Here the Court held, by a 6-2 vote, that, at a resentencing on a remand, a district court may consider virtually any evidence relating to the defendant including any postsentencing rehabilitation that may have occurred to support a Guideline variance.

In its seminal and highly complex two-part decision in U.S. ...

Here a divided Court held, over a bitter dissent by Justice Scalia, that a statement given to police by a wounded crime victim may be admitted as evidence at the trial if the victim dies before trial on the theory of an ongoing emergency.

This is a Confrontation Clause case ...

Here a unanimous Court reversed a 9th Circuit habeas ruling and upheld California's relatively flexible procedural rule requiring that habeas petitions be filed “as promptly as the circumstances allow”, concluding it constituted an adequate state ground.

For the umpteenth time this term, the Supreme Court has reversed another habeas decision ...

In this decision, the Third Circuit set forth one of the most detailed and thoughtful analyses we have seen to date of an “as applied” challenge to the constitutionality of the Federal prohibition against the possession of guns by felons (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)), in the aftermath of the Supreme ...

Here the Court dismissed a civil rights lawsuit brought by Jose Padilla alleging torture and other constitutional violations after concluding that his rights as an enemy combatant were not clearly established at the time of his detention and designation.

The long and sometimes tragic history of Jose Padilla’s many legal ...