Updated: 10:17 AM PST, December 28, 2020
In this year alone, the country has witnessed a multitude of momentous court cases that will pave the path for the criminal justice system for years to come.
The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg once said: Dissent speaks to a future age. It s not simply to say, My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way. But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time, their views become the dominant view. So that s the dissenter s hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow.
In this year alone, the country has witnessed a multitude of momentous court cases that will pave the path for the criminal justice system for years to come. At the height of the pandemic, as the coronavirus ravished the world, courthouses curtailed operations, thus putting jury trials at a standstill and delaying other court proceedings. Judges, attorneys, and courts, alike, grappled with enforcing the law while also maintaining