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Lots of notable little(?) mid-winter SCOTUS criminal justice action

By Douglas A. Berman

Though everyone continues to await big rulings from the Supreme Court on a variety of topics, the Justices today continued their recent trend of issuing a lot of notable little criminal justice rulings.  Drawn from a couple of new posts at SCOTUSblog, here are today's highlights: The Supreme Court ruled for the first time on Tuesday that the process of selecting a jury to try a criminal case must generally be open to the public, under the Constitution?s Sixth Amendment guarantee of a public trial.  While the Court had ruled in 1984 that the questioning of potential jurors must be open under the First Amendment, when the public or press seeks access, it had not extended that right to the Sixth Amendment when the accused seeks openness of that stage of the proceedings...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 19, 2010 (boomark / email).