Tag: Sixth Amendment

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch speaks.

Gorsuch joins Supreme Court liberal bloc in case involving sex offender

Melissa Quinn · June 26, 2019 6:16 pm

FILE - In a Jan. 25, 2019 file photo, attorney and Harvard faculty member Ronald Sullivan Jr. arrives at New York Supreme Court, in New York. Sullivan, who decided to represent Harvey Weinstein at his rape trial, is losing his position as head of a student house at the college. Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana said in a written statement Saturday, May 11, 2019 that he would not renew the appointments of Ronald Sullivan and his wife, Stephanie Robinson, the schoolâs first black faculty deans, citing concerns about the climate at Winthrop House, which he described as serious and numerous. Sullivan lives at the house and supervises students there.

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Campus activists’ un-American war on Ronald Sullivan Jr.

Tiana Lowe Doescher · May 13, 2019 3:29 pm

Justin Brown, an attorney for Adnan Syed, talks to reporters outside the Maryland Court of Appeals after arguments in the state's highest court on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018 in Annapolis, Maryland, in a case that could reinstate Syed's conviction for the slaying of his high school sweetheart.

Case made famous by ‘Serial’ podcast gets a hearing in Maryland’s highest court

Melissa Quinn · November 30, 2018 8:12 pm

Antonin Scalia, Defender of the Rights of the Accused

Craig Trainor · September 24, 2018 9:10 am

Michael Cohen walks down the sidewalk in New York City.

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Alan Dershowitz: In wake of raid on Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, we need a new law protecting lawyer-client communications

Alan Dershowitz · April 14, 2018 3:43 pm

A group of people hold up signs during a meeting called "The Resistance Training" hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union on March 11, 2017 in Coral Gables, Fla.

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Alan Dershowitz: For ACLU, getting Trump trumps civil liberties

Alan Dershowitz · April 14, 2018 3:31 pm

Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney, walks to his hotel, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, in New York. FBI agents on Monday raided Cohen's home, hotel room and office, seizing records on topics including a $130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an affair she said she had with Trump in 2006.

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Alan Dershowitz: ‘Firewalls’ and ‘Taint Teams’ do not protect Fourth and Sixth Amendment rights

Alan Dershowitz · April 11, 2018 2:41 pm

The Supreme Court took up a case on Tuesday involving the search of a rental car that lawyers say has the potential to affect privacy law, as well as the 115 million car rentals that occur annually in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court mulls whether lawyer can admit client’s guilt to try to avoid death penalty

Melissa Quinn · January 17, 2018 7:25 pm

Sen. Paul's bill proposes a repeal of section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, itself a continuation of the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Rand Paul wants to end indefinite detention: No ‘expiration date on the Sixth Amendment’

Jack O'brien · June 12, 2017 4:26 pm

The bill to stop those on the Terror Watch list from buying firearms may sound OK, until you realize that anyone can end up on this list, including completely innocent U.S. citizens. (AP Photo)

Beyond the 2nd Amendment: Dems have a problem with the whole Bill of Rights

Washington Examiner · June 20, 2016 9:57 am