“Geography and the Machinery of Death”: Monday’s edition of The New York Times will contain a new installment of Adam Liptak’s “Sidebar” column (TimesSelect temporary pass-through link) that begins, “The death penalty, Justice Potter Stewart wrote in 1972, can be cruel and unusual in the way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual. But the apt metaphor for the death row inmate named Patrick D. Murphy is not meteorological. It is geographical. And geological.”
“U.S. Set to Begin a Vast Expansion of DNA Sampling”: Monday’s edition of The New York Times will contain this article.
“Supreme Court Justice Alito presides in moot court event”: This article will appear Monday in The GW Hatchet.
“Guantanamo Bay detainees face charges”: Monday’s edition of The Telegraph (UK) contains this article.
Monday’s edition of The Canberra Times contains an article headlined “Please help my boy: Father’s emotional plea to have terror suspect David Hicks brought home.”
Australia’s ABC Radio reports that “Hicks trial still a way off, lawyer says” (transcript).
The Associated Press provides reports headlined “US prosecutor attacks defense claims over Australian held at Guantanamo Bay” and “Life Harsher in New Guantanamo Unit.”
And Reuters reports that “Cubans oblivious to what goes on inside Guantanamo.”
“When life without parole is worse than death; Analysis finds more than 100 murderers who might one day go free would face certainty of dying in prison”: This article appears today in The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger (via “Sentencing Law and Policy“).
“Vice President’s Shadow Hangs Over Trial; Testimony Points Out Cheney’s Role in Trying to Dampen Joseph Wilson’s Criticism”: The Washington Post contains this article today, along with an article headlined “Libby Prosecutors Hope to Show Marked News Articles.”
Tomorrow’s issue of Legal Times will contain an article headlined “Libby Trial Makes for Strange Bedfellows; Prosecutor Fitzgerald ends up relying on former adversaries Cooper and Miller to make his perjury case” (free access).
And today in The Chicago Tribune, Alicia C. Shepard has a related op-ed entitled “An unbalanced portrayal of journalism.”
“Prisons’ legal strain: State’s costs skyrocket as correctional system struggles to comply with court orders in eight inmate rights cases.” This front page article appears today in The Sacramento Bee.
“Truly tortured logic: Canada apologizes for aiding innocent man’s torture, so why can’t we?” Columnist Robyn E. Blumner has this op-ed today in The St. Petersburg Times.
“U.S. Attorney Firings Set Stage for Congressional Battle”: The Washington Post contains this article today.
“About Isabella: Janet Jenkins and Lisa Miller got hitched and had a baby together; Vermont says that’s a simple truth; Virginia said it was all null and void; The future of a little girl hangs in the balance.” This article appears today in The Washington Post Magazine.
“O’Connor Says She Would’ve Stayed Longer”: The Associated Press provides a report that begins, “Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor would have preferred to stay on the Supreme Court for several more years until she was ill and ‘really in bad shape’ but stepped down because of her ailing husband.”
Yesterday evening, I linked here to the Newsweek article on which this AP report is based.
“Did Conservatives Really Remake the Supreme Court? A Constitutional Conversation with ABC News National Supreme Court Correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg on the release of the highly acclaimed book Supreme Conflict.” For the convenience of those of us who were not in beautiful Malibu, California on Thursday to see Jan discuss her new book at Pepperdine University School of Law with Jonathan Varat, Jesse Choper, Professor Doug Kmiec, and Dean Ken Starr, Pepperdine Law has posted online a two-part webcast of the event.
You can access the webcase by clicking here: part one; part two (Windows Media Player required) (via “Opinio Juris“).
In the February 12, 2007 issue of Time magazine: An article headlined “A Time Limit on Rape” begins, “If a woman consents to having sex with a man but then during intercourse says no, and the man continues, is it rape? The answer depends on where you live. The highest courts of seven states, including Connecticut and Kansas, have ruled that a woman may withdraw her consent at any time, and if the man doesn’t stop, he is committing rape. Illinois has become the first state to pass legislation giving a woman that right to change her mind. But in Maryland–as well as in North Carolina–when a woman says yes, she can’t take it back once sex has begun–or, at least, she can’t call the act rape.” My earlier coverage of that Maryland ruling can be accessed here.
And Michael Kinsley has an essay entitled “Free Scooter Libby!” that begins, “There is no holier icon in the church of the First Amendment than the anonymous leak.”
“The view from Guantanamo Bay”: The Toronto Star contains this article today.
And in related coverage from Australia, Monday’s edition of The Sydney Morning Herald will contain an article headlined “Retrospective law all right for Hicks: Howard.”
Monday’s edition of The Australian will report that “‘Jihad’ Jack comes to aid of Hicks.”
Monday’s edition of The Daily Telegraph will report that “Howard defends Hicks trial.”
Monday’s edition of The Herald Sun will report that “PM unmoved on Hicks.”
And The Age on Monday will contain an article headlined “The image David Hicks’ family hopes will set him free.”
“Euless pushes judge to toss Santeria suit; Priest challenging city’s ban on killing animals as affront to his faith”: This article appears today in The Dallas Morning News.
“Ruling halts courts’ use of hypnosis in evidence”: Friday’s issue of The Toronto Globe and Mail contained an article that begins, “Evidence obtained from witnesses under hypnosis is dangerously unreliable and cannot be used in Canadian courtrooms, the Supreme Court of Canada said in a major ruling yesterday.”
And The Toronto Star on Friday reported that “Canada bans post-hypnotic evidence.”
You can access Thursday’s 6-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada at this link.
