Supreme Court Addresses Prison Sentences
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WASHINGTON - Federal sentencing guidelines that allow judges to impose harsher penalties on criminals without jury involvement should be upheld as constitutional to avoid mayhem in courthouses nationwide, a government lawyer told the Supreme Court Monday.   "This case concerns the constitutionality of 1,200 criminal sentences that take place in federal court every week," said acting Solicitor General Paul Clement...
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The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider the constitutionality of a federal law that requires state prisons to accommodate inmate religions, from Christianity to Satanism.
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Excerpts from Monday's arguments before the Supreme Court on a challenge to the three-drug system of lethal injection used on death row inmates in Kentucky and other states:
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The Supreme Court is meeting to announce new cases it will decide and hear oral arguments.
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The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Friday it would hear appeals by Guantanamo prisoners arguing they have the right to challenge their confinement before federal judges, a test of President George W. Bush's powers in the war on terrorism.
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A possible revolution in the federal criminal justice system will be on the agenda when the Supreme Court opens its new term tomorrow.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; The U.S. Supreme Court, hearing arguments in an unusual segregation case, challenged California state lawyers Tuesday over a prison policy that separates inmates by race for their first 60 days behind bars.
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The U.S. Supreme Court opened its new term on Monday, with two hours of arguments on federal sentencing rules and the rejection of some 1,800 appeals, including a challenge by telemarketers to the government's popular do-not-call list.
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The US Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a case involving a Maine drug dealer that is expected to redefine and end confusion about the country&#39;s entire criminal sentencing system.
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The U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term on Monday that will decide important cases on federal sentencing rules, the death penalty for juveniles and the medical use of marijuana.
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The Supreme Court said yesterday that it will decide whether the death penalty may be imposed on someone who rapes a child, reopening the issue of which crimes are punishable by death.
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WASHINGTON â The Supreme Court on Monday heard starkly different descriptions of Kentuckyâs method of putting people to death, with a lawyer for a condemned prisoner asserting there is an unacceptable risk of agony and a lawyer for the state saying nothing could be further from the truth.
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Foreigners imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay want the Supreme Court to rule quickly on their legal rights, before the justices go off on their summer break.
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The justices begin their term Monday by reviewing judges' role in federal sentences.
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The United States Supreme Court agreed to hear claims of GuantÃ¡namo detainees that they had a right to challenge their detention in American courts.
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The US Supreme Court questioned on Wednesday whether world opinion against the death penalty for juveniles should influence its decision on the constitutionality of executing
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The U.S. Supreme Court said on  Tuesday it would decide the constitutionality of a 2000 federal  law protecting the religious rights of prisoners.