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"I think this has to be the Supreme Court," says Easha Anand, a professor at Stanford Law School and a former attorney at the MacArthur Justice Center, where she represented several people who were sentenced based on acquitted conduct. "The sentencing commission is making a policy determination about how it's…
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Whose Rights Are They, Anyway? Juror Secrecy versus Defendants’ Right to Impartial Trial: SCOTUS to Hear Clinic’s Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear argument in Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado, which asks whether the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury requires defendants in criminal cases to be allowed to introduce testimony from jurors to prove that racial bias infected jury deliberations. At the heart of the case is…
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