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9 Dec 2009, 10:36 am
"Opponents of the death penalty then intentionally make that process more expensive and time-consuming than necessary by spamming [corrections officials] with a flood of irrelevant comments decrying the death penalty generally," said Kent Scheidegger, legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a Sacramento-based foundation that represents the interests of victims' rights groups and law enforcement.Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor who… [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 8:46 am
"Opponents of the death penalty then intentionally make that process more expensive and time-consuming than necessary by spamming [corrections officials] with a flood of irrelevant comments decrying the death penalty generally," said Kent Scheidegger, legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a Sacramento-based foundation that represents the interests of victims' rights groups and law enforcement.Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor who… [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 5:30 am
Conservative blogger (and Supreme Court brief amicus writer) Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences recently blogged about what I had been privately thinking concern the Michigan Attorney General’s third grant of certiorari in as many months. [read post]
25 Nov 2009, 7:10 am
Taking issue with Adam Liptak's recent article suggesting that the views of right and left are converging closer in some areas of criminal law, Kent Scheidegger of Crime and Consequences argues that "the divide remains as strong as ever. [read post]
15 Nov 2009, 8:53 am
About the only one who's being honest is Kent Scheidegger who admits it's about wanting to kill. [read post]
14 Nov 2009, 12:29 pm
Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences criticizes the decision to try some of the 9/11 suspects in federal civilian courts on the grounds that it makes a death sentence more difficult to achieve. [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 3:50 pm
Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences discusses a recent article by Lauren Altdoerffer contasting Miranda with the U.K.'s statutory scheme: A key difference in the U.K. is that the suspect is advised that his silence can be used at trial... [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 2:23 pm
"This is a dramatic reaffirmation of what we've already known for some time, that capital punishment in California takes way too long," Kent Scheidegger, legal director for the law-and-order Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Sacramento, said of Johnson's bet that he will live a long life on death row. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 12:08 pm
Kent Scheidegger says that this case, the Fort Hood shootings, and the bizarre alleged serial killer in Cleveland are "strong examples of why we need capital punishment. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 6:51 am
On Sunday, The New York Times had commentary from two lawyers who filed amicus briefs in the Graham and Sullivan cases:Â Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project and Kent Scheidegger, legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation. [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 7:32 am
Kent Scheidegger of the Crime and Consequences blog offers a close reading of the transcript in yesterday's second case, Wood v. [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 6:42 am
Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences points out a quip by Scalia that had the audience laughing at Monday's oral argument in Beard v. [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 1:24 pm
At Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger discusses petitions that didn't make the order list this morning. [read post]
1 Nov 2009, 7:43 am
Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences argues that the attempt by the Death Penalty Information Center to portray this action as a victory for abolitionists overlooks that the ALI took no position on the death penalty itself. [read post]
30 Oct 2009, 8:07 am
That Kent Scheidegger's post at Crime and Consequences, discussing the new article by Emily G. [read post]
26 Oct 2009, 10:48 am
Addressing the now-infamous Texas execution of a man many now claim was innocent, Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences excerpts the statement of Willingham's wife, published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, in which she claims, inter alia, that Willingham admitted... [read post]
26 Oct 2009, 7:18 am
Defending juvenile LWOP sentences, Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences responds that Simpson confuses intentional crime with the more common recklessness of youth. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 3:00 am
Thanks to Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences for this post, which quotes a press release from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that begins: In its effort to keep crime victims informed, the Office of Victim and Survivor... [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 8:13 am
Calling the opinion "cryptic," Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences suggests that "a practical solution is for the judge to pass on the other issues when he knows the decision is clear but go ahead and rule on them when he knows the decision is in a gray zone where other judges may differ. [read post]
16 Oct 2009, 6:51 am
" At Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger surmises that Justice Sotomayor, as evidenced by her questions in Tuesday’s oral argument in Smith v. [read post]
