Criminal Law

The Santos Resolution ()
Santos, argued the first week of the Term in October, was by far the oldest outstanding decision until today. (After today, the only remaining case from those argued in 2007 is Boumediene...

Santos, Santos, Santos
The Bristol paper reported here that Chief Judge Jones is trying to figure out the Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Santos, before deciding what to do in the case of the Lee County dentist...

Opinion Recap: US v. Santos
Below, Amy discusses one of the decisions released on Monday.  At issue in No. 06-1005, United States v. Santos, was whether the term ?proceeds,? as used in the federal money-laundering statute, means ?receipts? (as the United States contended) or ?profits? (as the respondents argued)...

Supreme Court rules in money laundering, paralegal fees recovery cases
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] handed down three decisions Monday, including United States v. Santos [Duke Law backgrounder; JURIST report], where the Court held 7-2 that the term "proceeds" in a federal money laundering statute [text] means "profits" and not "receipts...

New Bedford Massachusetts Police Officer Edson Santos Under Investigation After Attacking And Choking His Girlfriend Outside Bar
NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS - A city police officer is being investigated for allegedly choking his girlfriend outside a downtown nightclub last month, the mayor and a police source said...

Teaching Materials Network
From the FLP mailbox. this announcement of the “Teaching Materials Network,” a list of those willing to share teaching materials: The AALS New Law Professors Workshop is this week, and among the resources our new colleagues will be told about is the Teaching Materials Network: a database of contact information for faculty members in all subject [...