Punch and Jurists

Carlson v. Jess, No. 07-3428 (7th Cir.) (526 F.3d 1018) (May 19, 2008) (Judge Terrence T. Evans) by Here the Court affirmed Judge Lynn Adelman’s important prior ruling to the effect that the Sixth Amendment bars a court from denying, arbitrarily or unreasonably, a defendant the right to retain counsel …

Carlson v. Jess, No. 06C0481 (E.D.Wisc.) (507 F.Supp.2d 968) (September 4, 2007) (Judge Lynn S. Adelman) by One of the many abominations of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("AEDPA") was that it threw out more than 200 years of carefully-reasoned precedent relating to the Great Writ …

U.S. v. Gonzalez-Lopez, No. 05-352 (U.S. Supreme Court) (548 U.S. 140; 126 S.Ct. 2557) (June 26, 2006) (Justice Scalia) by In a rare departure from form, Justice Scalia joined with the more liberal Justices on the Supreme Court to provide the swing vote in this 5 to 4 decision that …