JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
The release of Quintez Brown, 21, after trying to murder a Kentucky mayoral candidate is simply baffling. In Kentucky, all offenses, except some capital offenses, have a right to bail. He was bailed out with the help of the Louisville Community Bail Fund, which is reportedly part of Black Lives Matter Louisville.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 13, 2021
Associate Chief Justice Charles Johnson, in the majority opinion, wrote that when “individuals exercise their constitutional rights to criticize how the police are handling a situation, they cannot be concerned about risking a criminal conviction for obstruction.”. In Kentucky, the sponsor, Republican state Sen.
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Patently O
AUGUST 11, 2022
We’re not hiring in IP this year, but are looking to hire several candidates folks — primarily focusing on the areas of Criminal Law/Procedure; Evidence; Constitutional Law courses (including First Amendment); Contracts; Dispute Resolution; and Veterans benefits (clinic).
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
The site was sued by Sarah Jones, an ex-Bengals cheerleader and a former high school teacher in northern Kentucky, who was libeled on the site by commentators. District Judge William Bertelsman that the site is liable of defamatory statements by third parties and cannot claim immunity under the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. §
The Crime Report
JANUARY 6, 2022
While her death is an absolute tragedy, a law professor at the University of Kentucky writes that her death “transcends the narrative of bad-apple cops” and highlights the broken system backing search warrants, according to a forthcoming Boston University Law Review paper. “We Blanche Cook is the Robert E. Harding Jr.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 29, 2022
Second, Tyler argues that even if McCoy announced a new rule, Teague allows for the retroactive effect of substantive rules of constitutional law that prohibit certain criminal laws or punishments (as opposed to procedural rules, which are not retroactive). Instead, Tyler seeks to bring his claim under Griffith v.
The Crime Report
APRIL 8, 2022
For Dan Canon, author of Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates A Permanent Criminal Class , the connection between plea bargaining and the deplorable state of the American criminal justice system, which has resulted in the highest incarceration rate in the world, is no accident.
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