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1. Judges' individual differences in sentencing
What does the reasonable standard mean for District Court sentencing?
(February 2008)
2. Judicial Notebook--Can schools consider racial composition?
The Supreme Court weighs in on affirmative action in schools.
(October 2007)
3. Judicial Notebook--Age discrimination and disparate impact in employment
Can a company decide to lay off older employees who do not hold critical job skills and who are not flexible enough if the company does not include age in its deliberations?
(May 2007)
4. Judicial Notebook: Does equipoise offend our moral sensibilities?
Court upholds statute in which the death penalty is the default.
(December 2006)
5. Judicial Notebook: Residual doubt in death penalty cases
Can a capital murder defendant recall an earlier alibi witness to testify about the defendant's guilt during the penalty phase of a first-degree murder trial? The plurality decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Locket v. Ohio (438 U.S. 586, 604 1978) interpreted the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to allow a sentencer to consider "as a mitigating factor…any of the circumstances of the offense that the defendant proffers as a basis for a sentence less than death."
(June 2006)
6. Judicial Notebook--Religious conversion after the crime
In Brown v. Payton, the U.S. Supreme Court heard an appeal from a Californian defendant who argued that a combination of bad jury instructions and prosecutorial error prevented the jury from considering mitigating evidence in his first-degree murder trial.
(December 2005)
7. Outlawing the juvenile death penalty
By focusing death penalty research on state laws, psychologists can inform the capital punishment debate.
(June 2005)
8. Judicial Notebook--'Reasonableness' and the Patriot Act
Psychological research could shed light on a court case challenging national security letters issued by the FBI.
(December 2004)
9. Judicial notebook: Prosecutorial misconduct in death penalty cases
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the state may not suppress evidence that is material to guilt or punishment.
(June 2004)
10. Judicial notebook--Determining the death penalty for juveniles
In 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court held that execution of a youth who was less than 16 years old at the time of the crime was in violation of the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment (Thompson v. Oklahoma, 487 U.S. 815, 1988). The Court relied on an analysis of society's evolving standards of decency to conclude that the juvenile death penalty was in violation of the protections guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution.
(January 2004)

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