John Allen Muhammad, D.C. sniper, loses Supreme Court appeal
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block John Allen Muhammad's execution, scheduled for Tuesday in a Virginia prison.
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block John Allen Muhammad's execution, scheduled for Tuesday in a Virginia prison.
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
It would appear that the man who helped bring terror to the Washington, D.C. suburbs is at the end of his rope: The Supreme Court on Monday denied John Allen Muhammad’s request to stay his execution, clearing the way for Virginia to put to death the man who terrorized the Washington region as the Beltway Sniper. Justices [...]
USA Today (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
In the 1970s, soon after Justice John Paul Stevens joined the Supreme Court, he asked a clerk to figure out the average age justices ...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Stevens surprised by media attention that he might have signaled his retirement.
BizzyBlog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... subject of June 2005’s infamous Kelo v. New London Supreme Court decision . Citing what Justice John Paul Stevens called a “carefully formulated … development plan,” the Court’s decision allowed the city to condemn and bulldoze dozens of houses. Today, the area, except for the politically connected Italian Dramatic Club , is a vacant wasteland. Hopes for anything substantive...
StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... is not none. Last week, the court was faced with deciding whether to grant a stay of execution to John Allen Muhammad, better known as the sniper who killed 10 people in the Washington area during a few terror-filled weeks in the fall of 2002. The justices were scheduled to consider Mr. Muhammad’s final appeal at their regular conference on Nov, 24. But Virginia nonetheless set the execution...
WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
UW Madison News has a wonderful profile of Cecelia Klingele about her experience as a U.S. Supreme Court clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens. A 2005 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, Cecelia returned to Madison this fall...
Cogito Ergo Geek (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
John A. Mahummad, the "D.C. Sniper", is dead. And good riddance to him. You probably remember that he and his adolescent side-kick, Lee Malvo, sniped random citizens of the Washington, D.C. area for several weeks before they were caught thanks to a citizen's phone call to the police "on suspicion of" being the people the police were eager to apprehend. (If it's a citizen,...
Bench Memos (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... (see This Day for April 4 , 1939) retires from the Court—only to be replaced by Justice John Paul Stevens.
Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... Kelo decision. Justice Anthony Kennedy called the plan “comprehensive,” while Justice John Paul Stevens insisted that “The city has carefully formulated a development plan that it believes will provide appreciable benefits to the community, including, but not limited to, new jobs and increased tax revenue.” So much for that …
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... for this pipe dream-and what about the vaunted economic development plan that Justices Kennedy and Stevens touted as the basis for their legal wisdom? "That's especially galling because the five Supreme Court Justices cited the development plan as a major factor in rationalizing their Kelo decision. Justice Anthony Kennedy called the plan "comprehensive," while Justice John...
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The planned Tuesday night execution of John Allen Muhammad remains set following the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to stay the death sentence. Justices John Paul Stevens, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg filed a two-page statement, saying: “This case highlights...
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... Kelo decision . Justice Anthony Kennedy called the plan "comprehensive," while Justice John Paul Stevens insisted that "The city has carefully formulated a development plan that it believes will provide appreciable benefits to the community, including, but not limited to, new jobs and increased tax revenue." So much for that. (Emphasis supplied.) The demand...
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Chief Justice John Roberts signaled today at oral arguments in the Supreme Court in two cases involving the constitutionality of life without parole sentences for juveniles convicted of non-homicide crimes, that he's not inclined to find them unconstitutional . Neither are Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito. More receptive were Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Paul...
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The Supreme Court on Monday refused an eleventh-hour appeal to block the execution of John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 Washington-area sniper attacks. Muhammad is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday in a Virginia prison for the Oct. 9, 2002, killing of Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas, Va., gas station. Though the appeal was denied, Justice John Paul Stevens...