Law360 has this lengthy new article providing a detail examination of the Supreme Court's rulings in an array of criminal cases during its October 2024 Term. The article's headline, "High Court Term ...

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The title of this post is the title of this article authored by Cassia Spohn in the June 2025 issue of the Criminal Law Forum. (As noted in this prior post, this journal issue is devoted to ...

Recent decades has brought considerable concerns about so-called "school-to-prison" pipelines, a term meant to lament certain educational policies and practices that serve to enhance the prosepcts of ...

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This New York Times opinion piece, titled "Governors, Use Your Clemency Powers" and authored by Steve Zeidman, focuses on the need for states' chief executives to step up their clemency work. The ...

The title of this post is the title of this new article now available via SSRN and authored by Charles Hintz. Here is its abstract: Federal habeas is a mess. The reason is the current doctrine’s ...

The US Sentencing Commission in recent weeks has released a bunch more of its terrific "Quick Facts" publications. As regular readers know, I find so very interesting all the these short data ...

I noted in this post last week that the new Direcotr of the federal Bureau of Prisons has created a new First Step Act Task Force. This new Forbes article by Walter Palvo, headlined "Bureau Of Prisons ...

At yearend, a total of 26 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) held 2,192 prisoners under sentence of death, which was 73 (3%) fewer than at yearend 2022. Five states and FBOP received a ...

Motor vehicle theft had been on the rise from the summer of 2020 through 2023, but that trend reversed in 2024 and the downward trajectory continued into this year; there were 25% fewer motor vehicle ...

The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Spencer Cooper now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: ...