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SCOTUS dodges ambiguous sentencing

March 24, 2022 by Randy Hansen

Federal sentencing guidelines are vague and ambiguous, due to differences in U.S. Supreme Court opinions and the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s judicial … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Legal, Recently Posted Tagged With: legal, Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court

‘Safehouse Philly’ case moves forward

January 15, 2022 by Joshua Grant

A legal battle is underway attempting to legalize Safehouse facilities that safely dispense drugs legally to addicts in efforts to decriminalize … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health and Wellness, Legal, Recently Posted Tagged With: Philadelphia, U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court considers ministers’ presence in death chamber during execution

January 14, 2022 by Timothy Hicks

Viewing room in San Quentin's death chamber

A Death Row inmate’s religious request to have his pastor place hands on him during his execution is being examined by Supreme Court Justices, said … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Death Penalty, Legal, Recently Posted Tagged With: DEATH PENALTY, texas, U.S. Supreme Court, USSC

Supreme Court to decide how Three Strikes laws apply to minors

January 14, 2022 by Raymond Torres

The United States Supreme Court will hear a case that tackles how the Three Strikes Law is applied to minors and will address the harsh mandatory … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Legal, Recently Posted Tagged With: California’s Three Strike Law, U.S. Supreme Court

Realignment may have created more dangerous county jails

October 23, 2019 by Salvador Solorio

Since the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to overhaul its overcrowded prisons in 2011 and realignment reforms were implemented, inmate-on-inmate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Legal, Recently Posted Tagged With: Realignment, Salvador Solorio, U.S. Supreme Court

Cell phones being monitored in jails and free world alike

September 11, 2018 by Kevin Sawyer

The government spies on incarcerated citizens who use illegal cellphones in correctional facilities. Those aren’t the only people government officials … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Legal Tagged With: constitutional rights, Criminal Legal News, Fourth Amendment, U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court grants new trial based attorney’s assertion of client’s guilt

August 8, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a new trial, despite evidence of the man’s guilt, in a case where the defendant testified he is innocent while his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Legal Tagged With: 200 L.Ed. 2d 821, Justice Alito, Lewinston police, Louisiana, McCoy v. Louisiana, Robert McCoy, Sixth Amendment, U.S. Supreme Court

Plea bargain challenges are not barred to defendant

August 8, 2018 by Harry C. Goodall Jr.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that plea bargains do not prohibit defendants from challenging the constitutionality of their convictions. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Legal Tagged With: Criminal Legal News, Rodney Class, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circui, U.S. Supreme Court

USSC rules bail hearings undocumented immigrants

June 11, 2018 by Salvador Solorio

The U.S. Supreme Court in early March ruled 5 to 3 in the case of Jennings v. Rodriguez that the Immigration and Nationality Act does not permit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Español, Immigration, Legal Tagged With: Enforcement and Removal Operations, ERO, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration and Nationality Act, U.S. Supreme Court

California’s next governor faces executions

June 11, 2018 by San Quentin News Contributor

California’s next governor could be forced to make a life-or-death decision that the state’s top executive hasn’t faced in over a decade; whether to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Death Penalty, Legal Tagged With: anti-capital punishment campaign, California Supreme Court, Calvin Thomas, Clarence Ray Allen, Commutations, Death Row, Gavin Newsom, Martin O’Malley, Pat Quinn, Prop 66, Ronald Reagan, San Quentin State Prison, Travis Allen, ttps://sanquentinnews.com/low-execution-rate-2017, U.S. Supreme Court

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