Minimum Entrenchment News Today

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law Though 2020 has been a rough year, I still feel fortunate that the last big in-person event I attended was this amazing conference, "The Controlled Substances Act at 50 Years," which was hosted in February 2020 by the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and put together by the amazing team at The Ohio State Universitys Drug Enforcement and Policy Center and ASUs Academy for Justice.  This terrific conference is on my mind now becau...

December 26, 2020 Federal judge blocks January 12 execution date for only woman on federal death row As repoted in this AP piece, a "federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of the only woman on federal death row, potentially setting up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after president-elect Joe Biden takes office." Here is more about a ruling that was handed down before Christmas: U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss also vacated an ord...