Experts say tension in the deliberation room is particularly high in cases involving controversial statutes, like death penalty laws, California's "three strikes" laws for repeat offenders and New York's Rockefeller-era drug laws, which mandate long prison terms.
Under a controversial state statute that allows emergency managers broad powers over financially troubled cities, Mr. Snyder has 10 days to decide whether to approve such a deal with Detroit or call in an emergency manager.
Mr. Londoño announced that he is ready to revive the controversial Security Statute, included in the Colombian Constitution of 1886 and eliminated in 1991, to allow the military to detain civilians without a court order.
In 2006, 51% of Catalonia's 5.2 million eligible voters abstained in the referendum on the controversial regional statute, and just 36% voted in favour of the wording that is now in the books.
The world is shocked by the death sentence imposed in Pakistan on Asia Bibi, a young Christian mother of five, imprisoned under the country's controversial blasphemy statute.
Despite the large death toll, the study claims that the introduction in 2003 of the country's controversial Disarmament Statute, which restricted gun ownership to those over 25 years of age and introduced security checks and a national firearms register, saved 160,000 lives between 2004 and 2012.
In December, the Fifth Circuit overturned the bribery convictions against Minor and his co-defendants, but several fraud-related convictions remain, all based on the controversial honest services statute.
