As this press article details, "Canada’s supreme court has ruled that life sentences without the chance of parole are both “cruel” and unconstitutional, in a landmark

decision that could give more than dozen mass killers who committed “inherently despicable acts” the faint hope of release in the future." Here is more from the [...]

are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Paper Downloads 1. The Unconstitutional Police Brandon Hasbrouck Washington and Lee University - School of Law Date Posted: 01 Apr

2022 [2nd last week] 766 2. The Just Prosecutor Brandon Hasbrouck Washington and... [...]

Mariah Haley (Columbia Law Review) has posted Unequal Treatment: (In)compassionate Release from Federal Prison in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Vaccine (Columbia

Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, has... [...]

I always find it is interesting when judges in relatively low-profile cases talk about "sending a message" at sentencing, and I suppose I should try to make a habit of helping

judges spread the messages they hope to be sending.  To that end, here I will flag this recent sentencing story out of Chicago headlined "‘You were a corruption [...]

Nirej Sekhon (Georgia State University College of Law) has posted Critical Legal Studies and the Police (Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 3, 2022) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Constitutional police regulation is a complex tangle of substantive rights,... [...]

A helpful reader altered me to an interesting ruling this week from the US Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals in In re Kawai, Misc. Dkt. No. 2022-02 (AFCCA May 25, 2022) (available

here). Here is how the opinion gets started: On 29 January 2022, Petitioner requested this court grant him extraordinary relief in what he styled as a “Motion [...]

S. Priya Morley (Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law) has posted The Many Lives of a 'Win': Canada (Attorney General) v. Downtown Eastside Sex Workers

United Against Violence Society (52 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 1240... [...]

The Supreme Court's ruling earlier this week on the limits of federal habeas review (basic here, commentary here) has folks talking a bit more about the legal mess that is

AEDPA.  The folks at The Marshall Project now have this new review under this full headline: "The 1990s Law That Keeps People in Prison on Technicalities: How the [...]

Benjamin Levin (University of Colorado Law School) has posted Criminal Law Exceptionalism (Virginia Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: For over half a

century, U.S. prison populations have ballooned and criminal codes have expanded. [...]

This new "FACT SHEET" from the White House, titled "President Biden to Sign Historic Executive Order to Advance Effective, Accountable Policing and Strengthen Public Safety,"

provides an overview of what the latest presidential EO will cover in the criminal justice space. [...]