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crime consequences crime and criminal law skip to content search for home about home about scotus monday orders and opinion by kent scheidegger apr 20 2026 7 22 am the u s supreme court issued its monday orders list this morning with the results from last week s conference the high court sent one law enforcement civil case back to the court of appeals and took up one criminal case on sentencing guidelines the court also summarily reversed a d c circuit opinion in a fourth amendment case regarding the suspiciousness of people fleeing at the sight of police continue reading cjlf website in transition by kent scheidegger apr 17 2026 1 30 pm cjlf s main website www cjlf org is in transition to a new site now live double murderer released early convicted of new murder by kent scheidegger mar 23 2026 11 45 am the los angeles district attorney has this press release on the case of previously convicted double murderer who has now been convicted of a third murder if the laws in effect at the time of the first judgment had been enforced the third murder victim would likely be alive on sept 17 1995 28 year old derrick reese was using a payphone when collins carjacked him after taking the vehicle collins backed up and shot reese at least twice killing him on sept 28 1995 collins entered a diner in inglewood where 44 year old thomas weiss was working as a cashier collins held weiss at gunpoint and demanded money when weiss did not comply collins shot him in the face killing him both victims were random strangers murdered 11 days apart on january 15 1998 collins was sentenced to 50 years to life imprisonment both the multiple murder and robbery murder special circumstances are obviously true so collins could have gotten death or life without parole for these killings but 50 to life would have seemed sufficient at the time to ensure that collins would not get out until he was quite elderly if at all yet collins was released in 2020 why continue reading civil suits habeas corpus and past convictions by kent scheidegger mar 20 2026 10 09 am the u s supreme court decided one case today olivier v city of brandon the court pruned back a bit on a precedent set in 1994 to stop convicted criminals from using civil suits to evade the limits on collateral attack on their convictions continue reading serial child rapist released from prison back in jail by kent scheidegger feb 27 2026 9 37 am notorious california sexual predator david funston see this post was released on parole yesterday under the state s misguided elderly parole law and promptly taken into custody on new charges for an old crime he is now in placer county jail see this story by darrell smith in the sacramento bee and this story by stepheny price at fox news funston committed his crimes in an area northeast of sacramento that includes parts of sacramento and placer counties after he received three consecutive life sentences in the sacramento case the placer county district attorney decided not to pursue the case in that county the district attorney office s statement is copied below this prompt action may prevent the unjust release of a predator in this case but the case illustrates the urgent need for the california legislature to repair its errors committed over the last decade the prison overcrowding crisis and the covid pandemic are long behind us and measures adopted to deal with them should have had sunset dates basic justice requires long terms for the most egregious crimes some criminals including funston should never walk free again continue reading attorney client communication during an overnight break by kent scheidegger feb 25 2026 7 30 am when a defendant in a criminal case chooses to testify and there is an overnight break in the middle of the testimony can the trial judge forbid the lawyer to talk to the client about the testimony even while allowing discussion of other topics yes the u s supreme court held today in villareal v texas the decision drew the line between two bookend cases geders v united states 1976 and perry v leeke 1989 continue reading developments in the law of standing by kent scheidegger feb 24 2026 9 55 am prof richard re has this post at scotusblog on the u s supreme court s january 14 decision on standing in bost v illinois board of elections he notes several ways that the high court seems to be loosening the restrictions on standing in federal courts standing is an issue that often comes up in crime victims rights litigation u s supreme court decisions based on article iii of the u s constitution are not necessarily binding on state courts where standing issues turn on the judiciary article of the state constitution and other state laws even so the high court s decisions are often persuasive precedent in state courts continue reading monster child sexual predator granted early parole by kent scheidegger feb 22 2026 6 58 pm the los angeles times has this story by clara harter a sacramento man once described by a judge as the monster parents fear the most seemed destined to spend the rest of his life in prison after he was convicted of 16 counts of kidnapping and child molestation in 1999 instead he is now set to go free after being granted elderly parole much to the anger and horror of some of his victims as well as the prosecutor who oversaw his case he shouldn t be breathing the same air that we re breathing at all one victim who was kidnapped and assaulted when she was just 4 years old told the times in an interview i disagree with him getting paroled out because he s a horrible person that man is a monster continue reading the vagaries of new constitutional rights by steven erickson feb 18 2026 1 17 pm from the lancet psychiatry comes this new policy paper despite the existence of effective public mental health interventions global coverage remains low only a minority of people with mental disorders receive treatment far fewer receive interventions to address or prevent the associated impacts of mental disorders and there is negligible coverage of interventions to prevent mental disorders or promote mental wellbeing and resilience this implementation failure breaches the right to health and statutory legislation in some countries and results in population scale preventable suffering broad societal and individual impacts and associated economic costs various reasons account for public mental health implementation failure including insufficient policy and implementation according to population needs and insufficient knowledge resource political will and legal protection regarding the right to mental health this health policy highlights a further reason for implementation failure is that only 12 of constitutions covering 3 5 of the world s population explicitly recognise a constitutional right to mental health compared with 70 of constitutions recognising a constitutional right to health or physical health a legal framework that includes explicit constitutional protection for mental health would mean the right to mental health would supersede all other laws this would thereby provide a basis for legislation and support legal opportunities to challenge advocate and improve effective public mental health implementation by different sectors this framework and associated opportunities would support the scale up of implementation of cross sector policy based on the public mental health needs of a population such a holistic coordinated legal approach would support scaled up coverage of public mental health interventions to treat and prevent mental disorders and promote mental wellbeing and resilience as well as action to address inequities and protect the rights of those with mental disorders improved implementation would result in broad impacts across different sectors and associated economic benefits breathtaking to say the least california s elderly parole law by kent scheidegger feb 9 2026 10 16 am cjlf ceo anne marie schubert has this op ed in the sacramento bee on california elderly parole law the law absurdly defines elderly as over 50 and it permits parole after 20 years regardless of the minimum term specified in the sentence or in the law under which the inmate was sentenced california s elderly parole law is the most lenient in the nation while 24 other states have similar programs most automatically exclude murderers and sex offenders california does not continue reading next page follow subscribe to our feed search search for issues issues select category academia appeal bail blog cases civil suits clemency collateral consequences congress constitution counsel criminal procedure death penalty deterrence drugs equal protection evidence federal courts federalism firearms first amendment forfeiture general habeas corpus humor immigration international journalism judicial selection judiciary jury trials juveniles mental state military national security news scan notorious cases off topic policing policy politics polls prisons probation 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