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9 Oct 2009, 3:00 am
Brief description of the case is from ScotusWiki: Tuesday, Oct. 13 Padilla v. [read post]
18 Jan 2010, 3:42 am by Russ Bensing
The only significant decision out of Washington last week was Smith v. [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 7:01 am by zshapiro
The Supreme Court upheld the conviction but sent the reversal of the death penalty back to the Third Circuit ordering it to reconsider the reversal in light of the recent Supreme Court case, Smith v. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 9:38 am by Jeff Gamso
  He's crazy as a bedbug, and clearly was at the time of the killings and the time of the trial.None of those things mattered because the legal standards as they've developed (in part at the Supreme Court in Smith v. [read post]
12 Oct 2009, 5:30 am
Spisak (08-724) — unanimity of jury as an issue in finding mitigating evidence in a capital case South Carolina v. [read post]
26 Aug 2009, 10:02 am
[This is the fifth in a series of posts by CrimProf's graduate fellow, Peter Stockburger (University of San Diego Class of 2009), previewing the criminal law and procedure cases scheduled for argument in the U.S. [read post]
10 Oct 2009, 6:59 am
Now it appears certain that the high court has decided to hold the Philadelphia prosecutors' petition in abeyance pending the outcome of Smith v. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 8:10 am by Kent Scheidegger
  The Supreme Court itself took a limited view of Mills in Smith v. [read post]
24 May 2009, 3:00 am
Commonwealth of Kentucky (08-651), and Smith v. [read post]
13 Oct 2009, 5:20 am
In the first capital case to be argued this term, Smith v. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 9:27 am by Rory Little
Smith; and that (3) his attorney had ineffectively argued in closing that “I feel like I ought to just sit down,” because if the jury chose a death sentence, “I can’t quarrel with that” – referred to as a “Spisak error” after the Court’s opinion in Smith v. [read post]
12 Jan 2010, 9:41 pm by cdw
[LINK FIXED] Leading off this belated edition is the Supreme Court’s holding in Smith v. [read post]