Criminal Justice

A Helping of Healing

It’s probably safe to say that most people would recoil at the suggestion that they spend time with hardened criminals and the families of their victims. Not Janine Geske. A former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, she opted after five years on the high court bench to pursue her…

Nov 29, 2005 9:06 AM CST

Inching Away From Death?

Ineffective-Assistance Rulings Show High Court Wary of Lawyering in Capital Cases

Sep 29, 2005 7:48 AM CDT

Road Runner

Fleet-Footed Fowl Finds Freeway, While Owners End Up Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire

Aug 29, 2005 6:35 AM CDT

Challenging Peremptories

Court Doesn’t Buy Proposal to End Jury-Selection Bias by Barring No-Cause Strikes

Aug 29, 2005 6:31 AM CDT

The Bible Tells Them So

Making Biblical References at Trial May Be Grounds for Revers

Jul 28, 2005 6:10 PM CDT

Foreign Fight

Alberto Galvis Claims That Occidental Petroleum Corp. Is Liable for a Raid That Killed His Family in Colombia. A Revived Alien Tort Law May Get Him His Day in U.S. Court.

Jul 28, 2005 4:53 PM CDT

The Uncertain Science of Evidence

Some Testimony from Expert Witnesses in Criminal Trials Is Having Trouble Standing Up to Tougher Scrutiny from the Courts

Jul 28, 2005 4:47 PM CDT

Will Youth be Served?

Death Penalty Ruling Points Up Changes in Thinking About Juvenile Justice System

May 28, 2005 1:46 PM CDT

Exposing Injustice

Lawyer Turns Documentary Filmmaker to Champion Rights of the Wrongly Accused

May 28, 2005 11:55 AM CDT

Wait and See

ABA Urges Congress to Give Advisory Sentencing Guidelines a Chance to Work

Apr 28, 2005 9:57 AM CDT

Rethinking Sentencing

Recent High Court Decisions Give Congress a Chance to Test Kennedy Commission Ideas

Apr 28, 2005 8:34 AM CDT

Minty Motorist

Information from stories by The Grand Rapids Press and MSNBC.msn.com.

Apr 28, 2005 8:29 AM CDT

Stripping Citizenship

Do New Cases Signal Tougher Government Stance in Naturalization Matters?

Apr 28, 2005 8:17 AM CDT

The Verdict on Juries

More States Are Adopting Jury Reforms, Freeing Jurors to Take Notes and Ask Questions. But Some Judges Are Slow to Embrace the Changes.

Apr 28, 2005 6:31 AM CDT

Catch a Rising Star

Put Some Mentors in Your Pocket, and Save Them for a Rainmaker Day

Apr 2, 2005 6:21 AM CST