Yesterday, we reviewed the Court’s record with civil cases involving governmental parties and administrative law. Today, we’re looking at the Court’s decisions involving the law of criminal sentencing.
The Court decided one sentencing law case in 1992, ten in 1993, two in 1994, eight in 1995 and seven in 1996.
The Court decided nine cases
For the past two weeks, we’ve been looking at the Court’s record with death penalty cases. This week and next, we’re turning our attention to the court’s civil cases involving governmental parties and administrative law, and on the criminal side, sentencing law cases. Let’s start with government/administrative law cases.
The Court decided eleven government cases
[The posts for yesterday and today are cross-posted, in slightly revised form, from the Illinois Supreme Court Review.]
Yesterday, we compared the California and Illinois Supreme Court’s death penalty case loads between 1992, the beginning of our California data, through 2010, when Illinois abolished the death penalty. We found that in the years
[The posts for today and tomorrow are cross-posted, in slightly revised form, from the Illinois Supreme Court Review.]
For the past two weeks, we’ve been taking a detailed look at the death penalty jurisprudence of the California Supreme Court and, at our sister blog the Illinois Supreme Court Review, the Illinois Supreme Court.
Last time, we took a deeper look at the Court’s experience since 1992 with tort law cases on the civil side. Today (and next week), we’ll be taking a further look at the death penalty decisions, tracking four variables: (1) total decisions; (2) complete reversals; (3) partial reversals overturning the death penalty (ARL in the
Last week, we reviewed the year-by-year numbers for the Court’s tort law caseload. This week, we’re taking a closer look at the Court’s tort decisions to answer three questions: (1) did the Court hear more defendants’ wins or plaintiffs’ wins from the Court of Appeal on the tort caseload; (2) did the Court tend to
Yesterday, we looked at the Court’s year by year caseload in one of the most commonplace areas of law on the civil docket – tort. Today, we’re looking at the death penalty caseload. From 1992 to the end of 2017, the Court has decided 470 death penalty cases.
The Court decided thirty-three death penalty cases
For the past two weeks, we’ve been taking a detailed look at the Supreme Court’s caseload of civil and criminal procedure decisions. This week and next, we’re looking at the Court’s tort cases on the civil side and reviewing the death penalty decisions on the criminal side.
Between 1992 and the end of 2017, the
Yesterday, we examined the nature of the civil procedure cases the Court has taken since 1992, and the Court’s reversal rates in each category. Today, we’re looking at the Court’s criminal procedure decisions.
Overall, the Court has taken somewhat more cases which the prosecution won below than defendants’ wins – 138 to 115. The Court
Last week, we reviewed the year-by-year data on the Court’s docket of civil and criminal procedure cases. This week, we’re taking a more detailed look at those numbers to answer the same questions we addressed a few weeks ago in the context of constitutional law: (1) does the Court take more plaintiffs’ or defense wins