TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Nov 8, 2022

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Monday authored her first Supreme Court opinion – a dissent from the court’s refusal to hear a death penalty case, the ABA Journal reports. Jackson said the Supreme Court should have heard the appeal by Davel Chinn, who argued that a federal appeals court used the wrong standard when evaluating the impact of the prosecution’s failure to disclose that a star witness had an intellectual disability. Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined Jackson’s dissent. Read the dissent here.