zlg-post, 1/1 archive, The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) held on June 8, 2022, that a federal court may not extend the remedy it created over 50 years ago, which allows lawsuits for excesive force by federal agents, to claims of excessive force by Border Patrol agents, and that it was up to […]
Today, June 30, was Justice Stephen Breyer`s last day on the Supreme Court. It`s now the first day that we have a public defender on the high court, with Ketanji Brown Jackson replacing Breyer. It`s so rare to see public defenders rise through the judicial ranks, and unheard of for them to be considered for […]
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) held on June 21, 2022, that an attempted Hobbs Act robbery was not categorically a crime of violence to support a separate conviction for use of a firearm under federal law, despite the fact that someone was shot and killed during the offense. It was yet another […]
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) held on June 21, 2022, that a federal court`s authority to invoke the All Writs Act in aid of a habeas case was limited by the restrictions under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), further hampering the ability of the federal courts in granting habeas […]
The Supreme Court untied the hands of federal sentencing judges today by holding that, unless the statutory provision allowing for a sentence reduction expressly prevents the judge from considering certain facts in crafting the new sentence, the judge may use his broad discretion to impose whatever sentence he sees fit in that case. See Concepcion […]
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