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So just how advisory are the “advisory” federal sentencing guidelines?
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Read More »BLAWG LOG: Hylton on Superman and the Rule of Law; O’Hear on habeas roundup
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of Superman in Action Comics #1.
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Read More »BLAWG LOG: O’Hear on Milwaukee: The most dangerous size
Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics issued a new report compiling nearly two decades of data on gun crime, Firearm Violence, 1993-2011.
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Read More »BLAWG LOG: O’Hear on developments affecting right to counsel; Greipp on dogs and contracts
In three cases since 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court has seemingly strengthened the chronically anemic right to effective assistance of counsel.
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Read More »BLAWG LOG: O’Hear on Dorsey v. US: So long, saving statute?; Helding on from council to counsel: Reflections of a lawmaker turned law student
Last month, in Dorsey v. United States (No. 11-5683), the Supreme Court resolved an important circuit split on the interpretation of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010.
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Read More »BLAWG LOG: O’Hear on SCOTUS decides Blueford
On some apparently flimsy evidence of intent to kill, the State of Arkansas prosecuted Alex Blueford for the capital murder of his girlfriend’s one-year-old son.
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Read More »BLAWG LOG: Houghton on John Paul Stevens’ restraint; O’Hear on private prisons, accountability
After he retired in 2010, John Paul Stevens published "Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir."
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Read More »BLAWG LOG: O’Hear on the effect of truth in sentencing
Previous posts in this series have examined the latest available incarceration data from Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. This post considers historical data. I’m particularly interested in the impact of a major change in sentencing law that was adopted in Wisconsin in 1998.
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Read More »BLAWG LOG: Hylton on starting your own baseball league
Am I right to assume that Organized Baseball today would reject an application from a well-funded, well-organized independent league that wanted to join the National Association?
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Read More »BLAWG LOG: O’Hear on a tale of three states
It may be as accurate to say that Wisconsin’s lower imprisonment rate leads to its lower crime rate, as it is to say that Wisconsin’s lower crime rate leads to its lower imprisonment rate. There is probably a certain amount of truth to both propositions.
Read More »BLAWG LOG: Judge DiMotto on juror conduct during trial
When a jury is selected to try a case, the trial judge has the responsibility to ensure that the jury's verdict is based on three things, and three things alone.
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Read More »BLAWG LOG: O’Hear on no harm, no foul — but how do you know if there was harm?
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that gives the Court an opportunity to clarify a longstanding ambiguity in harmless error law.
Read More »BLAWG LOG: O’Hear on life without parole for juveniles
Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in two new cases that will test the limits of the Court’s important 2010 ruling in Graham v. Florida, which banned the sentence of life without possibility of parole for most juvenile offenders.
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Read More »BLAWG LOG: Frank Daily on the Civil War sesquicentennial; O’Hear on contacts between police, public
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War or, as my friends in the South prefer to call it, the “War of Northern Aggression.”
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Read More »BLAWG LOG: Pettit on holdover damages; O’Hear on the Commerce Clause
After a landlord has had her rental property returned through an eviction action or the tenant vacating of their own accord, a landlord has the option of pursuing the ex-tenant for money damages.
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Read More »BLAWG LOG: Cicchini on surplus graduates; O’Hear on the right to counsel
For the second time this month, the Court has granted certiorari in a case dealing with the right to counsel in collateral proceedings.
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Read More »BLAWG LOG: Pettit on the right to enter; O’Hear on the Contracts Clause
Unbeknownst to many tenants, a landlord has a legal right to enter his tenant’s rental unit in certain circumstances. The rental unit is still the landlord’s property and the law provides a landlord with the right to access that property.
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Read More »BLAWG LOG: Schucha on accessing appellate briefs; O’Hear on LWOP for juveniles
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday approved the sentence of life without possibility of parole for 14-year-olds who are convicted of first-degree intentional homicide.
Read More »BLAWG LOG: O’Hear on incarceration rates; Hannibal on arbitration
Given the many demographic and cultural similarities between these Midwestern neighbors, I’ve long been intrigued by how dramatically different the incarceration rates are in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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Read More »O’Hear on affective forecasting; DiMotto on Dauber
Pettit on rejecting rental applicants; O’Hear on captive audiences
O’Hear on mandatory minimums; Esenberg on E-discovery
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Read More »Schober on property condition reports; O’Hear on the federal murder statute
Cicchini on Miranda warnings; O’Hear on the PLRA
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