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NRA Targets Gun Bans after Heller Decision

Posted on June 30, 2008
NPR.org: Five cities and suburbs are facing lawsuits challenging their bans on handguns. When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark June 26 decision, rejecting Washington, D.C.'s ban on handguns, gun-rights lawyers swung into action. As a result, the legal...

Cops: Grand Theft Auto video game inspired crimes

Posted on June 30, 2008
Teenagers who police say went on a video-game-inspired late-night crime spree were arraigned Thursday after they mugged a man outside a New Hyde Park supermarket and menaced motorists in Garden City with a baseball bat, a crowbar and a broomstick,...

Robert Batey, a criminal law professor at Stetson University College of Law

Posted on June 29, 2008
Robert Batey holds a bachelor's degree from Yale University and law degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of Illinois. After one year as a teaching assistant at the University of Illinois College of Law and two years...

SCOTUS Issues Landmark Opinion

Posted on June 29, 2008
upholding death penalty as "totally badass." Hilarious video from the Onion here.

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Cops: Grand Theft Auto video game inspired crimes

Posted on June 29, 2008
Teenagers who police say went on a video-game-inspired late-night crime spree were arraigned Thursday after they mugged a man outside a New Hyde Park supermarket and menaced motorists in Garden City with a baseball bat, a crowbar and a broomstick,...

Allow DNA tests to prove innocence and assure justice

Posted on June 28, 2008
WHEN AN INNOCENT person goes to prison, a guilty person roams our streets, free to victimize again.That is the practical reason we need to do all we reasonably can to make sure that the innocent aren?t convicted and that, if...

High Court: No Death Penalty for Child Rape

Posted on June 27, 2008
In a closely divided opinion today, the Supreme Court found that while the crime of raping a child is a "revulsion" to society, it does not merit the death penalty.

Therapy Dogs Easing Stress for Victims of Violent Crime as They Prepare to Testify

Posted on June 27, 2008
These days, life is carefree for 5-year-old Lexi Lohr. But last year, something terrible happened to her. Mr. Chad. He did something bad ? He was going to smack me," she recalled. Mr. Chad is Chad Wiles, Lexi's former babysitter....

Case puts 'Stand Your Ground' law on defense

Posted on June 27, 2008
More than five months after claiming self-defense in the fatal shooting of two unarmed men at a North Miami-Dade chain restaurant, Gabriel Mobley was arrested Thursday for murder. Miami-Dade prosecutors believe the case is a key test of Florida's 2005...

Sexual Victimization in Local Jails Reported by Inmates, 2007

Posted on June 26, 2008
Presents data from the 2007 National Inmate Survey (NIS), conducted in 282 local jails between April and December, with a sample of 40,419 inmates. The report and appendix tables provide a listing of results for sampled local jails, as required...

Assembly panel kills bill to disclose LAPD disciplinary records

Posted on June 26, 2008
Despite lobbying efforts by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, an Assembly committee Tuesday killed a bill that would have cleared the way for the Los Angeles Police Department to make officers' disciplinary hearings and records open to the public. The bill faced...

NYPD wants suspects to sign search consent form

Posted on June 26, 2008
The New York City Police Department wants suspects to sign a consent form before searching their homes or cars, a move that eliminates the need for a warrant and is meant to provide police a layer of legal protection, Newsday...

Politicians Respond to Kennedy

Posted on June 26, 2008
Angry politicians vowed to keep writing laws that condemn child rapists to death, despite a Supreme Court decision saying such punishment is unconstitutional. "Anybody in the country who cares about children should be outraged that we have a Supreme Court...

Cameras to watch for crime Cincinnati police getting eyes on 120 locations

Posted on June 25, 2008
It's the first step toward a system that eventually could send real-time video to officers' in-cruiser laptops as well as instantly read license plates and run them through motor vehicle registration.Some of the cameras also might have gunshot-recognition sensors, which...

Supreme Court Says Right to Counsel Begins With First Appearance Before Judge

Posted on June 25, 2008
A defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches at his first appearance before a magistrate, whether or not the prosecutor is also on hand, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The Court's 8-1 decision in Rothgery v. Gillespie County, Texas,...

NIJ In-Custody Death Study: The Impact of Use of Conducted Energy Devices

Posted on June 25, 2008
An expert panel of medical professionals found no conclusive evidence of a high risk of death or serious injury from the direct effects of Conducted Energy Devices (CEDs), such as Tasers.The panel is studying deaths related to the use of...

Supreme Court Rejects Death Penalty for Child Rape

Posted on June 25, 2008
The Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, on Wednesday that sentencing someone to death for raping a child is unconstitutional, assuming that the victim is not killed. ?The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a...

Google Search Data to Help Define Obscenity?

Posted on June 24, 2008
Judges and jurors who must decide whether sexually explicit material is obscene are asked to use a local yardstick: does the material violate community standards? That is often a tricky question because there is no simple, concrete way to gauge...

Doubting Case: Prosecutor Helped the Defense

Posted on June 24, 2008
The Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, had a problem. The murder convictions of two men in one of his office?s big cases ? the 1990 shooting of a bouncer outside the Palladium nightclub ? had been called into question...

Court: Juveniles have right to jury trial

Posted on June 24, 2008
Juvenile offenders in Kansas have a constitutional right to a jury trial, the state?s highest court declared Friday in a decision that could force prosecutors to retry hundreds of cases. The ruling has Douglas County court officials trying to figure....

The Price of Leniency

Posted on June 24, 2008
The June 12 news story "New Criminal Record: 7.2 Million," on the number of people under supervision in the nation's criminal justice system, reported on the financial burden of running correctional systems without mentioning the savings resulting from crimes averted...

Man cleared by DNA test seeks to clear record

Posted on June 23, 2008
DALLAS ? The Innocence Project on Friday asked a Texas court to toss out the convictions that sent an innocent man to prison for 25 years and keeps him on probation today. DNA testing last year showed Steven Phillips was...

Ronald Taylor says pardon brings new meaning to life

Posted on June 23, 2008
Ronald Gene Taylor on Thursday broke free of the bonds of the wrongful rape conviction that has defined his life for 15 years after receiving news of a pardon confirming his innocence."It's been hard to get restarted," Taylor said in...

DNA Tosses Auburn Man's 1995 Murder Conviction

Posted on June 23, 2008
For the second time in less than 18 months, a Cayuga County murder conviction has been thrown out after DNA testing cast doubt on the trial verdict. Thursday, County Judge Thomas G. Leone tossed out Sammy Swift's 1995 conviction and...

SCOTUS Clarifies When Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel Attaches

Posted on June 23, 2008
The Court decided Rothgery v. Gillespie County today. In an 8-1 decision, the Court held that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attached after the Petitioner was arraigned before a magistrate -- that is, when the magistrate determined there was...

Eugene Volokh Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law

Posted on June 22, 2008
Eugene Volokh teaches free speech law, criminal law, religious freedom law, and church-state relations law at UCLA Law School, where he has also often taught copyright law and a seminar on firearms regulation policy. Before coming to UCLA, he clerked...

Lawyers to aid DNA project

Posted on June 21, 2008
Virginia's Forensic Science Board will rely on volunteer lawyers to assist in one of the largest and most unusual DNA investigations ever undertaken.

Public hearing in Yolo deputy slaying case closed to public

Posted on June 20, 2008
A public hearing ? in which murder suspect Marco Antonio Topete was to be formally charged Wednesday in the slaying of a Yolo County sheriff's deputy ? was closed to just about everyone except the slain deputy's survivors and his...

Crime fighters hoping you'll get on board

Posted on June 20, 2008
A citywide campaign encouraging residents to report crimes was launched Wednesday with community leaders unveiling a new billboard conveying the message: "It's not snitching -- it's caring." The billboards are a key component of Peace in the Streets, a movement...

Mentally ill lose right to self-representation

Posted on June 20, 2008
Filed at 10:19 a.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that criminal defendants with a history of mental illness do not always have the right to represent themselves, even though they have been judged competent to stand...

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