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Criminal Justice News This Week (week of 10-19-20)
Will SCOTUS Take Up Case About Georgia Lynching and Grand Juries? "At issue is an upended 1984 precedent holding that courts had inherent authority to release grand jury records in exceptional cases."
Ohio inmates’ gun penalties under review after court ruling “An undetermined number of Ohio inmates who are serving additional time because firearms were involved in their crimes could see their sentences reduced in light of a recent court ruling, a top lawyer for the state prison system told The Associated Press.”
Fight for Don McGahn's Testimony Goes to Full DC Circuit, Again "The en banc court will weigh whether the House has a cause of action to sue to enforce its subpoenas.")
Ohio Supreme Court to decide whether state’s death penalty protocol is invalid “The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear whether the state’s execution protocol is invalid because it didn’t go through the proper rule-making procedures.”
SCOTUS Confronted With Racist and Discriminatory History of Cannabis Criminalization "In a landmark appeal that could change U.S. drug policy forever, nine amicus briefs were filed with the U.S. Supreme Court demanding that the federal statute that criminalizes marijuana, the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), be declared unconstitutional."
U.S. Schedules First Execution of a Woman in Nearly 70 Years "Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, was convicted of killing a pregnant woman and attempting to pass the baby off as her own."
Failures of grand jury process evident in Breonna Taylor case "Process originally meant to be 'bulwark ... between the ordinary citizen and an overzealous prosecutor' has turned one-sided and is in dire need of transparency, reform."
Taking Back Our Privacy "Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of the end-to-end encrypted messaging service Signal, is 'trying to bring normality to the Internet.'"
