JURIST
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
If it had chosen to hear the case, the court could have decided whether it is inherent within the Constitution that criminal defendants are entitled to a trial by a jury of 12 or more members of the community. This deviation from the standard 12-person jury was permitted by the 1970 US Supreme Court ruling in Williams v.
LawSites
JUNE 6, 2023
Also last year, the Utah State Bar honored Sudbury with its 2022 Distinguished Service Award and, in 2019, Utah Business Magazine named her its 2019 Woman of the Year. She later joined the cabinet of then Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams as a senior policy advisor on criminal justice.
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The Crime Report
DECEMBER 2, 2021
In 2020, Utah and Nebraska both voted to delete language from their state constitutions allowing slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment,” Appleman detailed, and says that other states like Tennessee and Minnesota are likely to follow. The full forthcoming paper can be accessed here.
ALPS
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Matt is an associate professor in the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Utah. And just to follow up, so it was the Utah state bar that actually commissioned for you to do the research, is that right? BREE: Yeah. Matt, you started to intersect with the legal community. BREE: Yeah.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 26, 2022
But Congress never terminated the reservation, nor did it authorize Oklahoma to enforce its criminal laws on the reservation. Black-letter federal law provides that, since at least Worcester v. Georgia in 1832, states cannot prosecute crimes committed on Indian reservation land without federal approval.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 2, 2021
There is a concerning case out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit where the court reinstated the death penalty for Von Lester Taylor, a man convicted in a double murder in Utah in 1990. The crime was horrific and Taylor deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 23, 2022
Four states—Kansas, Utah, Idaho, and Montana—have eliminated the defense entirely and only an estimated one percent of all felony cases involve an insanity plea. The most serious charge of second-degree murder required the prosecution to show that Rojas “evinced a depraved indifference to human life.” Roughly a quarter are successful.
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