Judge Thelton E. Henderson has never been bashful about exposing and condemning inhuman and unacceptable conditions in the state prisons in California. His brilliant 138-page decision in Madrid v. Gomez, 889 F.Supp. 1146 (N.D.Cal. 01/10/95) is still a classic: it was and is a scathing (and frightening) indictment of the ...

U.S. v. Magallanez, 408 F.3d 672 (10th Cir. May 17, 2005) (Judge McConnell)
U.S. v. Coleman, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9834 (S.D.Ohio May 24, 2005) (Judge Marbley)

These two cases are noted because of their extended (and sometimes conflicting) analyses of the proper standard of proof that is required for ...

U.S. v. Magallanez, 408 F.3d 672 (10th Cir. May 17, 2005) (Judge McConnell)
U.S. v. Coleman, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9834 (S.D.Ohio May 24, 2005) (Judge Marbley)

These two cases are noted because of their extended (and sometimes conflicting) analyses of the proper standard of proof that is required for ...

By a vote of 7-to-2, the Court held that "it is unconstitutional to require an individual, appearing before a jury for a possible death sentence, to be restrained by shackles and handcuffs throughout the proceeding.".

The petitioner in this case, Carman Deck, was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder ...

Here, by a vote of 5-to-4, the Supreme Court dismissed, as "improvidently granted," a major test case on whether rulings by the World Court on American death penalty cases must be applied in U.S. courts, due to an intervening presidential order.

This is a complex and controversial case that has ...

This is an important decision in which Judge Gertner addressed certain aspects of the quality of medical services afforded to inmates by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). It is also the first decision we can remember seeing in which a Federal court flatly rejected the BOP’s ritual assertion that ...