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Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines December 22, 2008

By David Badertscher, PLL

pfont size=2strongSource: /strongemNLJ.com, /emDecember 22, 2008./font/p#13; pfont size=2Subscription needed for online access:/font/p#13; pa href=http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp target=_blankfont size=2http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp/font/a/p#13; pa class=headline href=http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSSSWSQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVS target=_blankfont size=2Courts for veterans spreading across U.S./font/abr/font color=#333333 size=2State criminal courts devoted to U.S. war veterans are emerging across the country, from New York to Oklahoma to California, as increasing numbers of soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are showing up as defendants with a special set of problems. Judges, prosecutors, public defenders and local lawyer volunteers are joining with the Department of Veteran Affairs to create courts with veterans-only case proceedings to address a common thread of post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, head injuries and mental illness underlying the veterans' crimes./font/p#13; pfont color=#333333a class=headline href=http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSSSWSQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVW target=_blankfont size=2CRIMINAL LAW  |  'Victim videos' grow ? but still controversial/font/abr/font color=#333333 size=2Although prosecutors applaud the increasing use of courtroom videos and multimedia presentations as a means to humanize victims and demonstrate the impact of the crimes they are prosecuting, defense lawyers are worried about the prejudicial effect of playing on jurors' emotions. Called victim impact evidence, these presentations are typically produced by the victim's family and shown in the sentencing phase of a capital trial./font/font/p#13; pfont color=#333333font color=#333333 /fonta class=headline href=http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSSSWSQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVU target=_blankfont size=2CALIFORNIA  |  Wiretap civil suits a new cottage industry/font/abr/font color=#333333 size=2The criminal wiretapping convictions of private investigator Anthony Pellicano and lawyer Terry Christensen have re-energized related civil lawsuits filed against five Los Angeles law firms, including Christensen's former firm./font/font/p#13; pfont color=#333333font color=#333333 size=2COLUMNS:/font/font/p#13; pfont color=#333333 size=2font color=#333333 size=2a class=headline href=http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSSSWSQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVB target=_blankfont size=2ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT  |  The New Administration/font/abr/font size=2font color=#333333Many people in the antitrust bar, academia and the business community question whether DOJ's Antitrust Division has struck the right balance between underenforcement and overenforcement in recent years. President-elect Barack Obama has said that he intends to 'reinvigorate antitrust enforcement' and 'step up review of merger activity,' so that is certainly likely to be an area of change, especially at DOJ. The FTC has been more active in merger enforcement, so change at the FTC in that area is less likely. /fontbr/br/!--commentsListSize 0--!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --!-- December 22, 2008 --!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --font color=#336699ba class=headline href=http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSSSWSQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVC target=_blankCRIMINAL LAW  |  Disentitlement Doctrine/a/b/fontbr/font color=#333333As Woody Allen famously remarked, 'Eighty percent of success in life is showing up.' The same can be said for many defendants seeking relief in the criminal justice system. Recently, famed film producer/director Roman Polanski filed for dismissal of his 1977 conviction for unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl. He claims serious misconduct by the judge and prosecutors in his case. However, he may never have a chance to have those allegations heard. Why? Because at least so far, he has refused to show up./font/fontbr//font/font/p#13; pfont color=#333333 size=2font color=#333333 size=2 /fontbr/ /font/p

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