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.
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 5, 2022
The link between Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and criminal behavior is rarely acknowledged as a mitigating factor in U.S. jurisprudence , says a New York Law School Legal Studies Research Paper. . But FAS is rarely taken into consideration by courts during sentencing decisions, write New York Law School professors Michael L.
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JURIST
OCTOBER 22, 2022
Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Panagiotis Lampropoulos is a recent graduate of the University of Bristol Law School (UK). He is currently doing a year of required military service in Greece. .
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 16, 2021
The defense could argue the school bears responsibility for letting Ethan go back to class and for not checking his backpack, and that the parents were not the primary drivers of the tragedy that occurred.
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 5, 2021
That’s a lesson worth applying to current strategies addressing the epidemic of gun violence, writes Benjamin Levin , an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. In 2000, 54 percent of the state court defendants convicted for weapons crimes were black, as compared to 44 percent white.
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?
The Empowered Paralegal
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Completing law school is just the start of your journey. It takes training to learn how to be the best. The most common areas include family law, personal injury and even criminal law. On the other hand, we have the less know legal fields like environmental and even entertainment law. Be Creative.
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