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SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CHALLENGE TO FEDERAL LAW LIMITING APPEALS
The U. S. Supreme Court will hear argument on Monday to consider a Texas child molester’s claim. Attorneys representing Danny Rivers assert that, when Congress passed AEDPA, it intended that a defendant could amend his petition four years after it was rejected by a judge and while the case is on appeal before an appellate court. Rivers claims the federal law prohibiting successive petitions challenging convictions and sentences has been misinterpreted to deny him his rights...........read more >>
3/27/2025    |    PRESS RELEASE    |   Habeas corpus: Post-judgment amendment
CRIME & CONSEQUENCES BLOG
SUPREME COURT TO AGAIN REVIEW MURDERER’S CONVICTION
Attorneys representing an Oklahoma man convicted and sentenced to death for arranging the baseball-bat murder of his boss 27 years ago will present argument before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, claiming that he is innocent. Glossip was tried twice for the murder, and both times different juries found him guilty and sentenced him to death. In 2007, Glossip’s conviction and sentence were upheld by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. In 2015, Glossip lost a U. S. Supreme Court challenge to Oklahoma’s lethal injection execution protocol (Glossip v. Gross , a CJLF victory). Glossip was finally set to be executed in early 2023. Now Glossip’s advocates claim that nothing but his accomplice’s testimony implicated him..........read more >>
10/9/2024    |    PRESS RELEASE    |    Habeas corpus: Independent state grounds
SUPREME COURT RESTORES ANTI-CAMPING ORDINANCES
The U. S. Supreme Court has reinstated a city ordinance against camping on public property, reversing decisions that had blocked enforcement of anti-camping ordinances in nine western states. Several states and cities joined the City of Grants Pass, Oregon, in seeking to overturn a 2019 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling (Martin v. City of Boise), which effectively gave the homeless an Eighth Amendment right to camp on public property. In 2019, the U. S. Supreme Court declined to hear a similar appeal from the City of Boise to review and overturn that ruling............. read more >>
6/28/2024    |    PRESS RELEASE    |    Public Order: Camping Ordinances