Alabama Court Decisions Court Rules 
JURIST
JUNE 12, 2023
Gentry in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama with the assistance of the Alabama ACLU, Civil Rights Corps and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The lower court ruled in favor of Hester, enjoining the county from imposing cash bail amounts on defendants who could not afford them.
The Crime Report
MAY 18, 2021
The decision follows multiple previous precedents set by the Court over the past decade that sharply limited courts’ ability to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without parole, the lawyers wrote. In Miller v. Four years later, in Montgomery v.
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Intelligize Blog
MARCH 14, 2024
A constitutional ruling by an Alabama judicial body has the rest of the country wondering about its potentially widespread implications. We’re not talking about the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos created through IVF are children , but another recent decision. Sound familiar?
JURIST
JUNE 15, 2023
The US Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the US Constitution’s Double Jeopardy Clause does not bar the prosecution from retrying a criminal defendant if it is determined that the original trial venue was improper. The court, however, disagreed. In Smith v.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 20, 2025
As is frequently the case when the court denies review in cases that have been relisted repeatedly, denial occasioned dissent, this time from Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch. The court relisted Escobar back in June 2024 and has been holding it ever since, pending the resolution of Glossip.
The Crime Report
JANUARY 4, 2023
Earlier in 2009, a judge in Alabama had blocked Harpster from taking the stand because there were no other studies supporting his work. But when prosecutors cross the line and intentionally circumvent court rules for evidence standards, he said, that’s cause for concern.
At the Lectern
AUGUST 6, 2024
Gregg and Seifu had been grant-and-holds in the California Supreme Court, which later dismissed review without opinions. Supreme Court the chance to disapprove the California Supreme Court decision in Adolph v. However, the issue raised in the cases gave the U.S. Uber Technologies, Inc. 2023) 14 Cal.5th
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