While working on a farm or as a fire fighter may seem like a strange place to find a prisoner or ex-convict, states use prisoner work crews in a variety of capacities beyond just cleaning up trash on the side of the road.
And to ensure that no sober drivers are wrongly convicted, states should judge impairment by field sobriety tests of motor skills and brain function rather than arbitrary concentrations of THC in the bloodstream.
As the son of convicted state enemies, Mr. Antonov-Ovseyenko was himself arrested in 1940.
If Mr. Monserrate is convicted, state law requires that he be expelled from the Senate.
They continue to receive tens of thousands of habeas petitions from convicted state prisoners, almost all of which will be denied.
By almost any measure, the use, and abuse, of habeas by convicted state prisoners is a failure, one that could corrode one of the most revered pillars of our legal system.
If habeas is chiefly seen as a way for convicted state prisoners to get federal courts to review countless meritless claims, this will diminish public respect for the writ and leave it vulnerable to broader attacks.
In relegating the fates of convicted state prisoners to discretionary acts of gubernatorial grace, the Supreme Court has thrown the fundamental question of guilt or innocence straight into the lion's dean of partisan politics.
In the case of the continuing Alaska investigation, it's revealing that an outside force — an op-ed newspaper essay by a suspicious observer — eventually triggered the federal raids that convicted state officials and indicted Mr. Stevens.
Similarly, the courts have consistently rejected claims by convicted state legislators that their prosecutions violate the Tenth Amendment.
The great irony of her speech came when she referenced second chances for convicts stating, "... in my faith we believe in second chances, in America we believe in second chances.
