Constitutional Losses and (Some) Statutory Wins for Criminal Defendants: Select Criminal Law and Procedure Cases from the Supreme Court's 2022-2023 Term.

Authors

Eve Brensike Primus, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow
Mark Rucci

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2023

Abstract

The Supreme Court’s 2022–23 Term included a number of important statutory interpretation rulings, as well as significant cases concerning the scope of the Confrontation Clause; the Venue, Vicinage, and Double Jeopardy Clauses; the federal courts’ ability to entertain claims of legal innocence; and the contours of the adequate and independent state ground doctrine. It also was the first term for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson—the first former public defender and first Black woman to join the centuries-old institution. Although Justice Jackson joined a Court ruptured along ideological lines and confronting serious challenges to its legitimacy and ethical standards, she quickly proved comfort- able with both building consensus and going it alone.

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Recommended Citation

Primus, Eve Brensike and Mark Rucci. "Constitutional Losses and (Some) Statutory Wins for Criminal Defendants: Select Criminal Law and Procedure Cases from the Supreme Court's 2022-2023 Term." Court Review 59, no. 4 (2023).