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Va. DNA Project Is In Uncharted Territory

Posted on August 19, 2008
After Eva King Jones, 88, was raped and killed in her small-town Virginia home, a local man was accused and convicted. Now, 33 years later, police say newly discovered DNA evidence has led to the arrest of someone else. In...

Eighth Circuit Upholds SORNA

Posted on August 19, 2008
In what appears to be the first federal circuit court ruling addressing the constitutionality of the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit decided July 31 that the provision of the...

DNA testing major factor in proving innocence, convicting offenders

Posted on August 18, 2008
Nevada is once again in the bottom tier of progressive thinking. A recent USA Today story identified the Silver State as among 25 in the country that lack requirements to preserve DNA evidence. This, despite a number of dramatic exonerations...

In U.S., Expert Witnesses Are Partisan

Posted on August 18, 2008
Judge Denver D. Dillard was trying to decide whether a slow-witted Iowa man accused of acting as a drug mule was competent to stand trial. But the conclusions of the two psychologists who gave expert testimony in the case, Judge...

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C.S.Oy Forensic science is badly in need of reform. Here are some suggestions

Posted on August 18, 2008
Last week, the state of Mississippi terminated its 20-year relationship with medical examiner Dr. Steven Hayne. Hayne has come under fire from fellow medical examiners, criminal justice groups like the Innocence Project, and one of the authors of this article...

Prison Inmates using Cellphones to Continue Crime

Posted on August 18, 2008
Chante Wright was set to testify against a career criminal when she was gunned down on the streets of Philadelphia in January. Investigators believe it was a hit ordered from prison, by an inmate using a cell phone. Authorities across...

Angela J. Davis Professor of Criminal Law at Professor of Law

Posted on August 17, 2008
Angela J. Davis, professor of law at AU's Washington College of Law, is an expert in criminal law and procedure with a specific focus on prosecutorial power and racism in the criminal justice system. Davis previously served as director of...

Should murder accomplices face execution?

Posted on August 16, 2008
An execution last month in Mississippi and another scheduled for this month in Texas have reignited a debate over whether the death penalty should be given to those who participate in killings ? but do not personally carry them out....

Should murder accomplices face execution?

Inside The Nation's Largest Mental Institution

Posted on August 15, 2008
Morning Edition, August 14, 2008 � The largest mental institution in the country is actually a wing of a county jail. Known as Twin Towers, because of the design, the facility houses 1,400 mentally ill patients in one of its...

Juvenile Transfers A Deterrent?

Posted on August 15, 2008
Beginning in the 1980s, many States passed legal reforms designed to get tough on juvenile crime. One important reform was the revision of transfer (also called waiver or certification) laws (Griffin, 2003) to expand the types of offenses and offenders...

36 states release ill or dying inmates

Posted on August 15, 2008
North Carolina and Alabama have joined a growing number of states establishing programs that allow the release of dying or infirm prisoners to cut prison system health care costs. Alabama's law goes into effect Sept. 1. It will allow inmates...

Texas School District Allows Teachers to Carry Guns in School

Posted on August 15, 2008
A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States. The board of the small rural Harrold Independent...

Young Guns: A new brand of gangster grows up in a killing culture

Posted on August 14, 2008
Danger sits in a booth at Denny's, talking about the reason for his name. "I stabbed about three people," he says, his angular face betraying no particular emotion. He mentions it offhandedly, like a kid trying to be modest about...

In Ohio, Inmate Mothers Care For Babies In Prison

Posted on August 14, 2008
Morning Edition, August 13, 2008 � At the Ohio Reformatory for Women, a dozen babies are spending time behind bars. Too young to say the word "crime," they are participants in a program that enables inmate mothers to raise their...

ST. JOHN?S UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW seeks outstanding entry-level and lateral candidates

Posted on August 14, 2008
ST. JOHN?S UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW seeks outstanding entry-level and lateral candidates for tenure-track positions to begin in the 2009 academic year, with specific opportunities available in Administrative Law, Bankruptcy, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and Professional Responsibility...

Man imprisoned 17 years freed after DNA test

Posted on August 13, 2008
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A man who spent more than 17 years in prison on a charge of raping a girl was freed Monday after a lab re-examining cases across Ohio showed that his DNA profile didn't match evidence from...

F.B.I.?s Use of Phone Records Shows Need to Protect the Press, Senators Say

Posted on August 13, 2008
WASHINGTON ? Two leading senators said Monday that they were troubled by the F.B.I.?s collection of the phone records of four reporters at The New York Times and The Washington Post and that the episode showed a ?pressing need? for...

Race sometimes a problem in eyewitness IDs

Posted on August 13, 2008
NEW YORK In the midst of being raped, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino told herself to pay attention to details that would allow her to identify her attacker. She was able to give police in North Carolina a description that led to a...

NYC Plans Extensive Surveillance of All Vehicles Entering Manhattan

Posted on August 12, 2008
The Police Department is working on a plan to track every vehicle that enters Manhattan to strengthen the city?s guard against a potential terror attack, the department?s chief spokesman said. The proposal ? called Operation Sentinel ? relies on integrating...

No Criminal Charges in DOJ Hiring Scandal

Posted on August 12, 2008
Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Tuesday rejected the idea of criminally prosecuting former Justice Department employees who improperly used political litmus tests in hiring decisions, saying he had already taken strong internal steps in response to a ?painful? episode...

Robert McClendon Says Hello to Freedom

Posted on August 12, 2008
Shortly after sunrise, the inmates in the stark prison yard cheered wildly and pumped their fists for Robert McClendon as he took his final steps toward freedom. The Columbus man grinned as he walked past the concrete-block walls and curls...

There's No Party Like Ex Parte

Posted on August 12, 2008
[From Ian Weinstein] Several weeks ago I blogged about this very moving account of the huge and badly conceived immigration raid at the Iowa meatpacking plant, written by Dr. Erik Camayd-Freixas, an interpreter who was called to service as folks...

Salim Hamdan: Score One For The Jury System But The Rule Of Law Still Needs A Big Comeback

Posted on August 12, 2008
[From Ian Weinstein]The case of Salim Hamdan has been on my mind all week. I share the wonder at the jury?s rejection of the more serious conspiracy charge and its imposition of a rather modest sentence but I don?t want...

North Carolina improves exoneree compensation

Posted on August 11, 2008
North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley this week signed a bill greatly improving the compensation and services the state provides to the wrongfully convicted after their release. The new law, effective immediately, increases the compensation paid to the exonerated from $20,000...

In cases of justice gone wrong, Dallas is willing to make it right

Posted on August 11, 2008
Steven Charles Phillips walked out of the courthouse this week in what has become something of a familiar ritual, even a clich�. A wrongfully convicted man free at last, surrounded by joyful, tearful relatives ? a mother grown old, children...

DNA not kept in half of states

Posted on August 11, 2008
Half the states lack requirements to preserve DNA evidence, despite a series of dramatic exonerations based on the critical biological material. Supporters of retaining DNA evidence point to a growing list of wrongly convicted prisoners who have been freed...

Bridget M. McCormack Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs Michigan Law School

Posted on August 10, 2008
Bridget M. McCormack, who is the associate dean for clinical affairs, is also a clinical professor with the Michigan Clinical Law Program teaching a criminal defense clinic, a domestic violence clinic, and a pediatric advocacy clinic. Before joining the faculty,...

Civil complaint filed against San Diego officer in police dog's death Criminal Charges Possible

Posted on August 09, 2008
SAN DIEGO -- City Atty. Michael Aguirre filed a civil complaint Friday in San Diego Superior Court seeking damages from Officer Paul Hubka, whose police dog died of heat stroke after being left in Hubka's squad car. Aguirre wants Hubka...

Sacramento Hails Drop In Murdered Teens, Progress Vs. Gangs

Posted on August 08, 2008
The streets of Sacramento are claiming fewer young people. In what authorities say may be a fragile sign of progress, fewer Sacramento County teenagers have been slain in 2008 than in any year going back at least a decade. And...

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