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

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Source: Google News Alert Service, March 26, 2009.

NEWS:

Study: Witness errors cause most wrongful convictions
Houston Chronicle - United States
"The report?s release comes as lawmakers weigh a host of legislation aimed at reforming the criminal justice system including: ? ? Requiring all law ..."
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Undercover Mother
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
"Or telling a kid that she is sending her boyfriend to prison as a child molester? Sounds like this gal is an understudy for the Ann Couther Woman Hating Gig ..."
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Amnesty International Blasts US on Immigrant Detention
Latin American Herald Tribune - Caracas,Venezuela
"The man, now 27, developed medical problems, including blood in his urine, but a prison nurse recommended that he 'drink more water. ..."
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OBAMA, CONGRESS AGAIN PUSH AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS
NewsWithViews.com - Merlin,OR,USA
"A background check is then conducted to discover the criminal background of some illegal aliens or to determine if illegal aliens re-entered the US after ..."
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COMMITTEE MONITORING COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL CIVIL ...
Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
"He stressed that Australian officials were obliged to comply with Australian criminal law that had extraterritorial application, such as the prohibition of ..."
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BLOGS:

Sentencing Law and Policy: State judges in New York asking for ...
By Doug B.
"For some, the judges say, that will be prison. For others, it will be treatment programs overseen by the courts. ?This is not a soft-on-crime issue,? Justice Safer-Espinoza said during a recess on Tuesday. ?The point is to give judges ..."
Sentencing Law and Policy - http://sentencing.typepad.com/

Tories move to eliminate 'two-for-one' jail time credit
" 'As long as we continue to have prisons that are of that nature, yes, we have to reserve that right to judges to do that,' said Mr. Comartin. Some criminal-law experts questioned the purpose of the bill, given that judges can already deny ... Isn't is amazing - all the past crime legislation reform has been blocke by the liberlal and the left, but now that public opinion is all in favor of some changes - suddenly the libs and the left are now champions for crime ..."
National Post - Canada - http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/17095.rss?type=rss

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Scholars? Statement of Principles for the New President on U.S. ...
By CAP
"To signal a new page in our county?s behavior, the next president must reassert the principle that all acts of torture and cruel or inhuman treatment are criminal offenses and that no official acting as an agent of the government (whether federal, .... Co-Director, Center for Crime, Community and Law Columbia Law School. Eugene R. Fidell Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law Yale Law School President, National Institute of Military Justice. Martin S. Flaherty ..."
Domestic - http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/domestic/index.html/index.rss

Overseas Territories Review: <strong>UN Human Rights Committee ...
By Overseas Review
"He also asked under what circumstances a ?criminal justice stay? was issued, and what were the results or conclusions of the ongoing review of existing visa provisions. Were discussions underway to revise that procedure? ... Cross that a high Australian military official had ?ignored and contradicted? evidence of the ?notorious? activities going on at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Moreover, that official had said that such practices were consistent with international law. ..."
Overseas Territories Review - http://overseasreview.blogspot.com/

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on March 26, 2009 (boomark / email).