The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 64 - Cages We Built: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
The JustPod: Volunteering for the Death Penalty: Our Discussion with Award-Winning Journalist Gianna Toboni and Her Debut Book About Scott Dozie
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 313: Spotlight on Criminal Law (Part 3)
The JustPod: Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing: A Discussion with Hillary Blout
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 312: Spotlight on Criminal Law (Part 2)
The JustPod: Dismantling Mass Incarceration with Premal Dharia
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 61 - A Call to Service: From Public Duty to Spiritual Advocacy
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 311: Spotlight on Criminal Law (Part 1)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 310: Listen and Learn -- Accomplice Liability (Criminal Law)
Who are the decision makers at INTERPOL’s CCF?
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 309: Listen and Learn -- Felony Murder and Causation (Criminal Law)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 308: Listen and Learn -- Crimes Against the Person (Part 2)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 307: Listen and Learn -- Crimes Against the Person (Part 1)
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 483: Life as a Private Criminal Defense Attorney (w/Hannah Seigel Proff)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 260: Listen and Learn -- Elements of a Crime
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 418: Listen and Learn -- Criminal Procedure: Miranda Warnings
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 228: Listen and Learn -- Criminal Procedure: Miranda Warnings
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 222: Listen and Learn -- Criminal Procedure: Stop and Frisk
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 220: Listen and Learn -- Exceptions to the Warrant Requirement
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 323: Listen and Learn -- The Exclusionary Rule (Criminal Law and Procedure)
In a 7-2 decision, the United States Supreme Court has limited the factors a district court can consider when sentencing a defendant for a revocation of supervised release. The Supreme Court held that district courts cannot...more
The Supreme Court of the United States’ decision last week in Esteras v. United States restricted the factors lower courts may consider in imposing prison sentences following supervised release revocations. Those awaiting the...more
The U.S. imprisons a larger percentage of its population than any other country in the world. How did we get here? Rachel Barkow, Charles Seligson Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Zimroth Center on the...more
The Supreme Court of the United States issued one decision today: Barnes v. Felix, No. 23-1239: This criminal procedure case concerns the proper scope of analysis for Fourth Amendment excessive force claims....more
Earlier this year, we wrote on the Fourth Circuit's en banc rehearing in United States v. Chatrie, a criminal appeal addressing whether a geofence warrant used to locate the defendant in a bank robbery trial was a...more
The federal sentencing landscape in the United States could undergo a significant transformation with recent amendments to update the United States Sentencing Guidelines that will go into effect on November 1, 2025, unless...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in two cases: Ellingburg v. United States, No. 23-3129: This case addresses the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which the government...more
On March 10, 2025, U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York issued a decision in the case of United States v. Tavberidze, finding Section 3E1.1(b) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines in...more
On December 9, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral argument in Kousisis v. United States. The case squarely assesses the validity of the “fraudulent inducement” theory of mail and wire fraud under federal...more
Oral argument in the appellate courts typically last an hour, with 30 minutes allotted to each side to present arguments. But might a shorter oral argument period be more productive if the parties knew ahead of time the...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following four decisions: BP p.l.c. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, No. 19-1189: Congress has commanded that generally, an order remanding a case back to...more
Vermont Supreme Court offers guidance on admissibility of social media content - By now it is not particularly controversial that a litigant’s social media content is discoverable. See, e.g., Lewis v. Bellows Falls...more
Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Chris Lazarini commented on a case in which a defendant – convicted in a criminal proceeding of knowingly and willfully making false statements to investors, regulators, an outside accountant and...more
The Supreme Court of the United States issued decisions in three cases on May 31, 2016: Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes, No. 15-290: Three mining companies sought a permit under the Clean Water Act seeking to...more