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Selected Worldwide Criminal Law News and Blog Alerts

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Source: Google News Alert Service, August 28, 2009.

NEWS:

Joy Online

Opinion: The BNI and the "right to counsel"
Joy Online
"As the learned jurist and writer ANE Amissah states in his book entitled 'Criminal Procedure in Ghana', an arrest is 'any form of'deprivation of personal ..."
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Georgetown Security Law Brief: Opinion: The real CIA news
By Georgetown CNSL
"08/25/09: The Washington Times reports that the Obama administration Monday appointed John Durham as special prosecutor to pursue criminal charges against CIA employees who interrogated some of al Qaeda's hardest core members, while releasing ... Writing in Psychology, Crime & Law, 2009, the authors conclude that jurors' expert bias -- their penchant to view expert testimony as more reliable -- overrides their perceptions and evaluations of the situation under which an ..."
Georgetown Security Law Brief - http://www.securitylawbrief.com/main/

Matthew Yglesias ť A Welcome Chill
By myglesias
"Given that perverse setup, it actually makes sense to argue that criminal sanctions for crossing the line would have a 'chilling effect', meaning that probably people wouldn't torture as much as they were technically allowed to torture for fear ... That's kind of why we have law enforcement and prisons - to convince people not to commit crimes. We want this because the things that are crimes are things we think are harmful to society, like murder and robbery. And torture. ..."
Matthew Yglesias - http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on August 28, 2009 (boomark / email).