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Air freight gets tighter screening

Posted on November 08, 2008
WASHINGTON ? For the first time, business cargo carried on most passenger planes is being checked for explosives, according to airlines and the Transportation Security Administration. Airlines began checking air freight on single-aisle airplanes such as 737s and 757s as...

UAB students uncover links to Obama speech used to commit fraud

Posted on November 07, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama's election night acceptance speech was intended to be a call for a renewed spirit of national unity, but the president-elect also unknowingly provided criminals with a new tool for perpetrating Internet fraud. Computer science and criminal justice...

Take the Handcuffs Off the Economic Recovery

Posted on November 07, 2008
A month ago, who would have thought that the Bush Administration would order the partial nationalization of the nation's banks to fix credit markets and support the economy? Maybe other innovative, even "radical," ideas are in order. Unless we come...

California voters all over the map on propositions

Posted on November 07, 2008
Reporting from Sacramento -- It was a good day for chickens and children's hospitals, but not for alternative-fuel vehicles and Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens. A law-enforcement funding measure fell flat, but a proposition restricting parole was victorious...

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No Federal Charges for Eliot Spitzer

Posted on November 06, 2008
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer will not be charged with any crime for his patronage of a prostitution ring, federal prosecutors announced on Thursday. The announcement was made by the office of Michael J. Garcia, the United States attorney in Manhattan....

Voters ban traffic-light cameras

Posted on November 06, 2008
Cincinnatians - the first voters in the country to decide whether their municipality should be able to use cameras to catch drivers running red lights - favor a camera ban. Issue 7, which would prohibit the city from installing cameras,...

Stem cell, medical marijuana props approved

Posted on November 06, 2008
Michigan voters easily approved a law Tuesday to allow the seriously ill to smoke marijuana, while a proposal to ease restrictions on stem cell research research won by a tighter margin. Michigan became the 13th state -- and first in...

Do Guns Reduce Crime?

Posted on November 06, 2008
The Supreme Court's ruling this summer that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to bear arms has added fuel to the ongoing national debate about guns. Recently, a panel of six experts took on the proposition "Guns Reduce Crime"...

City: No 'patterns of abuse' in obstruction arrests

Posted on November 05, 2008
Accidentally caught in an after-midnight clash between police and revelers, Richardson was doused with pepper spray, punched in the head and shot with a stun gun in the parking lot of the McDonald's near Seattle Center. Prosecutors followed with charges...

Organized-crime act targets drug gangs

Posted on November 05, 2008
Looking tired and resigned, Shaneka Penix stood before U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles in his Baltimore courtroom yesterday morning and quietly asked for mercy. "I believe I deserve a second chance," she said. Penix was caught selling crack cocaine...

False results put drug tests under microscope

Posted on November 05, 2008
For Nadine Artemis and Ron Obadia, August began with plans for a family vacation in Minnesota. The vacation ended with the two Canadian citizens being led through Toronto's airport in handcuffs, locked up and separated from their baby. "We were...

Ninth Circuit Upholds Border Searches of International Mail

Posted on November 04, 2008
The Fourth Amendment's border search doctrine permits customs agents acting without a warrant or particularized suspicion to read letters mailed to overseas addresses, the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held Oct. 23 (United States v...

Dismissed Stevens Juror Lied to Go to the Racetrack

Posted on November 04, 2008
As it turned out, her father had not died. Marian Hinnant merely wanted to go to the races. And, she was not about to let the trial of Senator Ted Stevens get in her way. On Monday, Ms. Hinnant stunned...

Study Links Violent Video Games, Hostility

Posted on November 04, 2008
Children and teenagers who play violent video games show increased physical aggression months afterward, according to new research that adds another layer of evidence to the continuing debate over the video-game habits of the youngest generation. The research, published today...

Exoneration Man

Posted on November 04, 2008
From 1951 to 1987, the Dallas County district attorney's office was the domain of Henry Wade, a legendary prosecutor who personally never lost a case ? and who rarely missed an opportunity to seek the maximum punishment for criminals. But...

Prop. A backers say now is the time to fund anti-gang efforts

Posted on November 04, 2008
The city of Los Angeles ended 2006 with the high-profile killings of two children: a 9-year-old girl in Angeleno Heights and a 14-year-old girl in Harbor Gateway who, police say, was targeted in part because of her race. In the...

New Advancements in "Big Brother" Technology

Posted on November 04, 2008
From Inventhelp.com: Anyone who?s ever watched an episode of the thousand ?CSI? or similar crime shows on CBS knows that, often times, crimes are solved with cell phones. Many criminals forget that data left on cell phones (e.g. - text...

SCOTUS Grants Cert. in DNA Testing Case

Posted on November 03, 2008
In a case of obvious importance to the innocence movement, the U.S. Supreme Court today granted review in a case that raises the question whether 42 U.S.C. s. 1983 provides a cause of action to have DNA testing performed in...

Law Enforcement and Civil Rights Groups Divided Over California Ballot Measures

Posted on November 03, 2008
LOS ANGELES ? On Tuesday, California voters will consider three ballot measures that propose wide-ranging changes to the state?s criminal justice system but also pit law enforcement officials against civil rights advocates. One initiative, Proposition 5, would increase financing for...

State Supreme Court passes on reviewing speedy trial ruling

Posted on November 03, 2008
An opinion that says Riverside County judges don't have to send criminal cases facing speedy trial dismissals to family law and probate courts has survived its latest challenge. The state Supreme Court on Oct. 22 passed on a bid by...

The Criminal Justice Reform Battle in California: Cynical Politicians and Powerful Interests Attacking the Public Good

Posted on November 03, 2008
Here is picture that sums up much that is wrong with American politics. Five governors of California, Democrats and Republicans, joining forces to oppose something that is indisputably in the public interest. This is an image that could be repeated,....

Susan N. Herman Brooklyn Law School Professor of Criminal Law

Posted on November 02, 2008
Professor Herman is a widely regarded expert on the Supreme Court, particularly in the area of criminal procedure. She regularly speaks to judges and lawyers around the country on behalf of the Federal Judicial Center, bar associations, and CLE providers...

What kind of prison relief does Prop. 5 promise?

Posted on November 01, 2008
Whatever else might be said about Proposition 5, it would be difficult to dispute that it would reduce prison overcrowding and save taxpayer money. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) estimates that the measure would reduce the prison population by...

Lost-gun ordinances usually fire blanks

Posted on October 31, 2008
Lose a gun in Cleveland and fail to report it to police and you could face a $250 fine and 30 days in jail. But in the 12 years that ordinance has been on Cleveland's books, only two people have...

Why Did Key Angola Witness Go To The 'Dog Pen'?

Posted on October 31, 2008
Louisiana's Angola prison is often referred to as "The Farm." On one edge of its vast acres of corn and cotton are the prison's isolation cells, where two inmates, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, spent the past 36 years in...

When the Police Go Through Your Email: Quirk of Search Law Sets Off Alarm Bells

Posted on October 31, 2008
When you look at your BlackBerry, you see a gadget full of important email, contacts and other files. Increasingly, authorities see admissible evidence. In a small but growing number of cases, customs officials and police officers have been carrying out...

19 crimes tied to mental health patients

Posted on October 30, 2008
State officials last week opened an investigation into the latest case of an Allegheny County mental health patient connected to a violent crime. The state Department of Public Welfare doesn't comment on the details of such investigations, but the newest...

L.A. announces plan to reduce backlog of unexamined DNA evidence from violent crimes

Posted on October 30, 2008
Top city officials Tuesday unveiled a plan to help the Los Angeles Police Department's crime lab reduce its massive backlog of unexamined DNA evidence from violent crimes, but they acknowledged that the funding for the proposal was less than certain....

Deportation-wary migrants targets of crime

Posted on October 30, 2008
One Saturday evening in February, Gumercindo was chatting with a friend outside his central Phoenix apartment complex when a man walked up and demanded $100 from each. "We told him we didn't have any money," recalled Gumercindo, who declined to...

After Hudson deaths, Chicago vows to fight rising murder rate

Posted on October 30, 2008
CHICAGO ? he shooting deaths of three relatives of actress Jennifer Hudson are stirring debate about the reasons this city is the USA's homicide capital and adding urgency to efforts to stop the killing. The bodies of Hudson's mother Darnell...

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