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Thursday, May 27, 2010

“Solicitor General Revises Data on Federal Juvenile Sentences”: Tony Mauro has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Posted at 11:14 PM by Howard Bashman



“Yakima murder conviction overturned by state Supreme Court”: The Yakima Herald-Republic has a news update that begins, “The state Supreme Court released an opinion this morning overturning a 2007 Yakima County murder conviction on the grounds that holding the trial in the county’s jailhouse courtroom was prejudicial.”

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Wash. court: Jail trial unfair to murder defendant.”

Today’s ruling of the Washington State Supreme Court consists of a majority opinion, two concurring opinions (here and here), and two dissenting opinions (here and here).

Posted at 2:43 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Scalia: Kagan’s lack of judicial experience no bar to Supreme Court.” Robert Barnes has this article today in The Washington Post.

The Associated Press has a report headlined “Former justice: Judicial experience not an issue.”

Politico.com has an article headlined “W.H. rolls out Kagan narrative” and an op-ed by Tevi Troy entitled “Don’t expect much from Kagan e-mails.”

And in today’s edition of USA Today, Tony Mauro has an op-ed entitled “For Kagan, craftiness and candor are key to hearings.”

Posted at 10:20 AM by Howard Bashman



“Judge: bloggers’ conduct ‘pretty sad.'” Josh Gerstein has this post at his “Under the Radar” blog at Politico.com.

Posted at 7:48 AM by Howard Bashman