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Baze et al. v. Rees, Commissioner, Kentucky Department of Corrections, et al., Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Kentucky
The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling by the Kentucky Supreme Court that the Commonwealth's lethal injection protocol ...
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Added: May 02, 2008
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Derrick Kimbrough, Petitioner v. United States on Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
The Supreme Court found that a District Judge "may consider the disparity between the [Federal Sentencing] Guidelines' ...
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Added: January 03, 2008
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Brian Michael Gall, Petitioner v. United States on Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
The Supreme Court found that a sentence constituting a substantial variance from the range recommended by the Federal ...
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Added: January 03, 2008
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Jones v. Bock, Warden, et al., Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
"Held: The Sixth Circuit's rules [requiring prisoners to exhaust prison grievance procedures before filing suit] are not ...
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Added: February 26, 2007
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Cunningham v. California, Certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District
"Held: The DSL (determinate sentencing law), by placing sentence-elevating factfinding within the judge's province, ...
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Added: February 22, 2007
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Beard, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections v. Banks, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated
The issue of whether restricting the availability of newspapers, magazines, and photographs to level 2 inmates housed in the ...
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Added: October 31, 2006
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Wilkinson, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et at. v. Austin et al.
The court held theta the "procedures by which Ohio's New Policy classifies prisoners for placement at its Supermax facility ...
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Added: October 31, 2006
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Cutter et al. v. Wilkinson, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al.
"Held: Section 3 of RLUIPA [Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000], on its face, qualifies as a ...
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Added: October 31, 2006
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Roper, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons, Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Missouri; Roper v. Simmons
"Held: The Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid imposition of the death penalty on offenders who were under the age of ...
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Added: October 31, 2006
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United States v. Booker Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Court
Access to a syllabus in which the U.S. Supreme Court concludes that the "Sixth Amendment as construed in Blakely applies to ...
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Added: October 31, 2006
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