SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning declined to put a Louisiana trial seeking compensation for the “existential threat” posed by coastal land loss on hold while the defendants in the case, a group of oil companies, seek review of a state court decision rejecting their request to transfer the case.
The Crime Report
APRIL 28, 2023
I spent more than 40 years in the Louisiana penal system—from December 1965 to April 2006. I was transferred from the “parish jail” to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in November 1966. Supreme Court seeking review of the Fifth Circuit decision in the Hope case. I know a thing or two about solitary confinement.
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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.”.
JURIST
DECEMBER 31, 2022
The ruling comes after a 2020 US Supreme Court decision that held non-unanimous jury verdicts violate the US Constitution’s Sixth Amendment. The petitioner was convicted of crimes in Oregon by nonunanimous juries before the US Supreme Court issued its decision in Ramos v.
HowAppealing
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
His legacy is tied to a Supreme Court decision that upheld the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine, underpinning laws that segregated and disenfranchised African Americans for decades.” “Homer Plessy’s Arrest in 1892 Led to a Landmark Ruling. Now He May Get Justice.
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. Supreme Court refuses to make Louisiana ban on non-unanimous juries retroactive.”
The Crime Report
MAY 18, 2021
Alabama (2012), the court ruled that mandatory life in prison without parole for juvenile offenders was cruel and unusual punishment, violating the Eighth Amendment. Four years later, in Montgomery v.
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