April 26, 2024
A quarter-century after Justice Clarence Thomas cast a pivotal vote against jury trial rights and rapidly regretted it, his relentless campaign to undo the controversial precedent is suddenly center stage with a serious shot at succeeding, as judges and lawyers increasingly deem the decision dubious and the U.S. Supreme Court chips away at its edges.
November 22, 2023
One of the most heavily litigated laws at the U.S. Supreme Court — three-strikes sentencing instituted under a Reagan-era clampdown on street violence and drugs — returns to the high court Monday, but this visit will be anything but ordinary, occurring amid an eruption of circuit court conflicts and presenting the prospect of a jolt to the nation's criminal defense docket.
March 07, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that a man who burglarized 10 storage units in the same facility did not commit crimes on separate "occasions" and cannot be considered a career criminal subject to a mandatory minimum sentence.
October 04, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared unconvinced by the reasoning lower courts applied to impose a longer sentence on a convicted felon caught possessing firearms, showing stronger skepticism toward the government's position that the defendant qualified as a "career criminal."