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Supreme Court will answer teed-up bail questions and decide felony-murder resentencing issue; it depublishes arbitration opinion

At the Lectern

The cases concern resentencing a defendant whose felony-murder conviction is tossed under subsequent legislation narrowing the felony-murder rule. ” The Supreme Court denied the defendant’s petition for review in Howard. Uber Technologies, Inc. , Simplified Labor Staffing Solutions, Inc.

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Do We Need the Polygraph to Protect Our Borders?

The Crime Report

He listed every agency I had sent coins to (except for the more numerous domestic ones, stating “I don’t care about those”) and continually pressed me for information and strongly encouraged and pressed that I admit something, anything, of a more serious, felonious nature. In 1998, however, the U.S.

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Is It Forensics or Is It Junk Science?

The Crime Report

While there is no index that lists cases in which bloodstain-pattern analysis played a role, state appellate court rulings show that the technique has played a factor in felony cases across the country. Additionally, it has helped send innocent people to prison.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Leondra Kruger

SCOTUSBlog

The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association for gun manufacturers, argued that the requirement should be invalidated because it was impossible to implement the technology. Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Maryland v. Whether to maintain the status quo,” Kruger concluded, “is a question only Congress can decide.”.

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