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Prosecutor Appointed to Investigate U.S. Attorney Firings

Posted on September 29, 2008
An internal Justice Department investigation concluded Monday that political pressure drove the firings of several federal prosecutors in a 2006 purge, but said that the refusal of major players at the White House and the department to cooperate in the...

Joseph T. Thai

Posted on September 28, 2008
Professor Joseph Thai joined the law faculty in 2003. He teaches Supreme Court decision making, First Amendment, criminal procedure, and criminal law, and writes in related areas. Thai has served as law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens and Justice....

Change of the Guard in Corrections Department

Posted on September 27, 2008
In her 19 years as a corrections officer on Rikers Island, Barbara Williams has been trapped in a mess hall with rioting inmates and thrown against an iron gate by a man twice her size who left her with a...

N.Y. Law Treats Child Prostitutes as Crime Victims not Offenders

Posted on September 27, 2008
Ending years of debate and delay, Gov. David A. Paterson on Friday signed into law a bill shielding sexually exploited girls and boys from being charged with prostitution. The law, known as the Safe Harbor for Exploited Youth Act, will...

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Taser Use in Man?s Death Broke Rules, Police Say

Posted on September 27, 2008
The firing of a Taser stun gun that led an emotionally disturbed man to fall from a Brooklyn building ledge to his death on Wednesday appeared to have violated departmental guidelines, the police said on Thursday. The guidelines tell officers...

FBI did not analyze anthrax from biodefense lab

Posted on September 26, 2008
The FBI never examined anthrax samples from the 2001 contamination of a biodefense lab that was covered up by their lead suspect in the anthrax mailings ? a decision that one of the FBI's leading anthrax experts calls "weird." Researcher...

North Charleston police take step into the future

Posted on September 26, 2008
The day when police can swipe a suspect's finger through a device and check him instantly against a nationwide criminal database, all while standing on a city street, may not be far off. North Charleston Police Chief Jon Zumalt said...

Mo. prison program fosters family ties behind bars

Posted on September 26, 2008
VANDALIA, Mo. ? The crayons, construction paper and toddlers scattered on the floor suggest a typical daycare center or kindergarten classroom. The armed guards and surveillance cameras reveal a painful reality. The handful of inmates gathered for the monthly program...

FBI Opens Probe of Finance Giants

Posted on September 25, 2008
The FBI is investigating whether fraud played a role in the troubles at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and American International Group, bringing to 26 the number of bureau investigations of institutions tied to the mortgage debacle, according to...

Rape reports jump 40% in S.F., police say

Posted on September 25, 2008
Between Jan. 1 and Sept. 7, there have been 130 reported rapes in the city, compared with 94 over the same period last year, according to statistics presented at City Hall this week. Police officials said they did not know...

In the New Term, High Stakes for the High Court

Posted on September 25, 2008
Following a blockbuster term involving guns, Guantanamo Bay and the death penalty, the U.S. Supreme Court opens its doors to a new term with less drama, more cases initially and many challenges having potentially major implications for business, the environment,...

U.S. Supreme Court delays execution of Ga.

Posted on September 24, 2008
ATLANTA (AP) ? The U.S. Supreme Court gave a reprieve to a Georgia inmate less than two hours before his scheduled execution Tuesday for the 1989 slaying of an off-duty police officer. Family and advocates of 39-year-old Troy Davis have...

Innocent Until Reported Guilty

Posted on September 24, 2008
As guards led Ellen Reasonover to the van that would transport her to prison, she could not comprehend that a St. Louis County, Mo., jury had just found her guilty of a cold-blooded murder. A 24-year-old single mother of a...

Scavenging - and theft of recyclables - on rise

Posted on September 24, 2008
Less than five minutes into Lisa Poston's shift, the San Diego code-enforcement officer spotted a scraggly man on a bicycle that had been modified to carry garbage cans. Poston pulled her unmarked car next to him and politely explained that...

Bernard Kerik Claims Selective Prosecution

Posted on September 24, 2008
Disgraced former NYPD boss Bernard Kerik doesn't think it's fair for him to face criminal charges for not paying nanny taxes when other top officials skated for similar offenses. Kerik's lawyers cited one-time U.S. attorney general nominee Zoe Baird and...

Searches of old criminal records end school jobs

Posted on September 23, 2008
The impact has been especially evident among nonteaching employees who, until this year, did not have to undergo the kind of comprehensive background checks done for teachers. Now, staffers such as custodians, secretaries and cafeteria workers may face dismissal for...

Public defender wants alternatives to juvenile detention

Posted on September 23, 2008
Nashville's new public defender says she is most proud of two things: the good work her office does in representing the city's poor and being the city's first woman to hold the office. Dawn Deaner, a 12-year veteran of the...

'CLUELESS' CRIME LABS

Posted on September 23, 2008
A federal panel of experts looking into the reliability of CSI tests has heard damning evidence against some of the most common techniques used to convict killers, rapists and other criminals, The Post has learned. The analysis of fingerprints, tire....

At Sentencing, Youth Bares Soul, and Judge Bares His Pain

Posted on September 22, 2008
How much misery was appropriate to inflict on a promising 19-year-old, who himself had inflicted misery on society by dealing drugs, the judge asked himself out loud. ?It?s almost an impossible calculus,? said Justice Farber, who sits in State Supreme...

Anxiety-detecting machines could spot terrorists

Posted on September 22, 2008
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. ? A scene from the airport of the future: A man's pulse races as he walks through a checkpoint. His quickened heart rate and heavier breathing set off an alarm. A machine senses his skin temperature jumping....

Police tactics in '75 murder case debated

Posted on September 22, 2008
Three weeks out of a mental hospital, Curtis Jasper Moore spent the night of Jan. 8, 1975, at the Emporia police station asking for his mother. He sang "The Ballad of Paladin," the theme song of an old television Western,...

Patricia W. Bennett Professor of Criminal Law Mississippi College of Law

Posted on September 21, 2008
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Program, October 1990, January 1993, and September 1995. Visiting Professor, Emory University School of Law Trial Techniques Program, Summer 1992, Summer 1993, Summer 1995, Summer 1996, Summer 1999, and Summer 2000...

U.S. Court Is Now Guiding Fewer Nations

Posted on September 20, 2008
WASHINGTON ? Judges around the world have long looked to the decisions of the United States Supreme Court for guidance, citing and often following them in hundreds of their own rulings since the Second World War. But now American legal...

Limit on Gun Law Passes; Senate Vote Unlikely

Posted on September 19, 2008
The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly yesterday to legalize semiautomatic rifles in the District and repeal its gun registration laws, but the bill's future appeared in doubt as a prominent senator announced she would try to block it. "If this...

After fatal call, judge should resign

Posted on September 19, 2008
She should call a news conference before the week is out, apologize for the pivotal role she played in a killing last week and tender her letter to the administrative judge of the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court. Her apology should...

Cell Phone Cameras and Crime Reporting

Posted on September 19, 2008
One morning last month, a 28-year-old woman was struggling up the stairs at the Dyckman Street elevated station on her way to work. Normally, she would hold her skirt around her legs, but that day she was juggling a cup...

The Challenges of Sentencing Young Drug Offenders

Posted on September 19, 2008
Justice Thomas Farber?s dilemma in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday played itself out like a dramatic monologue. How much misery was appropriate to inflict on a promising 19-year-old, who himself had inflicted misery on society by dealing drugs, the judge...

15 LAPD officers face discipline in May Day melee

Posted on September 18, 2008
Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton announced Tuesday his plans to discipline 11 officers and called for the termination of four others for their roles in a May Day melee last year in which police were accused of using...

Circuit Court Reinstates Convictions of Mob Cops

Posted on September 18, 2008
The racketeering convictions of two retired New York City detectives who helped to kill at least eight men in their role as mob assassins were ordered reinstated on Wednesday by a federal appeals court. It ruled that a trial judge...

Video from 11th Circuit Excessive Force Case Finds Way to YouTube

Posted on September 18, 2008
When Judge Beverly B. Martin this month dissented to a federal appeals decision in favor of a sheriff's deputy accused of civil rights violations for using a Taser on a handcuffed man, she urged that a video of the events...

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