If it’s the first Monday in October, it must be the first day of the Supreme Court term. Check out retired Justice John Paul Stevens’ chat with NPR’s Nina Totenberg on the one vote he regrets. And, without further adieu, ...

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Gov. O’Malley’s been pretty vocal about his opposition to the death penalty, speaking out about its fundamental wrongness and pushing hard for its abolition. The repeal efforts having failed, Charles Lane of the Washington Post wonders why O’Malley doesn’t just ...

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Happy warm-but-rainy Monday! Let’s move on from the Judge Nalley tire saga, writes Ron Miller. “Courts seem to have difficulty with the concept that a member of one minority group may discriminate against a member of the same group on ...

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Happy icy Monday! Drive and walk carefully. I don’t know how conditions are by you, but here, the roads are OK but the sidewalks are a little treacherous. Baltimore Police are sending “Dear John” letters (clever!) to guys neighborhood observers ...

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Happy Monday! Ron Miller takes issue with The Ethicist’s advice to a doctor who doesn’t want to treat a medical malpractice lawyer. In the context of why most great blawgs aren’t written by big-law types, Carolyn Elefant has this to ...

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Slate had an interesting story yesterday about the last meals of death row inmates in anticipation of convicted “Beltway Sniper” John Allen Muhammad’s execution last night in Virginia. (Muhammad chose not to reveal his last meal to the public.) The ...

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Back in 2007, I wrote about the fascinating case of a Mississippi convicted killer and the Ober Kaler lawyers who were helping with his post-conviction appeals. At first, Alan Michael Rubenstein claimed to have stumbled on the decomposing bodies of ...

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From this lengthy article in The New Yorker, it sure looks like it. If true, what does this mean for the future of the death penalty?

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Happy Monday! Page Croyder observes “serious traffic court” in Baltimore City for a day. The former prosecutor-turned-gadfly is not impressed at the sentences imposed. The Washington Post writes about how the new death penalty restrictions could affect defendants already charged ...

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Humor can be hard to come by in a federal witness murder trial in which one of the defendants faces the death penalty. But this week in Baltimore, the judge and lawyers in the case of Patrick A. Byers Jr., ...

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