LawSites
JUNE 2, 2022
But, legal tech nerd that I am, I wondered how the draft would fare if I subjected it to the scrutiny of the legal editing software BriefCatch , which recently rolled out a new-and-improved version 3 of its product. It even counts several Supreme Court justices among its customers, according to founder Ross Guberman.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 10, 2021
In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence. In 2018, the Animal Legal Defense Fund – which, according to Kansas Gov. Animal Legal Defense Fund. Animal Legal Defense Fund.
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The Crime Report
APRIL 8, 2022
However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. TCR: The first part of your book focuses on the roots of the current legal system in English Common. Plea bargaining coincided with overt classism in the legal system.
The Crime Report
MAY 18, 2021
That not only amounts to a reversal of a precedent set earlier by the Court, but is an “alarming” step back in protecting juveniles, say Arthur Ago and Rochelle Swartz of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. In Miller v. The court is fooling no one,”” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 30, 2022
After lingering on the court’s docket for more than a year, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal , ruling in an unsigned opinion that death-row prisoner Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided constitutionally ineffective performance at sentencing by failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 7, 2022
These signatories seek to sanction Barrett for holding opposing views on issues that have divided the court and the legal profession for decades. The point is only that the case is protected by the same principles of a stare decisis as other cases, which affords protection to precedent but does not make such cases inviolate.
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 10, 2021
If that is so, as is indeed it is, how much less can parties by their private acts remove the jurisdiction properly and legally vested in our Courts ? 8] It should be stressed that Oputa JSC’s obiter dictum is not binding on lower courts according to the Nigerian common law doctrine of stare decisis. What is the solution?
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