“St. Paul’s School and a New Definition of Rape”: Law professor Jeannie Suk has this post online at The New Yorker.

“More than a decade after release, they all come back: Silvestre Segovia had vowed that he would never return to solitary confinement.” Kevin Johnson of USA Today has this report.

“Democrats take control of state Supreme Court, win all 3 open seats”: Chris Potter has this front page article in today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The newspaper also has articles headlined “Dubow captures Superior Court seat” and “Wojcik defeats Lalley for Commonwealth Court seat.”

Wallace McKelvey of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has an article headlined “Democrats sweep Pa. judicial races, including Supreme Court.”

And NewsWorks reports that “Democrats sweep Pa. Supreme Court race.”

“Court refuses to toss out evidence in child porn conviction”: The Associated Press has this report.

And at her “Trial Insider” blog, Pamela A. MacLean has a post titled “Navy Illegally Aided Civilian Police in Child Porn Case.”

You can access today’s ruling of an 11-judge en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit — consisting of a majority opinion, two concurring opinions, and two opinions concurring in the judgment — at this link.

Readers may recall the original divided three-judge panel’s opinion, which applied the Posse Comitatus Act to order suppression of the evidence.

“Mexico’s Supreme Court Opens Door to Legalizing Marijuana Use”: Elisabeth Malkin and Azam Ahmed of The New York Times have this news update.

And The Associated Press reports that “Mexico supreme court opens door to recreational pot use.”