BY: MARIA ORDONEZ Timothy Lee Hurst was charged and convicted with the gruesome May 2, 1998, killing of Cynthia Harrison during a robbery at the Popeye’s restaurant in Escambia County, Florida, where they were both employed. After he was granted a new sentencing trial because of counsel’s ineffective assistance[1], Hurst was again sentenced to death […]
BY: LAUREN MADDOX In 1986, the Supreme Court decided Batson v. Kentucky, holding that use of peremptory challenges to remove jurors from the jury pool based on race is a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.[1] The following year, Timothy Tyrone Foster, an 18-year-old black male, was convicted and sentenced to […]
BY ANGELINE GAUNTT – Last week, the Supreme Court sent a loud, but unclear, message to same-sex marriage opponents and advocates alike when it decided to deny appeals to five separate lawsuits challenging State court determinations that same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional. As a result of last week’s decision, same-sex marriage is now legally recognized in the […]
