The Rap Sheet: Nolo's Criminal Law Blog

June 6, 2011 The Rap Sheet Has Moved (But in the Electronic World, Not Far!) The Rap Sheet has moved to the bucoloic community of blog.Nolo.com. The blog's URL is...

April 26, 2011 Sex-Change Surgery for Transgender Inmates? Lyralisa Sevens is a California transgender prison inmate.  Stevens was born a male but identifies...

April 21, 2011 Christian Longo's Plea: "After you execute me, please harvest my organs." Christian Longo is on Oregon's death row, convicted of brutally murdering his wife and three small...

April 19, 2011 Rehabilitive Sentencing The US Supreme Court will shortly decide whether a federal judge can lengthen a prison...

March 16, 2011 Senate Bill 9: Mitigating LWOP Sentences for Youthful Offenders Senate Bill 9 is a sensible legislative proposal that deserves to become California law.  The proposed...

March 2, 2011 Michigan v. Bryant- Justice Scalia's Ongoing Emergency Justice Scalia has been the US Supreme Court's driving intellectual force behind a series of...