The Eighth Amendment, which bars "cruel and unusual ... from 2018 to 2022 citing the relevant precedent-setting Supreme Court cases and standards. We reviewed hundreds of pages of training ...

A federal appeals court Tuesday rejected a constitutional challenge to the state’s parole system by inmates who were sent to prison decades ago for crimes they committed as juveniles.

For the most part, cases that are filed in state court proceed linearly through the state trial courts, appellate courts and Supreme Court. Likewise, federal cases are heard by a federal trial judge, ...