Begay v. United States, US Supreme Court, April 16, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Burgess v. United States, US Supreme Court, April 16, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that lethal injection does not violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The ruling came in Baze v. Rees , where lawyers for Kentucky death row inmate Ralph Baze argued that the three-drug lethal injection cocktail used in most states violates the US Constitution because the [...]

Zimbabwean police have arrested more than 50 members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) after the party called for a strike to protest the nondisclosure of the results of the March 29 presidential elections , a party spokesperson said Wednesday. Zimbabwe police say that only 30 opposition supporters were arrested for blocking roads [...]

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in three cases Wednesday, including Burgess v. US , where the Court held that a defendant's federal drug sentence can be enhanced under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) when the defendant has previously been convicted of a state drug offense punishable by more than one year, even if [...]

The Supreme Court of Peru on Tuesday upheld a prison sentence for former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori , who was convicted late last year on charges of abuse of authority for ordering a warrantless search of the apartment of the wife of former Peruvian Intelligence Director Vladimiro Montesino . The high court also upheld a [...]

US federal prosecutors defended the prison treatment of accused enemy combatant Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri in documents filed Tuesday with the US Court of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit. Prosecutors say that although al-Marri is kept in solitary confinement, he has access to a library, TV, computer, and exercise equipment. Lawyers for al-Marri said last [...]

An Iranian appeals court Tuesday upheld the sentences of three Iranian students on charges of insulting Islam. Majid Tavakoli, Ahmed Ghassaban, and Ehsan Mansouri were arrested last year for allegedly publishing anti-Islamic material in multiple newspapers. The three were sentenced to 22 to 30 months in prison. Supporters of the students had hoped they would [...]

A judge in Zimbabwe on Wednesday cleared two foreign journalists of charges of reporting on the country's March 29 presidential election without obtaining proper credentials. Barry Bearak of the New York Times and Stephen Bevan of Britain's Telegraph were arrested in early April and held for five days before being released on bail but were [...]

Officials from the US Department of State and the Department of Defense testified Tuesday in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , calling for the Senate to ratify five long-postponed treaties that would provide increased protection for civilians during wartime. State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger III and Pentagon Deputy General Counsel Charles A. [...]