Add to ORKGA key component of America’s adversarial, case-based system of law is that each case usually produces a winner, someone who benefits from the application of a legal rule to the facts of their controversy. Of all cases, winners and losers in criminal law are most significant because losing often means a considerable loss in personal freedom. This Article analyzes the winners and losers of criminal appeals before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court as a way of trying to learn about how that court conducts its business and makes decisions in one of its most crucial functions—being the final arbiters of justice in state criminal law. The results indicate a court that rules overwhelmingly against defendants on appeal, but that has drifted b...
With its 2019-20 Term disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court released just 53 signed ...
This article aims to give a succinct review of notable criminal law and procedure cases decided by t...
This Article presents the results of a study conducted to see whether state supreme courts selected ...
A key component of America’s adversarial, case-based system of law is that each case usually produce...
Perhaps to most observers, the blockbusters from the United States Supreme Court’s 2010-2011 Term we...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s October 2008 Term gave us a number of very important criminal law and proce...
Although few dispute the appellate process\u27s centrality to justice systems, especially in the cri...
Every state provides appellate review of criminal judgments, yet little research examines which fact...
Last year’s review was titled One Term, Two Courts, and it noted some of the differences in the Cour...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s October 2007 Term had a substantial and notable criminal docket. There were...
In this term, as in the previous one, the United States Supreme Court reasserted the rule of law in ...
The contemporary criminal justice system is guided, in large part, from the top down. A great deal o...
Issues that are hot one Term are sometimes cold the next. In contrast with the 2008 Term—when the Co...
The 2004-2005 Term of the Supreme Court off e red no blockbuster rulings. Nonetheless, in what turne...
This article examines the decisions of litigants in criminal cases to appeal decisions from the U.S....
With its 2019-20 Term disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court released just 53 signed ...
This article aims to give a succinct review of notable criminal law and procedure cases decided by t...
This Article presents the results of a study conducted to see whether state supreme courts selected ...
A key component of America’s adversarial, case-based system of law is that each case usually produce...
Perhaps to most observers, the blockbusters from the United States Supreme Court’s 2010-2011 Term we...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s October 2008 Term gave us a number of very important criminal law and proce...
Although few dispute the appellate process\u27s centrality to justice systems, especially in the cri...
Every state provides appellate review of criminal judgments, yet little research examines which fact...
Last year’s review was titled One Term, Two Courts, and it noted some of the differences in the Cour...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s October 2007 Term had a substantial and notable criminal docket. There were...
In this term, as in the previous one, the United States Supreme Court reasserted the rule of law in ...
The contemporary criminal justice system is guided, in large part, from the top down. A great deal o...
Issues that are hot one Term are sometimes cold the next. In contrast with the 2008 Term—when the Co...
The 2004-2005 Term of the Supreme Court off e red no blockbuster rulings. Nonetheless, in what turne...
This article examines the decisions of litigants in criminal cases to appeal decisions from the U.S....
With its 2019-20 Term disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court released just 53 signed ...
This article aims to give a succinct review of notable criminal law and procedure cases decided by t...
This Article presents the results of a study conducted to see whether state supreme courts selected ...