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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Courts - "Justices Rule on Prison Time for Juveniles, Sex Offenders"
Updating yesterday's ILB entry on the two big rulings yesterday from the SCOTUS, Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal have this review of the opinions today, that begins:
In a pair of major criminal law decisions on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Eighth Amendment does not allow sentences of life in prison without parole for juveniles who committed nonhomicide crimes and upheld a federal law permitting sexually dangerous inmates to be confined beyond their prison terms.Comprehensive background on the opinions is available via the SCOTUSblog Wiki.
Prof. Berman of Sentencing Law & Policy has blogged extensively on both opinions.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 18, 2010 09:22 AM
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