Parker, No. 05-5191 Denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in a capital case is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) invalid waiver of petitioner's right to counsel; 2) ineffective assistance of trial counsel; 3) Brady violations; 4) a failure to grant petitioner a separate trial from his co-defendant; 5) a due process violation due to admission of hair-matching evidence; 6) ineffective assistance of appellate counsel; 7) denial of a state-court forum in which to raise… [read post]

We’ve made no secret of our distaste for the so called “heeding presumption” – that juries may presume that any alternative “adequate” warning would have been heeded by the plaintiff (or, in prescription medical product cases, the prescriber). [read post]

Data from Senate Stock Watcher, a website that aggregates publicly available information on lawmakers’ trading, shows the breadth of trades Perdue made in companies that stood to benefit from policy and spending matters that came not just before the Senate as a whole, but before the committees and subcommittees on which he served. 20 Days of Fantasy and Failure: Inside Trump’s quest to overturn the election MSN – Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, and Amy Gardner… [read post]