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Criminal Prosecution Supreme Court of the United States Death Penalty

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Restoring The Death Penalty And Protecting Public Safety

Summary - The Order requires that laws authorizing capital punishment are respected and faithfully implemented. The Attorney General is mandated to pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use,...more

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The Supreme Court - May 14, 2018

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued five decisions today: Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn., No. 16-476: In the 1990s, Congress enacted the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (“PASPA”), 28...more

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The Supreme Court - March 22, 2018

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued two decisions yesterday: Marinello v. United States, No. 16-1144: Petitioner Carlo Marinello was indicted in 2012 for violating criminal tax laws following investigations...more

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Supreme Court Rules that Pennsylvania Justice's Previous Involvement in Case Represented an Impermissible Risk of Bias

In a recent opinion, Williams v. Pennsylvania, --- S.Ct. ----, 2016 WL 3189529 (June 9, 2016), a divided United States Supreme Court held that judges must recuse themselves in cases in which they previously played a...more

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Supreme Court Says Prosecutors Can’t Judge the Cases They Prosecute

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Not all of the justices would put it that way. To be fair to the dissenters, and because his version is shorter, we’ll use Justice Thomas’s description of the underlying facts from his dissent in Williams v. Pennsylvania,...more

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The Supreme Court - June 2016 #2

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued decisions in three cases on June 9, 2016: - Dietz v. Bouldin, No. 15-458: An automobile accident case went to a jury trial in federal district court. Respondent Hillary...more

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Supreme Court Decides Foster v. Chatman

On May 23, 2016, the United States Supreme Court decided Foster v. Chatman, No. 14-8349, holding that it was clearly erroneous for a state habeas court to decide that a criminal defendant failed to show purposeful...more

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