BY TAMARA RICE LAVE — On November 14, 2007, 61-year-old retiree Joe Horn called 911 to report that two African-American men had broken into the house next door to him in Pasadena, Texas. Two months earlier, on September 1, Texas’ recently enacted Castle Law (modeled on Florida’s Stand Your Ground law) went into effect. Horn […]
BY REBECCA SHARPLESS & ANDREW STANTON — In Padilla v. Kentucky, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment requires defense attorneys to counsel their non-citizen clients about the immigration consequences of a plea. Padilla had pled guilty in state court to a drug crime. After his conviction became final, he filed a state […]
By ANDREW L. ADLER — At the center of modern-day federal habeas jurisprudence is the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”). Designed by Congress to “further the principles of comity, finality, and federalism,” AEDPA dramatically changed the law of habeas corpus. Nowhere were these changes felt more than in the context of […]
BY ANAILI MEDINA — High school: a place to meet people? Make friendships? Make mistakes? Or get into relationships that last, end, or get you in jail? High school students usually span from ages fourteen to eighteen. Freshmen and seniors may have elective classes and/or play sports together. They may have common friends and common […]
BY DAN WOLFE — Arguably one of the greatest revolutions of our time, the Internet continues to find ways to make our lives easier every day. This author remembers when his fifth-grade teacher first allowed his class to use Internet sources for history reports. Even at ten years old, this author could appreciate how much […]
