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  1. April 26, 2024

    Thomas' Long Quest To Undo A 'Grave Constitutional Error'

    A quarter-century after Justice Clarence Thomas cast a pivotal vote against jury trial rights and rapidly regretted it, his relentless campaign to undo the controversial precedent is suddenly center stage with a serious shot at succeeding, as judges and lawyers increasingly deem the decision dubious and the U.S. Supreme Court chips away at its edges.

  2. November 22, 2023

    Triple Trouble: Justices Set To Scrutinize 3-Strikes Circuit Split

    One of the most heavily litigated laws at the U.S. Supreme Court — three-strikes sentencing instituted under a Reagan-era clampdown on street violence and drugs — returns to the high court Monday, but this visit will be anything but ordinary, occurring amid an eruption of circuit court conflicts and presenting the prospect of a jolt to the nation's criminal defense docket.

  3. March 07, 2022

    'Night Of Crime' Burglar Is No Career Criminal, Justices Say

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that a man who burglarized 10 storage units in the same facility did not commit crimes on separate "occasions" and cannot be considered a career criminal subject to a mandatory minimum sentence.

  4. October 04, 2021

    Justices Dubious About Feds' 'Career Criminal' Interpretation

    U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared unconvinced by the reasoning lower courts applied to impose a longer sentence on a convicted felon caught possessing firearms, showing stronger skepticism toward the government's position that the defendant qualified as a "career criminal."

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