Post Tagged with: "Due Process"

• Update: SCOTUS justices fail to see need for new eyewitness rule

  By Bill O'Neil, Courts, Criminal Justice, Original Content November 7, 2011 11:45 am no comments

  Members of the Supreme Court seemed skeptical last Wednesday when asked to establish a new constitutional rule prohibiting the use of unreliable eyewitness testimony at criminal trials.  Under existing law, unreliable eyewitness testimony is excludable only when the source of unreliability stems from police misconduct.  In Perry v. New Hampshire, Public [...]

   

• Fairness in College Justice – Where Are We Now?

  By Stephen Henrick, Education, Issue Areas, Outside Author March 15, 2011 10:43 am 1 comment

  By Stephen Henrick “It is shocking,” wrote Professor Warren Seavy, “that the officials of a state educational institution, which can function properly only if our freedoms are preserved, should not understand the elementary principles of fair play. It is equally shocking to find that a court supports them in denying [...]

   

• PA Chief Judge has routinely accepted gifts, including from parties before him

  By Jon Cioschi, Courts November 27, 2010 12:25 am no comments

  Mark Faziollah and Joseph Tanfani of the Philly Inquirer report that disclosures of Ronald D. Castille, the chief judge of the PA Supreme Court, show “routine[]  accept[ance of]  dinners, plane rides, tickets to sporting events, and rounds of golf from lawyers and businessmen, some of them with cases that go before [...]