Criminal Law

Spotlight on New L&E Faculty: Jessica Fink
Third in our series of new labor and employment faculty is Jessica Fink, who is a teaching fellow at California Western and a Visiting Professor at the University of San Diego. Jessica is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the...

Fender on Probation, Parole, and DNA Collection
Jessica K. Fender (Chicago-Kent College of Law) has posted Probationers, Parolees and DNA Collection: Is this 'Justice for All'? (Seventh Circuit Review, Vol. 3, p. 312, 2007) on SSRN...

The Opiates About Truth
“Laura” was up for sentencing on probation violations on Monday.  She had been sentenced to a diversionary probation with drug treatment in 2003; if she had complied with the terms of her probation, she could have been done with this 2 years ago, and have had her conviction expunged...

Tracking for Sex Offenders
Under Jessica?s Law, otherwise known as Proposition 83, sex offenders in California are to be tracked for life by satellite. The law was passed a year ago and requires sex offenders to be fastened with Global Positioning System devices (GPS)...

Jessicas Law Applied Following Conviction in Maine
In the first application of Maine?s Jessica?s Law after a trial, a man convicted of sexually-assaulting a 4-year-old girl was sentenced to 22 years in prison. An article detailing the case notes that: Assistant District Attorney Eric Walker said the...

Jessica Johnson's "Ed-Abhorial"
Jessica Johnson is Head of Editorial and PR in London for Data Explorers, a firm that measures and tracks stock borrowing. In an editorial on Seeking Alpha published on September 16, 2008 discussing the Market Capitalization on Loan (a/k/a "short...

Probation User Fees
Clark County Council pays $1.1 million settlement after misappropriating funds.