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Wood v. Allen, No. 08-9156 (U.S. Supreme Court) (558 U.S. 290; 130 S.Ct. 841) (January 20, 2010) (Justice Sotomayor)

Loaded on Jan. 25, 2010 published in Punch and Jurists January 25, 2010
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This is Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s first signed criminal opinion since joining the Supreme Court; and her rigid stance in this case upholding the death penalty suggests that she certainly hasn’t changed her stripes much since her days on the Second Circuit when she rarely cast a sympathetic vote for the ...

 

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