Race of victim among factors in California death sentences, study shows
More prisoners are on California's death row for murdering whites than for killing people of any other race, despite the fact that were more black and Hispanic murder victims during the same time period, according to a new study...
Report: Dallas prosecutors considered race in jury selection
According to a report published Sunday in the Dallas Morning News , eligible black jurors were being excluded from Dallas County juries by prosecutors more than twice as frequently as whites were turned away as recently...
States brief ~ GA high court warns about jury instructions on eyewitness evidence
Leading Thursday's states brief, the Supreme Court of Georgia has warned criminal trial judges to be careful in the way they instruct juries about weighing the value of eyewitness identification. In a decision today, the Court said...
States brief ~ Eighth Circuit to reconsider MO fee on disabled parking permits
Leading Monday's states brief, the United States Supreme Court today ordered a federal appeals court to reconsider whether the state of Missouri can charge the disabled $2 for portable disabled parking placards. The placards allow disabled persons to park...
Johnson v. California, Supreme Court of the United States, June 13, 2005 [rejecting 8-1 a California Supreme Court requirement that a racially discriminatory bias can be found only if it is more likely than not that striking of a juror...
In a 6-3 decision Monday the US Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a black inmate on death row who claimed that Texas prosecutors purposely eliminated black jurors to fill the jury with whites. Justice Souter, writing for the...
A jury has delivered a $90 million verdict against Clear Channel Communications for interfering with another promoter's attempts to host motorcycle racing events in Chicago. The verdict, handed down Monday, rejected an antitrust claim against Clear Channel,...
JURIST Guest Columnist LTC John M. Bickers, a law professor at the US Military Academy at West Point, says that two recent decisions regarding the death penalty show that the Supreme Court seems to accept capital sentencing as a punishment,...
