Bittner v. United States: 2022-23 Supreme Court Criminal Decisions
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In Bittner v. United States, the Court faced a statutory interpretation question pertaining to the methodology of charging parties under...


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...

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...

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...

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”...

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...


Kayla Ollendorff
- Nov 10, 2022
- 3 min
The Supreme Court's opportunity to formally expand Brady
TW: sexual violence, child abuse On Aug. 26, 2022, Troy Mansfield’s attorneys filed a petition for a writ of certiorari asking the...


Bennett Nuss
- Jun 6, 2022
- 3 min
Legal tracking: Malicious prosecution at issue in Thompson v. Clarke
Malicious prosecution is a major problem in the United States. The Washington Post found government misconduct in some manner caused over...


Nikko Respeto
- May 27, 2022
- 3 min
Interstate prohibition of sports gambling: The Wire Act must go
Sports gambling is a market that has not always been legal, but that has not stopped sports bettors from placing bets on sporting events...


Bennett Nuss
- Feb 19, 2022
- 4 min
Legal tracking: Concepcion v. United States
The Supreme Court heard oral argument this term in a case that could substantively change how low-risk prisoners apply for resentencing...
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