SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 10, 2021

Share A fractured Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the scope of a key phrase in the Armed Career Criminal Act, ruling that crimes involving recklessness do not count as “violent felonies” for the purpose of triggering a key sentencing enhancement. Justice Clarence Thomas did not join Kagan’s opinion but concurred in the result.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

The incident has strikingly similar legal issues to the shooting of Adam Toledo in Chicago. The videotape does appear to satisfy the standard for the use of lethal force under Tennessee v. ” That language is derived from Tennessee v. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. In Graham v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

It is the smell of not just selective prosecution but political bias in our legal system. Channeling Tennessee Williams in his play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Judge Scott McAfee wrote that, after their testimony, there remained “an odor of mendacity.” She never specified any particular crime, just promising to bag Trump.

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