Punch and Jurists

Buck v. Davis, No. 15-8049 (U.S. Supreme Court) (580 U.S. ___; 137 S.Ct. 759) (February 22, 2017) (Justice (John G.) Roberts) by In this procedurally complex case, the Supreme Court gave a Texas death-row inmate a second chance to avoid the death penalty by ruling, among other things, that his …

U.S. v. Vanderwerff, No. 13-1227 (10th Cir.) (788 F.3d 1266) (June 10, 2015) (Judge Jerome A. Holmes) by This is an interesting decision in which the Tenth Circuit wrote at length to attack the legal reasoning behind the district court’s rejection of a plea agreement on the grounds that it …