It was an open secret in Arizona’s criminal justice system: Prosecutors and defense attorneys were negotiating plea deals and judges were imposing sentences offering the possibility of eventual parole to murderers even though parole was abolished in 1993. The first problematic cases of inmates given...
A Chicago police union official is criticizing a $31 million settlement for four African-American men whose murder convictions were overturned, calling the wrongful conviction movement “a cottage industry” that uses taxpayers as a blank check in pricey settlements, the Chicago Tribune reports. Fraternal Order of...
Via LearnedLeague: how many countries can you name that are entirely south of the Tropic of Capricorn?...
Three former corrections officers at Massachusetts’ Bridgewater State Hospital have been found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a mentally ill patient they forcibly put into restraints eight years ago, WBUR Radio in Boston reports. Former guards Derek Howard, John Raposo and...
My friend and sometime co-clerk, UCLA law professor Jon Michaels, has a new book out from Harvard University Press — Constitutional Coup: Privatization’s Threat to the American Republic. You can read the introduction to the book here, but the following quote (from pp. 11-13) will...
Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Merely requiring clinics to post a notice informing women of the availability of free or low-cost reproductive health care services does not violate the First...