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News Scan

Posted on September 17, 2008
Montpelier Restored: On the 221st anniversary of the Constitutional Convention's completion of its work, the restoration of James Madison's home, Montpelier, was unveiled. Carlos Santos has this story for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito were on-hand...

Troy Davis Goes to SCOTUS

Posted on September 16, 2008
Troy Anthony Davis is scheduled for execution in Georgia a week from now for the murder of police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. Prior posts here, here, and here. He has applied to the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of...

Blog Scan

Posted on September 16, 2008
U.S. Files to Head Off Sanctions For Failure to Meet Deadlines: Lyle Denniston reported at SCOTUSblog that the U.S. has filed a reply motion for partial and temporary relief from the Guantanamo district court's July 11 scheduling order. In its...

News Scan

Posted on September 16, 2008
India?s Use of Brain Scans in Courts Is Debated: NY Times writer Anand Giridharadas, reports that India has become the first country to convict someone of a crime relying on evidence from a brain scan. This controversial machine involves a...

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Eyewitness Research

Posted on September 16, 2008
The September 2008 issue of Applied Cognitive Psychology is a special issue on eyewitness research. The Psychology and Crime News blog has this summary....

News Scan

Posted on September 15, 2008
Death Penalty Is Upheld in Publicized Georgia Case: New York Times writer Robbie Brown, reports that the Georgia parole board has denied clemency to Troy Davis, sentenced to death for the killing a Savannah police officer in 1989. Davis, 39,...

Reflexive Support for a Crook

Posted on September 15, 2008
Leonard Pitts of the Miami Herald has this column on the remarkably slow decline and fall of Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Pitts compares the agonizing year it took to get rid of Kilpatrick with the sudden departure of Eliot Spitzer,...

Crime Down a Little in Annual FBI Report

Posted on September 15, 2008
The FBI has released it annual Crime in the United States report. The overall violent crime rate is down 1.4% from 2006. (The AP story reports that violent crimes are down 0.7%, but that is total crimes, not per capita...

Blog Scan

Posted on September 15, 2008
Senate Impact on Liberal Judicial Nominees: On Saturday, Jonathan Adler posted his thoughts on whether conservatives would attempt to block any of Obama's judicial nominees. Adler's post was prompted by this MSNBC article. While Adler states he probably won't like...

Blog Scan

Posted on September 12, 2008
Some New SSRN Articles: Doug Berman at Sentencing Law and Policy has this post with links to two new articles on SSRN. The first article, Prosecutorial Shaming by Adam M. Gershowitz, examines "instances in which appellate courts reverse convictions for...

News Scan

Posted on September 12, 2008
Tracking Terrorists: New guidelines for identifying terrorists within the United States, which would give the FBI tools currently used against organized crime, were proposed today according to this AP story by Larry Hargasak. If adopted, the guidelines would allow agents...

Blog Scan

Posted on September 11, 2008
Guantanamo Detainees Seek to Attend Hearing: Lyle Denniston reports at SCOTUSblog that lawyers for the Uighurs - the Chinese Muslims being held at Guantanamo - have filed a motion requesting that four of the 17 detainees be flown to Washington,...

News Scan

Posted on September 11, 2008
3 Death Row Inmates Executed Under Japan's New Justice Minister's Orders: A news article from the Mainichi Daily News, reports that the first executions in Japan in about three months occurred Thursday, the Ministry of Justice announced. It was the...

Lest We Repeat

Posted on September 11, 2008
On the seventh anniversary of the 9/11/01 attack on America, we must remember those who died that awful day. Just as importantly, we must remember the mistakes that made us vulnerable so that we do not repeat them. Many of...

More on the Hood Case

Posted on September 10, 2008
The strange case of Texas murderer Charles Dean Hood is mentioned, with links to blog and news coverage, in today's Blog Scan and News Scan. The decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is here. The court denies the...

The KKK and the SoL

Posted on September 10, 2008
Last year, former Klansman James Ford Seale was convicted in federal court of kidnapping Henry Dee and Charles Moore in 1964. The victims were not only kidnapped, they were killed, but murder as such is not a federal offense. One...

Blog Scan

Posted on September 10, 2008
Execution Delayed: Dan Slater at the Wall Street Journal Law Blog posted this morning on the postponed execution of Charles Dean Hood. Our News Scan has the link to the AP story. Yesterday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted...

News Scan

Posted on September 10, 2008
Texas Death Row Inmate Gets Execution Postponed: AP writer, Schuyler Dixon, reports that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals postponed Charles Dean Hood's execution, scheduled for Wednesday, because it wanted to reconsider whether the jury instructions were flawed...

Ohio's New Self-Defense Law

Posted on September 09, 2008
Yesterday, Cleveland's Plain Dealer Politics Blog had this post from Reginald Fields. The post discusses SB184, Ohio's new "Castle Doctrine" law. The law creates a rebuttable presumption that person acts in self-defense when he uses force against someone who...

Is Crime Off the Voters' Radar?

Posted on September 09, 2008
We haven't heard much about crime in the present election campaign. Does that means it's off the voters' radar screen? Maybe. In this WaPo/ABC survey, voters are asked what is the single most important issue (question 5), and crime isn't...

News Scan

Posted on September 09, 2008
Wales Has The Third Highest Rate Of Violent Crime In The World, according to a story written by David James from the Western Mail. Alcohol-fuelled fights in Welsh towns and city centres has been a primary cause. Only England and...

New Briefing on Capital Child Rape Case

Posted on September 09, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court has asked for additional briefing on the rehearing petition in the capital child rape case decided in June, Kennedy v. Louisiana. This is most unusual. Rehearing petitions in cases decided after full briefing and argument are...

SCOTUS Argument Calendar, Criminal & Related

Posted on September 08, 2008
Here are the criminal and related cases for the October, November, and December calendars of the U.S. Supreme Court. The link in the case number for each case is to the docket, which in turn has a link to the...

News Scan

Posted on September 08, 2008
U.S. Sentencing Panel to Focus On Alternatives to Jail: According to a story written by Gary Fields from the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. sentencing panel plans to focus on developing alternatives to incarceration, setting up a possible clash with...

News Scan

Posted on September 05, 2008
A California ballot measure that purports to help drug offenders is being opposed by virtually every law enforcement organization in the state. Proposition 5, The Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act of 2008 (NORA) allows drug users arrested for "non-violent" felonies including...

Texas AG Supports Inquiry Before Execution

Posted on September 05, 2008
From an article by Diane Jennings in the Dallas Morning News: The Texas attorney general's office on Thursday took the unusual step of joining the defense in saying that death row inmate Charles Dean Hood should not die until after...

Blog Scan

Posted on September 05, 2008
No Action in Kennedy v. Louisiana: Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog reports that while the Supreme Court issued its final round of summer recess orders today, there was "no action announced" on whether it would reconsider Kennedy v. Louisiana. The State....

Blog Scan

Posted on September 04, 2008
Supreme Court to Review Cert. Petition on "Victim Impact Evidence": Over the weekend, Ben Winograd at SCOTUSblog put up this post on Kelly v. California (07-11073), a capital case the Supreme Court will examine during its opening conference at the...

Demonstrations in St. Paul

Posted on September 04, 2008
The WSJ has this article by T. W. Farnam on "demonstrations" aimed at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. Although I didn't think so at first, on reflection I believe that "demonstration" is the correct word. These people have...

News Scan

Posted on September 04, 2008
Detroit Mayor Pleads Guilty And Agrees To Resign: According to a story in today's New York Times by Susan Saulny, the mayor of Detroit, Kwame M. Kilpatrick, 38, has pleaded guilty and agreed to resign this morning after months of...

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