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CrimProf Richard Dieter Discusses the Cons of One Representing Themselves in a Death Penalty Trial

Posted on January 24, 2008
From post-gazette.com: Catholic University Law School CrimProf Richard Dieter discusses the problems with a person representing themselves in a capital murder trial. This is in regards to Patrick Jason Stollar, who is charged with robbing and killing an elderly Upper...

CrimProf Peter Henning Discusses Perjury

Posted on January 24, 2008
From freep.com: Wayne State University College of Law CrimProf Peter Henning explains that judges who learn of perjury in their court can hold a witness in contempt, or ask the prosecutor to investigate with regards to the recent testimony by...

Swiss CrimProf Mark Pieth Wins Transparency Award

Posted on January 23, 2008
From afp.com: One of the winners of this year's Transparency award was Swiss Basil University CrimProf Mark Pieth, credited with playing a leading role in securing international implementation of the Anti-Bribery Convention drawn up by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation...

New Article Spotlight: The IPhone Meets the Fourth Amendment

Posted on January 23, 2008
From SSRN.com: South Texas College of Law CrimProf Adam M. Gershowitz recently published The IPhone Meets the Fourth Amendment. Here is the Abstract: Imagine that police arrest an individual for a simple traffic infraction, such as running a stop sign...

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Padilla Gets a More Lenient Sentence Than Guidelines Recommend

Posted on January 23, 2008
From NYTimes.com: Jose Padilla, the Brooklyn-born convert to Islam who was once accused by the government of plotting to detonate a ?dirty bomb? in the United States, was sentenced on Tuesday to 17 years and four months in prison for...

New Article Spotlight: Banishment by a Thousand Laws: Residency Restrictions on Sex Offenders

Posted on January 22, 2008
From SSRN.com: John Marshall Law School CrimProf Corey Rayburn Yung recently published " Banishment by a Thousand Laws: Residency Restrictions on Sex Offenders." Here is the abstract: Across America, states, localities, and private communities are debating and implementing laws to...

The Art of Judging Science

Posted on January 22, 2008
from sciencenews.org: From Perry Mason to Law & Order, legal dramas have proved among the most predictably popular series on American television. In such shows, a defendant's guilt or innocence typically comes to light only after expert witnesses testify before...

Lawyer in Atkins Case Comes Forwards About Prosecutorial Misconduct

Posted on January 22, 2008
From NYTimes.com: For 10 years, Leslie P. Smith, a Virginia lawyer, reluctantly kept a secret because the authorities on legal ethics told him he had no choice, even though his information could save the life of a man on death...

House Panel Criticizes CIA Tape Destruction

Posted on January 18, 2008
From washingtonpost.com: The CIA's destruction of videotapes containing harsh interrogations of detainees at secret prisons drew bipartisan criticism from House lawmakers who attended a closed hearing yesterday at which the agency's acting general counsel testified about the matter...

Professor Twining wins Evidence Award

Posted on January 18, 2008
University of Miami School of Law Evidence Prof William Twining was one of two recipients of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Evidence Section's Inaugural John Henry Wigmore Awards for Lifetime Achievement in Elucidating the Law of Evidence and...

North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence Director and Exoneree to Speak and Campbell School of Law

Posted on January 18, 2008
The Campbell Law Innocence Project will host guest speakers Dwayne Dail and Chris Mumma on campus Jan. 21. Dail served 18 years in prison for the 1987 rape of a 12-year-old girl in Goldsboro until DNA testing revealed his innocence....

Former Congressman Indicted in Terrorism Fundraising Ring

Posted on January 17, 2008
From washingtonpost.com: A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops...

Padilla Receives 30 Years in Prison

Posted on January 17, 2008
From latimes.com: Alleged "dirty bomb" plotter Jose Padilla and two codefendants were engaged in terrorism when they conspired to fight in foreign holy wars and should spend 30 years to life in prison, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The sentencing...

CrimProf Floyd Feeney Discuses Police New Found Use for the Term: "Person of Interest"

Posted on January 17, 2008
From sacbee.com: UC Davis CrimProf Floyd Feeney explains the term "person of interest" in light of Sacramento County sheriff's detectives called Agustine Munoz a "person of interest" after his estranged wife's body was found in a ditch in November. Around...

Southwester University to Host a Wrongful Conviction Symposium

Posted on January 14, 2008
Southwestern University's Law Review is hosing a Wrongful Conviction Symposium on Feb. 8, 2008 Wrongful conviction of the innocent not only destroys the lives of those found guilty and their families, it allows the criminals who actually perpetrated the crimes...

Interesting Innocence Case in Georgia

Posted on January 14, 2008
CrimProf Deirdre O'Connor, Director of the Indigent Criminal Defense Clinic at Emory, recently informed me of an innocence case in Georgia that has been getting a lot of national press. The case involves Troy Davis, who is a GA death...

SCOTUS to Hear Admissibility Case Concerning Out of Court Statement from murder Vic to Police

Posted on January 13, 2008
From latimes.com: The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a Los Angeles murderer's appeal to decide a legal question that sounds like a macabre joke: The man argues that his victim's statements to police shouldn't be admissible, because the dead...

CrimProf Spotlight: Jennifer B. Sargent

Posted on January 12, 2008
This week the CrimProf Blog spotlights Vermont Law School's Jennifer B. Sargent. CrimProf Jennifer B. Sargent specializes in criminal law, clinical practice, and legal and judicial ethics. As director of the J.D. Internship and Judicial Externship programs, she places, supervises,...

FBI Has Been Cut Off of Access to Wiretaps for Not Paying Their Bill

Posted on January 11, 2008
From washingtonpost.com: Telecommunications companies have repeatedly cut off FBI access to wiretaps of alleged terrorists and criminal suspects because the bureau did not pay its phone bills, according to the results of an audit released yesterday. The report by Justice...

Evidence Discovered of Prosecutor Wanting to Downplay Evidence in Innocent Man's trial

Posted on January 10, 2008
From jacksonville.com: Only weeks before Chad Heins' murder trial in 1996, a Jacksonville prosecutor sent a memo asking a state crime lab supervisor to downplay findings that stray hairs found on the victim's body came from an unknown person. "I...

CrimProf Kevin Washburn Speaks About Criminal Justice in Indian Country

Posted on January 10, 2008
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law CrimProf Kevin Washburn, an expert in Indian legal issues, will speak on criminal justice in Indian Country for the first annual William C. Canby Distinguished Scholar Lecture at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of...

Man on Ohio's Death Row Freed After Pleading No Contest

Posted on January 08, 2008
From AP.com:A British citizen who spent two decades on Ohio's death row was released from jail Monday after pleading no contest to three charges related to a fire that killed a 2-year-old girl. Ken Richey, who once came within an...

Charles Taylor's War Crime Trial Begins

Posted on January 08, 2008
From NYTimes.com: The war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, Liberia's former president, heard its first testimony Monday and saw video of victims telling of being sexually assaulted or dismembered by rebels who plundered West African diamond fields. The trial before...

FBI Report Shows Number of Violent Crimes Decreased Once Again

Posted on January 08, 2008
From washingtonpost.com: The number of violent crimes reported nationwide dipped slightly in the first half of 2007, signaling the first notable decline in violence in two years, the FBI said today. Violent crimes, including murders and robberies, fell 1...

SCOTUS to Hear Lethal Injection Case

Posted on January 07, 2008
From dallasnew.com: On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a Kentucky case to decide whether the method of lethal injection used in more than two dozen states, including Texas, is cruel and unusual punishment. The case will...

Improperly Withheld Evidence May Boost Actual Innocence Claim

Posted on January 07, 2008
From Denverpost.com: Fort Collins, Colorado authorities violated evidence-discovery rules when they withheld expert opinions that conflicted with their theory that a 15-year-old Tim Masters murdered Peggy Hettrick in 1987, according to special prosecutors...

Dallas Exonerates 15th Inmate

Posted on January 05, 2008
From aol.com: The release of Charles Chatman, 47, added to Dallas County's nationally unmatched number of wrongfully convicted inmates. "Every time I'd go to parole, they'd want a description of the crime or my version of the crime," Chatman said....

CrimProf Doug Colbert and Law Students Help New Orleans Inmates Over Break

Posted on January 04, 2008
From examiner.com: Two and half years later, Hurricane Katrina victims fight to keep their homes, while others spend months in jail before overwhelmed prosecutors press charges and still more live in trailers as they wait for new housing. University of...

Self Styled Freedom Fighter Receives New Trial

Posted on January 04, 2008
NYTimes.com: It has been a quarter-century since a group of self-styled freedom fighters, including Judith A. Clark, carried out an armored-car robbery in Rockland County, N.Y. On Sept. 21, a federal judge overturned admitted participant Ms. Clark?s conviction, in a...

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