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Lawmaker wants to strip governor's pardon power

Posted on July 30, 2008
PASCAGOULA --Brandon Jones was 12 when Adrienne Klasky Graham's ex-husband gunned her down at a busy intersection in Pascagoula, but he remembers it and the effect it had on his community. His sister went to school with one of Adrienne's...

Questions about Best Approach to Fixing Pervasive Internet Security Flaw

Posted on July 30, 2008
Since a secret emergency meeting of computer security experts at Microsoft?s headquarters in March, Dan Kaminsky has been urging companies around the world to fix a potentially dangerous flaw in the basic plumbing of the Internet. While Internet service providers...

U.S. Supports Rehearing in Kennedy Death Penalty Ruling

Posted on July 30, 2008
The US Justice Department has appealed to nation's highest court to re-hear a major death penalty case involving sentencing for child rapists, saying the ruling was made without all the facts. The Supreme Court last month ruled 5-4 against the...

Beheading as a More Humane Form of Execution?

Posted on July 30, 2008
BBC News: Three Indonesian militants facing execution for the 2002 Bali bombings want to be beheaded rather than killed by firing squad, their lawyer has said. The three - Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra - are expected to include the...

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President Bush Authorizes First Military Execution Since 1961

Posted on July 29, 2008
President Bush on Monday approved the first execution by the military since 1961, upholding the death penalty of an Army private convicted of a series of rapes and murders more than two decades ago. As commander in chief, the president...

Conflicting marijuana laws take stage in trial

Posted on July 29, 2008
A highly anticipated trial involving conflicting marijuana laws got underway Friday in Los Angeles federal court with a prosecutor painting the owner of a Morro Bay medicinal marijuana store as a brazen drug trafficker who sold dope to teenagers and....

Shocking twist to murder, rape

Posted on July 29, 2008
Hamilton County law enforcement officials knew that David Steffen killed 19-year-old Karen Range in 1982 but he insisted for 26 years he never raped the teen. Prosecutors won murder and rape convictions against Steffen to send him to death row...

California to Begin Integrating Prisons for Men

Posted on July 29, 2008
LANCASTER, Calif. -- Male prisoners in the nation's largest corrections system, long kept segregated by race in an effort to temper violence, will soon be sharing cells with inmates of other ethnicities. A program aimed at integrating California's prisons for...

Study sees racial bias in traffic-stop searches

Posted on July 28, 2008
Civil rights groups called Thursday for ending the state police practice of searching vehicles during routine traffic stops, citing new statistics that show black and Hispanic motorists are searched more often even though drugs or other illegal items turn up...

Bilbray: Suspect's release in Mexico 'a huge blunder'

Posted on July 28, 2008
LOS ANGELES ? A Republican congressman is accusing the Bush administration of failing to own up to "a huge blunder" that led to the release in Mexico of a man wanted in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent....

Lawmakers look at sex offenders in nursing homes

Posted on July 28, 2008
Ray McDaniel's 18-year-old daughter was raped 10 days after moving into a nursing home ? by a registered sex offender who also lived there. No one was required to tell McDaniel that the 43-year-old sex offender was a resident of...

Carol A. Chase: Pepperdine Professor of Criminal Law

Posted on July 27, 2008
Professor of Law B.A., summa cum laude, University of California, Los Angeles, 1975 J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1978 View a list of Professor Chase's recent writings Before joining the Pepperdine faculty, Professor Chase was an assistant U...

Latino-vs.-black violence drives hate crimes in L.A. County to 5-year high

Posted on July 26, 2008
The County Human Relations Commission reports a 28% increase last year, with assaults and vandalism the leading categories. Hate crimes in Los Angeles County rose to their highest level in five years last year, led by attacks between Latinos and...

A City?s Police Force Now Doubts Terror Focus

Posted on July 25, 2008
PROVIDENCE, R.I. ? Nearly seven years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the war on terror in this city has evolved into a quiet struggle against a phantom foe. Last year, when a sailor slipped over the side of...

Prisoners' time spent on death row doubles

Posted on July 25, 2008
The time prisoners spend on death row has nearly doubled during the past two decades. Legal experts predict it will rise further as states review execution procedures and prisoners pursue lengthy appeals. Waits rose from seven years in 1986 to...

New Courses at New York Law School

Posted on July 25, 2008
This fall, New York Law School will be offering four courses from the nine-course array of its online, distance learning curriculum. Courses combine streaming videos, readings, weekly synchronous chat rooms (meaning, class meets at 8:45 on Monday night, say, but...

Forensic Bioinformatics Expert Forum

Posted on July 24, 2008
From: Jason Gilder Forensic Bioinformatics is holding its expert forum on the science of DNA profiling on August 15 through 17. This will be our seventh annual meeting in Dayton and I think you will agree that the program is...

Criminal Justice: One Of The Enormous Non-Issues Of Presidential Politics

Posted on July 24, 2008
James Freedman What happened to "the land of the free"? In February, we reached an all-time high, with one out of 100 American adults incarcerated. Some groups are hit particularly hard; one out of every 15 African American adults were...

Interesting Sentencing Hearings Due in California?

Posted on July 24, 2008
SFGate.com: A criminal defendant's right to address the judge before sentencing and plead for mercy without being cross-examined, a right traced back to 17th century England, doesn't exist in California, the state Supreme Court ruled today. In a case from...

Court Holds There is a Due Process Right to Post-Conviction Access to Evidence for DNA Testing

Posted on July 24, 2008
On Monday, Judge John Gleeson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued an opinion concluding that "the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment grants a convicted offender access to physical evidence for the...

The Supreme Court on Trial: How the American Justice System Sacrifices Innocent Defendants

Posted on July 24, 2008
"DNA has conclusively proven the innocence of hundreds of prisoners. Yet thousands, if not tens of thousands, of innocent prisoners remain behind bars because no DNA evidence exists or it has not yet been tested. George Thomas's new book, The...

Los Angeles police chief seeks to forgo reviews in some use-of-force cases

Posted on July 23, 2008
Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton is seeking permission to make the department's review of officer-involved shootings and other use-of-force incidents less punitive for some officers who violate department rules. The Los Angeles Police Commission, which oversees the Police...

L.A.'s homicide toll is slightly below that of the same 2007 period

Posted on July 23, 2008
The LAPD reported a nearly 40% increase in homicides in the first 21/2 months of 2008. But as of Monday, 204 people have been killed in the city -- 2% fewer than that date last year. After rising nearly 40%...

ACLU files suit challenging Ala. law barring many felons from getting voting rights restored

Posted on July 23, 2008
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) _ After serving eight months behind bars for a conviction of receiving stolen property, Annette McWashington Pruitt was excited about the prospect of being able to vote again. One of her first stops after being released from...

Tech release of records omits key materials

Posted on July 23, 2008
Virginia Tech will withhold officials' notes and some details concerning the shooter BLACKSBURG -- Some of the deepest secrets about Seung-Hui Cho's killing rampage at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, may never be made public. Disclosure of the essential...

How reliable is DNA in identifying suspects?

Posted on July 22, 2008
State crime lab analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on Arizona's DNA database when she stumbled across two felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles. The men matched at nine of the 13 locations on chromosomes, or loci, commonly used to...

U.S. Is Alone in Rejecting All Evidence if Police Err

Posted on July 22, 2008
Bradley Harrison was driving a rented Dodge Durango from Vancouver to Toronto in the fall of 2004 with 77 pounds of cocaine in the trunk when a police officer pulled him over, found the drugs and arrested him. A year...

Felons Seeking Bush Pardon Near a Record

Posted on July 22, 2008
WASHINGTON ? Felons are asking President Bush for pardons and commutations at historic levels as he nears his final months in office, a time when many other presidents have granted a flurry of clemency requests. Among the petitioners is Michael...

May Pardons Be Granted Preemptively?

Posted on July 22, 2008
Slate.com: With six months to go before President Bush leaves office, the White House is receiving a flurry of pardon applications. The New York Times reported that "several members of the conservative legal community" are pushing for the White House...

IMPD unveils an 'integrity plan'

Posted on July 21, 2008
Department tries to fix its image after officer arrests' Narcotics detectives ripping off drug dealers. A police officer selling a gun to a felon informant. Another officer helping his wife run an illegal escort service. In the past four months,...

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