{"id":1351,"date":"2020-06-15T07:04:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T14:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2020-06-15T07:58:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T14:58:55","slug":"supreme-court-turns-down-gun-immunity-and-sanctuary-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Turns Down Gun, Immunity, and Sanctuary Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court this morning issued its Monday orders list, announcing the cases it will and will not take. The big news is in the &#8220;will not&#8221; portion. A large number of closely watched cases were turned down. They include (1) calls to modify the qualified immunity doctrine, which protects police officers, among others, from lawsuits for doing their duty according to the law as they reasonably understand it at the time, even if a judge later disagrees or a court later reverses its precedents; (2) cases on the Second Amendment right to bear arms; and (3) the &#8220;sanctuary state&#8221; case of <em>United States<\/em> v. <em>California<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The high court took up two cases, one on deportation and one on arbitration.<\/p>\n<p>They also sent one capital case back to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for a do-over, based on an argument that (according to the dissent) the defendant did not make, i.e., that the TCCA did not apply the prejudice standard for ineffective assistance at all. The <em>per curiam<\/em> opinion reads like a typical capital defense brief. The beginning relates the defendant&#8217;s bad childhood. Only considerably later does the opinion mention the minor fact that oh, by the way, the defendant gunned down two people while attempting a carjacking. Evidently, murder victims&#8217; lives don&#8217;t matter to the anonymous author of this opinion. The case is <em>Andrus<\/em> v. <em>Texas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The turn-down orders mentioned in the first paragraph mean that the lower court&#8217;s decision stands, but no Supreme Court precedent is set. Nationwide resolution of the issues must await another case, or for nonconstitutional issues perhaps an act of Congress. Given that qualified immunity is a matter of statutory interpretation and amendment of the statute is under active consideration in Congress, I think it is prudent for the Court to leave it alone for now.<\/p>\n<p>The Court issued two opinions in argued cases, both civil matters unrelated to criminal law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court this morning issued its Monday orders list, announcing the cases it will and will not take. The big news is in the &#8220;will not&#8221; portion. A large number of closely watched cases were turned down. They include (1) calls to modify the qualified immunity doctrine, which protects police officers, among others, from lawsuits for doing their duty according to the law as they reasonably understand it at the time, even if a judge later disagrees or a court later reverses its precedents; (2) cases on the Second Amendment right to bear arms; and (3) the &#8220;sanctuary state&#8221; case of United States v. 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