The Crime Report

JANUARY 18, 2022

While most Americans believe arrested people go to court soon after their arrest, Constitutional guarantees of a “fair and speedy trial” are infrequently honored in our under-resourced criminal justice system, according to a study produced by the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

Over the next four years, the troubled child (as he was under Texas law ) repeatedly self-injured himself, including more than 50 times trying to take his own life. Supreme Court. That reality is evidenced by the way the Court has dealt with juvenile justice cases since 2005. He was placed in a juvenile detention facility.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2022

A shooting at the Mississippi state fairgrounds injures at least four and scuttles a music festival. No law enforcement official I’ve spoken with thinks these policies are a good idea. His fears have been realized, he said, linking the change in law with a surge in gun thefts and more stolen guns recovered at violent crime scenes.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Back in January, we noted that the Supreme Court had relisted five petitions challenging the constitutionality of the controversial practice of acquitted-conduct sentencing. That brings us to Harness v.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Minnesota Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a state law prohibiting convicted felons from voting while on probation or parole in a 3-1 ruling. The law at issue, Minn. The appellants, two convicted felons, argued that the law violates Article VII , Section 1, of the Minnesota Constitution.

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JURIST

AUGUST 6, 2023

The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that an 1890 state constitutional provision permanently preventing people convicted of certain felonies from voting, Section 241, is unconstitutional. This end-justifies-means analysis has no place in constitutional law.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied an injunction Thursday against a Mississippi law that created a state-run court district in the state’s capital of Jackson. The court held that the plaintiffs in the case had failed to show standing to maintain a case for a preliminary injunction.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

After a particularly busy and newsy couple of months for the Supreme Court and its shadow — er, emergency — docket and for some individual justices and their public appearances, the focus shifts back to the regular merits docket today. Also filing into that gallery are the justices’ law clerks and a few other court employees.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The bill comes amidst the much-anticipated Supreme Court decision on Mississippi’s abortion law, which has the potential to drastically transform abortion rights in the US. If passed, it will join other laws across the country that have directly challenged the precedent set by the landmark case Roe v.

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