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Supreme Court will hear murder conspiracy case

At the Lectern

Six days after being sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, Justice Martin Jenkins participated in his first conference yesterday. Besides rejecting a Golden State Warriors petition for review, other conference actions of note included: In the first straight grant since October 21 , the court agreed to hear People v.

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Supreme Court Will Hear Consecutive Sentence Challenge From Drug Murder Case In Spring

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On Friday, the Supreme Court issued an order granting the petitions of four cases and adding them to its Spring 2023 docket. Efrain Lora was charged with murder under 18 U.S.C. § 924(j) and conspiracy to distribute cocaine and cocaine base under 21 U.S.C. 924(j), and Lora’s lawyers argue that 18 U.S.C. §

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The Unfinished Business of Felony Murder

The Crime Report

In 2017, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court abolished key aspects of its “felony murder rule,” the common law doctrine that made everyone involved in a felony that resulted in death guilty of first-degree murder—guilty even if they personally inflicted no violence and never intended to hurt anyone.

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Back to the (virtual) courtroom with a six-case September calendar

At the Lectern

After its normal two-month oral argument hiatus, the Supreme Court will conduct a six-case calendar next month, the court announced today. The court will still be hearing arguments remotely, as it has since April 2020. (See ” The court granted review in June 2020.

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Court strikes a blow for sentencing discretion under provision in federal firearm statute

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Share People given consecutive sentences under the federal law that imposes penalties for the use of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence or drug trafficking may now be entitled to a new sentencing hearing, thanks to the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling Friday in Lora v. United States.

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Court seems reluctant to extend ban on concurrent sentences in Armed Career Criminal Act

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The larger question is whether the court’s opinion will take on the double jeopardy problem that looms beneath the primary statutory interpretation issue — and if it decides not to reach the double jeopardy question, how that will leave things for the lower courts. The murder went unsolved for a decade.

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Supreme Court to hear Trump’s bid for criminal immunity

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Share In the final argument scheduled for its 2023-2024 term, the Supreme Court will hear argument on Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s historic bid for criminal immunity. The court’s answer will determine not only whether Trump’s trial in Washington, D.C., before U.S. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S.

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