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Supreme Court Begins New Term

By Jeralyn, Section Supreme Court
Posted on Sun Oct 04, 2009 at 08:46:00 PM EST
Tags: Supreme Court, Miranda Rights (all tags)
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Monday, the Supreme Court, with newly appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor, begins its new term. Among the cases of interest:

  • Whether police may reinterrogate a continuously imprisoned suspect about an offense for which he invoked his right to counsel three years earlier
  • The applicability of Second Amendment gun rights to state and local governments
  • Whether the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars Florida from imprisoning juveniles for the rest of their lives without any possibility for parole.
  • The validity of a federal law that allows the government to hold alleged sexual predators indefinitely in protective custody once they are deemed to be "sexually dangerous," even after they have served a full criminal sentence.
  • Whether Congress has the power to ban possession and distribution of images of animal cruelty, such as pit bull fights.

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