roe v. Wade one of the worst decisions in the 233-year history of the Court? The ruling in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization has been described as such by many judicial commentators and experts in the middle of the spectrum, and a large segment of the U.S.
Constitutional Law Reporter
JULY 12, 2023
Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. According to the eight-member majority, “federal courts are generally not the proper forum for resolving claims that the Executive Branch should make more arrests or bring more prosecutions.”
The Crime Report
MAY 23, 2022
Two landmark rulings in the U.S. A Louisiana judge rejected President Joe Biden’s push to end Title 42, which restricted access of would-be asylum seekers to the U.S. and Mexico have given poilicymakers contradictory guidelines on the treatment of border crossers. during COVID-19, reports the Associated Press.
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