Tuesday, June 12, 2018

News & Notes

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1.  Brendan Dassey (from the Netflix show Making a Murderer)  is trying to get the Supreme Court to hear his case.  The NY Times covers it h...
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Monday, June 11, 2018

Still no Carpenter...

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I was waiting to blog this morning, thinking that SCOTUS would issue Carpenter today and I would have a lot to say.  But the watch is still ...
Friday, June 08, 2018

Immigration judges are judges too.

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So says Judge Jordan in this opinion dealing with an issue of first impression in the country: One of Mr. McLean’s arguments presents an...
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Thursday, June 07, 2018

BREAKING -- Ariana Fajardo Orshan nominated to be the U.S. Attorney for the SDFLA

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Here is the statement from the White House: If confirmed, Judge Ariana Fajardo Orshan will serve as the United States Attorney for the...
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Seems pretty quiet in the District right now. The Heritage Foundation's Podcast interviews CA11 Judge Kevin Newsom here . In state ...
Tuesday, June 05, 2018

SDFLA to get 6 new AUSAs...

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...but we're still waiting to see who the Big Kahuna is going to be. It's been strangely quiet on that front. Here's the list...
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Monday, June 04, 2018

End of Term opinions (UPDATED)

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UPDATED -- we have Cake but no Carpenter. It’s June, and that means the Supreme Court will be issuing the last opinions of the Term.  The...
Friday, June 01, 2018

11th Circuit vacates unreasonable sentence and pot-soaked legal papers

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This is pretty rare, and it's good to see that the 11th Circuit has taken the step of reversing a crazy-high sentence (100+ years) where...
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