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Crime and Justice Related News from the New York Times

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NYTimes.com, April 3, 2009.

Judge Rules Some Prisoners at Bagram Have Right of Habeas Corpus

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

A federal judge ruled that some prisoners held by the United States military in Afghanistan have a right to challenge their imprisonment.

 

Early Alarm for Church on Abusers in the Clergy

By LAURIE GOODSTEIN

Warnings dating to 1952 contradict Catholic bishops? defense that they did not know pedophile priests could not be rehabilitated and returned to the ministry.

 

U.S. Delays Decision on Interrogation Memos

By SCOTT SHANE

Published: April 3, 2009

The Justice Department postponed for two more weeks a decision on whether to make public legal opinions from 2005 justifying harsh interrogation methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency.

 

Lawyers Delve Deep Into Minds of Jury Pool in Astor Son?s Trial

By JOHN ELIGON

Published: April 3, 2009

A 10-page questionnaire seeks details of the lives and attitudes of people who will decide whether Anthony D. Marshall looted his mother?s estate.

 

2-Month String of Bank Robberies Was a Family Affair, the Police Say

By AL BAKER

Published: April 3, 2009

Wojecich and Michael Sikorski, brothers from Linden, N.J., are in police custody, one in New York, the other in Texas. They are accused in 15 robberies.

 

New York Region

Embattled Chief Leaves Police Review Board

By CHRISTINE HAUSER

Published: April 3, 2009

The chairwoman, Franklin H. Stone, resigned from the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which critics say is not living up to its mission to investigate allegations of police misconduct.

 

EDITORIAL:

Mr. Holder and the Ted Stevens Case

The Justice Department should get to the bottom of what went wrong with the Ted Stevens case and subject other cases that have raised red flags to similar scrutiny.

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on April 03, 2009 (boomark / email).