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View allSCOTUS Slams the Door on Compassionate Release for Sentencing Law Changes
The Supreme Court delivered a significant blow to federal criminal defense practitioners on May 28, 2026, ruling 6-3 that judges cannot grant compassionate release merely because a defendant would receive a shorter sentence under current law followin...
7 Nov 2026Legal NewsThe BNSS Tightrope: Why the Supreme Court's Cognizance Ruling Changes Everything for Criminal Practitioners
Two years into the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita's operation, the Supreme Court has finally drawn a bright line that every criminal lawyer must now internalise: cognizance taken after BNSS came into force is cognizance under BNSS , regardless of...
7 Nov 2026Legal NewsThe Second Circuit’s Letitia James Ruling: A Separation-of-Powers Firewall Against Weaponized Prosecutions
The U.S. Attorney Who Wasn’t The Second Circuit’s August 21 decision upholding the block on Justice Department subpoenas targeting New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office is not merely a procedural setback for the Trump administration. It is...
5 Nov 2026Legal NewsThe New Gatekeeper: Supreme Court Turns Section 223 BNSS Proviso into a Substantive Shield
The Death of Summary Cognizance The Supreme Court has done what trial lawyers have demanded since the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) replaced the CrPC: it has transformed the first proviso to Section 223(1) from a procedural nicety into a ...
5 Nov 2026Legal NewsThe Death Penalty’s Next Frontier: A Trump-Appointed Judge Just Cracked Open Kennedy v. Louisiana
A Judicial Invitation to Revisit Eighth Amendment Precedent Federal prosecutors just received an unexpected—and constitutionally dubious—roadmap for expanding capital punishment. In late June, a Trump-appointed district judge suggested that the gover...
4 Nov 2026Legal NewsSupreme Court Clarifies Cognizance Timeline Under BNSS: Accused Must Be Heard Before Prosecution Begins
The Supreme Court’s Game-Changing Interpretation of Section 223 BNSS In a judgment that will fundamentally alter how Magistrates approach cognizance under the new criminal procedure regime, the Supreme Court has clarified that when a Magistrate appli...
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