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How To Prosecute a Shoe-Thrower

Posted on December 26, 2008
Muntadar al-Zaida, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George W. Bush, will stand trial Dec. 31, the BBC reported Monday. He's being charged with "aggression against a foreign head of state," which carries a prison term of between...

New NYPD system alerts officers on the mentally ill

Posted on December 25, 2008
A day after the NYPD used a stun gun on an emotionally disturbed man, Iman Morales, volunteers meticulously cleaned blood from the sidewalk. Morales died when he fell from the second floor ledge in Brooklyn. (Newsday Photo / Ari Mintz...

As Economy Dips, Arrests for Shoplifting Soar

Posted on December 25, 2008
Recently laid off from a job building trailers in Elkhart, Ind., Mr. Johnson came up a dollar short at Martin?s Supermarket last month when he went to buy a $4.99 bottle of sleep medication. So, ?for some stupid reason,? he...

Is the Bush administration criminally liable for its lawlessness?

Posted on December 25, 2008
Whatever its other legacies, the Bush administration will be remembered for its contemptible disregard for the law in the post-9/11 war on terrorism. From the wiretapping of Americans without a court order to the waterboarding of suspected terrorists to the...

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NYPD's "Operation Impact" Credited with Success in Tough Precincts

Posted on December 24, 2008
Along Linden Boulevard in East New York, the officers of Operation Impact patrol the Pink Houses with all the rigor of a military patrol, a clannish band of partners whose uniforms shout authority even when they do not speak. They...

Actor Lillo Brancato Acquitted of Felony Murder

Posted on December 23, 2008
A slain cop's sister cried junk justice last night after a Bronx jury acquitted actor-turned-junkie Lillo Brancato of murdering Officer Daniel Enchautegui.

How Effective is Drug Rehab?

Posted on December 23, 2008
Their first love might be the rum or vodka or gin and juice that is going around the bonfire. Or maybe the smoke, the potent marijuana that grows in the misted hills here like moss on a wet stone. But...

States putting criminal records online

Posted on December 23, 2008
Worried your daughter's new boyfriend might have a nefarious past? Want to know whether the job applicant in front of you has a rap sheet? Finding out can be a mouse click away, thanks to the growing crop of searchable...

Is Texas Changing Its Mind About the Death Penalty?

Posted on December 23, 2008
Texas has executed prisoners with a regularity and in record numbers that has earned the state worldwide attention. But, while Texas still led the U.S. in executions in 2008, juries in the state appear to have began to turn away...

Facial recognition software gives Pierce County help in tough cases

Posted on December 23, 2008
The forgery and theft case had victims, a witness and decent surveillance images from an ATM. What it didn't have were any leads on who committed the crime. But instead of being tossed aside, as happens in so many property...

Crime increases in some areas as economy fails

Posted on December 22, 2008
Nothing about the failed bank robbery here earlier this month was ordinary. The suspect, a 51-year-old woman, does not fit the typical criminal profile. The weapon, a crudely assembled fake bomb ? a tangle of wires protruding from a handbag...

Man gets 13 months for molesting son

Posted on December 22, 2008
A former roving carnival worker will spend 13 months in prison for molesting his adult son, who has such severe mental and physical disabilities that he couldn't tell anyone what was happening to him. Robert Lee Hutchinson, 41, had faced...

Mistrial For Third Suspect In NYPD Murder Case

Posted on December 22, 2008
A mistrial has been declared in the case against Lee Woods for the murder of a police officer and for wounding his partner during a routine traffic stop, CBS 2 HD has learned. Woods was the last of three men...

Andrew D. Leipold Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Illinois College of Law

Posted on December 21, 2008
Professor Andrew Leipold, the Edwin M. Adams Professor of Law, graduated summa cum laude in Public Relations from Boston University. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a member of Order of...

Final arguments for release of 911 call set for Monday

Posted on December 21, 2008
A Madison police detective testified Friday that release of the Brittany Zimmermann 911 call would jeopardize the search for her killer, though a public safety expert countered that release of such information typically helps solve homicides. Madison detective John Summers...

Kidnapping and Murder Mystery Solved 27 Years Later

Posted on December 19, 2008
There is a serious cold case many people here in Florida have been following for years, and now it's finally solved, the kidnapping and murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh. Twenty-seven years have passed and they're all together again, the family,...

Marijuana Law Comes With Challenges

Posted on December 19, 2008
Last month, voters approved a statewide measure decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana. Now, wary authorities say, comes the hard part. They are scrambling to set up a new system of civil penalties before Jan. 2, when the...

Call for Presentations and Workshops

Posted on December 19, 2008
Conference Date: August 19-22, 2009 Location: New Orleans, LA Submissions Due: January 30, 2009 before 7:00 pm, Eastern Time Theme: Solving Problems with Geography and Technology View the call for papers Please note: The Tenth Crime Mapping Research Conference was...

To Catch a Thief

Posted on December 18, 2008
Bernard Madoff's alleged $50 billion fraud is giving politicians and investors who failed to diversify another excuse to blame too little enforcement in U.S. financial markets. Talk about compounding a case of misplaced trust. The real lesson is that financial...

Showdown over DNA lab reflects national debate

Posted on December 18, 2008
In June, Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas made a bold grab for a crown jewel of local law enforcement: the DNA unit of the sheriff's crime lab. With the lab's director out of town and the sheriff recently deposed...

Lethal Injection and the Problem of Constitutional Remedies

Posted on December 18, 2008
Many states' lethal injection procedures contain serious flaws that create a significant risk of excruciating pain, but, more often that not, courts uphold those procedures against Eighth Amendment challenges. This Article argues that remedial concerns significantly shape - and misdirect...

Washington Council Enacts Tough Gun-Control Measure

Posted on December 17, 2008
Nearly six months after the Supreme Court put an end to the District of Columbia?s decades-old ban on handgun possession, the City Council here passed a sweeping new ordinance on Tuesday to regulate gun ownership. The legislation would require all...

1,500 criminals with sealed records rearrested

Posted on December 17, 2008
About 1,500 convicted criminals who were given a fresh start by getting their court records shielded were arrested again over the past two years, according to a newspaper analysis of state records. That's around 11 percent of the number of...

What the Alleged Misdeeds of Rod Blagojevich Teach Us About Lawful Politics

Posted on December 17, 2008
The allegations in the criminal complaint filed last week against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich portray a level of corruption that is shocking even by the standards of a state in which four prior governors have served time in prison. If...

Nonviolent inmates are lending a hand

Posted on December 13, 2008
For 97 cents a day -- yes, a day -- John Kemp picks up garbage in Austin. He calls it great. The work keeps him busy, occupies his mind, helps him change, he said. Kemp wouldn't mind if the pay...

Canadian police pull old Tasers off streets

Posted on December 12, 2008
Police departments across Canada, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, are pulling older Taser stun guns off the streets following a new study that found the weapons can deliver more power than the manufacturer says is possible. Police departments in...

Holder fight heats up

Posted on December 12, 2008
GOP leaders took to the Senate floor this evening to call on Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to slow down Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder?s confirmation process. Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a former U.S. Attorney and Rhode Island attorney general,...

Minnesota judge extends injunction against NFL suspensions

Posted on December 12, 2008
A federal judge extended his preliminary injunction against the NFL's suspension of five players for violating the league's anti-doping policy, a move their lawyer said will let them play the rest of the season. In his ruling Thursday, U.S. District....

Domestic violence deaths more than double over 2007

Posted on December 11, 2008
The number of homicides related to domestic violence in Maine more than doubled over the past year, prompting Gov. John Baldacci on Tuesday to urge health care professionals to look even more carefully for signs of violence and sexual assault....

Correa seeks transparency

Posted on December 11, 2008
Honolulu police Chief Boisse Correa said he wants to release video footage of a Taser incident that caused two officers to temporarily lose their law enforcement authority. Correa came under heated criticism last week from the police officers union for...

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