After hearing statements from the victim, the prosecutor, Turner, Turner's father, and the defense attorney, Persky prefaced his remarks by quoting the victim's words: "As she writes, 'the damage is done,'" adding that it was his role to "follow the roadmap our system of criminal justice sets out for the court in sentencing decisions".
Rather, I'm questioning why the justices set out to decide this case in the first place.
In four concurring opinions, six justices set out sharply contrasting views about the decision's scope and consequences.
In Tuesday's decision, Kennedy and the court's four liberal justices set out what they consider to be the flaws in Florida's approach to deciding whether a defendant suffers from an intellectual disability.
Justice Thomas set out the details of the crime in vivid detail and said that Mr. Thompson, who had twice pleaded guilty, was the source of the delays and so should not be their beneficiary.
Small wonder that the Ministry of Justice, under orders to cut its budget by 25% over this parliament, is desperate to reduce reoffending, which has fallen only slightly over the past decade despite an overall collapse in crime rates.This week Chris Grayling, the new justice secretary, set out a new plan.
"However, as the justice select committee set out in its recent report, there have been concerns raised about how this has worked in practice".
At Global Justice we have set out a series of red lines that would from the basis of a progressive vision of leaving the EU.
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill set out plans to lower the alcohol limit earlier this year.
As a scholar of sociology and criminal justice, I recently set out to understand why rates of police lethality in the US are so much higher than rates in Europe.
