Criminal Law
Commonwealth v. Eldred
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds Drug-Free Probation Requirement Enforceable for Defendant with Substance Use Disorder.
Eighth Amendment
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Eighth Amendment
Manning v. Caldwell
Fourth Circuit Declines to Apply Justice White’s Concurrence in Powell v. Texas as Binding Precedent.
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Civil Rights
Palakovic v. Wetzel
Third Circuit Holds Parents of Mentally Ill Young Man Held in Solitary Confinement Stated Claims of Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
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Eighth Amendment
United States v. Slatten
D.C. Circuit Holds It Cruel and Unusual to Impose Mandatory Thirty-Year Sentence on Military Contractors for Gun Charge.
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Sentencing
Lucero v. People
Colorado Supreme Court Holds that Aggregate Term-of-Years Sentences Can Never Implicate Eighth Amendment Restrictions on Juvenile Life Without Parole.
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Constitutional Law
United States v. Sanchez-Gomez
Ninth Circuit Deems Unconstitutional Routine Shackling in Pretrial Proceedings.
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Capital Punishment
Courting Abolition
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Capital Punishment
Kansas v. Carr
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Eighth Amendment
Montgomery v. Louisiana
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Eighth Amendment
Statement of Interest of the United States, Bell v. City of Boise