Legal Research

McCALLUM v. STATE
Leagle.com
Both Poe and article 42.12, section 3g(a)(2) of the code of criminal procedure make it clear that when the trier of fact makes an affirmative finding, ...
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ARMSTRONG v. STATE
Leagle.com
[ 1 ] Based on the jury's answers to the special issues set forth in Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 37.071, Sections 2(b) and 2(e), ...
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Northwest Briefly: King County fined for December sewage spill
HeraldNet
Donohoe said the teen is not eligible for adult prosecution because of his age and lack of criminal history. However, if he is convicted, prosecutors plan ...
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PEOPLE v. NERO
Leagle.com
(Dressler, Understanding Criminal Law (4th ed. 2006) § 30.06[C], p. 524, fns. omitted.) Nor is the notion that an aider and abettor's mens rea "floats free" ...
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PEOPLE v. YOCOM
Leagle.com
Defendant explained to him his drug use, his criminal history, and his psychiatric problems. Defendant reported a history of bipolar disorder and ...
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BLOGS:

Taiwan's criminal defence system moves towards China's | East Asia ...
By Jerome Cohen
"Although Taiwan's president Ma Ying-Jeou recently took the occasion of the island's Law Day to call for greater government efforts to promote judicial reform and human rights, his Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has been moving in the opposite direction. ... Yet, every country also needs vigorous lawyers to check abuses of the criminal process. If these MOJ proposals are enacted, the plight of Taiwan's defence lawyers may begin to resemble that of their Chinese counterparts. ..."
East Asia Forum - http://www.eastasiaforum.org/

Militant Libertarian » The CIA, Assassination, and the War on ...
By Militant Libertarian
"No arrests, no Miranda warnings, no presumption of innocence, no attorneys, no trials, and no other messy procedures associated with the criminal-justice system. Not even incarceration in a military dungeon, torture, or trial before ... Even though federal officials later treated Padilla as a criminal defendant instead, indicting him for the federal crime of terrorism, that was after he had spent three years in prison as an illegal enemy combatant in the war on terrorism. ..."
Militant Libertarian - http://militantlibertarian.org/

Law and Other Things: Our Supreme Court at Sixty
By Vikram Raghavan
"The Court spoke up for residents of mental asylums, championed better conditions in Indian prisons, highlighted the plight of street dwellers, and strengthened the rights of criminal defendants and under-trials and those arrested. ... Furthermore, in the area of national security and anti-terrorism, where the Court has consistently upheld draconian criminal and preventive detention laws that make significant departures from established criminal procedure requirements and ..."
Law and Other Things - http://lawandotherthings.blogspot.com/

Tell It Like It Is » Deviance and Corruption
By Tracy Barnhart
"Criminal justice experts are divided over whether racial differences exist with respect to use of force. On the one hand, the Christopher Commission stated that white officers were somewhat more likely to use excessive force against .... With no compromise for crime and with relentless prosecution of criminals, I will enforce the institutional rules as well as the law courteously and appropriately without fear or favor, malice or ill will, never employing unnecessary ..."
Tell It Like It Is - http://www.corrections.com/tracy_barnhart/