Locked Down: Parents of Michigan School Shooter Face Criminal Charges
Written By: Peyton Pope Change Could Be Coming In the United States of America, all children have the right to an education. They will learn…
Category: Criminal 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.,…
Getting Direct with Circumstantial Evidence: Nevels v. State (Miss. 2021)
Written by: Jaime Weida To sustain a criminal conviction in Mississippi, the State must prove the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, but does the…
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…
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…
