Legal Research

BOWLES v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS
Leagle, Inc.
First, pursuant to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Bowles was provided an opportunity to review his PSR prior to sentencing and object to any ...
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Prison Reformers Sound Off On Early Release Rhetoric
Progress Illinois (blog)
Today, he appointed a veteran Chicago police officer to oversee the system's release procedures. Not surprisingly, as individual stories of crimes committed ...
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RUCKER v. SISTO
Leagle, Inc.
The presiding commissioner noted when giving the Board's decision that petitioner had a minor criminal record and a disciplinary history in prison. ...
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Polanski Lawyers Cite Dying Witness as Reason to Hold Hearing Soon
The Public Record
The issue is significant, which is why the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure prohibit a judge from accepting a guilty plea without informing the defendant ...
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Ruling allows pardon of deceased exoneree Cole
LubbockOnline.com
By Elliott Blackburn | AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Texas' governor may pardon an innocent man who died in prison 10 years ago while serving a sentence handed down by ...
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Demand more accountability for the wrongfully convicted
South Bend Tribune
Insisting upon his innocence, he refused, choosing instead to put his fate in the hands of the criminal justice system, known in attorney parlance as ...
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Zimbabwe: How Many Are Jailed Unjustly?
AllAfrica.com
There is no greater failure of the criminal justice system than a wrongful conviction. In order for a person to be found guilty of a crime they did not ...
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PEOPLE v. MEDINA
Leagle, Inc.
And it found such totality of the circumstances in the record before it, namely, "the area's reputation for criminal activity, the presence of two people ...
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Following instincts solved 1967 murder case
Huntington Herald Dispatch
...criminal investigation that covered subjects like interrogation, evidence handling, crime photography, latent fingerprints, criminal law and procedures, ...
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A limit on Confrontation rights? | SCOTUSblog
By Lyle Denniston
Less than seven months after the Supreme Court made one of the most controversial rulings in recent years on criminal law, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, the Justices have the option of reconsidering that decision ? and, in fact, .... to stand under the Confrontation Clause, there would be no way to limit its effects to crime lab reports or certificates. ?There is no limit at all on the type of statement to which the [subpoena] procedure might be applied,' it argued. ..."
SCOTUSblog - http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/

Can Criminals Change Their Ways? | Introduction to ?The Thief ...
By rabbifink
"Last semester at Law School I studied Criminal Law. Crime is ugly. It hurts the victims and negatively affects the criminal's life forever. Families can be. ... of the substantive law on subjects such as helping distressed motorist, finding lost objects, justifiable homicide and abortion, criminal procedure and many other interesting topics in Jewish Law. On the other hand we learned about a system of rules designed to prevent crime and to create a more perfect society. ..."
Pacific Jewish Center | Rabbi - http://finkorswim.com/

Swiss Regulator Broke Law By Handing Over Tax Records To US | zero ...
By Tyler Durden
"Finma ordered UBS to hand over customer information so the bank could avoid criminal prosecution in the U.S., which may have led to the bank's insolvency, according to the regulator. The Justice Department accused ... UBS and the Swiss government settled that lawsuit in August by agreeing to reveal data on as many as 4450 U.S. clients suspected of evading taxes through an administrative assistance procedure between the U.S. and Switzerland. ?This decision strengthens the ..."
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Review: But I Trusted You by Ann Rule - Reading Local Seattle
By Jim Thomsen
"If Rule tried to interview Teresa Gaethe-Leonard in prison but was rebuffed, that's one thing. If she just didn't have the time because the book was being rushed to market, that's another. But if she didn't even try because she felt she knew all she ... I wonder if Rule convicted her because she believes her to be guilty? a belief buttressed by her decades of observing criminal behavior, and observing Casey Anthony only through the filter of the national true-crime media. ..."
Reading Local Seattle - http://seattle.readinglocal.com/