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Officials unite to fight marijuana initiative

Posted on September 18, 2008
Law enforcement officials statewide are uniting against a referendum question they fear will increase marijuana use among teenagers and generate more crime across the state. The state's 11 district attorneys are unanimously opposing Question 2 and are being joined by...

Fewer police shootings in '07 called a good trend

Posted on September 18, 2008
There were two police shootings in Portland in 2007, the fewest in a decade. At the same time, police discipline is up, indicating that Portland officers are being held more accountable, according to an annual report by the city's Independent...

Senate backs early release for nonviolent Pa. criminals

Posted on September 18, 2008
HARRISBURG - Legislation designed to move thousands of nonviolent criminals out of Pennsylvania prisons more quickly and rein in booming correctional costs is nearing final approval. After making minor changes to the bill, regarded as the biggest change to the...

O.J. Simpson jury selection renews questions of race

Posted on September 17, 2008
LAS VEGAS -- As testimony in O.J. Simpson's trial on robbery charges gets underway this week, one thing is already abundantly clear: When the former football star enters a courtroom, so does a debate about race. In jury selection last...

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Missouri leads the nation in juvenile justice reform

Posted on September 17, 2008
ST. LOUIS ? Hope for the once-fallen teen sparkles in an emerald green class ring under the fluorescent lights of the Hogan Street Regional Youth Center. "It's a blessing," says Terrell, 17, fingering the ring he earned for passing his...

Prison push offers skills to prevent repeat visits

Posted on September 17, 2008
Anew, privately owned medium-security prison in Shelby County that is scheduled to be dedicated today by Gov. Bob Riley will try to do something public prisons can't: Keep inmates from coming back. The prison, built in an old factory in...

Violent Crime Reported Down in 2007

Posted on September 16, 2008
Data released Monday by the FBI show violent crime dipped slightly nationwide in 2007. That ended two years of increases in murders, robberies and other kinds of the worst crime in U.S. cities. An estimated 1.4 million violent crimes were...

Brain test could be next polygraph

Posted on September 16, 2008
A Seattle scientist who has developed an electronic brain test that he says could improve our ability to force criminals to reveal themselves, identify potential terrorists and free those wrongly convicted may have finally broken through the bureaucratic barriers that...

Suburban police accused of racially profiling of Latinos

Posted on September 16, 2008
Four years after meeting at a Robinson restaurant, Melody Luchuck and Eduardo Vielma decided to marry, planning a simple ceremony at the Phipps Conservatory. But two weeks before the Aug. 15 event, Robinson police detained Mr. Vielma and his brother,...

States Restore Voting Rights for Ex-Convicts

Posted on September 16, 2008
Striding across a sweltering strip-mall parking lot with her clipboard in hand, Monica Bell, a community field organizer in Orlando, Fla., was looking for former convicts to add to the state?s voter rolls. Antonious Benton, a gold-toothed 22-year-old with a...

Political Crimes: Left Wants To Prosecute the Bush Administration

Posted on September 15, 2008
With ?Bush derangement syndrome? having infected large swaths of the Left, it is no surprise that their fever dreams feature the prosecution of Bush Administration heavies for their ?crimes against humanity? and the U.S. Constitution. This weekend, the otherwise unremarkable...

University Brings Charges Against White Hat Hacker

Posted on September 15, 2008
"A university student at Carleton is learning that no good deed goes unpunished. After hacking into what was probably a not-so-secure university network, this guy took the time to write a 16-page paper on his methods and sent it to...

Stimulant Use Surges in Asia, Mideast

Posted on September 15, 2008
emand for amphetamines, ecstasy and other synthetic drugs appears to have stabilized in the West, but the problem is worsening in Asia and spreading to new markets in the Middle East, a U.N. report said Tuesday. Manufacturing and trafficking of...

New rules would give FBI more freedom in U.S. operations

Posted on September 15, 2008
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is finalizing rules that would allow FBI agents to solicit informants and use other new techniques to bolster the agency's intelligence-gathering operation in the United States, officials said Friday. The changes would expand rules the...

Professor Etienne University of Illinois College of Law

Posted on September 14, 2008
Professor Etienne received her bachelor's degree in History with honors from Yale University, and earned her law degree from Yale Law School. Following law school, Etienne clerked for Judge Diana G. Motz on the United States Court of Appeals for...

ROBERT BADINTER in conversation with NEAL KATYAL

Posted on September 13, 2008
Robert Badinter, the French Minister of Justice between 1981 and 1986, led the battle to abolish the death penalty in France. He became a militant abolitionist after watching one of his clients unjustly guillotined in 1972. Over the next decade,...

Juvenile program 'a place of last resort,' not rehabilitation

Posted on September 12, 2008
Hennepin County is spending too much on residential treatment programs for juvenile offenders and could save money and get better results by leaving more young offenders with their families and placing them in daytime rehabilitation programs. That's the finding of...

?Governing Through Crime?

Posted on September 12, 2008
Rehearsing again the grim statistics of American crime and punishment is depressing. The Pew Center on the States reminds us that one in every hundred American is behind bars, a rate of incarceration far greater than in other developed countries....

Public defenders reject new cases

Posted on September 12, 2008
Public defenders are being hit so hard by budget cuts and growing caseloads that offices in several states are refusing to take on more cases because they say defendants' rights are being hurt. Other jurisdictions say they may follow suit....

Execution halted amid rumors of affair between judge, D.A.

Posted on September 11, 2008
McKINNEY, Texas (AP) -- A death row inmate whose lawyers argued a secret romantic relationship between the judge and prosecutor tainted his trial has won a reprieve -- but not because of the alleged affair. The Texas Court of Criminal...

L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says summer anti-gang programs decreased violence

Posted on September 11, 2008
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday credited a new summertime anti-gang program, which included special community events and extended nighttime hours at eight city parks, with a measurable drop in crime in some of the city's most violent neighborhoods...

1 jail cell. 2 inmates. 1 is killed. No one charged?

Posted on September 11, 2008
John Lambert dropped out of high school in his freshman year, battled addictions to cocaine and alcohol, and was in and out of treatment centers as well as court for minor scrapes with the law. Last year, when he was...

Banks to Blame for Surge in Bank Robberies?

Posted on September 11, 2008
Bank robberies are up 50% this year, and the NYPD says it's the banks' fault, the Daily News has learned. The number of bank jobs hit 265 by Sept. 2, compared with 177 by the same time last year. Police...

Justice system discourages DNA testing

Posted on September 10, 2008
Recently, The Dispatch reported the story of Robert McClendon, an inmate freed after spending 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit ("Ex-prisoner now officially innocent," Aug. 27). He was exonerated after DNA testing showed that he wasn't....

Circumventing Congress: How the Federal Courts Opened the Door to Impeaching Criminal Defendants with Prior Convictions

Posted on September 10, 2008
[From Jeffrey Bellin] Senior Appellate Court Attorney for the California Courts of Appeal and former prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C. This paper does not reflect the views of the California Courts. This Article spotlights the flawed...

Supreme Court Requests Briefing on Motion for Rehearing in Kennedy v. Louisiana

Posted on September 10, 2008
You can view the order here. [Mike Mannheimer]

Fifth Circuit Reverses Conviction of Klansman for 1964 Killings

Posted on September 10, 2008
The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday reversed the 2007 conviction of reputed Ku Klux Klansman James Ford Seale for kidnapping related to the killings of two black teenagers in 1964. You can read the decision here and a related New York...

Are the mentally ill falling through the cracks?

Posted on September 10, 2008
The Kia Johnson case -- in which a Wilkinsburg woman with mental illness was charged with killing a pregnant teenager and stealing her baby -- drew worldwide news coverage this summer. That startling homicide, though, was just one of at...

Real commander needed for the war on drugs

Posted on September 09, 2008
Will America's ill-starred "war on drugs" and its expanding prison culture make it into the presidential campaign? Standard wisdom says "no way." We may have the world's highest rate of incarceration ? with only 5 percent of global population, 25...

Are the mentally ill falling through the cracks?

Posted on September 09, 2008
The Kia Johnson case -- in which a Wilkinsburg woman with mental illness was charged with killing a pregnant teenager and stealing her baby -- drew worldwide news coverage this summer. That startling homicide, though, was just one of at...

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