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20 Jun 2011, 4:50 pm
"Choking off the appeals is part of the strategy" of those opposed to capital punishment, Kent Scheidegger, legal director for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, says of what he calls unnecessarily elaborate state court requirements for taking on death penalty cases. [read post]
2 Aug 2010, 9:05 am
The court's three decisions "indicate a desire to prune back the rules somewhat," Kent Scheidegger, the legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a victims' rights group. [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 4:21 am
At Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger looks at the four criminal cases among the new grants. [read post]
2 Sep 2009, 8:17 am
"There hasn't been any major falloff," said Kent Scheidegger, legal director for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, which takes a conservative stance on penal issues.And:Haney's findings were consistent with those of last month's Field Poll of the California electorate, in which 67% of respondents expressed support for the death penalty.The professor queried 800 jury-eligible Californians in February and March for his survey. [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 6:34 am
Although most coverage of the two cases focused on the Court’s treatment of the Ninth Circuit, Kent Scheidegger of Crime & Consequences looks at the broader picture, describing Harrington as “a landmark decision in the law of federal habeas corpus. [read post]
8 May 2020, 3:43 am
” At Crime & Consequences, Kent Scheidegger writes that the decision was a “stern rebuke” to the U.S. [read post]
21 Mar 2019, 4:12 am
” Commentary on the case comes from Kent Scheidegger at Crime & Consequences, here and here. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 4:17 am
” Briefly: At Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger discusses Monday’s argument in McWilliams v. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 7:31 am
Commentary comes from Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences, Lisa Soronen at the IMLA Appellate Practice Blog, Noah Feldman at Bloomberg View, Steven Schwinn at the Constitutional Law Prof Blog, and Jim Harper at Cato at Liberty. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 4:16 am
Commentary comes from Kent Scheidegger at Crime & Consequences. [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 3:52 am
At Crime & Consequences, Kent Scheidegger remarks that Friday’s order denying the federal government’s request to move forward immediately with federal executions “may have been a Pyrrhic victory,” because several justices signaled their “impatience” at the prospect of delay in the case; the court of appeals yesterday set an expedited briefing schedule, with oral argument on January 15. [read post]
1 Aug 2022, 9:00 pm
”Such plea bargains play an important role in the prosecution of death cases.As Kent Scheidegger wrote in 2009, “More defendants plea bargain to a life or long sentence in states where the death penalty is available. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 10:52 am
” At the blog Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger describes the argument in Greene – involving a question of timing under the federal habeas statute – as “[going] well for the State. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 8:56 am
Finally, at Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger suggests that the reasoning behind the grant in the habeas case Wood v. [read post]
5 Apr 2016, 7:48 am
” And at Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger weighs in on the summary reversal in Woods v. [read post]
27 Jun 2019, 3:27 am
” At Crime & Consequences, Kent Scheidegger writes that “[a] broad attack on supervised release revocations would indeed be a grave concern,” and that although “[t]he direct effects of [yester]day’s decision are not severe, … future developments warrant monitoring. [read post]
19 Oct 2007, 7:44 am
Kent Scheidegger, legal director for the pro-death penalty Criminal Justice Legal Foundation immediately fretted that any moratorium, de facto or otherwise, would dilute deterrence and "cause more innocent people to die".It is, of course, beyond the realms of ridiculous to think that criminals who have until now been reining in their murderous impulses, will have read the court's ruling and, with a sigh of relief, decided they can now go on killing sprees. [read post]
23 Jan 2019, 4:07 am
”At Crime & Consequences, Kent Scheidegger wonders why it took the court so long to deny cert without comment in two cases alleging racial disparities in the administration of Oklahoma’s capital-sentencing scheme, noting that one of the cases “was distributed for conference twenty-six times. [read post]
11 Oct 2016, 3:44 am
At Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger discusses last week’s renaming of George Mason University’s law school as the Antonin Scalia Law School, stating that “Justice Scalia was a giant of the law and a leader in producing an important change in direction for our judicial system. [read post]
17 Oct 2016, 4:36 am
” Additional coverage of the decision comes from Dan Sullivan and others in the Tampa Bay Times; commentary comes from Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences. [read post]
