Punch and Jurists

Bullcoming v. New Mexico, No. 09-10876 (U.S. Supreme Court) (564 U.S. 647; 131 S.Ct. 2705) (June 23, 2011) (Justice Ginsburg) by This case was, as much as anything else, an important test of whether the Supreme Court - in the aftermath of the retirements of Justices Stevens and Souter - …

Briscoe v. Virginia, No. 07-11191 (U.S. Supreme Court) (559 U.S. 32; 130 S.Ct. 1316) (January 25, 2010) (Per Curiam) by Here the Court rejected, at least for now, any reconsideration of its controversial Confrontation Clause ruling in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, which reinforced the rights of criminal defendants to challenge the …

Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, No. 07-591 (U.S. Supreme Court) (557 U.S. 305; 129 S.Ct. 2527) (June 25, 2009) (Justice Scalia) by In Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), the Supreme Court revitalized the Confrontation Clause by holding that the Sixth Amendment guarantees a defendant's right to confront those "who 'bear …