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Public Forum on Preventing Wrongful Convictions

Posted on April 10, 2008
From newsli.com: On Friday, April 11th, the New York State Senate Democratic Task Force on Criminal Justice Reform will host a public forum at Stony Brook University on proposals to mandate electronic recording of custodial police interrogations. This event will...

New Article Spotlight: Revisiting the Imperial Scholar: Market Failure on Law Review?

Posted on April 09, 2008
UNLV LawProf Rachel Anderson has published a very interesting draft on SSRN; though not specifically about criminal law, it will be of interest to many CrimProfs. The abstract: This article argues for reforms in the institution of student-run law reviews...

A Personal Story of the Daily Battle Against Recidivism

Posted on April 09, 2008
From latimes.com: t happened again at a Taco Bell. The old way of thinking, the criminal voice, wouldn't shut up inside the head of Ken Layton. "Yeah, take out that punk kid, beat the crap out of him, show that...

CrimProf Randall Coyne Discusses Warden's Wife Chraged with Helping Death Row Inmate Escape

Posted on April 09, 2008
From ap.com: University of Oklahoma CrimProf Randall Coyne discusses the case of a deputy prison warden's wife who disappeared with a convicted murderer in 1994 and spent a decade on the run with him has been charged with helping him...

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Anesthetizing the Public Conscience: Lethal Injection and Animal Euthanasia

Posted on April 09, 2008
SSRN.com Recent published University of Berkeley School of Law CrimProf Ty Apler's article "Anesthetizing the Public Conscience: Lethal Injection and Animal Euthanasia." Here is the abstract: Lawyers challenging lethal injection on behalf of death row inmates have frequently argued that...

Questioning new Marijuana Tax

Posted on April 08, 2008
From NPR.com: California's potential $16 billion budget shortfall has led state officials to an unusual source for tax revenue ? medical marijuana storefronts. In a state where it's legal to buy prescription pot, those shops generate millions of dollars each...

Former Death Row Inmate to Discuss Capital Punishment

Posted on April 08, 2008
William Neal "Billy" Moore, former Georgia death row inmate, will discuss capital punishment on Tuesday, April 8, from noon to 12:50 p.m., at the Knight Law Center, 1515 Agate Street, Room 142, in Eugene. Moore spent 16 years on Georgia?s...

University of Maryland Hosts Prostitution and Legal System Symposium

Posted on April 08, 2008
The many dangers to the health and safety of those involved in prostitution are well documented but does our legal system provide adequate resources to help these vulnerable people? Join the University of Maryland's School of Law Students Supporting the...

Illinois May Monitor High Risk Restraining Orders With GPS Technology

Posted on April 04, 2008
From NPR.com: The Illinois legislature is considering a law that would allow police to monitor high-risk restraining-order subjects by using GPS technology. Harvard Law School lecturer Diane Rosenfeld, who proposed a similar bill that passed in Massachusetts last year, discusses...

War Crime Charges Filed Against Embassy Bomber

Posted on April 04, 2008
From online.wsj.com: Military prosecutors filed war-crimes charges yesterday against Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, an al Qaeda operative implicated in the simultaneous 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The case makes for another useful lesson in the post-9/11...

German Law Professor Sent to Prison for Accepting Kickbacks

Posted on April 04, 2008
From A judge has sentenced a German law professor to three years in prison for accepting kickbacks from doctoral students. The Hannover university professor, whose identity was not revealed, confessed to accepting euro156,000 (US$240,000) to serve as a faculty adviser...

Inmate Dies After Being Tasered

Posted on April 03, 2008
From latimes.com: An Orange County jail inmate who spent a week in a coma after a violent confrontation with sheriff's deputies has died, a deputy coroner said today. Sheriff's deputies used Taser stun weapons to subdue Jason Jesus Gomez in...

Question from the Past: Death for Rape?

Posted on April 03, 2008
From abajournal.com: It was 44 years ago this spring that the state of Missouri put to death Ronald Wolfe for the crime of rape. Though no one could know it then, his execution would prove to be the end of...

SCOTUS Rejects the Reopening of a Dual Murder Case Against an Mexican Citizen

Posted on April 02, 2008
From reuters.com: Mexico protested on Monday a U.S. Supreme Court ruling rejecting the reopening of a dual-murder case against a Mexican on death row. The court rule last week that U.S. President George W. Bush exceeded his authority when he...

LA Council Tries to Paa a 40 Hour Homicide Ban

Posted on April 02, 2008
From latimes.com: Los Angeles City Council members -- who in the past have tried with mixed results to ban gas-powered leaf blowers from backyards, lap dances from strip clubs and fast food restaurants from South Los Angeles -- plan to...

Third Circuit Grants New Sentencing for Mumia Abu-Jamal

Posted on April 02, 2008
From the Philadelphia Inquirer online, Mar. 28, 2008: "At least for now, execution is off the table for the world-famous death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal following a federal appeals court decision yesterday that left intact his conviction in the 1981 murder...

New Bill Passed in VA to Notice to Convicts when DNA Evidence is Found in Old Labs

Posted on April 01, 2008
From inrich.com: A state budget amendment would require the Virginia Forensic Science Board to notify felons when biological evidence is found in their old lab files. More than 530,000 files from 1973 through 1988 -- before DNA testing was widely...

New Hampshire Agreed to Pay 1.85 Million to 30 Female Inmates

Posted on April 01, 2008
From concordmonitor.com: The state has agreed to pay $1.85 million to 30 female inmates and a corrections employee who accused former prison sergeant Douglas Tower of raping, assaulting or sexually harassing them. The women will receive checks ranging from $6,000...

Kansas Supreme Court Rules Arrest Warrants Strikes Down DNA Based John Doe Warrants

Posted on March 31, 2008
From kansas.com: The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that the arrest warrants in seven rape cases -- the first in the nation to charge someone's DNA with a crime -- weren't specific enough to meet legal standards. The ruling means...

Angola 2 Finally Out of Solitary Confinement

Posted on March 31, 2008
From NPR.com: Two former Black Panthers imprisoned in Louisiana are out of solitary confinement for the first time since the 1970s. State corrections officials say Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox were moved into a "maximum security dormitory" earlier this week...

Presidential Candidates' Platforms on Criminal Justice

Posted on March 24, 2008
Here. [Jack Chin]

Is Prison Food Punishment?

Posted on March 24, 2008
From boston.com: Savory it isn't: It's made of whole wheat bread, non-dairy cheese, raw carrots, spinach, seedless raisins, beans, vegetable oil, tomato paste, powdered milk and dehydrated potato flakes. To prison officials, it's a complete meal. To inmates, it's a...

Prosecutors Push Limits in Terrorism Probe Case

Posted on March 24, 2008
From NYSun.com: Federal prosecutors tracking a Saudi-backed American foundation accused of ties to terrorists are tightening the screws on their target, levying half a million dollars in contempt-of-court fines and moving to pierce the attorney-client privilege as a way of...

SCOTUS Reversed Death Penalty in Case Work on by Pierce Law Students

Posted on March 24, 2008
Franklin Pierce Law Center's Frederick Millett, a third-year student from Grand Haven, MI, is celebrating this week after learning that the death penalty case he worked on as an extern this past fall at the Southern Center for Human Rights...

SCOTUS To Hear Self Representation Case

Posted on March 24, 2008
From USATODAY.com: A shoe shoplifting incident that escalated into a lunchtime shooting in downtown Indianapolis nearly a decade ago is now the basis for the Supreme Court to decide how much latitude states have to determine if a defendant is...

Missouri Governor Writes a Brief Supporting the Death Penalty for Child Rapists

Posted on March 24, 2008
From kansascity.com: Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the death penalty for child rapists. The ?friends of the court? brief supports the state of Louisiana, which is defending a law authorizing the...

More on Snyder v. Louisiana

Posted on March 19, 2008
Beyond the interesting fact that both the Chief Justice and Justice Alito were in the majority -- the latter authoring the opinion -- I think this case is very significant for a couple of reasons: First, the case seems to...

SCOTUS Overturns Murder Convictions Due to Racism

Posted on March 19, 2008
From NPR.com: The Supreme Court overturns a murder conviction and death sentence for a black defendant in Louisiana who said his trial was tainted by racism. A seven-member majority of the justices said the prosecutor improperly kept blacks off the...

National Innocence Network Conference to Take Place at Santa Clara University

Posted on March 19, 2008
Innocence Network Conference: The national Innocence Network Conference will take place this year at Santa Clara University, home base of the Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP). The three-day conference, which brings together hundreds of people who work against wrongful convictions,...

CrimProf Fran Watson Hadry Reaches out to the Public to Exonerate a Wrongfully Convicted Man

Posted on March 19, 2008
The Law Clinic at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis today (March 14, 2008) announced an upcoming post-conviction proceeding on behalf of a Lake County man asserting he was wrongfully convicted of rape in 1993. Law Clinic attorneys representing the man...

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