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Cook v City of Bella Villa Appeal Brief Police Brutality 2008

Brief • November 12, 2008

Appellants made a Batson challenge of Appellees’ peremptory strike of juror 13, Tr.Vol.I, 43. At that time juror 13 was the only African-American left on the panel, Tr.Vol.I, 44. Appellants’ counsel requested ...

Broken Justice: The Death Penalty in Alabama, ACLU, 2005

Publication • September 9, 2016

Filed under: Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty

, the state cannot responsibly continue to strain its budget by pouring millions of dollars into error-ridden and inef- Many diverse states — Tennessee, Kansas, Indiana, North Carolina, Florida, California ...

Judges and the Politics of Death, Bright & Keenan, 1995

Publication • August 3, 2016

Filed under: Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty

for politicians to demonstrate just how tough they are on crime. During California's 1990 gubernatorial primary, an aide to one Democratic candidate observed wistfully that the carrying out of an execution would ...

Prosecutorial Oversight, Innocence Project, 2016

Publication • May 26, 2016

Filed under: Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Malicious Prosecution, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment

that they cannot do it again? How have the systems been fixed to prevent future misconduct and errors? What makes you think these solutions have worked when so many people continue to be wrongfully convicted ...

Catholic University Law Review Vol 54-747 Berry M Seeking Clarity in the Federal Habeas Fog Clearly Established Law Under the Aedpa

Publication

Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus

+ Assistant Professor of Law, Chapman University School of Law. J.D., Northwestern University School of Law; B.A., Tulane University. Many thanks to Diane AtkinsonSanford, Steve Berry, Scott Howe, and Celestine ...

University of Maryland-Releasing Older Prisoners Convicted of Violent Crimes, 2022-03

Publication • 2022

Filed under: Release and Reentry

, was tried prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Batson v. Kentucky that prosecutors could not use peremptory challenges to strike jurors on the basis of race. See infra Part III.C; see also Batson v ...

Hollis v. City of Key West, FL, New Trial Motion, Police Excessive Force, 2013

Brief • August 6, 2013

Filed under: Excessive Force (Police)

by the Court B. The Court Erred in Granting Peremptory Exclusion of Black Juror Defense counsel used a preemptory challenge to strike the only black person from the juror venire. The Plaintiff timely objected ...

In Re Robert Rosenkrantz-95 Cal.App.4th 358 (2002)

Case • 2002

decision to reverse the Board's decision. In response, the Governor filed a peremptory challenge, claiming that Judge Stoltz was biased against him. (Code Civ. Proc., § 170.6.) Judge Stoltz struck ...

Baze v. Rees-128 S.Ct. 1520 (2008)

Case • 2008

procedures. Because allowing a condemned prisoner to challenge a State's execution method merely by showing a slightly or marginally safer alternative finds no support in this Court's cases, would embroil ...

Remembering Attica Forty Years Later

Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011

Filed under: Organizing, Prison Rebellion, Hunger Strikes, Protests, Statistics/Trends, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Shootings

on the outside. The recent protests embodied in the California hunger strike and its public support, following earlier work inside and outside challenging the gouging of prisoners and their families by phone ...

University of Michigan-The Fat Prisoners' Dilemma, 2022

Publication • 2022

Filed under: Discrimination, Obesity

, however. It is a heuristic that illustrates the depth of the harm of mass incarceration and the need to take disability seriously—and how complicated taking disability seriously is. Attention to the social ...

Unjust - How the Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBT People, CAP MAP AP FT JLUSA, 2016

Publication • March 7, 2016

Filed under: Discrimination, Gay/Lesbian, Prison Reform, Discrimination (Transgender), Failure to Protect (Transgender)

, and people struggling with mental illness—many of whom pose little safety threat. Meanwhile, people who were formerly incarcerated face incredible challenges simply trying to make a living and rebuild ...

Kane v. Winn-319 F.Supp.2d 162 (D.Mass. 2004)

Case • 2004

are to identify, how unlikely therapy is to help, how effective future treatments may be, and how many side effects there are, all in a way that suggests somewhat more hostility to antiviral treatment than can ...

Privatizing Criminal Procedure, Washington and Lee Public Legal Studies, 2019

Publication • January 1, 2019

Filed under: Filing Fees, Sixth Amendment, Fourth Amendment

record regarding whether and how it should consider the practical costs of recognizing a new constitutional right in the field of criminal procedure. The issue is explicitly addressed in many of the right ...

County of Los Angeles v. Gavira-139 Cal.App.4th 8, 42 Cal.Rptr.3d 390 (Cal.App. 2

Case • 2006

(Cal.App. Dist.2 05/01/2006) [1] IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT DIVISION FIVE [2] No. B188909 [3] 139 Cal.App.4th 8, 42 Cal.Rptr.3d 390 ...

Beasly School of Law Ranji-nogales Research Paper a Global Approach to Secret Evidence How Human Rights Law Can Reform Our Immigration System 2008

Publication

Filed under: International, Immigration

Beasly School of Law Ranji-nogales Research Paper a Global Approach to Secret Evidence How Human Rights Law Can Reform Our Immigration System 2008 • LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES • Research ...

Journal 11

Publication

Filed under: Magazines, ACLU National Prison Project Journal

. The California prison system today is housing men and women at 175% of capacity (a net growth of almost 200 prisoners a week). Prisoners are sleeping in hallways, chapels and gymnasiums. many of them on the floor ...

U.S. Dept of Justice-Restrictive Housing in the U.S. Issues, Challenges, and Futures Directions, Nov. 2016

Publication • 2016

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Confinement in Segregated Housing

the challenges in conducting research on restrictive housing and how to overcome them to conduct research in this space. The next chapter in the volume, written by Ryan Labrecque, focuses on two integral elements ...

IQ, Intelligence Testing, Ethnic Adjustments and Atkins, Sanger, 2015

Publication • February 11, 2016

Filed under: Disabled Prisoners, Death Penalty/Death Row

, Santa Barbara College of Law. J.D., University of California at Los Angeles; B.A., University of California at Santa Barbara. Certified Criminal Law Specialist, The State Bar of California Board of Legal ...

Sentenced to Stigma - Segregation of HIV-Positive Prisoners in AL and SC, ACLU HRW, 2010

Publication • August 3, 2016

Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS

that houses death row prisoners. In Mississippi, guards tell prisoners in the segregated HIV unit to “get your sick asses out of the way” when they pass them in the hall. Many prisoners with HIV will spend more ...