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FBI report: Anti-gay crimes up

Posted on October 29, 2008
Hate crimes against gays increased in 2007, up 6% from 2006 even though the overall number of hate crimes dropped slightly, the FBI reported Monday. There were 7,624 hate crimes reported in 2007, down 1% from 2006. Crimes based on...

Two Mid-South men held in plot to kill Obama

Posted on October 29, 2008
Two Mid-South men with strong white-supremacy beliefs are in custody after planning a state-to-state killing spree, targeting black citizens and ending with the assassination of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, federal authorities said Monday...

ROY WASDEN: Proposition 5 would expand on the failures of Proposition 36

Posted on October 29, 2008
In November 2000, Proposition 36 won voter approval on the promises of lower prison populations, significant cost savings and lower crime rates by removing incarceration from the sentencing options available to judges dealing with drug defendants. Under Proposition 36, judges...

State hopes new prisons, early release cut crowding

Posted on October 28, 2008
A steady rise in the number of inmates and the political risks of paroling prisoners early are complicating the state's efforts to ease crowded conditions in its prisons. The 27 existing lockups now hold nearly 47,000 inmates, which is up...

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Progress Is Minimal in Clearing DNA Cases

Posted on October 28, 2008
LOS ANGELES ? Local and state law enforcement agencies have made uneven progress in reducing a nationwide backlog of cases awaiting DNA analysis over the past four years, according to reports filed by more than 100 agencies with the National...

Davis backers come in all stripes

Posted on October 28, 2008
In his Oct. 21 op-ed about the Troy Davis death penalty case, Spencer Lawton, the district attorney who prosecuted the case in 1991, asserts that: ?The only information the public has had in the 17 years since Troy Davis? conviction...

A Varied, Troubled Past May Affect Credibility

Posted on October 27, 2008
Michael Mineo, the 24-year-old man who has accused the police of brutality, spends much of his time at the Brooklyn tattoo parlor where he works as a body piercer, friends say, and calls his friends from there his brothers and...

Residency restrictions for sex offenders popular, but ineffective

Posted on October 27, 2008
Despite research that shows sex offender residency requirements actually hamper the rehabilitation of offenders, jurisdictions across the country continue to pass them, including Allegheny County last year. Experts say the laws, which prohibit convicted sex offenders from living within a...

Controversial DNA plan uncertain

Posted on October 27, 2008
Immigrant advocacy organizations are decrying a proposal by the Bush administration to collect DNA samples from federal detainees, including illegal immigrants. Under the plan, the DNA samples would be added to the FBI's national database, which contains the genetic codes...

Louisiana Court of Appeals Trashed 2,500 Habeas Patitions

Posted on October 27, 2008
A 2007 suicide note by a clerk of the Louisiana Court of Appeals who killed himself at the courthouse revealed that 2500 prisoner petitions had been summarily rejected over a period of 13 years without having been read. According to...

G. Kristian Miccio Sturm College of Law Professor of Criminal Law

Posted on October 26, 2008
Prof. Miccio is a nationally recognized expert on the law as it affects survivors of male intimate violence. She has written, lectured, litigated and testified, at Congressional and State Legislative hearings, on the issue of male intimate violence, women survivors...

Debaters argue over Utah's approach to addressing polygamy

Posted on October 25, 2008
Is Utah selling out children or protecting the constitutional rights of its citizens? Those were the clashing views of two speakers debating the state's approach to dealing with polygamy Wednesday at the University of Utah's College of Law. Marci A.....

Prop. 5 is no boon to violent offenders

Posted on October 24, 2008
As a law professor who teaches criminal law and procedure in California, I feel compelled to weigh in on the debate over Proposition 5, the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act. I write not as a supporter of Proposition 5 but as...

Judge backs county inmates in jail case

Posted on October 24, 2008
A federal judge has sided with inmates' claims that conditions in Maricopa County jails continue to violate their constitutional rights. U.S. District Court Judge Neil V. Wake on Wednesday modified a 1995 judgment that laid guidelines for a wide range...

Chicago torture victims face uphill legal battle

Posted on October 24, 2008
Melvin Jones says he screamed and begged for mercy as Chicago police touched metal clips to his feet and thighs, churned a hand-cranked device and sent shock waves of electricity through his body more than 25 years ago. He says...

Reporter kept the focus on police torture

Posted on October 23, 2008
At this point, most people in Chicago probably accept as true the torture allegations against retired Chicago police commander Jon Burge and mostly wonder what took so long to indict him. It's easy to forget that was not always the...

Rodney Ellis: Lowering odds that innocents end up in prison

Posted on October 23, 2008
The Dallas Morning News did the state a great service by investigating the causes of Dallas County's 19 DNA exonerations. While the cases involved men of different races and backgrounds, one thing remained the same in 95 percent of the...

Feds punch hole in 'perjury trap,' statute of limitations excuses

Posted on October 23, 2008
That was the $7 million answer that a special prosecutor delivered two years ago in the case of former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge, accused with his men of torturing false confessions from as many as 148 defendants, most of...

San Francisco to Vote on Decriminalization of Prostitution

Posted on October 23, 2008
In this live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores and an annual fair celebrates sadomasochism, prostitutes could soon walk the streets without fear of arrest. San Francisco would become the first major U...

Reporter kept the focus on police torture

Posted on October 22, 2008
At this point, most people in Chicago probably accept as true the torture allegations against retired Chicago police commander Jon Burge and mostly wonder what took so long to indict him. It's easy to forget that was not always the...

Rodney Ellis: Lowering odds that innocents end up in prison

Posted on October 22, 2008
The Dallas Morning News did the state a great service by investigating the causes of Dallas County's 19 DNA exonerations. While the cases involved men of different races and backgrounds, one thing remained the same in 95 percent of the...

The European Legislature is Protesting the Scheduled Execution of Troy Davis

Posted on October 22, 2008
From AP.com: The European parliament is strongly protesting plans to execute a man in the United States who has been sentenced to death for killing a police officer. Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed in Georgia on Oct. 27,...

Supreme Court's Second Amendment Decision in D.C. v. Heller May Help Fight Against Gun Violence, Brady Center Report Finds

Posted on October 22, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court's Second Amendment decision in D.C. v. Heller may have the "unintended consequence" of helping to enact stronger gun laws, according to a report issued today by the Legal Action Project of the Brady Center to Prevent...

Adult Crimes, Young Offenders: 'Where Do We Draw the Line?

Posted on October 22, 2008
Victoria Price was startled from sleep by an intruder who tried to rape her. Chandler Goule was followed, forced to the concrete at gunpoint and robbed. Matthew Caspari was chased down an alley at knifepoint as his wife screamed in...

LAPD officers more likely to stop, search and arrest minorities than whites, report says

Posted on October 22, 2008
Los Angeles police officers are far more likely to stop, search and arrest minorities than they are whites -- even after statistics were adjusted for high- and low-crime areas -- according to a nongovernmental report released Monday. The report by...

Federal Judges Publicly Criticize Supreme Court's Second Amendment Decision

Posted on October 21, 2008
Four months after the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess guns, its decision is under assault ? from the right. Two prominent federal appeals court judges say that Justice Antonin Scalia?s majority opinion...

U.S. Drops War Crimes Charges against Guantanamo Detainees

Posted on October 21, 2008
The Pentagon official in charge of prosecutions at Guantanamo on Tuesday dismissed war-charges against five detainees, the latest setback to the government?s military commission system. The official, Susan J. Crawford, has broad power over the military commission tribunals, including the...

Ninth Circuit Rules Statutory Rape in CA not Categorically a Deportable Offense

Posted on October 21, 2008
The full 9th Circuit ruled that statutory rape does not necessarily constitute a deportable felony, offering hope for relief to a Mexican immigrant facing deportation for having consensual sex with his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was 20. The court agreed...

DAs fight bid to ease penalty for marijuana

Posted on October 21, 2008
As a student at Stonehill College, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley found himself in a room with guys passing around a bong. "When it came to me, I inhaled so hard that it burned my lungs," he says. "I...

Police chief wants to ease rules on vehicle chases in Charlotte

Posted on October 21, 2008
Tired of what he calls ?brazen disrespect? for police, Chief Rodney Monroe wants to loosen rules on Charlotte-Mecklenburg police chases. Too many suspects get away, he says, because current policy allows officers to chase suspects only when a life-threatening felony...

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