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24 Apr 2015, 7:29 am by John Elwood
Alabama, 14-8194, both one-time relists, asked whether a judge’s override of a jury’s decision to recommend a sentence of life imprisonment without parole violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on arbitrary and capricious sentences and cruel and unusual punishment, or the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee to a trial by jury in criminal cases. [read post]
1 Aug 2007, 9:08 am
The Fifth Circuit denied the required "certificate of appeal" on this issue, listing familiar reasons:  the trial judge was in the best position to judge the first juror's sincerity, and the decision on the other three jurors had not been raised on direct appeal. [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 8:22 pm by cdw
State the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals grants a new trial concluding “that the trial court should have given the jury a limiting instruction regarding the proper use of evidence about Waldrop’s prior conviction. [read post]
16 Jan 2019, 8:06 am by John Elwood
Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit erred in concluding—in direct conflict with Virginia’s highest court and other courts—that a decision of the Supreme Court, Montgomery v. [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 7:58 pm by cdw
In the news, the Texas Supreme Court refused Monday to overturn a judicial conduct panel’s reprimand of the Texas Court of Criminal AppealsJudge Sharon Keller for her handling of an execution-day appeal. [read post]
25 Oct 2021, 5:01 am by Eric Halliday, Rachael Hanna
We provide a high-level overview of those concerns and the likely outcome of First Amendment challenges to those laws in court. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 5:32 pm by Lyle Denniston
Maples (10-63), involving an Alabama death-row inmate, Cory R. [read post]
2 Sep 2006, 9:53 pm
" Lastly, the Alabama Court of Criminal appeals in Michael Shannon Taylor v. [read post]
2 Jun 2017, 6:36 am by John Elwood
Harris, the court upheld a three-judge district court’s decision invalidating a couple North Carolina’s congressional districts on the ground that they were the product of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. [read post]
4 Mar 2024, 5:56 pm
“Instead, Judge Burke’s opinion imagines a world in which international money laundering simply doesn’t exist,” Greytak said in a statement, adding that the group expects the ruling to be appealed and overturned by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 1:42 pm by John Elwood
The great state of Oklahoma is not O.K. with the Tenth Circuit’s holding that the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals clearly violated Beck v. [read post]
6 Nov 2016, 7:06 pm by Jeff Gamso
 The Court of Criminal Appeals that finally, finally, after sitting on the case for nearly a year and a half, granted a new trial. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 9:11 am by John Floyd
A state district court judge recently re-sentenced Kennard to time served under the new sentencing guidelines. [read post]
7 Nov 2018, 8:46 am by John Elwood
Alabama to give her the time to prepare an opinion respecting denial in the case. [read post]