The Atlantic
Most people on death row are guilty. That doesn’t mean they deserve their fate.
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If you want to believe that Roger Coleman was the man who raped and murdered 19-year-old Wanda McCoy, his sister-in-law, on the night of March 10, 1981, in her small home in the coal-mining town of Longbottom, Virginia, you have to accept that Coleman managed to park his truck, ford a creek, scramble up some 300 yards of hillside, and commit the entire grisly crime in the span of 30 minutes all without leaving a single fingerprint at the crime scene or drenching himself in blood, despite slashing the victim’s carotid and jugular arteries.
“As much as I loved my work as a journalist, law school was always in the back of my mind,” says Jacobs. “In all my positions, I kept encountering legal problems and questions that caught my attention and made me want to learn more from due process concerns with campus sexual misconduct cases to the implications of major breaking Supreme Court decisions to war powers’ worries about international conflicts.”
The protests surrounding the murder of George Floyd last summer inspired Jacob’s Comment in the Journal. “It became clear early on in the coverage of the George Floyd protests last summer that the press was being targeted by police. … I think there’s a really interesting phenomenon happening with what one judge has termed the “Floyd Caselaw” cases coming out of last summer’s protests where courts seem to acknowledge that law enforcement can and should be treating members of the press differently when they’re doing their job and covering protests as rep
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For a while now, Above the Law has been telling you that law school is increasingly popular. Whether it’s the whole end-of-the-rule-of-law thing or folks are inspired by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg or that academia is a place to wait out the COVID economic downturn, we are in the midst of the most competitive law school application cycle in a good long while. Some law schools responded to the glut of quality applications with strict deposit guidelines, while other took a more wait-and-see approach.
Well, the result is that multiple elite law schools are overenrolled. According to a Reddit thread, Boston College has already fessed up to incoming students about their swollen class we are talking by 100+ students. And they’re sounding the alarm bell that this could have a big impact on post-graduation job prospects.