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By Kent Scheidegger et al.

Ninth Circuit Strikes Again: As we posted last Friday, the Ninth Circuit has overturned murderer Fernando Belmonte's death sentence for a third time. Bob Egelko reports for the San Francisco Chronicle on this ruling. Creative Use of Internet Assists Investigations: Private investigators and police officials alike are making the Internet phenomenon YouTube work for their investigations by uploading videos to circulate information about unsolved crimes, hoping that witnesses will come forward with information and provide new leads. Dan Morse has the story for the Washington Post. Taliban Prison Break Validates Concerns about Boumediene Decision: This Op-Ed for the Wall Street Journal highlights some of the primary concerns about the Boumediene decision, namely that military prisoners cannot be kept in Iraq or Afghanistan where they are captured...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).