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...since. Under a 1994 state law called the Sexually Violent Predator Act, a judge ordered Hendricks confined indefinitely after ruling that his "mental abnormality" made him likely to attack again. Hendricks challenged the constitutionality of that law, but last week, in a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld...
Earlier this week, Justice James F. McHugh dismissed charges against defendant Brian Sinclair deeming them not proven. The cases against the remaining six defendants were upheld and sent to the jury, according to Abramian's attorney, John G. Swomley...
...very reluctant to expand the concept of right to privacy, but they're not retrenching either. That suggests that the states, particularly those with constitutions which protect the right to privacy, will still have the freedom to argue this out individually." Under the unanimous decision today, the Court upheld state laws in New York and Washington that make it a crime for doctors to administer lethal drugs to terminally ill patients who want to die. A November referendum in Oregon on a state law which allows doctor-assisted suicides will be one key testing ground for whether states will still...
...basis of flimsy evidence, jury whim, prosecutorial misconduct or the luck of the draw. Stephen Bright, director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, says that in three capital cases in Houston recently defense lawyers were observed to be sleeping during the trial. All three convictions were upheld on appeal, and one of the defendants has been executed...
...that the law discriminates against the beliefs of anti-abortion protesters and violates their right of free speech and assembly. They also said that Congress lacked authority to pass the measure. A federal judge and the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia had both previously upheld the law, stating it prohibits conduct, not speech, and simply aims to further the government's interest in providing safe access to reproductive health services...