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Criminal defendants can face significant pressures to plead guilty, but wrongful conviction scholarship has largely overlooked the study of guilty pleas. This study content analyzed 139 Australian appellate court judgments in which a guilty plea conviction was overturned, investigating the types of errors involved in these convictions, and the stage of the criminal justice process at which the errors occurred. The findings revealed that errors occurred during the police investigation, pretrial preparations, and formal court procedures, with the most frequent errors involving incorrect or inappropriate charges, inadequate legal representation, and the courts erroneously accepting a guilty plea. The findings raise important implications regarding the adequacy of safeguards to ensure guilty pleas are appropriate or factually and legally accurate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It achieved the very opposite results, even as it relied on the same constitutional logic (the civil rights enshrined in the 14th amendment) the I Lochner i court had in thwarting mass movements for justice and equality. In the end, however, the national trauma of a capitalism seemingly on the verge of collapse, the weight of changing public opinion, and the aging out of some of the justices ended the dominion of the I Lochner i court. The Court v. the People By the turn of the twentieth century, the outcry against "judge-made law", the willful manipulation of the Constitution to shore up endangered bastions of wealth and power, had grown ever stronger. Even then, the Supreme Court justices at first succeeded in nullifying key pieces of Roosevelt's economic recovery legislation, while Democrats at the time, (as today), talked about adding new justices to the court. [Extracted from the article]

Based on U.S. Supreme Court decisions recognizing adolescence, we examined the likelihood of parole in one state for a population of candidates whose ages ranged from 14 to 21 at time of offense. Logistic regressions tested age on release, controlling for offense, adolescence-related, and rehabilitative variables. Contrary to expectations, a parole candidate's age at time of offense is not associated with release nor did age interact with culpability and rehabilitation measures. Instead, victim and prosecutorial opposition is related to a lower likelihood of release where the opposition effect is greater for those 18 years and older at time of offense. These findings reiterate the need for comparative research on parole decision-making as it may vary by time and place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent US supreme court decision in the matter of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization will have a tremendous effect on medical practice in upcoming years. Currently, there are many new therapeutic IBD treatments in the pipeline and most of them are presently under clinical trials.[7] Clinical trials are usually offered to patients who have severe disease, after failure of previous treatments. Current medical practice is to inform patients about the potential risk and emphasize the importance of strict birth control.[5] However, things can go wrong, and patients might experience unplanned pregnancies. [Extracted from the article]