Habeas Corpus

In a new twist to the saga of former President Alfonso Portillo (2000-2004), on Nov. 15, President Alvaro Colom officially ratified the extradition order that will allow the former president to face trial...

Do your client communications more closely resemble "Moby Dick" than Ashton Kutcher's latest tweet? If so, you might want to consider cutting a few words before hitting "send." Clients today receive their information...

A year after holding that sentencing a juvenile to life without parole in non-murder cases violates the Constitution's Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to...

Aliens who were in the country illegally cannot obtain damages from federal agents for their allegedly unconstitutional detention, the 9th Circuit has ruled in affirming judgment. The four plaintiffs sought political asylum in...

Sometimes criminal defense attorneys mess up. But just what, if any, constitutional remedy is available to defendants when their attorneys are ineffective at the plea bargaining stage? During oral arguments in the case...

HEADNOTE In a criminal justice system where guilty pleas are the norm and trials the rare exception, the issue of how much discovery a defendant is entitled to before allocution has immense significance....

In a case representing a record third exoneration in one year, NCIP lawyers assist in getting a Los Angeles man's murder and attempted robbery convictions set aside by uncovering new evidence of innocence...

LA PRESENCE MIGRANTE CHINOISE au Canada remonte a la ruee vers l'or de 1858, sur la riviere Fraser, en Colombie-Britannique actuelle. Un contexte economique precaire ainsi qu'une discrimination faciale de plus en plus...

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................... 1456 II. Pre-9/11 Terrorism Jurisprudence ......................................... 1459 A. The First Appearance of "Terrorism" ................................... 1460 B. Criminal Syndicalism ............................................................ 1461 C. From World War II Through the...

HEADNOTE Ghostwriting should be recognized as a legitimate means of providing limited legal representation to those unable to afford full representation in order to provide them access to justice. You're an attorney -...

Untangling the twists of habeas corpus Habeas for the Twenty-First Century, by Nancy J. King & Joseph L. Hoffmann. University of Chicago Press. 2011. 272 pages. $45.00 Take it from me. The One...

HEADNOTE How can we make the American criminal justice system more just? Jrustice means, first and foremost, ensuring that defendants are not onvicted of crimes they did not commit. The criminal justice system's...

By midafternoon on May 11, the maximum-security section in the Centro Penitenciario La Reforma, Costa Rica's major jail facility, was about to become the starting point of a bloody prison-break attempt, which was...

HEADNOTE The inflexible application of the "extrajudicial source" test to the fact-finder judge imperils public faith in the impartial decision maker - the heart of due process. Should the standard for récusai differ...

INTRODUCTION ....................................................... 952 I. LIBERTY AND EXTERNALTTLES-A COASEAN VIEW OF FREEDOM ................................................ 958 II. THE SUPREME COURT AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT ......................................................... 963 A. District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City...

HEADNOTE Since the Middle Ages, bankruptcy laws have been concerned with preventing and deterring fraudulent debtors, most notably debtors who willfully fail to fully disclose all of their assets to their creditors. This...

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a defendant in a state criminal case has a federal constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel in his first postconviction proceeding in light...

Republican lawmakers in Nassau County were stymied today in their attempt to redraw the district lines for legislative districts after a State Supreme Court justice granted a temporary restraining order putting a stop...

La Habana, 4 May (Notimex).- Un comité internacional convocó para este jueves a una jornada mundial por la libertad de cinco agentes cubanos encarcelados en Estados Unidos convictos de espionaje, mientras un alto...