civil liberties
You may remember, in one of the worst slippery slope arguments ever, school district lawyers objecting to the Supreme Court's salutary decision in Safford School District v. Redding because it.
"With Me As Your Law...Talkin' Guy, Your Railroad to the Death Chamber is Ready!"It's bad enough that various state officials conspired to murder Cameron Todd Willingham based on worthless junk.
MurdererNot surprisingly, in response to a Forensic Science Commission that had the temerity to hear evidence about the execution of an innocent man he allowed to proceed after a less-than-cursory.
MurdererHopefully you've all read David Grann's remarkable New Yorker story about Cameron Todd Willingham, an almost certainly innocent man who was executed for arson based on worthless junk science roughly.
For less encouraging news about state judiciaries, we can turn to the state of Texas, where a man was sentenced to death in a trial in which the prosecutor and.
Balko, on Bob Dylan being detained for questioning by policemen in New Jersey:But now everyone’s having a good laugh about how two local police officers had no idea who Dylan.
It's because of arguments of this quality that they found a civil liberties claim that Sam Alito (albeit superfluously) can support:Matthew Wright, lawyer for the Safford school district, predicted the.
I'm very, very happy to be wrong about this one. In a very pleasant surprise, today 8 justices found that the appalling arbitrary strip search of Savana Redding violated the.