SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Share So what would you expect if a state supreme court wrote an opinion directly inconsistent with “perhaps the most fundamental rule” of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence in the area, an opinion that would get a failing grade in any law school course on criminal law?
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Georgia will take the justices back to law-school basics – the case could be a question on a law-school examination in criminal law. The state courts responded by characterizing the inconsistent verdicts as “repugnant,” vacating both verdicts, and authorizing a second trial on all counts. Period, full stop.
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Broadcast Law Blog
MARCH 21, 2017
The Georgia Supreme Court this week issued a decision holding that the streaming of pre-1972 sound recordings by iHeart Media does not violate the state’s criminal statutes against the “transfer” of recorded sounds without the permission of the owner of the master recording.
The Crime Report
MARCH 18, 2022
Vigilante Justice Firearm Laws. The law professors detail that the small arms race arises from three main “troubling” legal implications, and it’s looking at the examples of Wisconsin and Georgia’s laws that “exemplify this perilous confluence.”.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
” Courts still may sentence people to “programs that historically, or in the future, provide accountability, reformation, protection of society or rehabilitation” such as “education, c ounseling, treatment, community service or other alternative to incarceration.” .” 76.49 ” 54.78
JURIST
AUGUST 12, 2022
According to court documents , Robertson, 49, and co-defendent Jacob Fracker were both officers with the Rocky Mount, Virginia, Police Department and were off duty when they headed for Washington, D.C. Police officer Thomas Robertson Thursday was sentenced to 87 months in prison for his participation in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 28, 2022
Share At the last Supreme Court oral argument of Justice Stephen Breyer’s career, the court stepped into a dispute over the state of Oklahoma’s criminal jurisdiction authority in Indian country. In Indian country, state criminal jurisdiction is limited to crimes involving non-Indians only. federal enclaves).
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