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Illinois Scores Top Rank in Reintegrating Ex-Incarcerees, Alaska is Lowest

The Crime Report

A companion “report card” ranking all 50 states according to how well they measure up in nine different areas of reentry and reintegration gives Illinois the highest marks and places Alaska at the bottom. and then assigning an overall ranking for each state.

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Status quo watch

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court made substantial progress at last week’s conference to reduce the accumulation of relisted cases. But the court denied review without recorded dissent to two-time relist Alaska v.

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States Increase Efforts to End ‘Internal Exile’ of Former Incarcerees: Report

The Crime Report

This year’s rich harvest brings the total number of criminal record reforms enacted in the past three years to over 400 separate laws,” the report said, celebrating what it said was a bipartisan commitment to end “unwarranted discrimination” against the formerly incarcerated. not disenfranchising at all).

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Injustice With Impunity: A Texas Tale

The Crime Report

He also moonlighted as a law clerk for the same judges who presided over his cases. By night he drafted court documents for judges to sign. As a subsequent ruling by the Texas Court of Appeals finally made clear, the arrangement was not a momentary lapse in judgment or a one-time offense induced under pressure. Alexa Gervasi.

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Chiefs: Dropping Gun Permits Threatens Public Safety—and Officers’ Lives

The Crime Report

No law enforcement official I’ve spoken with thinks these policies are a good idea. She wrote , “the new law will complicate the tasks of determining who is not permitted to carry a gun and of getting illegally possessed guns off our streets.” Indiana’s permitless carry law goes into effect on July 1.

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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

A common misconception, perpetuated by popular television shows and movies, as well as the Sixth Amendment, is that everyone gets their day in court. We also have a much higher rate of plea bargain cases than the rest of the world: almost 20 percent higher than just about any other common law country. Photo by Karen Neoh via Flickr.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court dispensed with the cities’ three primary arguments for remanding the cases. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.

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