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Google News Roundup: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Crime, Prisons

By David Badertscher, PLL

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Source: Google News Alert Service, March 25, 2009.

NEWS:

Ali Al-Marri: Terrorist?
NPR - USA
"He was moving through the regular criminal system in America towards a regular trial when, in June of

2003, just before he was about to stand trail, ..."

'Terror plot' 35 win new probe
Gulf Daily News - Manama,Bahrain
"Twenty-two men, including 14 Bahrainis arrested when the suspected plot was first discovered last December, appeared before the High Criminal Court ..."

Devastating Amnesty Int´l Report Heralds the End of Somaliland´s ...
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
"Article 14 sets out the right to fair trial, including the principle that "Everyone charged with a criminal offence shall have the right to be presumed ..."

BLOGS:

When Art Becomes a Crime: A Case Study in Overcriminalization
By The Heritage Foundation - Andrew M. Grossman
"In October 2007, Ferrell reached a deal with prosecutors and, in exchange for avoiding a prison sentence that would probably kill him, pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of mailing the bacteria to Kurtz. Ferrell was sentenced to a year of .... In short, prosecutors still wield the unbridled discretion to bring criminal charges against almost any individual, whether or not he or she has done anything typically regarded as a crime. Most of these defendants, ..."
The Heritage Foundation Papers - http://www.heritage.org/research/

Crime Victims Media Report ? ?What Went Wrong? in the Murder of ...
By Tina
"But, as the Chronicle itself notes, fully two-thirds of California parolees are returned to prison for violating parole. That?s two-thirds of the state?s 122000 parolees. Is violence really ?rare? in this vast group of offenders? Why do some newspapers reflexively minimize such horrific ... Filed under California, Parole, Pro-Criminal, Recidivism, media coverage of crime. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback. ..."
Crime Victims Media Report - http://crimevictimsmediareport.com/

The Economic and Social Crisis in the USA « American Armageddon ...
By marcleon009
"There are, according to various (unconfirmed) reports, some 800 FEMA prison camps in different regions of the U.S. Moreover, since the 1980s, the US military has developed ?tactics, techniques and procedures? to suppress civilian dissent, .... Other contextual data may include bank account and credit card histories, plus criminal database records on a local, state and federal level. The database also could include legal judgments or other public records documenting ..."
American Armageddon Judgement Day - http://xkorpion.wordpress.com/

theurbanhermit: 4647
By theurbanhermit
"Among other things, two senior faculty members on the admissions committee that interviewed him failed to ask for an explanation of the six-and-a-half-year gap in his résumé, the period he was in prison. Swedish universities are legally prohibited from conducting ... He added that while there is no law requiring a university to bar prospective students because of a criminal past, ?a student should be expelled if he or she is viewed as unfit.? But Gustav Stalhammar, 25, ..."
theurbanhermit - http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).