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News Scan

Posted on January 29, 2008
DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a Chilean man for the 1997 murder of University of Colorado co-ed Susannah Chase according to this Associated Press story by Ivan Moreno. Diego Olmos-Alcalde was in the Boulder County Jail for a parole violation when he was arrested for the Chase killing...

News Scan

Posted on January 28, 2008
Religion and the Death Penalty: Walter Berns of American Enterprise Institute has this article on Europe's obsession with the death penalty. "What explains this obsession with the death penalty? Hard to say, but probably the fact that abolishing it is one of the few things Europeans can do that make them feel righteous; in fact, very few...

Pardon Power

Posted on January 28, 2008
Here is an interesting blog dedicated to news about pardons. The blogger is P. S. Ruckman, Jr., Associate Professor of Political Science at Rock Valley College, Illinois.

Intellectual Dishonesty Epic

Posted on January 25, 2008
Joel Jacobsen at Judging Crimes has a series of long posts, 3 so far, titled "Intellectual dishonesty epic." The series provides some interesting historical background regarding one of the most dishonest decisions in the history of the Supreme Court, Fay v...

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News Scan

Posted on January 25, 2008
Patriot Act: A former sailor, charged with leaking information about a navy battle group to suspected terrorist supporters in London, has lost his bid to have incriminating evidence intercepted by taps to his phone and emails suppressed, according to this AP story by John Christoffersen...

Conn. Death Penalty Repeal Effort Fails

Posted on January 24, 2008
An attempt to repeal the death penalty in Connecticut was rejected by a vote of 89-49 by that state's House of Representatives, Keith M. Phaneuf and Jenna N. Carlesso report in the Journal Inquirer.

The Horror of Our Failed Incapacitation Policies for Sex Offenders

Posted on January 24, 2008
It seems fashionable lately for many scholars to decry our criminal justice polices surrounding sex offenders. Indeed, classifying all sex offenses - from adolescents who take nude pictures of themselves to the worst sex abuse imaginable - seems unwise...

Cal. Supreme Punts DP Discovery Issue

Posted on January 23, 2008
In 1990, the voters of California passed Proposition 115, which among other things added a discovery chapter to the Penal Code, �� 1054.1 et seq. (Most important criminal law is enacted by initiative in California, due to the permanent dysfunctionality of our Legislature...

Injection Inertia

Posted on January 22, 2008
The Tennessean has this article on Gov. Bredesen's opposition to a proposal to change lethal injection from the three-drug method presently under attack in Baze v. Rees to a one-drug method similar to that used by veterinarians. His position, in essence, is that any change from an established method triggers many years of litigation...

Padilla Gets 17 Years

Posted on January 22, 2008
Jose Padilla was sentenced to 17 years, 4 months for conspiracy to commit terrorism, Curt Anderson reports for AP. He is a U.S. citizen who was detained on charges of a "dirty bomb" plot, leading to this Supreme Court decision on jurisdiction in habeas corpus cases...

SCOTUS Today

Posted on January 22, 2008
The Supreme Court today issued an orders list and one opinion. The opinion in Ali v. Federal Bureau of Prisons is an exercise in statutory interpretation on the federal government's waiver of sovereign immunity in 28 U.S.C. � 1346(b)(1) and an exception to that waiver in 28 U...

News Scan

Posted on January 21, 2008
Daryl Atkins, the subject of the Supreme Court's June 2002 ruling in Atkins v. Virginia, has won a Virginia Circuit Court ruling commuting his death sentence to life in prison according to this Associated Press story . Atkins was sentenced to death in 1996 for the kidnap, robbery and murder of a young Air Force recruit...

Supreme Court Grants

Posted on January 18, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in six cases today, all civil. SCOTUSblog has the details. Criminal cases that were on the conference list for today are likely either denied (to be announced Tuesday) or "relisted" to be considered again at a later conference...

Praise for the History Channel

Posted on January 18, 2008
The History channel has been running an excellent series on the development of gangs in the United States. Gangland is an intriguing and revealing look at the realities of gangs. Highly recommended.

More Sense at the Ninth

Posted on January 17, 2008
Late last month, we noted a welcome trend at the Ninth Circuit to go en banc more often to correct more of the rogue panel decisions that have given that court its reputation. Today that trend continues in Plumlee v. Masto. The case involves a difficult client who demands appointment of a different attorney because of a deterioration in the relationship, even though the attorney appointed for him has no actual conflict and has done nothing wrong...

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