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12 Mar 2013, 9:34 am by Jeff Gamso
  Hmmm.SCOTUS is getting set for oral arguments on same sex marriage.Leading up to passover, there's a plague of locusts in Egypt.The blawgosphere (or at least the corner of it I follow), is all atwitter (and maybe a-tweeting, but since I don't, I don't know) over jurors asking questions (see Turk and Greenfield and Gideon and Matt Brown). [read post]
8 Oct 2013, 10:25 pm by Jeff Gamso
---------------------------*Over at A Public Defender, Gideon wrote:In Kennedy, Kennedy wrote that the 5 states that had authorized such a penalty did not constitute a “national consensus” and that it violated the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.Rep. [read post]
5 Jan 2024, 4:00 am by Eric Segall
  Citizens United, Dobbs, Lawrence, Adarand, Batson, Katz, Garcia, Gideon, Darby, Brown, Seminole Tribe, and West Coast Hotel are just a few of the many important cases known by one party only (like Michael, Shaq, and LeBron are one name players) in which the Court has reversed prior doctrine. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 5:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Henson, happened to be the first president of the Texas Association of Counties, so I enjoy checking in on the TAC once in a while, if only out of familial nostalgia, and this morning was rewarded with these timely articles from their County magazine which merit Grits readers' attention:Looking through the lens of body-worn camerasNew law aims to prevent truancy, decriminalize students Indigent Defense UpdateDickens, Lubbock Counties earn Gideon awardsMoreover, check out these breakout… [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 11:10 am by Rekha Arulanantham
Attorney to designate a Prevention and Reentry Coordinator Directing every DOJ component to consider whether regulations have collateral consequences that impair reentry Reducing mandatory minimum charging for low-level drug offenses Expanding eligibility for compassionate release; and Identifying and sharing best practices for diversion programs Calling into question zero tolerance policies and other policies that lead to the school to prison pipeline Challenging the legal community to make… [read post]
6 Jul 2013, 9:00 am by William A. Schreiner, Jr.
  Tutka was fired by a New Jersey school district after giving his pocket Bible to a student who asked about a biblical quote; he also alleges his firing was based, in part, on his membership in Gideons International, the Bible-distributing group. [read post]
7 Aug 2013, 6:44 pm by Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
Given these tradeoffs, defendants might choose to focus on whichever defense has stronger merits, but Ford notes three asymmetries that will tend to push the choice toward noninfringement: (1) noninfringement has a lower standard of proof; (2) defendants often have a comparative informational advantage on noninfringement (because they know about their own products) and a disadvantage on invalidity (because they may have less experience with the patents at issue); and (3) defendants do not… [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 9:15 am by John Mikhail
The edition of The Federalist to which Trump’s lawyers refer is the Liberty Fund reprint of the 1818 Gideon edition. [read post]
13 May 2011, 9:51 am by Evidence ProfBlogger
Recently, I have been working on article that addresses the issue of whether the standard plea colloquy -- in which the judge asks the plea bargaining defendant whether his plea is "knowing, voluntary, and intelligent" -- is sufficient given the... [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 11:32 am by James Fox
  Although the Court downplayed this aspect of the case, Franklin argued that the case should be read in the context of its time, when the Court was repeatedly challenging barriers to access for the poor to basic rights and social inclusion, including the rights to vote (Harper, 1966), to counsel in criminal cases (Gideon, 1963), to court transcripts (Griffin, 1956), and to travel (Shapiro, 1969). [read post]