Bruno, the pit bull, was killed by a police officer responding to a domestic dispute at the home of the dog’s owners. Bruno’s best…
Crime has always been and will remain a hot-button political issue. Misinformation, misrepresentations, and outright lies have become the cornerstone of American politics at…
Texas has a national and international reputation for maintaining an assembly-line death penalty operation, imposing insanely long prison sentences (e.g., 40 life sentences plus…
Missouri is a right-leaning state where the constitutional rule of law is too often usurped by the conservative political views of its public officeholders.…
If a jury convicts a defendant of capital murder in Texas, state law requires the trial court to conduct a separate sentencing proceeding before…
In the May 31, 2024 edition of The Wrongful Conviction Law Review (Vol. 5, No. 1), two distinguished experts in psychology, Matthew Barry Johnson…
In a complicated and convoluted March 15, 2024 decision,Pulsifer v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals’ interpretation…
The American Bar Association list Gideon V. Wainwright (1963) as one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s “landmark“ decisions. Gideon held that States must provide…
On April 14, 2024, the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) unanimously voted to pass a package of federal sentencing reforms dealing with acquitted conduct…
Kim Ogg, once hailed as the “reform darling” in Texas Democratic political circles after she ousted Republican control of the Harris County District Attorney’s…
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