The Supreme Court sides with a man on Georgia's death row in a case about what procedural mechanism prisoners must use to challenge the constitutionality of a state's execution method. SCOTUS says prisoners are not limited to the federal habeas laws to bring such challenges.— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 23, 2022
Here's the opinion from Elena Kagan in Nance v. Ward: https://t.co/2oMjhdsatp. Barrett dissents, joined Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch.— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 23, 2022
If a police officer fails to give a suspect his Miranda warnings, and the gov't uses the suspect's un-Mirandized statements against him in court, can the suspect sue the officer for violating his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination? In a 6-3 ruling, SCOTUS says no.— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 23, 2022
Here's the opinion from Samuel Alito in Vega v. Tekoh: https://t.co/7HSicfcRZH. The three liberal justices dissent.— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 23, 2022