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Parole credit triggers criticism

Posted on July 10, 2008
Nearly 900 state inmates have been released from Kentucky prisons and jails since late May under a policy change on parole credit approved this year as part of the state budget. And 887 other convicted felons have been released from...

"Project Zero" Overhauled NYC Teen Offender Rehab

Posted on July 10, 2008
Dr. Clarice Bailey was sent to New York City by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government to find out what it?s like inside the city?s program for juvenile justice reform. The Institute...

FBI kills serial murder profile

Posted on July 10, 2008
WASHINGTON - Hollywood's serial-killer stereotype - an anti-social white guy unable to stop murdering - is nothing but a Tinseltown tall tale, the FBI concludes in a new report. "There's no one-size-fits-all profile," said Mark Hilts, chief of the FBI's...

Using DNA in smaller crimes could clog system

Posted on July 09, 2008
The story is straight out of Nancy Drew: A half-eaten corn dog found at the scene of a suburban office burglary yields DNA that links the crime to a man with 27 previous arrests. It's not fiction, though; it happened...

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Registry law called 'unfair to homeless'

Posted on July 09, 2008
Georgia's sex offender registry law should be struck down because it makes homelessness a crime, a lawyer told the state's highest court on Monday. "The law is fundamentally unfair to homeless sex offenders," public defender Adam Levin argued to the....

Murder's no mystery

Posted on July 08, 2008
The beat goes on with local violent crime: A 66-year-old Belleville woman was stabbed to death Friday. A 49-year-old man was gunned down at midnight Saturday near Sherman Park on the city's north side. A U.S. Park Service ranger shot...

Reality TV's new target: Flipped-verdict dramas

Posted on July 08, 2008
Reality television, which has probed virtually every aspect of American life, is looking to enter a gritty part of the criminal justice system: the campaign to exonerate the innocent. GRB Entertainment, whose clients include National Geographic and the Discovery Channel,...

A chance for a clean slate

Posted on July 08, 2008
Thousands of Marylanders have had their arrest records removed from public view because of a new state law that requires automatic expungement for those who are detained and released without charge. Proponents say the nine-month-old law is working as intended,...

National Sex Offender Guidelines Released

Posted on July 07, 2008
The Justice Department today (June 1, 2008) released the final Sex Offender Registration and Notification ACT (SORNA) Guidelines. These are the guidelines for the Adam Walsh Act's sex offender registration and notification provisions. A copy of the guidelines is here...

Probe Into Maryland Custody Death Slows

Posted on July 07, 2008
State and federal agents are investigating the death of a Maryland man in his cell two days after he was arrested and charged with killing a county police officer. But their efforts have been slowed by a lack of cooperation...

ESCAPING THE MYTH OF 'THREE STRIKES' STATE PRISON LAW

Posted on July 07, 2008
In 1994, Californians saw a state criminal justice system that too often let the worst criminals out of prison to wreak destruction and hurt the innocent, only to be sent back to prison for worse crimes. Fresno parent Mike Reynolds...

Sanford H. Kadish Berkley Criminal Law Professor

Posted on July 06, 2008
FS U Contact: Roxanne Livingston Sanford Kadish joined the Boalt faculty in 1964 and served as dean from 1975 to 1982. Previously, he taught at the University of Utah and the University of Michigan and also practiced with a New...

Changes Encouraged to Prevent False Confessions

Posted on July 05, 2008
There have been at least 56 wrongful convictions in New York State including those of Martin H. Tankleff and Jeffrey Mark Deskovic. Of those, at least 23 since 1991 have been based on DNA evidence ? seven in the last...

New Trends in U.S. Violent Crime Patterns?

Posted on July 05, 2008
The Atlantic: Falling crime rates have been one of the great American success stories of the past 15 years. New York and Los Angeles, once the twin capitals of violent crime, have calmed down significantly, as have most other big...

Texas man gets 4,060 years in prison

Posted on July 04, 2008
WEATHERFORD, Texas - A man was sentenced to more than 4,000 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting three teenage girls over two years. A day after finding James Kevin Pope guilty, jurors sentenced him to 40 life prison terms...

Fired to rehired City's record poor when dismissals go to arbitration

Posted on July 04, 2008
The Cincinnati Police Department tried and failed 19 times to fire officers and dispatchers in the past decade. One officer tackled an unarmed Alzheimer's patient, resulting in a $700,000 settlement. Another was accused of shooting a woman with a Taser...

Terror watch uses local eyes Privacy advocates worry that officers' snooping will entangle innocent people

Posted on July 04, 2008
Hundreds of police, firefighters, paramedics and even utility workers have been trained and recently dispatched as "Terrorism Liaison Officers" in Colorado and a handful of other states to hunt for "suspicious activity" ? and are reporting their findings into secret...

In Court Ruling on Executions, a Factual Flaw

Posted on July 03, 2008
WASHINGTON ? When the Supreme Court ruled last week that the death penalty for raping a child was unconstitutional, the majority noted that a child rapist could face the ultimate penalty in only six states ? not in any of...

Not Winning the War on Drugs

Posted on July 03, 2008
According to the White House, this country is scoring big wins in the war on drugs, especially against the cocaine cartels. Officials celebrate that cocaine seizures are up ? leading to higher prices on American streets. Cocaine use by teenagers...

Florida reinstituted the death penalty: State executes child killer

Posted on July 03, 2008
STARKE ? Florida reinstituted the death penalty Tuesday with the execution of a child killer. Unlike a botched execution in 2006 that halted the state's death penalty for more than a year, the execution of Mark Dean Schwab appeared seamless...

UPR and Arizona CrimProf David Wexler: New Book on Criminal Practice and Therapeutic Jurisprudence

Posted on July 02, 2008
CrimProf David B. Wexler (SSRN) (Wikipedia) (Homepage) of the Universities of Puerto Rico and Arizona has published a new edited volume Rehabilitating Lawyers: Principles of Therapeutic Jurisprudence for Criminal Law Practice (Carolina Academic Press)...

Ariz. courts trying alternative juvenile justice

Posted on July 02, 2008
TUCSON - If you had visited the juvenile lockup in Pima County a decade ago - at the height of the adult-time-for-adult-crime campaign - you'd have seen young people sleeping in the cafeteria because of crowding. If you'd visited five...

Agencies join forces to tackle violent gangs

Posted on July 02, 2008
Federal law enforcement authorities have coupled multi-agency task forces with strategies that once focused on Mafia-era crime syndicates to target national and international gangs, many of which have brought warfare to the nation's cities. With a propensity for indiscriminate violence,...

Panel finds California death penalty flawed, urges overhaul

Posted on July 02, 2008
Capital punishment in California is too flawed to be effective and is crippled by an appeals backlog that delays punishment for crimes, a state Senate- appointed panel has concluded. The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice issued an...

Border Drug Wars Plague Cities in Mexico and U.S.

Posted on July 01, 2008
Drug cartels have made Juarez the deadliest city in Mexico. But they also operate just across the border, in El Paso, Texas ? one of the safest cities in the U.S. NPR's Jason Beaubien speaks with host Andrea Seabrook about...

Local and national outbreak of grave robbing

Posted on July 01, 2008
Grave robbing has become an above-ground affair. Gone are the days when enterprising thieves would dig up an old grave and pillage for gold teeth and rings. Today, it's mostly the bronze markers and flower vases that draw their attention....

Gun Laws and Crime: A Complex Relationship

Posted on July 01, 2008
Lurking behind the Supreme Court?s ruling last week that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms were a series of fascinating, disputed and now in many ways irrelevant questions. Do gun control laws reduce crime? Do they...

Mansfield drug case gone wrong: The inside story

Posted on June 30, 2008
In the shadows of boarded-up homes on a hazy October afternoon in 2005, two men pull into a gas station parking lot in a souped-up Buick Roadmaster with tinted windows. They are there to buy $2,600 of crack cocaine. Jerrell...

Gang violence in Seattle on the rise, report says City study urges more spending on prevention

Posted on June 30, 2008
A report on gangs in Seattle bolsters what some in law enforcement and community groups already were saying -- gang violence is up, and more prevention programs are needed."It validated what I'd been hearing and experiencing the last few months,"...

Will Some Felons Be Permitted To Own Guns After Heller?

Posted on June 30, 2008
N.Y. Sun.com: The Supreme Court's historic decision on the Second Amendment could make millions of felons eligible to own guns. Under current federal law, the vast majority of felons are prohibited from so much as touching a gun or ammunition,...

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