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Adam Liptak (born September 2, 1960 in Stamford, Connecticut) is an American journalist, lawyer and instructor in journalism. He is currently the national legal correspondent for The New York Times.

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30 Years After the Murder, Is His Appeal Too Late?

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether it is too late for an Alabama man to argue that the murder that sent him to death row was not a capital crime when he committed it. The inmate, Billy Joe Magwood, shot and killed Sheriff Neil ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times,  16 Nov 2009

You can quote me, a justice says, next week

paper's editors in chief, is a straightforward account of Kennedy's biography and his wide-ranging remarks. The article is expected to be published in the paper's next issue. WASHINGTON — The school newspaper at Dalton, a private school in Manhattan, ...

From ADAM LIPTAK NEW YORK TIMES, The San Jose Mercury News,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Anthony Kennedy

You Can Quote Me, Next Week

WASHINGTON The school newspaper at Dalton, a private school in Manhattan, contained a cryptic note from its editors last Friday. “We are not able to cover the recent visit by a Supreme Court justice due to numerous publication constraints,” the note ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dalton,  Anthony Kennedy,  Isaac Newton,  Sonia Sotomayor

Justices Consider the Role of Age in Life Sentences

WASHINGTON A majority of the justices at two Supreme Court arguments on Monday seemed inclined to find a way to take account of the age of young offenders in deciding whether they may be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. But there ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ruth Bader Ginsburg,  Stephen Breyer,  Anthony Kennedy,  Antonin Scalia

Sidebar: For Originalists, Desegregation Is a Roadblock

If there is a topic Justice Antonin Scalia does not relish discussing, it is how he would have voted in Brown v. Board of Education had he been on the Supreme Court when it was decided in 1954. The question came up last month at the University of ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Antonin Scalia,  Stephen Breyer,  Harvard University

Court to hear appeal on teens who got life

a Republican who is chairman of the House's Criminal and Civil Justice Policy Council. "I think it would be wrong for the Supreme Court to say that it was patently illegal or improper to send a youthful offender to life without parole. At a certain ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, TwinCities.com,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of South Florida,  U.S. Republican Party,  Bill McCollum

Life sentences for youths reviewed

TALLAHASSEE - There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed. All are in the United States. And 77 of them are here in ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, Boston Globe,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of South Florida,  U.S. Republican Party,  Bill McCollum

Justices Weigh Life in Prison for Youths Who Never Killed

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed. All are in the United States. And 77 of them are here in ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of South Florida,  U.S. Republican Party,  Bill McCollum

Justices, in Aftermath of 2 Murder Cases, Hear Claims of a Process Gone Wrong

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in two cases involving claims that the criminal justice system had gone badly awry. In one, Iowa prosecutors are accused of fabricating evidence that sent two innocent men to life imprisonment for ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Richter,  Anthony Kennedy,  Neal Katyal,  Sonia Sotomayor,  George W. Bush

Supreme Court Addresses Pay of Fund Advisers

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Monday appeared reluctant to allow judges to take on a major role in policing the compensation of mutual fund investment advisers. But some justices nonetheless suggested that pay arrangements could be so outsized that ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times,  2 Nov 2009

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