ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Please ...

State Attorney General Alan Wilson’s long-awaited reply to convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh’s appeal brief takes aim at ...

After a 120-day extension, the State of South Carolina has responded to Alex Murdaugh's request for a SC Supreme Court appeal ...

Should policyholder practitioners push for trial by jury? Insurance coverage litigation between a policyholder and the ...

The right to a jury trial The decision is handed down against the backdrop of a wider public debate about the role of the jury trial in the English criminal justice system. A recent report by Sir ...

HB403, signed into law by Governor Jeff Landry last month, could make courts a lot busier.An unintended consequence, raising fines for misdemeanor DWI’s which defense lawyers say now makes them ...

If doing so eliminates the jury right, plaintiffs may have to forego a jury where their own damages are difficult to assess. For defendants, the prospect of a jury trial may shape settlement ...

A three-judge Appellate Division panel, in State v. Camacho, A-3284-10, ordered a new trial for a Bergen County man serving a 7-year sentence on a conviction for second-degree eluding.

Making trial by judge alone mandatory for serious and complex fraud cases. Giving defendants the “right” to request trial by judge alone.

Britain must radically reform its criminal justice system, including by removing the right to trial by jury for certain offences, to help tackle a record-high backlog of cases, a government ...