Criminal Law

Welcome to the Blogosphere

Posted on March 05, 2008
I see from Steven Erickson at Crime and Consequences that there is a new addition to the criminal law blogosphere. The blog is "Less Than the Least" and features Bill Stuntz at Harvard and David Skeel at Penn. It isn't...

Around the Web

Posted on March 04, 2008
How Appealing reports that the State of Texas is seeking a rehearing en banc of the Fifth Circuit ruling about the state's sex toy law. You can read the petition here. The New Hampshire House of Representatives will soon vote...

No Posts Until Tuesday

Posted on February 29, 2008
I'm out of the country with limited Internet access. So, there won't be any new posts until Tuesday.

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Posted on February 28, 2008
The ABA Journal reports that one in 100 adults in the U.S. is serving time in prison or jail right now. According to 2006 Justice Department figures, the numbers are even higher for minority groups: 1 in 36 Hispanic adults...

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Markel's Sex Ed License

Posted on February 28, 2008
A little while ago, I posted about Dan Markel's questions about a statutory rape case and about the age of consent for marriage. As part of that discussion, Markel raised the possibility of issuing a Sex Ed License to allow...

We're Number 43!

Posted on February 28, 2008
It doesn't have a nice ring to it, but it's nice to be recognized as the 43rd most influential law faculty blog by The Race to the Bottom. I just have to say: look out TortsProf Blog - we're coming...

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Posted on February 27, 2008
The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog is reporting that NBC is being sued following an incident produced for the ?To Catch a Predator? series. A Texas prosecutor contacted a decoy who had been posing as a 13 year-old boy, which...

Strange Indiana Ruling on Residency Restrictions

Posted on February 27, 2008
A helpful reader drew my attention to this lower court ruling in Indiana (on the Indiana Law Blog) concerning residency restrictions in the state. In analyzing whether the residency restrictions were designed to punish offenders, the court seemed to make...

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Posted on February 27, 2008
Crooks & Liars reports that Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) is currently looking for paid summer interns. Craig has asked a Minnesota appeals court to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea arising from a public restroom sex sting. The ACLU...

Rape on YouTube

Posted on February 26, 2008
This story out of England is hard to believe: SICK footage of a young mum allegedly being gang-raped in front of her kids has been put online for all the world to see. The horrific three-minute film appears to have...

Three New Amicus Briefs in Kennedy

Posted on February 25, 2008
Only two appeared on last Thursday, but now there are five total amicus briefs for the Petitioner. First up is a brief from Leading British Law Associations, Scholars, Queen's Counsel, and Former Law Lords. That brief is primarily focused on...

NCJRS Abstracts

Posted on February 25, 2008
Michael Connelly brings our attention to three new NCJRS studies: Denial and Minimization Among Sexual Offenders: Posttreatment Presentation and Association with Sexual Recidivism. This study examines "the relationship between sexual recidivism and posttreatment denial and minimization among sex offenders in...

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Posted on February 25, 2008
NPR's All Things Considered discusses a new report which find that more California sex offenders are homeless because of the state's residency restrictions. The report is available here. Sentencing Law and Policy also points to a really interesting L...

Amicus Briefs for Petitioner in Kennedy

Posted on February 22, 2008
The amicus briefs in favor of the Petitioner in Kennedy v. Louisiana were due yesterday and they are now available online. The first brief is from the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. The second is from the ACLU and...

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Posted on February 21, 2008
Crime and Consequences reports that the relatives of a murder victim are asking the British government to restore the death penalty. The man became a suspect after his DNA matched samples found on the nude bodies of the five women...

Erickson, Technocorrections, and Sex Offenders

Posted on February 20, 2008
The always level-headed Steven Erickson offered some thoughts about sex offender policy in response to this article that I blogged about here. There are a lot of interesting points made by Erickson (so check out the whole post), but here...

The Property Rights Argument is Gaining Force

Posted on February 20, 2008
After the Georgia takings case was decided, I downplayed the importance of the decision. I felt that the takings arguments only applied to a limited number of cases under a few statutes. However, two more state courts have issued decisions...

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