· 4/6/2022
Authority of the President to Prospectively Appoint a Supreme Court Justice
Syllabus
If the Senate votes to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, the President may complete her appointment to the Supreme Court by signing her commission before Justice Breyer's resignation takes effect.
How courts have described this case
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- reversing second degree murder conviction where there was evidence defendant participated in vicious attack on victim but may have withdrawn from attack before codefendant hit the victim in the head with a baseball bat
- conviction of delinquency by reason of murder in the second degree reversed based on the same error as here
- attempt to withdraw a guilty plea
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