42 Years Later, Florida Supreme Court Slams The Door On Death Row Inmate’s Jailhouse Informant Appeal

Battering Rams, Reconsidered Rules: Florida High Court Rescues Evidence From Rushed Police Raids

The Florida Supreme Court upended nearly two decades of state legal precedent on Thursday, ruling that evidence seized during a valid search warrant remains admissible in court even if police officers fail to properly follow the state’s “knock-and-announce” procedures. The 6-1 decision reinstates felony charges against Keith Alexander Times of Leon County and dramatically changes [] Battering Rams, Reconsidered Rules: Florida High Court Rescues Evidence From Rushed Police Raids

The Supreme Court protected child rapists from execution. Two states said no

In 2008, the Supreme Court held that executing a man for raping a child violated the Eighth Amendment. Sixteen years later, Florida and Tennessee passed laws saying it doesn’t. One of those statutes is heading to the current Supreme Court. What happens next depends on whether five justices are willing to scrap a defective constitutional []

Supreme Court reinstates murder conviction in 1979 case of missing NYC boy

In a 6-3 ruling, the justices granted an appeal from New York prosecutors who asked the high court to overturn a federal appeals court ruling that overturned the conviction of a man accused in the 1979 case of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who was living in New York City.

Florida teen’s bid for new trial rejected in fatal shooting case that killed 15-year-old

Justice is expected to be served in the killing of 15-year-old Kayla Rincon-Miller. A Florida judge has denied a bid for a new trial from 18-year-old Thomas Stein, who was found guilty of Rincon-Miller’s first-degree felony murder and three counts of attempted murder. The incident allegedly occurred because of a misfire from the gun that...