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What will (or should) SCOTUS do on the Kennedy rehearing petition?

By Douglas A. Berman

Among lots of good new stuff at StandDown Texas Project is this interesting op-ed from Peter Verniero, who served as a New Jersey Supreme Court justice and state attorney general, on the Kennedy child rape case.  The piece is headlined "To maintain its integrity, the court must own up," and here is how it starts and ends:There is something almost sacrosanct about recitations of law contained in decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Lower-court judges, attorneys, law professors and everyday citizens depend on those statements in myriad ways even when disagreeing with the court's conclusions. If for no other reason than that, the court should reconsider and correct an opinion it filed at the end of its last term, Kennedy vs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 22, 2008 (boomark / email).