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"To Catch A Predator" Has Caught 300 In 12 Stings

Posted on April 18, 2008
Source: Crime & Justice News "The investigative NBC series "To Catch a Predator" has caught flak from civil libertarian critics, but it gets cheers on at least one college campus. The Kansas State Collegian says "Predator" host Chris Hansen got a standing ovation from a packed ballroom when he spoke at the university this week...

NYC Bell Shooting Case Will Be Decided Next Week

Posted on April 18, 2008
Source:Crime & Justice News "The judge hearing New York City's Sean Bell shooting case, in which police fired 50 shots to kill a man about to be married, will issue his decision next Friday, says the New York Times. The case often is compared with the 1999 shooting in which four officers killed Amadou Diallo in a hail of 41 bullets in the Bronx...

New York Appellate Criminal Cases Originating from New York County

Posted on April 18, 2008
In order to comply with subscription agreements you will need to use your own Westlaw password to view cases listed below: 1. People v. Giordano2008 WL 1745557, 2008 N.Y. Slip Op. 03385(N.Y.A.D. 1 Dept. Apr 17, 2008) (NO. 3408, 2400/05)Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York (Jae Woo Park of counsel), for appellant...

LAW.COM Newswire Highlights

Posted on April 18, 2008
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New York Law Journal Lead Articles

Posted on April 18, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to New York Law Journal you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed Click here to go to www.nylj.com Plea Upset Over Failure to Advise On Length of Felon's Supervision Subscription Required 'Crawford' Error Forces New Trial Subscription Required New Parole Hearing Ordered for 'Model' Inmate Subscription Required Lawyers' Benefits Revoked in Pension Probe Subscription Required Free: Court of Appeals Visits the Bronx Correction Subscription Required Newsbriefs Subscription Required

New York Law Journal Decisions of Interest

Posted on April 18, 2008
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More on Baze v. Rees

Posted on April 17, 2008
We have just received the following commentary on the U.S. Supreme Court opinion, Baze v. Rees from the ABA Criminal Justice Section: A six month de facto nationwide moratorium on executions will likely cease due to the 7-2 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold ?s method of execution by lethal injection...

Are 23 Special Police Work Holidays Too Many?

Posted on April 17, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 14, 2008. "Until recently, police officers in Malverne, N.Y., could get extra paid days off working on Child Health Day, Gerald Ford Day, Gold Star Mother's Day, and Shirley Chisholm Day. Newsday says the police unioin is fighting a decision to stop the perk and deny officers hundreds of paid days off...

Cleveland Prosecutor, Clinic Seek Crime-Medical Laboratory

Posted on April 17, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 17, 2008. "State and local officials plan to build a major crime and medical lab near downtown Cleveland, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Analysts would pore over DNA and crime scene evidence while Cleveland Clinic technicians examine tissue samples to help diagnose and treat diseases...

Second Mistrial in Miami Terror Plot Case

Posted on April 17, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 17, 2008. "Confronted with a second mistrial, federal prosecutors must now decide whether to seek a third trial for a Miami group accused of plotting with al Qaeda to blow up federal buildings in an insurrection against the U...

Memphis Anticrime Fight To Focus On Domestic Violence

Posted on April 17, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 17, 2007. "In the deadliest homicide case in Memphis's modern history, police said Jessie Dotson, 33, killed six people -- including his brother, two nephews, and two women last month. The incident was classified as domestic homicide because of the intimate relationship between the killer and the victims, says the Memphis Commercial Appeal...

Maryland High Court Exands Legal Definition of Rape

Posted on April 17, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 17, 2008. "Maryland's highest court ruled that a man can be charged with rape if he ignores a woman's calls to stop - even if she had previously consented to sex, the Baltimore Sun reports. With this expanded legal definition of rape, Maryland joins seven other states whose courts have determined that a woman can revoke her consent after intercourse begins...

Police Recruiters Nationwide Descend On New York City

Posted on April 17, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 17, 2008. "Dozens of out-of-town police departments will try today to lure recruits at a job fair at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice by promising far higher starting salaries than the New York Police Department offers, says the New York Daily News...

Critics Urge More HIV Screening for Prisoners

Posted on April 17, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 17, 2007. "Some inmates leave prison with a weapon potentially more dangerous than the crime that put them there: the virus that causes AIDS, says the Raleigh News & Observer. Some have no idea they're sick...

Federal Officials Move to Collect DNA From Arestees, Detained Immigrants

Posted on April 17, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 17, 2008. "Federal officials propose to start collecting DNA samples from all citizens arrested in connection with any federal crime and from many immigrants detained by federal authorities, says the Washington Post...

After Lethal Injection Case: More Executions, More Litigation

Posted on April 17, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 17, 2008. "Executions in Texas, Alabama, and other Southern states with large death rows are likely to resume soon because of yesterday's Supreme Court's decision upholding Kentucky's method of putting condemned prisoners to death, says the New York Times...

The Death of Google?

Posted on April 17, 2008
Source: Grok on Google, April 17, 2008. "Puzzled tech analysts are beginning to ask the unimaginable: is Google?s historic run finally over?" The Death of Google? "The numbers don?t look promising. Google?s U.S. paid click-throughs ? to be sure, its bread and butter revenue-generator ? may rise by just two percent in the first quarter, according to Henry Blodget at Silicon Alley Insider, citing proprietary ComScore data...

Yahoo to Take on Google Analytics

Posted on April 17, 2008
Source: Grok on Google, April 17, 2008. Yahoo to Take on Google Analytics"Having seen Google set up their Google Analytics product for free, Yahoo has decided to do the same thing -- by buying someone else and releasing it into the wild for free...

Google Comes Knocking In Search of Hidden Data

Posted on April 17, 2008
Source: Grok on Google, April 17, 2008. Google Comes Knocking In Search Of Hidden Data"By crawling using HTML forms (and abiding by robots.txt), Google claims it leads search engine users to documents that otherwise would not be easily found -- but privacy concerns remain...

NLRB Denies Unions' Unilateral Right To Use Company E-Mail

Posted on April 17, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 11, 2008. NLRB denies unions' unilateral right to use company e-mailFulbright & Jaworski LLP April 11 2008"The National Labor Relations Board has long been clear that unions and employees lack a statutory right to use company phones and bulletin boards to organize...

American Journalist Uses Twitter To Break Out of Egyptian Jail

Posted on April 17, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, April 17, 2008. American Journalist Uses Twitter To Bust Out Of Egyptian Jail "As Egyptian police were descending on UC Berkeley graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, he had time to send just one word to his friends on Twitter: "ARRESTED...

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Common Method of Lethal Injections

Posted on April 16, 2008
Source: Law.com Newswire Highlights, April 16, 2008. Supreme Court Upholds Common Method of Lethal Injections That Uses 3 Drugs to Kill InmatesThe Associated Press"The Supreme Court upheld the most common method of lethal injection executions Wednesday, likely clearing the way to resume executions in the U...

ABAJournal.Com Needs Your Help

Posted on April 16, 2008
The ABA Journal has been nominated for the Internet's most prestigious honor. And we need your help to win. ABAJournal.com is one of five nominees for a Webby Award in the Law category. Described by the New York Times as the "Oscars of the Internet," the Webby Awards are judged by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, and received almost 10,000 entries this year...

Employment Opportunities: Systems Librarians, National Library of Medicine

Posted on April 16, 2008
Systems Librarian (Announcement # HHS/NIH-2008-1755) National Library of Medicine: Public Service Division, Library Operations Bethesda, Maryland The National Library of Medicine's Public Services Division is recruiting librarians with an aptitude and enthusiasm for providing health information to our users in the Library and around the world...

"The Best Way to Fight a Burglar is to Think Like One"

Posted on April 16, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 16, 2008. "The best way to fight a burglar is to think like one, says the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Las Vegas police crime prevention specialists visit homes to offer customized recommendations for making it more burglar-proof...

Memphis Starts Real Time Crime Center

Posted on April 16, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, April 16, 2008. "The Memphis Police Department's latest crime- fighting tool looks like a wide-screen movie, says the Memphis Commercial Appeal. The images that move along the wall-to-wall screens are from cameras spread throughout the city to catch criminals and thwart terrorists...

Faulty Lineup ID Cited in Another Dallas DNA Exoneration

Posted on April 16, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 16, 2008. "A Dallas judge today is expected to to recommend Thomas McGowan's release after agreeing that new genetic evidence proves he could not have committed a 1985 rape and burglary that sent him to prison for life, the Dallas Morning News reports...

National Gun Control Demonstrations To Be Held Today

Posted on April 16, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 16, 2008. "In groups of 32, protesters around the nation will lie on the ground for three minutes today to protest gun laws they say are too lax, says the Raleigh News & Observer. This will occur at least 80 times in 33 states...

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Kentucky Lethal Injections

Posted on April 16, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 16, 2008. "The Supreme Court today upheld Kentucky's lethal injection executions, the Associated Press reports. the ruling is expected to clear the way to resume executions that have been on hold for nearly 8 months...

Identity Theft Victim's Civil Rights Claims Ruled Not of Constitutional Dimension

Posted on April 16, 2008
SourceLexology, April 16, 2008 Identity theft victim?s civil rights claims against state agency ruled not of constitutional dimensionThelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner"An identity theft victim?s federal civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against a state agency that posted her social security number and other personal information on a public Web site is not cognizable because the victim?s right to informational privacy does not implicate fundamental constitutional rights...

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