You Have the Right to Remain Silent… and a § 1983 Claim? An Un-Mirandized Defendant’s Plea for Damages
Written By: Hunter Ransom We’ve all heard “that” set of warnings – “You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will…
Category: Constitutional Law
“It’s like Liquid Fire Sneaking Towards the Heart” – American Prisons Turn to Un-Approved Drugs for Lethal Injection Executions
Written By: Kelsi Baldwin Although the debate on capital punishment spans generations, the conversation became more complex with the 1982 execution of Charlie Brooks Jr.,…
Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.: Can a School Regulate a Student’s Off-Campus Speech?
Written By: Katelyn Pearson Summary of the Case B.L. was a student at Mahanoy Area High School in Pennsylvania, where she made the junior varsity…
Shot and Free but Still Seized: Torres v. Madrid’s Clarification of Fourth Amendment Seizures of Persons
Written by: McKenna Stone Cloud For the past thirty years, the legal community has been puzzled over what amounts to a “seizure” of a person…
Harness v. Hosemann: Does § 241 of the Mississippi Constitution Violate the Fourteenth Amendment?
Written by: Katelyn Pearson Summary of the Case Roy Harness and Kamel Karriem, as a result of their convictions of crimes under § 241 of…
Check Your Privilege at the Bar: How the New York Bar Exam’s Discrimination Against Out-of-State Test Takers Violates the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment
Written By: Melanie Mitchell One final hurdle awaits law school graduates after obtaining their degree before beginning a career in the legal field: passing the…
A Student’s Perspective of Graham v. Connor and Excessive Force Claims
Written By: Benjiman Blakely It is, perhaps, timely to resurface the United States Supreme Court decision in the 1989 case Graham v. Connor given recent…
Jones v. Mississippi: MC Law Graduate Argues Case Regarding Mandatory Juvenile Life Sentences Before Supreme Court
Written By: Megan Rogers-Hasie Summary of the Case In August of 2004, Brett Jones, Jr., then fifteen years old, was living with his grandparents, Madge…
