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Roach and Anand on Canadian Homicide Law

Posted on July 12, 2010
Kent Roach and Sanjeev Anand (University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and University of Alberta - Faculty of Law) have posted Inertia, Uncertainty, and Canadian Homicide Law: An Introduction to the Special Issue (Alberta Law Review, Vol. 47, No....

Guest blogger Robert C. Boruchowitz: On Public Defenders and Excessive Caseloads

Posted on July 10, 2010
By Robert C. Boruchowitz, Director of the Defender Initiative and Professor from Practice at Seattle University: The Florida Court of Appeals this past week reversed a trial court order that would have allowed a public defender to withdraw from a...

Ball on the Civil Case at the Heart of Criminal Procedure

Posted on July 09, 2010
W. David Ball (Santa Clara School of Law) has posted Civil, Criminal, or Mary Jane: Stigma, Legislative Labels, and the Civil Case at the Heart of Criminal Procedure on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In criminal cases, any fact which...

"UK strengthens test for stop and search of terror suspects"

Posted on July 09, 2010
The story is in Jurist.

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"?Grim Sleeper? Arrest Fans Debate on DNA Use"

Posted on July 09, 2010
The story is in the New York Times: LOS ANGELES ? The arrest in the case of the ?Grim Sleeper? ? a serial killer who terrorized South Los Angeles for two decades ? has put one of the hottest controversies...

"Pot Revenue"

Posted on July 08, 2010
Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences comments on a new RAND Corporation study on the issue: I was disappointed that the "alternatives" section of the report does not discuss legalization through a government-run monopoly, as "hard liquor" is presently sold...

"Arizona Challenge Does Not Focus on Profiling"

Posted on July 08, 2010
The story is in the New York Times: Justice Department officials and legal experts say the government, political consequences aside, faced up to cold legal practicalities. Racial profiling claims are difficult enough to prove, let alone before a law takes...

"Suit against the new Chicago anti-gun laws"

Posted on July 07, 2010
David Kopel at The Volokh Conspiracy has this link to the complaint.

Lain on Evolving Standards

Posted on July 07, 2010
Corinna Lain (University of Richmond - School of Law) has posted Lessons Learned from the Evolution of 'Evolving Standards' (Charleston Law Review, Vol. 4, p. 661) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This symposium contribution traces the evolution of the...

"Talks on a Rapid End to Russian Spy Case"

Posted on July 07, 2010
The story is in the New York Times. In part: Prosecutors have not accused the defendants of passing classified information to their Russian handlers. But a resolution would allow the United States government to avoid a long legal battle in...

Complaint in DOJ challenge to AZ immigration law

Posted on July 06, 2010
is here, thanks to the website of the Arizona Republic.

"Defendants Squeezed by Georgia?s Tight Budget"

Posted on July 06, 2010
Adam Liptak's column is in the New York Times. When the State of Georgia ran out of money to pay the lawyers for a man facing the death penalty, the prosecutor, of all people, had an idea. He asked the...

"Feds to challenge Arizona immigration law"

Posted on July 06, 2010
The story is on CNN.com: Washington (CNN) -- The Justice Department is expected to file a legal challenge Tuesday against Arizona's controversial immigration law, according to an administration official. The law, which is scheduled to take effect at the end...

"Canada court orders government to remedy Khadr rights breach"

Posted on July 06, 2010
Jurist has this story on the court's request for recommendation on how to remedy violation of Khadr's rights. He has been held at Guantanamo since his 2002 capture at the age of 15 facing murder and terrorism charges.

Jaros on Criminal Orders of Protection

Posted on July 06, 2010
David Michael Jaros (University of Baltimore School of Law) has posted Unfettered Discretion: Criminal Orders of Protection and Their Impact on Parent Defendants (Indiana Law Journal, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The last two decades have witnessed an...

Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads

Posted on July 05, 2010
are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 349 Padilla v. Kentucky: The Right to Counsel and the Collateral Consequences of Conviction Margaret Colgate Love, Gabriel J. Chin, Law Office of Margaret Love, University of Arizona James...

Roach on Terrorism Prosecutions

Posted on July 04, 2010
Kent Roach (University of Toronto - Faculty of Law) has posted The Unique Challenges of Terrorism Prosecutions: Towards a Workable Relation between Intelligence and Evidence (Kent Roach, RESEARCH STUDIES OF THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE INVESTIGATION OF THE BOMBING...

Continuing debate over stop-and-frisk in New York City

Posted on July 03, 2010
In the New York Times, Heather MacDonald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, disputed the significance of recent data showing racially disparate impact of police stop-and-frisk practices: Allegations of racial bias, however, ignore the most important factor governing the Police...

"A first-cut criminal justice take on the SCOTUS Term that was"

Posted on July 02, 2010
Doug Berman's recap is at Sentencing Law and Policy. In part: the Term had a significant number of little wins for criminal defendants, but the vast majority of cases that could have potentially produced huge wins for defendants ended up...

"The Criminal Brain"

Posted on July 01, 2010
Steve Erickson at Crime and Consequences points to a series on NPR regarding psychopathy and the criminal law.

"Chicago Mayor Offers Strict Gun Rules"

Posted on July 01, 2010
This A.P. story is on the website of the New York Times: CHICAGO (AP) -- With the city's gun ban certain to be overturned, Mayor Richard Daley on Thursday introduced what city officials say is the strictest handgun ordinance in...

Wexler on Therapeutic Jurisprudence

Posted on June 30, 2010
David B. Wexler (University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law) has posted Therapeutic Jurisprudence and its Application to Criminal Justice Research and Development on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This essay, based on the 3rd Annual Martin...

Chmura et al on an Experimental Measure of Selfishness as a Criminological Tool

Posted on June 30, 2010
Thorsten Chmura , Christoph Engel , Markus Englerth and Thomas Pitz (University of Bonn - Faculty of Law & Economics , Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods , affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Bonn) have...

Yesterday's criminal law/procedure cert grant

Posted on June 29, 2010
The Court granted review in Pepper v. United States, described by ScotusBlog as involving "whether a convicted individual?s rehabilitation after sentencing can support a lowering of the sentence under federal Guidelines."

"Puzzling through the doctrine and dicta of McDonald on the Second Amendment's limits"

Posted on June 29, 2010
Doug Berman has this interesting post at Sentencing Law and Policy on yesterday's Supreme Court decision.

Opinion striking down Chicago handgun ban

Posted on June 28, 2010
McDonald v. City of Chicago is here. Here is the syllabus: Two years ago, in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. ___, this Court held that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for...

Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads

Posted on June 27, 2010
are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 306 Padilla v. Kentucky: The Right to Counsel and the Collateral Consequences of Conviction Margaret Colgate Love, Gabriel J. Chin, Law Office of Margaret Love, University of Arizona James...

High-security cases in low-security courtrooms

Posted on June 27, 2010
A Jurist story headlined UN announces opening of new Kenya courtroom for piracy trials highlights the problem. Kenya had previously announced that it would no longer accept Somali pirate cases.

"Some blogosphere reactions to Skilling et al."

Posted on June 25, 2010
Doug Berman at Sentencing Law and Policy points to posts at Crime and Consequences and the WSJ Law Blog.

Bilz on Experimental Examination of the Exclusionary Rule

Posted on June 25, 2010
Kenworthey Bilz (Northwestern University - School of Law) has posted Dirty Hands or Deterrence? An Experimental Examination of the Exclusionary Rule on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Historically, the Supreme Court has offered two justifications for the Exclusionary Rule: one,...

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