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Selected Worldwide Criminal Law News and Blog Alerts from Google

By David Badertscher, PLL

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Source: Google News Alert Service, September 2, 2009.

NEWS:

A $2.3 billion fine? That's hitting a mule with a 2×4
Atlanta Journal Constitution
You think the trial lawyers don't have a clue about the criminal mischief being perpetrated? And could easily put a stop to it? You libs have absolutely no ...
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Brit inventor wants prison for patent crims
Register
... of the wind-up radio is calling on the UK government to toughen its stance on patent law, by making intellectual property theft a criminal offence. ...
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The Ominous Message of the Lockerbie Bomber's Release
FOXNews
These exceptional stipulations for "compassionate release", when applicable, are designed for criminal cases where one person killed another individual ...
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Tiananmen Repercussions Continue
OpEdNews
Under the Criminal Procedure Law of China, Zhou should have been given a trial by August 27, 2009. There is no word of any such proceeding having occurred ...
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BLOGS:

What To Look For in the Coming Term ? a Brief Preview of the ...
By Bidish J. Sarma
"Though new themes may emerge as the Court grants more Petitions early in the term, the Court is set to make key decisions in the follow areas of constitutional criminal law and procedure: Prophylactic Rules to Protect ... Massachusetts, an opinion which created a stir among prosecutors, Justice Scalia built upon his landmark Crawford opinion to explain that defendants cannot be denied the right to confront those individuals who create the lab reports in State crime labs. ..."
A Criminal Enterprise - http://acriminalenterprise.wordpress.com/

Jonathan Mitchell QC >> Compassionate release in Scotland: the ...
By JM
"The full policy is in this Scottish Prisons Service circular of June 2005. The general principles are in paragraph 4, which was quoted in Kenny Macaskill's statement. It will be seen that it is a condition that there are specific arrangements ... As another comparison, French law has since the law of 4 March 2002 (Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 720.1.1) provided for compassionate release ?regardless of the nature of the sentence or the portion remaining to be served ..."
Jonathan Mitchell QC - http://www.jonathanmitchell.info/

Review of ?Reversible Errors? by Scott Turow « Rhapsodyinbooks's ...
By rhapsodyinbooks
"Arthur Raven, a partner at a large, prosperous law firm, is enlisted by a federal appellate court to represent a black man scheduled to be executed in 33 days for a heinous murder of three people in a popular Greek restaurant near DuSable Field (read ?Midway ... Even more unusual is for depositions taken a decade after the crime to elicit important information, but it is all plausible in this narration.] Turow's knowledge of criminal procedure comes in handy here. ..."
Rhapsodyinbooks's Weblog - http://rhapsodyinbooks.wordpress.com/

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