Sentencing/Post Conviction
4321 ABA Journal Sentencing/Post Conviction articles.
Scholars and courts have overlooked what could be a scrivener’s error that changes the text of the law that permits lawsuits against state and local government officials for constitutional violations, according to a February law review article.
May 16, 2023 10:56 AM CDT
Oregon’s former top administrative law judge has been sentenced to 38 months in prison after his guilty plea to 10 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse.
Judge Andrew Erwin of…
May 15, 2023 9:45 AM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday overturned two public corruption convictions.
May 12, 2023 11:22 AM CDT
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Boston on Wednesday overturned mail and wire fraud convictions of two fathers accused of paying bribes to gain admission to top colleges for their children.
May 12, 2023 9:51 AM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday stayed the execution of an Oklahoma inmate after the state attorney general said he supported vacating the conviction.
May 8, 2023 9:55 AM CDT
The White House hopes to promote rehabilitation of incarcerated people and their reentry into society with a strategic plan released April 28.
May 5, 2023 9:00 AM CDT
A man who walked into a homeowner’s open garage and stole his leaf blower didn’t commit burglary because he didn’t use “force, stealth or deception” to gain entrance, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled.
May 4, 2023 11:24 AM CDT
The South Carolina Supreme Court acted “in rare haste” when it vacated a judge’s secret order for the release of a convicted murderer 16 years before the end of his sentence, according to a published report.
May 3, 2023 8:42 AM CDT
NAACP sues over ‘state takeover’ of city policing, courts
The NAACP has filed a lawsuit challenging two state laws that “represent a state takeover of Jackson,” Mississippi, a predominantly Black…
Apr 28, 2023 2:49 PM CDT
A former homicide prosecutor in Baltimore has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for using subpoenas to obtain confidential phone records that provided personal information about two former girlfriends.
Apr 24, 2023 12:01 PM CDT
A Texas death row inmate didn’t wait too long to challenge the state law governing postconviction DNA testing, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a 6-3 decision.
Apr 19, 2023 10:50 AM CDT
A May 11 sentencing date has been set for Oregon’s former top administrative law judge after his guilty plea to encouraging child sexual abuse in a child pornography case.
Apr 18, 2023 4:10 PM CDT
A federal judge’s decision to remove unvaccinated potential jurors did not violate two defendants’ Sixth Amendment right to have their cases heard by a fair cross section of the community, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Apr 12, 2023 3:03 PM CDT
Adnan Syed's February 2000 conviction for the murder of his ex-girlfriend has been reinstated because the victim's brother got insufficient notice of a hearing last year in which a judge vacated the conviction.
Mar 28, 2023 4:15 PM CDT
Two conservative justices are raising concerns about judge-appointed prosecutors in a dissent from the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the case of disbarred environmental lawyer Steven Donziger.
Mar 27, 2023 11:56 AM CDT
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