The legal tabloids spent much of the week focused on Texas judge William Adams, after a video was posted on YouTube of him brutally beating his teenage daughter. I watched a few seconds of it, which was a few seconds too many. The story is here if you're interested; police have recently announced that no charges will be brought because the applicable five-year statute of limitations has run. The rest of the week's news is uplifting by comparison, I suppose: 1. The Supreme Court has relisted, for the fourth time, several cert. petitions raising the question of whether a sentence of life without parole violates the Eighth Amendment when imposed on a juvenile convicted of murder. (We know that LWOP can't constitutionally be imposed on juveniles convicted of non-homicide crimes from Graham v. Florida, discussed here.) Sentencing Law and Policy has this post, arguing that multiple relists usually signal some sort of summary disposition, rather than the granting of certiorari, but an astute commenter points out that Graham itself was relisted several times before being accepted for review. 2. The week saw a couple of interesting law and technology stories. Here, Gizmodo describes Cordon, a "new radar system that . . . can simultaneously track 32 vehicles across four lanes, and automatically generates images of both the vehicle and a closeup of the license plate" as well as the vehicle's speed. In other words, once this bad boy is deployed, speeders will have no place to run and no place to [...]
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