SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court has returned from its summer break and gotten down to business. The court agreed to review a dozen petitions from that conference. Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 18, 2021

Courts have ruled that a car that makes contact with officers is a basis for the justified use of lethal force. Shots then were fired from behind as the car speeded directly toward an officer in a car. As I discussed earlier , reports of such contacts could be treated as the use of a car as a lethal weapon. See, e.g., In Thomas v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

Bill Cosby is a free man after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction that sent him to jail roughly three years ago to serve 3-10 years for sexual assault. He proceeded to incriminate himself in what the Court said was a bait-and-switch. The court yielded to prosecutorial demands that were facially unconstitutional.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). Indeed, the torts and crimes recorded this year seem painfully reminiscent of this loathsome year. Some things are happily left out of the courts.

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