My wife's team just won this Supreme Court case. Pretty cool! -- January 16, 2009 Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
A 9-0 WIN AT THE SUPREME COURT The students in the Supreme Court Clinic at the Northwestern University School of Law were on the victorious side in a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. Last week, the high court threw out a mandatory 15-year prison term given to Deondery Chambers, who pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a gun. Chambers was eligible for such a long sentence because of the Armed Career Criminal Act. The act imposes a 15-year term on an individual convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm if he or she has three prior convictions "for a violent felony or serious drug offense or both" on different occasions. The government said one of those three priors for Chambers took place when he failed to report for his weekend jail confinement. Ultimately the justices ruled that failure to report for weekend jail confinement did not constitute a violent crime. Chambers v. U.S., No. 06-11206, was argued on Nov. 10 by Robert N. Hochman, a partner in Sidley's Chicago office. Hawkins said several groups of students worked on the case since 2007, including the students who helped put together the original petition for a writ of certiorari in May 2007 asking the high court to review the case. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285989 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
