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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 28-29, 2009.

NEWS:

Gang injunctions versus Civil Rights Policy and Civil Rights Politics
Newspaper Tree - El Paso,TX,USA
"That a court of equity will not undertake the enforcement of the criminal law, and will not enjoin the commission of a crime, is a principle of equity ..."

The electric chair debate
McCook Daily Gazette - McCook,NE,USA
"The problem with our criminal justice system is that we sometimes convict the wrong people of the crimes they're accused of. If we do that and we find out ..."
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McCoy appointed DCCI warden
Post Searchlight - Bainbridge,GA,USA
"The prison was constructed in 1954 and renovated in 1977. McCoy, 44, is a veteran in the criminal justice field, according to biographical information ..."

BLOGS:

Jim Webb takes on the prison industry Ť Later On
By LeisureGuy
"After decades of mindless ?tough-on-crime? hysteria, an increasingly irrational ?drug war,? and a sprawling, privatized prison state as brutal as it is counter-productive, America has easily surpassed Japan ? and virtually every other ... The elephant in the bedroom in many discussions on the criminal justice system is the sharp increase in drug incarceration over the past three decades. In 1980, we had 41000 drug offenders in prison; today we have more than 500000, ..."
Later On - http://leisureguy.wordpress.com/

Soliciting sex with 'minors' over Internet sends dozens to jail ...
By Mary Sparacello, The Times-Picayune
"The Louisiana attorney general's office has been operating similar undercover stings and teaching local officers the procedures since the Legislature made computer-aided solicitation a crime. ... "The state's interest in safeguarding the physical and psychological well-being of a minor was compelling," according to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal decision, which also found that "the law was narrowly tailored to prohibit criminal conduct, rather than protected speech. ..."
News - Impact - Times-Picayune... - http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/

that is genuinely courageous and principled, but Jim Webb?s ...
By blogger
"Another piece of this issue that I hope we will address with this National Criminal Justice Commission is what happens inside our prisons. . . . We also have a situation in this country with respect to prison violence and sexual victimization that is .... but he was absolutely right to vote for it because the public wouldn't understand if he opposed it"), rather than as citizens demanding that their public servants do the right thing ("this law is awful and unjust and, ...
Death and Taxes - http://politics.randomplayground.net/ "

Banning saggy pants? Bill proposes fines for low-slung legwear
"Joe Towns, also of Memphis, that passed the House Criminal Practice and Procedure Subcommittee one day before. And even though the bill is likely dead for this year, because a companion Senate bill has been withdrawn, Camper plans to ask Tennessee?s attorney general whether the ... Also last year, a judge decided a law banning sagging pants in Riviera Beach, Fla., was unconstitutional after a teenager spent a night in jail on accusations he exposed too much underwear. ..."

EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect
"The political economy on crime and prison reform has been pretty bad: Lots of politicians make their name being anti-crime, which has come to mean pro-punishment. Few make their name being pro-prison reform. .... Another piece of this issue that I hope we will address with this National Criminal Justice Commission is what happens inside our prisons. When I was looking at the Japanese system many years ago, their model in terms of prison administration was basically ..."
Ezra Klein - http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein

The StandDown Texas Project: Convicting the Innocent: Texas ...
By standdown
"While non-DNA exonerations are more difficult to prove, they are similar to DNA cases in that they trace back to the same flawed procedures in need of reform. As such, these thirty-nine DNA cases expose a criminal justice system that is wrought with problems that lead to ... A new report released today by The Justice Project analyzes the cases of thirty-nine innocent Texans who collectively spent more than five hundred years in prison for crimes they did not commit. ..."
The StandDown Texas Project - http://standdown.typepad.com/

Hot Air ť Blog Archive ť ?Pro-life? Harry Reid backs government ...
By Ed Morrissey
"Acts are not considered criminal when they are out of the control of the individual that performs them. Law requires not only liability, but also culpability for a crime. Therefore a miscarriage is not a crime. ... By statute, many states consider a killing in which there is torture, movement of the person before the killing (kidnapping) or the death of a police officer or prison guard, or it was as an incident to another crime (as during a hold-up or rape), ..."
Hot Air TV - http://www.hotair.com/

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on March 30, 2009 (boomark / email).