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"Light at the End of the Pipeline?: Choosing a Forum for Suspected Terrorists

Posted on March 03, 2008
SSRN.com recently published S.J Quinney College of Law CrimProf Amos N. Guiora and Lewis and Clark College of Law CrimProf John T. Parry's piece Light at the End of the Pipeline?: Choosing a Forum for Suspected Terrorists. Here is the...

Insurance Executives Convicted Monday

Posted on February 28, 2008
From NPR.com: Five former insurance executives, including a top official from AIG and a former CEO of insurance giant General Re, were convicted on federal charges Monday. Prosecutors say they schemed to improperly inflate AIG's financial numbers. Listen...

Jailhouse Lawyer Investigated Due to Successful Legal Help

Posted on February 28, 2008
From thestate.com: The prison law clerk who convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a fellow inmate's case is being investigated by South Carolina authorities for practicing law without a license, the prisoner's attorney said. Lawyer Rauch Wise said the...

University of Georgia Looking for Visiting CrimProf

Posted on February 28, 2008
The University of Georgia College of Law is looking for a criminal law visitor, for the fall 2008 semester. If you are interested, please contact Associate Dean Paul Kurtz at pmkurtz@uga.edu.

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Accused 9/11 Co-Conspirators' Defense Problems

Posted on February 27, 2008
From miamiherald.com: Two weeks after the Pentagon announced plans to stage death-penalty trials for six Guant�namo captives as alleged Sept. 11 co-conspirators, none of the men has seen a military defense lawyer. Only one of the six has an assigned....

?The Roberts Court and the Future of the Fourth Amendment? Symposium

Posted on February 27, 2008
The Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights will host its annual symposium, ?The Roberts Court and the Future of the Fourth Amendment,? on Monday, March 3, 2008. The symposium will address developments in Fourth amendment jurisprudence since the...

DePaul College of Law Needs a Visitor to Teach Crim Law

Posted on February 27, 2008
DePaul College of Law in Chicago will be needing a Visitor to teach Criminal Law during the spring, 2009 semester. Please send your resume to Dean Steven Greenberger at DePaul. [Mark Godsey]

New York Autopsies Called into Question

Posted on February 26, 2008
From clarionledger.com: An attorney for a New York woman charged with manslaughter in the 2003 death of her 3-year-old daughter in Jackson wants the state to review the autopsy findings. State pathologist Dr. Steven Hayne ruled that the child died...

SCOTUS to Hear Car Search Case

Posted on February 26, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether police officers can search a vehicle without a warrant once the suspect has been arrested and the scene secured. The justices agreed to hear an appeal by...

Cali Law Forces Sex Offenders into Homelessness

Posted on February 26, 2008
From NPR.com: A new report finds more convicted sex offenders in California homeless because of a state law restricting where they can live. Tom Tobin, a psychologist specializing in sex offender treatment, talks with Jacki Lyden about the findings. Listen...

Yale Law School CrimProf James Whitman Writes "What are the Origins of 'Reasonable Doubt'?"

Posted on February 25, 2008
Yale Law School Ford Foundation CrimProf James Whitman recently wrote "What are the the Origins of Reasonable Doubt?" Here is an excerpt: As everybody knows, no person in the United States of America can be convicted of a crime unless...

New Article Spotlight: Regulating the New Regulators: Current Trends in Deferred Prosecution Agreements

Posted on February 25, 2008
From SSRN.com: Peter Spivack and Sujit Raman of Hogan & Hartson LLP recently published Regulating the "New Regulators": Current Trends in Deferred Prosecution Agreements. Here is the abstract: Deferred prosecution and non-prosecution agreements are proliferating...

SCOTUS Decides Danforth v. Minnesota

Posted on February 21, 2008
The Supreme Court yesterday decided in Danforth v. Minnesota that the States may apply new rules of federal constitutional law retroactively even if the Court itself has determined that retroactive application is unnecessary pursuant to Teague v. Lane...

CrimProf Richard Leo Writes Police Interrogation and American Justice

Posted on February 21, 2008
University of San Francisco Associate Professor Richard Leo's new book examines how American police have developed sophisticated interrogation methods that rely on persuasion, manipulation, and deception to elicit confessions from criminal suspects. While the idea of a false confession may...

SCOTUS Will Hear Evidence Suppression

Posted on February 21, 2008
From NYTimes.com: In theory, a criminal-law doctrine known as the exclusionary rule forbids prosecutors from using evidence obtained by the police as the result of an improper search. In practice, the rule has significant exceptions, like for evidence obtained in...

Interesting Apprendi and Crawford Issues in NY Court of Appeals Case

Posted on February 21, 2008
The New York Court of Appeals on Tuesday decided People v. Leon, a case raising interesting issues at the intersection of Apprendi and Crawford. At the outset, I should reveal that the defendant was represented by the Center for Appellate...

SCOTUS Rejects Wiretapping Case

Posted on February 20, 2008
From latimes.com: The Supreme Court today dismissed the first legal challenge President Bush's warrantless wiretapping order, but without ruling on any of the key issues.Since Congress is now fighting with the White House over new rules for wiretapping, the court...

Two of the Four Stolen Masterpieces Are Recovered

Posted on February 20, 2008
From washingtonpost.com: Two masterworks that were stolen from a Zurich art museum last week were found in good condition Monday in an unlocked car parked outside a nearby psychiatric hospital, Swiss police said Tuesday. Two other paintings are still missing,...

Phone Firms Seek Immunity

Posted on February 19, 2008
NPR.com: Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell says phone companies that cooperated with government eavesdropping programs after the Sept. 11 attacks deserve retroactive immunity from civil rights lawsuits. But is the Bush administration, which is pressing Congress to extend the...

CrimProf Brookbanks Discusses the Effects of New Zealand's Criminal Justice Reform Act

Posted on February 19, 2008
From stuff.co.nz.com: Auckland University CrimProf Warren Brookbanks recently discussed the surge in home detention sentences in New Zealand. The Criminal Justice Reform Act came into force on October 1 last year and allows judges to sentence offenders directly to home...

Cali Death Penalty Panel to Discuss Reasons for Reversals

Posted on February 19, 2008
From mercurynews.com: The California Supreme Court last year overturned convicted killer James Hardy's 1984 death sentence because a defense lawyer's "meager" effort representing him undermined the chance of a fair trial. And just a few weeks ago, a federal appeals...

SCOTUS Grants Cert. to Consider Expansion of "Objective Good Faith" Exception to Exclusionary Rule

Posted on February 19, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court today granted cert. in Herring v. U.S. The question presented in the cert. petition is as follows: Whether the Fourth Amendment requires evidence found during a search incident to an arrest to be suppressed when the...

New Article Spotlight: Lady Madonna, Children at Your Feet: The Criminal Justice System's Romanticization of the Parent-Child Relationship

Posted on February 18, 2008
SSRN recently published Lady Madonna, Children at Your Feet: The Criminal Justice System's Romanticization of the Parent-Child Relationship by Wake Forest University School of Law CrimProf Jennifer M. Collins. Here is the Abstract: This Article is an attempt to begin...

Tech Tech Hosts "Convicting the Innocent"

Posted on February 18, 2008
The Texas Tech School of Law will be hosting a Criminal Law Symposium entitled "Convicting the Innocent" on April 3-4, 2008. The panelists will include: Arnold Loewy (Texas Tech), Juan Melendez (wrongly convicted 18 year death row inmate), Michael Radelet...

En Banc Sixth Circuit Holds Halbert v. Michigan Does Not Apply Retroactively on Federal Habeas Review

Posted on February 16, 2008
The en banc Sixth Circuit yesterday held in an 8-5 vote that Halbert v. Michigan does not apply retroactively on federal habeas review. In Halbert, the Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment requires appointment of counsel for appeals of...

En Banc Ninth Circuit Holds That When a Suspect in Custody Says "I Plead the [F]ifth," He Has Invoked His Miranda Right to Remain Silent

Posted on February 16, 2008
The en banc Ninth Circuit yesterday reversed a denial of habeas relief to a state prisoner convicted after his statements to police were admitted into evidence, where those statements were the result of an interogation during which he said, "I...

New York's Attorney General Accuses United Health of Fraud

Posted on February 15, 2008
From NPR.com: New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is suing United Health, one the nation's largest health insurers, and demanding information from more than a dozen others. He accuses the industry of manipulating data so it can charge patients an....

Seton Hall Law Students Discover the Government Records Guantanamo Bay Interrogations

Posted on February 15, 2008
Seton Hall Law?s Center for Policy and Research has discovered new evidence of a longstanding government practice of recording interrogations at Guant�namo Bay. In light of the national debate about the Central Intelligence Agency?s (CIA) destruction of video recordings, the...

CrimProf Mary Leary Discusses Protocols Needed in Online Child Exploitation Cases

Posted on February 14, 2008
It?s a crime in which the victim is also the criminal?so whom do you prosecute? Underage youths who exploit themselves online can be subject to criminal pornography charges, explained child abuse expert Catholic University CrimProf Mary Leary at a Law...

Yet Another Man Exoneration Due to DNA Testing

Posted on February 14, 2008
From msnbc.com: Last week sheriff?s deputies in Chickasaw County, Miss., arrested Justin Albert Johnson for the 1992 rape and murder of a 3-year-old girl. What makes the case noteworthy is that another man, Kennedy Brewer, was convicted and sentenced to...

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