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Guest Post: Daniel D. Blinka, “Bullcoming Arrives, But Where’s the Path?”
On Point is very pleased to present this Guest Post discussion of Bullcoming v. New Mexico by Daniel D. Blinka, Professor of Law, Marquette University of Virginia. (Cross-posted at Marquette.) Professor Brandon L. Garrett, Virginia, also has a Guest Post on Bullcoming. Feel free to submit comments in the box at the end of the Post.
Note that issues discussed in these posts will be further refined by the recent grant of certiorari in Williams v.
Guest Post: Brandon L. Garrett, “No Surrogate Forensics”
On Point is very pleased to present this Guest Post discussion of Bullcoming v. New Mexico by Brandon L. Garrett, Professor of Law, University of Virginia. (Cross-posted at ACS. On Point has made a minor editing change in the first sentence, to add the date of decision.) Professor Garret has previously guest-posted on DNA and habeas procedure. Professor Daniel D. Blinka, Marquette,
Guest Post: Brandon L. Garrett, “DNA and the Boundaries of Habeas Corpus”
On Point is very pleased to present this guest post discussion of Skinner v. Switzer by Brandon L. Garrett, Professor of Law, University of Virginia. Professor Garrett’s most recent book, “Convicting the Innocent,” was reviewed by in the New York Times Sunday Book Review 5/26/11.
The U.S. Supreme Court settled another boundary dispute about what lies inside and what lies outside of habeas corpus today in Skinner v.
Guest Post: Michael M. O’Hear, “Do Criminals Count?”
On Point is very pleased to publish this guest post, by Professor Michael M. O’Hear, on Brown v. Plata. Mr. O’Hear is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at Marquette University Law School. He is also editor of the Federal Sentencing Reporter and author of the Life Sentences Blog. You can access his papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=328167. We are deeply appreciative of his finding the time to share his expertise with our readership.
Guest Post: Forbush and the Riddle of a Fragmented Court
On Point is very pleased to publish this guest post by Attorney Michael B. Brennan, currently practicing with Gass Weber Mullins LLC, and formerly a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge. Mr. Brennan offers his thoughts on the fractured decision of the supreme court in State v. Forbush, 2011 WI 25. On Point invites readers to submit comments to this post, in the box below.
As Dean Kearney pointed out in an interesting speech he gave to the Western District of Wisconsin bar association,
Guilty Pleas – Procedure – Factual Basis, Relation to Knowing and Intelligent Plea – Sufficiency of Plea Colloquy
State v. Monika S. Lackershire, 2007 WI 74, reversing 2005 WI App 265
For Lackershire: Steven P. Weiss, SPD, Madison Appellate
Issue/Holding1:
¶33 Wisconsin Stat. § 971.08(1)(b) provides that before a circuit court accepts a defendant’s guilty plea, it must “make such inquiry as satisfies it that the defendant in fact committed the crime charged.” This court has determined that establishing a sufficient factual basis requires a showing that “the conduct which the defendant admits constitutes the offense charged .