Bennett Nuss
Bittner v. United States: 2022-23 Supreme Court Criminal Decisions
In Bittner v. United States, the Court faced a statutory interpretation question pertaining to the methodology of charging parties under...
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Bennett Nuss
- Aug 9
- 3 min
Samia v. United States: 2022-23 Supreme Court Criminal Decisions
Samia v. United States was decided on June 23, 2023. According to the facts of the case, in 2012, Paul LeRoux tasked petitioner Adam...
Matthew Hughes
- Aug 8
- 10 min
Sixth Amendment Protections for Attorney-Client Communications
To read the entire article, click here for the PDF. Abstract The Supreme Court in Weatherford v. Bursey in 1977 assumed without deciding...
Jeffrey Woolf
- Aug 8
- 13 min
Game Theory Optimized Fraud:
How the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act Created a Virtually Risk-Free Environment for White Collar Crime in Online Poker To...
Bennett Nuss
- Jul 24
- 4 min
United States v. Hansen: 2022-23 Supreme Court Criminal Decisions
In another case dealing with speech related crimes, the Supreme Court had to decide whether a federal law criminalizing “encouraging or...
Bennett Nuss
- Jul 16
- 3 min
Pugin v. Garland: 2022-23 Supreme Court Criminal Decisions
In Pugin v. Garland, the Court was tasked with resolving a circuit split over whether an independent offense “relating to obstruction of...
Bennett Nuss
- Jul 13
- 4 min
Counterman v. Colorado: 2022-23 Supreme Court Criminal Decisions
Counterman v. Colorado specifically dealt with the standard by which a criminal defendant can be found to have made a “true threat of...
Kirsten Rowe
- Jul 7
- 3 min
Visitation and protecting rights of incarcerated parents
According to the Prison Policy Initiative, approximately 47% of individuals incarcerated are parents of minors, with 19% of those...
Bennett Nuss
- Jun 27
- 2 min
Smith v. United States: 2022-23 Supreme Court criminal decisions
In Smith v. United States, the Northern District of Florida indicted Timothy Smith for theft of trade secrets of a website company with...
Bennett Nuss
- Apr 30
- 6 min
Legal tracking: Plea deals are an unjust bargain
Writers: Bennett Nuss, Devin Iorio, Siena Roberts The United States criminal court system is generally overwhelmed. According to the...
Madelyn Nessler
- Apr 26
- 3 min
Human trafficking: The modern-day slavery
Globalization has undoubtedly facilitated the growth of businesses, technology, culture and communication as goods and services are...
Caitlyn Greene
- Apr 26
- 4 min
Juvenile brains are different, their mens rea analysis should be too
Courts should apply a child-centered mens rea analysis for all cases adjudicating juveniles, also known as the “reasonable child”...
Siena Roberts
- Apr 26
- 3 min
Why do we love true crime? The phenomenon behind our obsession
If you go on the Podcast charts on Apple or Spotify, you will find that at least three of the top 10 podcasts are true crime related....
Samuel Disario
- Apr 25
- 2 min
Cruel and unusual or adequate healthcare: Looking at the circuit split
In 1976, the United States Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision where the Court interpreted the Eighth Amendment’s “cruel and...
Sarah Pape
- Apr 25
- 4 min
Running an inherent risk: Executing the innocent
Charles Flores is a man with an innocence claim facing execution on Texas Death Row. Twenty-four years ago, Flores went to prison for the...
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