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ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Realizing Padilla’s Promise: Ensuring Noncitizen Defendants are Advised of the Immigration Consequences of a Criminal Conviction by Yolanda Vazquez
Realizing Padilla's Promise: Ensuring Noncitizen Defendants are Advised of the Immigration Consequences of a Criminal Conviction by Yolanda Vazquez (Penn), 2011 Fordham Urban Law Journal, Forthcoming.Abstract: On March 31, 2010…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Juve priors, sentencing enhancements andAlmendarez-Torresmakes SCOTUS relist watch
Main May 17, 2012Juve priors, sentencing enhancements and Almendarez-Torres makes SCOTUS relist watch Hard-core Apprendi/Blakely fans (and perhaps only hard-core fans) should be excited to discover this paragraph that lurks…
EvidenceProf Blog
Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead: Court Considers Appeal Of Woman Represented By Fake Attorney
By Colin Miller
According to an article in the Denver Post, "[e]ver since Gwen Bergman learned that the man who represented her during her murder-for-hire trial was a fake lawyer, she has been…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Effective account ofRing’s (limited) impact a decade later
Main April 23, 2012Effective account of Ring's (limited) impact a decade laterThe Lincoln Journal Star has this effective new article concerning the Supreme Court's Sixth Amendment ruling about capital sentencing…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
DOJ’s Lafler/Frye Motion Goes Too Far
By Ellen Podgor
In companion cases decided two weeks ago, Missouri v. Frye and Lafler v. Cooper, the Supreme Court held that the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel applies to…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Justice in the Shadowlands: Pretrial Detention, Punishment, and the Sixth Amendment”
Main April 4, 2012"Justice in the Shadowlands: Pretrial Detention, Punishment, and the Sixth Amendment"The title of this post is the title of this notable new paper from Professor Laura Appleman…
The Faculty Lounge
Strip-Searches, Jails, and the Pretrial Detention as Punishment
So yesterday the Supreme Court decided, in Florence v. Bd. of Freeholders, that every person arrested and held temporarily can be subjected to a routine strip search, so long as…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Perspectives on the import and impact ofLaflerandFrye
Main March 24, 2012Perspectives on the import and impact of Lafler and FryeThe New York Times yesterday published this effective piece, headlined "Stronger Hand for Judges in the ‘Bazaar’ of…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Vacated death sentence cuts number of women on federal death row in half
Main March 24, 2012Vacated death sentence cuts number of women on federal death row in halfAs reported in this AP piece, a ruling by a federal district judge earlier this…
Supreme Court Update
Part I: Missouri v. Frye (10-444), Lafler v. Cooper (10-209) and Martinez v. Ryan (10-1001)
By Kim Rinehart
This week, the Court shone the spotlight on the Sixth Amendment with a triple feature of cases involving the ineffective assistance of counsel. The first two have created a splash:…