Criminal Law

Pensacola Internet sex sting nabs 25 in week-long operation www.privateofficer.com
  PENSACOLA, Florida June 28 2011 – Twenty-five men have been arrested on felony charges after an intensive week-long undercover operation involving multiple law enforcement agencies determined they were using the internet to arrange sexual encounters with minors...

Entrapment Arguments, and False Alternatives
(Eugene Volokh) In editing People v. Watson, 990 P.2d 1031 (Cal. 2000), for the entrapment unit of my Criminal Law class, I was struck by the elementary yet common flaw in the concurrence...

Fifth District: Entrapment
If you are interested in entrapment, take a look at this decision from the Fifth District. It is rather short but gives a good overview of the distinction between the objective entrapment test, which focuses on how the government official's conduct would affect a reasonable person, and the subjective entrapment test, which focuses on how the government official's conduct actually affected the

WW II displaced persons, a history of Europe, the Civil War, and more in the book reviews
THE LONG ROAD HOME: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shephard "tells a vastly complicated story" of displaced persons in Europe after World War II, writes Matthew Price in the Boston Globe...

The not-so-perfect murder
In Pensacola, police say the murders of Byrd and Melanie Billings was basically a textbook operation -- only the killers didn't turn off the surveillance cameras.

Entrapment: Bringing the Administration of Justice into Disrepute (Aliu Imoro v. Her Majesty the Queen)
This November, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will be revisiting the doctrine of entrapment in Aliu Imoro v. Her Majesty the Queen. The defense of entrapment claims that the defendant would not have broken the law if he or she had not been ?tricked? into committing the offense by law enforcement officials...

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Drop Side Cribs
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Risk of Entrapment and Strangulation Promps Recall

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