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Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I have long been a fan of textualist approaches to the Constitution because, at the very least, textualism provides a useful starting point for constitutional debates. And, in some prior posts (see here and here and here ), I have suggested that a textualist approach to the Eighth Amendment might make some seemingly hard cases not quite so hard. In my mind, the Sullivan case argued yesterday...
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Crime and Consequences Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Now this is really sweet. The Sullivan case contains a major jurisdictional question of whether the state court decision rests on independent state grounds. Counsel for Sullivan, Bryan Stevenson, completely ignored that question in his principal brief on the merits....
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Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The title of this post is the headline of this new piece at Slate. Here is how the piece gets started: Next week the Supreme Court will hear arguments, in Sullivan v. Florida, about whether sentencing a 13-year-old boy to...
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Sports Media Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
I read a pretty interesting piece the other day on the Associated Press Sports Editors website from Boston Globe sports editor Joe Sullivan. The article was titled “Fending off the ESPN.com Invasion.” It’s a small window into the world of the Globe circa August when things seemed darkest for the paper. The Globe was up for sale, its [...]
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Jazz Lives (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... I always remember in the version by the Capitol Jazzmen (1943) with Jack Teagarden, Jimmy Noone, Joe Sullivan, and even Billy May capably playing the jazz. This version was neither lachrymose nor apologetic: it was the musical equivalent of, “I’m really sorry. I won’t do it again. Have a Boddington'” Then, a wonderful pop / jazz tune (from Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer), TOO MARVELOUS FOR...
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High school sports (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Gavin Brown of the North Central High School rugby team, Christian Shupay from the Broad Ripple Park Rugby Club, and Bishop Chatard's Joe Sullivan and Gregory Wood attended a development camp held by USA Rugby coaches in Glendale, Colo. and earned honorable mention All-American honors. It was the first time USA Rugby's High School All-Americans program was held with 40 players were invited...
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post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... who haven't killed to die in prison decades after their crimes were committed. The cases involve Joe Sullivan, 34, who raped a 72-year-old woman when he was 13, and Terrance Graham, 22, who orchestrated a home invasion while on parole for armed burglary when he was 17. Such crimes deserve years of punishment, reflection and repentance. But does society require that a minor, whose judgment...
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
In 1989, Joe Sullivan got life without parole in rape -- now Supreme Court is considering his case We like to think people can overcome their environment. But perhaps that was a bit much to ask of Joe Sullivan.
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Bossip (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Teens Terrance Graham and Joe Sullivan were locked up for life at age 15 and 13. Graham was convicted of a home invasion and Sullivan for rape at 13. The NY Times has a debate going on. One debater says the following: Children do not have fully matured levels of judgment or impulse control, and [...]
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Don't Tase Me, Bro! (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
You won't likely hear this answer on Jeopardy anytime soon: "Is the only country in the developed world where minors, even children as young as 13 are regularly put in prison for life without parole, even for non-murder offenses." But in case you do the question is "What is the United States?" ACLU blog reports Today, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Sullivan v. Florida and Graham v. Florida...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible, although he was only 13 at the time of the attack.Terrance Graham, implicated in armed robberies when he was 16 and 17, was given a life...
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TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear two cases challenging laws imposing life sentences without parole on juveniles who are not convicted of murder. The cases are both from Florida: The Equal Justice Initiative has an excellent synopsis of Florida v. Sullivan and Sullivan v. Graham in layman's terms. Both cases ask the Court to address whether the differences between children and adults...
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US News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... unusual punishment," which is banned by the Eighth Amendment. The same logic should be applied for Joe Sullivan and, in a separate case, Terrance Graham, lawyers contended.At the age of 16, Graham and an accomplice robbed a restaurant, a crime for which he served a year behind bars. In 2004, at age 17, he was sentenced to life without parole after he violated the terms of his probation by...
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dispatches from TJICistan (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
http://www.slate.com/id/2235052/ … The second hour [ of the Supreme Court hearing ] is spent on Joe Sullivan, 13 when he was sentenced to life with out parole for allegedly raping a 72-year-old woman … “allegedly” ? Isn’t that term usually reserved for the point before guilt has been established by the courts? If Dahlia [...]
