Articles by ADAM LIPTAKhttp://labs.daylife.com/journalist/adam_liptakArticles by ADAM LIPTAK, aggregated by daylife.comen-usTue, 24 Nov 2009 07:38:29 GMTTue, 24 Nov 2009 07:38:29 GMTDaylife Betaken@daylife.comken@daylife.comIn Supreme Court Spotlight, Challenges to Criminal Justicehttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=ff7530a3c386b1cf21a6de476771d5c0WASHINGTON In the next several months, the Supreme Court will decide at least a half-dozen cases about the rights of people accused of crimes involving drugs, sex and corruption. Civil liberties groups and associations of defense lawyers have lined up ...Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:12:20 GMThttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=ff7530a3c386b1cf21a6de476771d5c0Heritage FoundationU.S. Republican PartyCato InstituteEdwin MeeseRonald Reagan30 Years After the Murder, Is His Appeal Too Late?http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=37bf316c7ff23b722b7d820504a15ec5WASHINGTON 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 ...Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:01:08 GMThttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=37bf316c7ff23b722b7d820504a15ec5You Can Quote Me, Next Weekhttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=fea1d1f7f2d6bbf436a33199ae22e067WASHINGTON 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 ...Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:46:09 GMThttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=fea1d1f7f2d6bbf436a33199ae22e067DaltonAnthony KennedyIsaac NewtonSonia SotomayorJustices Consider the Role of Age in Life Sentenceshttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=37ad13f93d0e12924daee0d3eaed2986WASHINGTON 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 ...Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:47:27 GMThttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=37ad13f93d0e12924daee0d3eaed2986Ruth Bader GinsburgStephen BreyerAnthony KennedyAntonin ScaliaSidebar: For Originalists, Desegregation Is a Roadblockhttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=b46cf011e9552cc174451d9307fd17edIf 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 ...Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:41:05 GMThttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=b46cf011e9552cc174451d9307fd17edAntonin ScaliaStephen BreyerHarvard UniversityCourt to hear appeal on teens who got lifehttp://www.twincities.com/national/ci_13744469?source=rssa 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 ...Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:56:03 GMThttp://www.twincities.com/national/ci_13744469?source=rssUniversity of South FloridaU.S. Republican PartyBill McCollumLife sentences for youths reviewedhttp://feeds.boston.com/click.phdo?i=d98fc447810917d630efb76900f7edf2TALLAHASSEE - 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 ...Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:05:35 GMThttp://feeds.boston.com/click.phdo?i=d98fc447810917d630efb76900f7edf2University of South FloridaU.S. Republican PartyBill McCollumJustices Weigh Life in Prison for Youths Who Never Killedhttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=8547517d1c4941e7e573024d957ea5a6TALLAHASSEE, 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 ...Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:49:05 GMThttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=8547517d1c4941e7e573024d957ea5a6University of South FloridaU.S. Republican PartyBill McCollumJustices, in Aftermath of 2 Murder Cases, Hear Claims of a Process Gone Wronghttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=3a58f19dd28af7b0a0a938102cd840ecWASHINGTON 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 ...Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:05:15 GMThttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=3a58f19dd28af7b0a0a938102cd840ecDavid RichterAnthony KennedyNeal KatyalSonia SotomayorGeorge W. Bush