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Attorney General's Report Details Human Trafficking in Texas

Posted on November 18, 2008
Texas has become a major hub for human trafficking, state officials said Monday while proposing a more aggressive response to what a senior lawmaker described as "modern-day slavery." Nearly 20 percent of human-trafficking victims found nationwide have been in Texas,...

An upcoming local Michigan talk "Bad to the Bone: Horrors!--Can Our Genes Help Make Us Act Badly?"

Posted on November 18, 2008
Talk located at at Schuler Books, 2820 Towne Centre Blvd Lansing, MI 48912, Tuesday, November 18, 7:30 PM. More information about the bok the lecture is based on is below. Praise for the tongue-in-cheek titled, best-selling, meticulously researched book the...

Editorial: DNA Testing Beyond a shadow of a doubt

Posted on November 17, 2008
It's hard to believe that someone would plead guilty to a crime he didn't commit. But it happens, more often than anyone likes to admit. More than 200 people have been exonerated in recent years thanks to advances in DNA...

Sobreity Checkpoints: Some See Big Problem in Wisconsin Drinking

Posted on November 17, 2008
When a 15-year-old comes into Wile-e?s bar looking for a cold beer, the bartender, Mike Whaley, is happy to serve it up ? as long as a parent is there to give permission.\ ?If they?re 15, 16, 17, it?s fine...

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2 Held in Election Night Beating of Black Youth

Posted on November 17, 2008
Alie Kamara, a black Staten Island teenager, watched the results of the Nov. 4 election at a friend?s house. Soon after Barack Obama was declared the winner, he walked home alone to his house in the Stapleton neighborhood.\ On the...

Craigslist Increasingly Used to Sell Drugs

Posted on November 17, 2008
Drug dealing on craigslist has become so rampant that the city's special narcotics prosecutor has asked the online trading post to curb the ads, the Daily News has learned. Bridget Brennan's undercover investigators have bought drugs offered on craigslist personals...

John Kroger Professor of Criminal Law

Posted on November 16, 2008
Professor Kroger teaches criminal law and jurisprudence. In May 2008, Kroger, a Democrat, won both the Democratic and Republican nominations to be Oregon?s next Attorney General. He is a three-time recipient of the Leo Levenson Award for Teaching Excellence, awarded...

Youth Development Center's closing marks change in juvenile justice approach

Posted on November 15, 2008
The shuttering of the county-run Youth Development Center in Hudson ends an era for a place that has served troubled youths for more than 100 years. But it also marks a fundamental change in how the county's juvenile justice system...

Innocent Man's Conviction Vacated After 27 Years

Posted on November 14, 2008
Today the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court granted William Dillon a new trial based on DNA evidence which demonstrates Dillon's actual innocence of the 1981 murder of James Dvorak in Canova Beach Florida. Dillon's 27 years equals the longest time served...

Wrongly-jailed men lose compensation bids

Posted on November 14, 2008
Two victims of high-profile ?miscarriages of justice? cases lost a legal battle for increased compensation awards today. Darren Hall was wrongly imprisoned for killing Cardiff newsagent Philip Saunders, and Stephen Miller wrongly served time for the brutal murder of prostitute...

L.A. County sheriff's officials acknowledge that genetic evidence in 5,635 rape cases may be untested

Posted on November 14, 2008
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, under pressure from county supervisors and watchdog groups to account for its handling of DNA evidence from sexual assault cases, acknowledged Wednesday it did not know whether genetic evidence from more than 5,600 rape...

Repeal of death penalty urged

Posted on November 14, 2008
state commission reviewing capital punishment recommended last night an end to executions in Maryland, prompting hope among death penalty opponents that the General Assembly could soon abolish the 30-year practice. The Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment voted 13-7 to make...

Put scientists, not cops, in crime labs

Posted on November 13, 2008
The Michigan State Police released a final report late last month on the firearms unit of the Detroit Police Crime Lab. It?s a highly disturbing document. MSP found, among other deficiencies, that guns and bullets were kept unsecured and unprotected....

New report details shattered lives of released Guantanamo detainees

Posted on November 13, 2008
Detainees released from U.S. detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Afghanistan live shattered lives as a result of U.S. policies in the war on terror, according to a new report by human rights experts at the University of California, Berkeley....

Internet thieves make big money stealing corporate info

Posted on November 13, 2008
An innocuous posting appeared on a Houston-based technology company's internal website on a recent Friday afternoon. A couple of workers saw it, and obeyed instructions to click on a Web link. The posting seemed trustworthy. It was on an employees-only...

DNA Solves Property Crimes (But Are We Ready for That?)

Posted on November 12, 2008
Results of an experiment using DNA to solve property crimes are in: collecting biological evidence at burglary scenes works. The study ? funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and evaluated by the Urban Institute ? compared burglary investigations...

Supreme Court Argument Report: Jack the Ripper in His Armchair

Posted on November 12, 2008
The Supreme Court on Monday considered a case involving whether a defendant's failure to report for confinement after conviction constitutes a "violent crime" under the Armed Career Criminal Act. The justices weighed arguments concerning whether failure to report is an...

Cincinnati Patrols, a jail on cut list

Posted on November 12, 2008
Hamilton County's administration is recommending massive layoffs, departmental consolidation and severe public safety cuts to balance the bleakest budget in memory. Administrator Patrick Thompson on Monday unveiled details of the 2009 plan, which would eliminate 532 county jobs - 18...

Case Raising Victim Impact Evidence Issue Falls One Vote Short of Cert.

Posted on November 12, 2008
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in a case raising the issue of how far prosecutors can go in capital prosecutions in introducing victim impact evidence. At issue was a video presentation introduced by the prosecutors at trial,...

NYPD Starts Collecting DNA from ... the Police

Posted on November 11, 2008
The NYPD has started taking DNA samples from CSI detectives to look for cross-contamination at crime scenes, sources said last night. Police brass have been pushing for the samples for at least three years. The need was highlighted when a...

Court Upholds On-Scene Traffic Discretion During DUI Roadblock

Posted on November 11, 2008
Giving police officers conducting a sobriety checkpoint the discretion to suspend temporarily and then resume their operation of the checkpoint to alleviate traffic caused by the checkpoint violates neither the Fourth Amendment nor its state constitutional counterpart, the Pennsylvania Supreme...

How Did Spitzer Dodge Criminal Charges?

Posted on November 11, 2008
All right. He is off the hook. You know who we are talking about, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer will not - that's right - not face criminal charges for committing crimes, soliciting high-end prostitutes. The fed is saying...

Obama legal advisers draft plans for Guant�namo

Posted on November 11, 2008
The White House today challenged president-elect Barack Obama to make good on his campaign promise to close Guantan�mo Bay saying "it's not so easy" to shut down the notorious detention centre. Hopes that Obama would move swiftly to dismantle the...

What President Obama Can Do to Reduce Gun Violence

Posted on November 11, 2008
President-elect Obama should implement seven tested and proven initiatives that will have an immediate impact on reducing gun related violence, accidents and suicides without affecting the Second Amendment or having any negative impact on responsible and law abiding gun owners...

Ninth Circuit Finds CA Child Abuse Database Unconstitutional

Posted on November 10, 2008
California's database of child abusers and suspected child abusers violates due process because it does not allow those named on it to challenge the allegations, the 9th Circuit ruled. Craig and Wendy Humphries' child alleged that they were abusers, so...

Obama's DOJ Transition Plan

Posted on November 10, 2008
For more than a month, a squad of lawyers has been gathering for the first Justice Department transition in the post-9/11 world. Now that their candidate has won, they're at the gates -- or rather, the 20-foot-high aluminum doors of...

S.F. killings seen as centering on gangs, turf

Posted on November 10, 2008
San Francisco's 98 homicides last year, the highest number in 12 years, were anything but random. According to a new study, the violence was concentrated - routinely involving the same gangs and featuring suspects and victims with long rap sheets....

Majority agrees that some users unduly punished

Posted on November 10, 2008
The district attorney and the head of the group that pushed Massachusetts voters to overwhelmingly back a huge reduction in the penalty for marijuana possession don?t agree on a lot of things. One thing on which they do agree: Voters...

Citing Workload, Public Lawyers Reject New Cases

Posted on November 10, 2008
MIAMI ? Public defenders? offices in at least seven states are refusing to take on new cases or have sued to limit them, citing overwhelming workloads that they say undermine the constitutional right to counsel for the poor. Public defenders...

Charles Ogletree Harvard Criminal Law Professor

Posted on November 09, 2008
Charles Ogletree is the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Justice Institute. In addition, Professor Ogletree serves Harvard Law School as the Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and...

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