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Join us for an in-depth SCOTUS Term Review, where legal experts break down what the Court decided and how those rulings might inform your litigation strategy. We also look ahead at the criminal cases granted review for the 2025-26 Term—including pressing constitutional questions around the Double Jeopardy Clause, religious freedom in prisons, and warrantless home entries.
Presented by Peter Goldberger, NACDL's Chair of the Committee on Rules of Procedure; and Elizabeth Carlyle, NACDL's Amicus Committee Vice-Chair for the 8th Circuit
Presented by Richard S. Jaffe, Jaffe, Hanle, Whisonant & Knight, P.C. (Birmingham, AL) and special guest Randal Padgett, Death Row Exoneree
Keynote speakers from the 2020 Presidential Summit and Sentencing Symposium, co-hosted with the Georgetown University Law Center American Criminal Law Review
In this episode, we hear from American University School of Communication Professor Rick Stack about a forthcoming, very important documentary concerning the death penalty in America, entitled In The Executioner’s Shadow.
Mr. Reimer says he opposes the death penalty because “Our criminal justice in this country is flawed, it makes mistakes, it’s unreliable and it propagates injustice”
