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Tennessee Law Review Death Penalty Colloquium

Posted on January 18, 2009
The Tennessee Law Review is preparing to host an exciting colloquium entitled "The Past, Present, and Future ofthe Death Penalty." The Colloquium will take place next month, February 6-7, at the University of Tennessee College of Law. The lineup includes...

Deep cover: New girl at Millington school partied, made friends -- and sought to score drugs

Posted on January 15, 2009
The new student at Millington Central High School was freaking out in study hall. She'd just been talking to a boy about scoring some drugs one late September day when she turned to get her purse and couldn't find her...

Ruling keeps Oregon criminals from being resentenced

Posted on January 15, 2009
A Marion County case resulted Wednesday in a U.S. Supreme Court decision that keeps hundreds of Oregon criminals from having to be resentenced. The case was argued Oct. 14, while Hardy Myers was still Oregon attorney general. The 5-4 decision...

Mistakes in fingerprint analysis trigger review of nearly 1,000 LAPD cases

Posted on January 15, 2009
Los Angeles Police Department fingerprint examiners who falsely implicated at least two people in crimes have been linked to nearly 1,000 other criminal cases that authorities say must now be reviewed to ensure that similar errors weren't made. Nearly two...

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Intelligence Court Affirms Wiretapping Powers

Posted on January 15, 2009
A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, issued a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a specific court order, even when Americans? private communications...

In new tactic, L.A. goes after gangs' money

Posted on January 15, 2009
The city of Los Angeles, plagued by 23,000 violent gang crimes since 2004, including 784 murders and 12,000 felony assaults, announced Tuesday that it had won its first civil judgment, for $5 million, against a criminal gang that had dominated...

New details emerge about murder scene, fake confessions

Posted on January 15, 2009
Juror and courtroom spectators learned shocking details about the scene of the Truett Street murder and false leads that led police on a wild goose chase. By Danny Gallagher, McKinney Courier-Gazette Jurors in the Raul Cortez trial learned the gruesome...

Justices Say Evidence Is Valid Despite Police Error

Posted on January 15, 2009
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of an Alabama man on drug and weapons charges, emphasizing that the exclusionary rule, which generally bars prosecutors from using evidence obtained by the police through improper searches, is far from absolute...

More on the Herring Case

Posted on January 14, 2009
As Brooks posted below, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Herring v. U.S. today, continuing on its path of narrowing the Fourth Amendment's exclusionary rule. A couple of points jumped out at me as I read the opinion. First, the scope...

Supreme Court Narrows Exclusionary Rule

Posted on January 14, 2009
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of an Alabama man on drug and weapons charges, emphasizing that the exclusionary rule, which generally bars prosecutors from using evidence obtained by the police through improper searches, is far from absolute...

Incentive program gives prisoners second chance

Posted on January 14, 2009
Some defendants sentenced to imprisonment in the state corrections system now have an opportunity to be paroled early. Offenders who are eligible for a Recidivism Risk Reduction Incentive program can be released prior to their minimum sentence provided they complete...

Immigration Cases Soar, Represent Half of All Federal Prosecutions

Posted on January 14, 2009
Immigration prosecutions have soared during the Bush administration, representing more than half of all federal prosecutions, up from 18 percent in the first fiscal year of Bush's presidency, according to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse...

A Double Victory for Criminal Defendants

Posted on January 14, 2009
The Supreme Court issued two opinions this morning, both of them striking down lower court opinions that had favored prosecutors. Over at the Sentencing Law and Policy blog, professor Doug Berman is already proclaiming that the decisions offer further proof...

Court again rebukes Portage County judge

Posted on January 14, 2009
An Ohio appeals court has upbraided a controversial Portage County judge for a second time in as many weeks " this time for finding a young public defender in contempt. The 11th Ohio District Court of Appeals found Wednesday that...

Rejected juror figures in bid for new trial

Posted on January 13, 2009
In September 1997, an overweight black woman was excluded from a criminal trial jury in Binghamton because of a prosecutor?s claim that fat people tend to take sides with the defense. Now, the black man who was convicted of gun...

The BART shooting: Are violent protests the answer?

Posted on January 13, 2009
What is it people used to say about urban centers during the civil rights protests of the '60s? Tinderbox. No question that Oakland is a full-on bonfire, soaked in gasoline and just waiting for a match or two. Chronicle columnist...

Crime And Punishment: A Primer

Posted on January 12, 2009
Though the U.S. crime rate has been on a steady decline since the early 1990s, some caution that tough economic times could drive crime rates back up. Lately, several high-profile white collar capers have captured the national attention, reigniting the...

Bad Economy May Fuel Hate Groups, Experts Warn

Posted on January 12, 2009
For 20 years, Bart McIntyre has tracked white supremacist movements, even spending two years undercover in Alabama to penetrate a violent young band of criminals who called themselves the Confederate Hammerskins. Away from his wife and young daughter, McIntyre took...

Federal rules bode ill for federal judge

Posted on January 12, 2009
Next month's trial of U.S. District Judge Sam Kent is likely to be a sad and sordid affair. According to federal indictments, one handed down Tuesday, two former female employees accuse him of sexually forcing himself on them. He contends...

Speedy Trial Case Before Supreme Court This Week

Posted on January 12, 2009
After he was charged with hitting his girlfriend in the face, career criminal Michael Brillon sat in jail without bail for nearly three years, going through six public defenders before being tried for assault. The delays paid off -- for...

Samuel Buell Criminal Law Professor at the Washington University School of Law

Posted on January 11, 2009
Professor Buell's writing and teaching focus on criminal law and on the regulatory state, particularly regulation of activity in corporations and financial markets. His courses include Criminal Law, Securities Regulation, and a seminar in Advanced Topics in Regulation of Financial...

U.S. to collect DNA samples of arrested immigrants

Posted on January 10, 2009
Beginning today, the U.S. government will collect DNA samples from people arrested and detained for suspected immigration violations, despite concerns that the move violates their privacy rights. The new Justice Department policy also will expand DNA collection to people arrested...

Obstruction of justice charge 'upped the ante' against Kent

Posted on January 09, 2009
The government raised the stakes in the criminal case against U.S. District Judge Sam Kent, now accusing a man who swore to protect the system with thwarting it instead, legal experts said Wednesday. They said the obstruction of justice charge...

Colorado Judge Allows Twitter In Courtroom

Posted on January 09, 2009
The courtroom now includes Twitter. What? Twitter inside the courtroom? Yes, it?s true. A Colorado judge recently approved the use of Twitter, and blogs, inside the courtroom to cover an infant-abuse trial. Wichita Eagle (Kansas) reporter, Ron Sylvester, pushed for...

DNA Offers Two Hope

Posted on January 09, 2009
The DNA found on the electrical cord used to bind the hands of a shop owner slain 15 years ago doesn't belong to either of the two men convicted of killing him. Fingerprints found on the door handle of the...

Controversy surrounds DNA evidence in Yogurt Shop Murders

Posted on January 09, 2009
New DNA evidence and the possible addition of two pro bono defense attorneys added controversy to the Yogurt Shop Murders pretrial Wednesday. Four young women were found murdered at a North Austin I Can't Believe its Yogurt shop in 1991....

Survey: ER doctors suspect excessive police force

Posted on January 08, 2009
Nearly 98% of emergency room physicians report that they believe some patients were victims of suspected excessive force by police, a national survey concludes. Yet most of the suspected incidents went unreported because no laws require physicians to alert authorities...

Truce on hardline sentencing

Posted on January 08, 2009
THE NSW Opposition has pledged to end the "law and order auction" in a dramatic break with the tradition of promising to increase punishments and fill jails that has characterised every state election campaign since 1988. The Coalition's justice spokesman,...

Police chief Hurtt calls on city to help curb black deaths

Posted on January 07, 2009
A ministers' organization today called on elected officials to form a committee to study ways to combat rapidly increasing violence among Houston's African-American youth. "We're going to scream from the rooftop" until elected officials respond by forming a committee to...

Mike Wolff asks Obama for sentencing reform

Posted on January 07, 2009
Missouri Supreme Court Judge Michael A. Wolff has joined the chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court in a letter to President-elect Barack Obama calling for "major change in state and federal sentencing practices" that have resulted in the United...

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