July 29, 2011 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Yesterday the First Circuit heard argument about an ongoing life and death tussle between Gov. Chafee and the U.S. U.S. v. Pleau, No. 11-1775. Rhode Island doesn't have the death penalty....
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July 25, 2011 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
The First Circuit recently issued two decisions that discuss at some length two fundamental legal concepts. One relates to criminal law - the Ex Post Facto clause (Evans v. Gerry, http://ww...
July 8, 2011 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Last year I had the good fortune of participating in one of the Law Court's October arguments held in at a high school, before students. One of the arguments had to do with sentencing, and...
July 5, 2011 / June 15, 2016 by mindgrub
Last week, reversing Judge Woodcock, the First Circuit (Lipez,, J., with Judges Howard and Boudin on the panel) held that a claim by an inmate of the Maine State Prison raised a dispute of f...
