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You be the judge: what sentence should mom get for drunken breastfeeding?Aug 7, 2009
Earlier this summer, I noted here the North Dakota story of a mother who pleaded guilty to child neglect after police found her “extremely intoxicated†while breast-feeding her 6-week-old baby. As detailed in this new piece...
Could vocal opposition to the death penalty, mass incarceration and the drug war help lead the GOP out of the wilderness?May 5, 2009
The party switch of Senator Spector, after big losses in the last two elections, has conservative pundits talking about how the Republican party can get its mojo back. For example, I heard on...
State execution team resigns due to lethal injection litigationApr 3, 2009
At least in Washington state, it appears that when the litigation going gets tough, the not-so-tough resign. That's what I take away from this local story, headlined "State's execution team...
The many fascinating legal and social issues swirling around "sexting"Mar 30, 2009
I had a chance to read closely this federal complaint filed last week by the ACLU of Pennsylvania against a local district attorney who threatened three high school girls with child porn charges...
Rapper T.I. gets a year-and-a-day federal sentence on gun chargesMar 27, 2009
I have not followed closely the crime and possible punishment of Clifford Harris, aka rap star T.I. But today was his sentencing, and this early AP story provides the basics:
A judge has...
Obama as Scrooge: no Christmas clemency grantsDec 24, 2009
As I complained in posts here and here and here around Thanksgiving, it was sad and telling that President Barack Obama's first use of his historic clemency power was to continue the modern (silly?) tradition of pardoning a turkey. At that time,...
No happy ending in sentencing appeal by defendant involved in (illegal) happy endingsDec 24, 2009
A panel of the Seventh Circuit issued an interesting little sentencing opinion yesterday in US v. Young, No. 08-2357 (7th Cir. Dec. 23, 2009) (available here). The start of the Young opinion helps explain the title of this post:
Bok Young helped...
Two notable end-of-year appeals to SCOTUSDec 24, 2009
Thanks to How Appealing, I saw these two articles reporting on notable new sentencing appeals come from state officials to the US Supreme Court:
From the San Jose Mercury News here, "Schwarzenegger makes last plea to U.S. Supreme Court in prison...
Second Circuit amends Stewart sentencing ruling to suggest need for longer sentenceDec 24, 2009
As detailed in this New York Law Journal article, which is headlined "Amended Ruling Could Mean Tougher Term for Disbarred Terror Case Lawyer," the Second Circuit has tweaked its recent ruling in the Lynne Stewart case to suggest even more strongly...
Maine's high court finds part of sex offender registration law unconstitutionalDec 23, 2009
As detailed in this local press report, the "Maine Supreme Judicial Court has found some of the provisions of Maine's sex offender registry law are unconstitutional." Here are more details:
Attorney General Janet Mills says the court upheld most of...
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