Archive for November, 2009
Upcoming Supreme Court Cases, Part II
Thursday, November 12th, 2009To follow up on last month’s post, we have two more cases worth monitoring:
Graham v. Florida / Sullivan v. Florida
These two cases involves the Eighth Amendment’s preclusion of cruel and unusual punishment. At issue is whether life imprisonment, with no possibility for parole, for juveniles on nonhomicide charges, violates the Eighth Amendment.
Neither Graham’s nor Sullivan’s [...]