In 2008, Mario Dion Woodward was convicted by a jury of capital murder for the fatal shooting of a Montgomery police officer two years earlier. By a vote of eight to four, the jury recommended a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole because it determined that ...
Ligon v. City of New York, No. 13-3123 (2nd Cir. Nov. 22, 2013) (Per Curiam Opinion)
Ligon v. City of New York, No. 13-3123 (2nd Cir. Nov. 25, 2013) (Motion Order)
The ongoing, and often bitter, controversy between the Second Circuit and District Judge Shira Scheindlin of the S.D.N.Y. over ...
The steady pace of virtually automatic summary denials of habeas relief to any of the many detainees still held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba is beginning to rattle even some of the hardened Judges sitting on the D.C. Circuit Court. In this case, Abdul Razak Ali has ...
In 2003, Richard Bahr was convicted of third degree rape in an Oregon state court. Upon his release to supervision, Bahr was required to complete an approved sex offender treatment program. The terms of his supervision required him to comply with all rules and conditions of the program, including periodic ...
Ever since the Supreme Court issued its historic Second Amendment decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), gun activists have been busy in courts all over the country seeking to strike down virtually any law that in any way impedes or restricts the possession and use ...
This is an intriguing (and potentially far-reaching) decision by Federal District Judge Robert Lasnick in which he found that indigent criminal defendants in the cities of Mount Vernon and Burlington of the State of Washington “are systematically deprived of the assistance of counsel at critical stages of the prosecution and ...
In the 05/27/13 issue of P&J, we noted that the Sixth Circuit had rekindled the debate over some of the many inadequacies and failures of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 ((“FSA”), when a divided panel held that two defendants, Cornelius and Jarreous Blewett, who had been originally been sentenced ...
