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Justices asked to review Arizona’s life-without-parole sentencing scheme for youths

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Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A trial court in Arizona agreed that Bassett was entitled to a hearing. On appeal, however, the Arizona Supreme Court denied Bassett’s request for a hearing and dismissed his petition for post-conviction relief.

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Florida man subject to lifetime sex-offender registration requirements argues that he is “in custody” for purposes of federal post-conviction laws

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Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A person held in state prison can challenge the constitutionality of their criminal conviction in federal court through a legal tool known as a writ of habeas corpus. In Clements v.

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Court grants review in new batch of cases, including dispute on religious rights of employees

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In 1977, the Supreme Court ruled in Trans World Airlines v. The court agreed on Friday to review the case of Gerald Groff, a Christian and U.S. Groff went to federal court, where he argued that USPS had failed to provide him with reasonable accommodations for his religious practices. Counterman v.

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Criminalizing Migration: How We Got Here

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needs to radically change existing immigration laws and policies to shift away from the mindset of “migrant sorting” by criminal status, according to a paper published in the Daedalus journal. Immigration and Criminal Justice Intertwined. The presidency of Donald Trump augmented this trend and brought it to public attention.