Law360 has this lengthy new article providing a detail examination of the Supreme Court's rulings in an array of criminal cases during its October 2024 Term. The article's headline, "High Court Term ...

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Recent decades has brought considerable concerns about so-called "school-to-prison" pipelines, a term meant to lament certain educational policies and practices that serve to enhance the prosepcts of ...

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This New York Times opinion piece, titled "Governors, Use Your Clemency Powers" and authored by Steve Zeidman, focuses on the need for states' chief executives to step up their clemency work. The ...

The title of this post is the title of this new article now available via SSRN and authored by Charles Hintz. Here is its abstract: Federal habeas is a mess. The reason is the current doctrine’s ...

At yearend 2023, an estimated 3,772,000 adults were under community supervision (probation or parole), up 27,900 (0.7%) from January 1, 2023. From yearend 2013 to yearend 2023, among comparable ...

Travis Posey on Monday pleaded guilty in a Ouachita County courtroom to four counts of capital murder and 11 counts of attempted capital murder in the June 2024 mass shooting at the Mad Butcher ...

I am not sure I would describe criminal justice articles from Law360 as "beach reading," but I am sure that I have noticed a number of notable pieces on that site should not be overlooked amid summer ...

Hankison was convicted by a federal jury in November 2024 of one count of violating Taylor's civil rights, after the first attempt to prosecute him ended with a mistrial. He was separately acquitted ...

A few days ago, Slate ran this new commentary from Frank Bowman discussing the latest reporting on Prez Biden's clemency actions on his way out of the Oval Office. I recommend the piece in full, and ...

Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, this quasi-experimental study employed propensity score matching to compare children of incarcerated fathers with a ...