2018 ABA Journal Appellate Practice articles.
Although he had never met Mychal Bell, a doctor living elsewhere in the state posted the bond the 17-year-old needed to get out of jail and return home to the…
Sep 28, 2007 11:17 PM CDT
If Sen. Larry Craig is lucky, a Minnesota judge, as expected, will refuse to let him revoke his guilty plea to a disorderly conduct charge.
That’s because a trial over…
Sep 28, 2007 5:11 PM CDT
Legislation that would give federal appellate and criminal judges more discretion to decide whether to permit cameras in their courtroom was debated in a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol…
Sep 28, 2007 1:12 PM CDT
The notorious Washington state killer who murdered 48 women didn’t get the death penalty. And Robert Yates Jr. didn’t, either, when he confessed in a Spokane County plea deal to…
Sep 27, 2007 6:25 PM CDT
The prosecution in a controversial case against one of the so-called Jena Six defendants has accepted a Louisiana appellate court ruling that he should be tried as a juvenile.
Mychal…
Sep 27, 2007 12:50 AM CDT
A recent ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal offers a startling view of the hard-hitting office politics at a venerable Toronto law firm.
When attorney Benjamin Moss trudged back…
Sep 26, 2007 9:35 PM CDT
Ordinarily, the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals looks with “great disfavor,” according to its own rules, on long-winded briefs.
But the appellate court should make an exception…
Sep 26, 2007 7:29 PM CDT
Ten years ago, Steven Selsberg left the Houston office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges because he didn’t make partner. Today, his professional future is looking a lot brighter.
Although has…
Sep 25, 2007 8:51 PM CDT
After a 30-month study, a group of legal experts associated with the American Bar Association called today for a temporary moratorium on enforcement of the death penalty in Ohio until…
Sep 24, 2007 10:46 PM CDT
In a protest largely launched by bloggers that some are calling the dawn of a new 21st century civil rights movement, more than 15,000 people from around the country reportedly…
Sep 21, 2007 3:58 AM CDT
A lack of tough love has cost two Washington state parents their cars. Because they didn’t act quickly enough to snatch back their car keys from a son who apparently…
Sep 19, 2007 11:48 PM CDT
A special bill is being pursued in the U.S. Senate to help a star Miami area student facing deportation with his family as illegal immigrants.
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) filed…
Sep 19, 2007 3:46 PM CDT
Four former Guantanamo Bay military prison detainees who claim American officials abused them there haven’t had any luck trying to sue the U.S. government over alleged constitutional rights violations. But…
Sep 17, 2007 3:48 PM CDT
An Alabama prosecutor who testified in support of a convicted murderer in his successful appeal of his death sentence has been rebuked by the state attorney general.
Robert E. Owens,…
Sep 15, 2007 2:40 AM CDT
An embattled Republican Senator from Idaho will get a hearing later this month on his request to withdraw his guilty plea to a disorderly conduct charge resulting from a Minnesota…
Sep 11, 2007 9:39 PM CDT
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