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slate.com - 23 days ago
Did Joe Harris Sullivan have a fair trial?
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Next week the Supreme Court will hear arguments, in Sullivan v. Florida, about whether sentencing a 13-year-old boy to prison without the possibility of parole violates the cruel-and–unusual-punishment clause of the Constitution. Joe Harris Sullivan is one of two teenagers that young currently ...
scotusblog.com - 20 days ago
Inquiring into the juvenile mind: Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida , Argument Preview
— scotusblog.com — At 10 a.m., and again at 11 a.m., on Monday, the Supreme Court will examine the latest... question on the punishment of juveniles who commit crimes — this time, crimes that do not lead to the death of the victim. Similar but not identical, the ... (more) Inquiring into the juvenile mind: Graham v. Florida  ...

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swampland.blogs.time.com - 18 days ago
Anatomy of a Health Reform Dea
— swampland.blogs.time.com — Don't the Democrats control Congress? How did Nancy Pelosi get to the point where she didn't have... enough votes in her own caucus to pass health reform unless she paved the way for language that, as Jon Cohn puts it, "mak[es] it more likely that ... (more) Anatomy of a Health Reform Dea

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balloon-juice.com - 29 days ago
Parsing Obama’s Critics
— balloon-juice.com — Sullivan doubles down : This simply doesn’t make sense. Hate crime laws for most categories, including federal... measures, have been around for a long time. The only new thing here – the only thing that has fostered “a decade of ... (more) Parsing Obama’s Critics

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Did Joe Harris Sullivan have a fair trial?
Slate Magazine — ... hear arguments, in Sullivan v. Florida, about whether sentencing a 13-year-old boy to prison without the possibility of parole violates the cruel-and–unusual-punishment clause of the Constitution. Joe Harris Sullivan is one of two teenagers that young currently doing life without parole for a nonhomicide offense in the United States. His lawyers are hoping that the court will extend its 2005 bar on executing criminals who committed crimes as juveniles to Sullivan's sentence. [more ...] ...

"18 And a Life To Go: The U.S. is the only country that sentences juveniles to life in prison without parole; Will the Supreme Court declare it unconstitutional?"
How Appealing — ... And online at Slate, Amy Bach has a jurisprudence essay entitled "All Locked Up: Did Joe Sullivan, sentenced to life at 13, have a fair trial?"

Morning Links
The Agitator — ... The Supreme Court will decide in the spring if a sentence of life without parole for juveniles in non-homicide cases is cruel and unusual punishment. But over at Slate, Amy Bach makes a convincing argument that the Court won’t be considering the more critical issue in the case of Joe Williams, the kid who brought the challenge: whether he got a fair trial in the first place. ...

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The Week Ahead — SCOTUSblog
This week the Court will hear oral argument in the following cases: Mon., Nov. 8: Graham v. Florida (08-7412)— constitutionality of life prison sentence for juvenile convicted of a non-homicide crime Sullivan v. Florida (08-7621) — same basic issue as in Graham v. Florida ; the Court, ...
Supreme Court To Hear Death in Prison for Teens Cases — TalkLeft
On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear two cases challenging laws imposing life sentences without parole on juveniles who are not convicted of murder. The cases are both from Florida: The Equal Justice Initiative has an excellent synopsis of Florida v. Sullivan and Sullivan v. Graham in ...