“Appeals court vacates ‘unconscionable’ life sentence for New Orleans man over theft of $15 from ‘bait vehicle'”: John Simerman of The New Orleans Advocate has this report.

And Kevin McGill of The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court tosses life sentence for $15 theft.”

You can access Wednesday’s ruling of Louisiana’s Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal at this link.

“The Strange Case of the American Death Penalty”: Jeffrey Toobin has this post online at The New Yorker.

“Profiling State Justices on Trump’s List of Possible SCOTUS Candidates”: Adam Feldman has this post today at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Lee v. Tam: Offensive Trademarks at the Supreme Court (A Series) — Part Four: Is the Disparagement Clause Impermissible Viewpoint-Based Discrimination?” Erica Goldberg has this post at her “In a Crowded Theater” blog.

“A capital letter: Stephen Breyer urges a review of the death penalty.” Steven Mazie has this post at the “Democracy in America” blog of The Economist.

“Marvin Gaye Family Defends ‘Blurred Lines’ Trial Outcome to Appeals Court; In a brief filed Thursday, the family’s attorney Richard Busch also argues the trial judge made one crucial error that may rob pre-1978 songwriters”: Eriq Gardner has this post at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter about an appeal pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.