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The Supreme Court’S Analysis Of Issues Raised By Death Penalty Litigants In The Court's 2004 Term, Richard Klein
The Supreme Court’S Analysis Of Issues Raised By Death Penalty Litigants In The Court's 2004 Term, Richard Klein
Richard Daniel Klein
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An Analysis Of Death Penalty Decisions From The October 2006 Supreme Court Term (Nineteenth Annual Supreme Court Review, October 2006 Supreme Court Term), Richard Klein
Richard Daniel Klein
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Death Penalty And Right To Counsel Decisions In The October 2005 Term, Richard Klein
Death Penalty And Right To Counsel Decisions In The October 2005 Term, Richard Klein
Richard Daniel Klein
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The Mandatory Death Penalty And A Sparsely Worded Constitution, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
The Mandatory Death Penalty And A Sparsely Worded Constitution, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
Jack Tsen-Ta LEE
It was not unexpected that the Singapore Court of Appeal would reaffirm the constitutionality of the mandatory death penalty for certain forms of drug trafficking in Yong Vui Kong v Public Prosecutor [2010] 3 S.L.R 489. ... The appellant made submissions based on Articles 9(1) and 12(1) of the Constitution, which respectively guarantee rights to life and personal liberty, and to equality before the law and equal protection of the law. This note examines aspects of the Article 9(1) arguments.
Original Habeas Redux, Lee Kovarsky
Original Habeas Redux, Lee Kovarsky
Lee Kovarsky
This article explores what is perhaps the Supreme Court’s most exotic appellate power— its authority to issue (inaptly-named) “original” writs of habeas corpus. Although I have been working on Original Habeas Redux for some time, the Troy Davis case has recently thrust this topic into the national spotlight. In Davis (2009), the Supreme Court exercised, for the first time in over forty years, its power to transfer an original habeas petition to a district court for merits adjudication. Having collected and tabulated two decades of new data, I argue that Davis is not a blip in an otherwise constant state …