https://elcomercio.pe/mundo/latinoamerica/elecciones-mexico-2018-vivo-amlo-gana-elecciones-nuevo-presidente-noticia-531892 La población mexicana al año 2018 (estimado) es de 123 millones de habitantes, según la nota que comparto de ese total siete millones de mexicanos viven en pobreza extrema, es decir un poco más del 6% de su población total, recuerdo este dato porqué en el Perú con la cuarta parte de la población mexicana se tiene a más de seis millones viviendo en pobreza extrema, si los datos no son ciertos por favor CORREGIRME. En el siguiente enlace que data del año 2012, existían casi cinco millones de peruanos en extrema pobreza lo que significa, porcentualmente hablando, más o menos el 16% de la población total peruana. El asunto se agrava muchísimo más cuando pensamos no en el resultado frío de los números, casi siempre ocultando verdades…
MANUEL ANDRÉS LOPEZ OBRADOR - México y el Perú
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Expanded Forgiveness of a Criminal Conviction
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to participate in a national roundtable, sponsored by the American Law Institute and National Conference of State Legislatures, on current and possible approaches to relieving the consequences of a criminal conviction. We considered three basic approaches: “forgetting” convictions by expunging them or limiting access to information about them; “forgiving” convictions through, among other things, certificates of relief, also known as certificates of rehabilitation; and “forgoing” convictions by diverting matters before conviction or decriminalizing them altogether. In its recently-completed legislative session, the North Carolina General Assembly expanded the forgiveness approach by making it easier to get a certificate of relief. Read on for more about this relatively new relief mechanism. If you’re interested in approaches elsewhere, the papers submitted by the various scholars and practitioners…
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Crespo on The Hidden Law of Plea Bargaining
Andrew Manuel Crespo (Harvard Law School) has posted The Hidden Law of Plea Bargaining (Columbia Law Review, Vol. 118, No. 5, 2018) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The American criminal justice system is a system of pleas. Few who...
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Poema a la muerte pensando en la vida
No quiero morir Es un asunto muy austero dictamen de un fiscal idiota, de un juez implacable y severo. No quiero morir Es misterio por revelar o el último paso cubriendo el sendero recorrido en un suspiro del tiempo. No quiero morir tampoco ser eterno, es el juego de Mefistófeles, arrogante, cadavérico, de bruñida Esmeralda en sus manos leprosas recogiendo los pedazos verdes arrancados de su cuerpo, pues verde es su cerebro, también su destino. No quiero morir El hambre no es la receta menos aún la abundancia o la anarquía del sexo, ni el estiércol de la diplomacia afilando sus garras, exigiendo democracia, paladín supremo de los sin patria. No quiero morir Sin haber nacido. 03 de julio de 2018 José Guillermo Anderson Anderson Los derechos son del sr humano.
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Big new Australian study throws cold water on marijuana as an effective pain reliever
The huge 2017 National Academies of Sciences report titled "The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: The Current State of Evidence and Recommendations for Research" came to this encouraging conclusion in Chapter 4 of the report concerning the medicinal potential of marijuana: "There is substantial evidence that cannabis is an...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarijuanaLaw/~4/q70C_t8VGnE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
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"Study after study shows ex-prisoners would be better off without intense supervision"
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Annual DUI Study Ranks Suburbs For DUI Arrests
It’s that time of the year again. The Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists has released its annual study that keeps track of DUI arrests throughout Illinois. Once again, Rockford and Elgin top the list of towns in Illinois reporting the most DUI arrests in 2017. In 2017, Rockford reported 490 DUI arrests compared to 459 in 2016. The 2017 figures represent a 6.8% increase over the 2016 DUI arrest figures. Elgin came in second with a total of 418 DUI arrests in 2017. Elgin had 365 DUI arrest in 2016, a 14.5% increase over 2017. Every year, Schaumburg based Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists sends out surveys to roughly 700 police departments throughout the State of Illinois. Most of the police agencies respond to the surveys and the Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists releases the figures for DUI arrests throughout all of the cities and towns in Illinois and gives us a picture of which towns are more aggressive when it comes to DUI arrests. The lengthy list of DUI…
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Two interesting takes on the Catholic faith and criminal justice by two persons newly prominently in political discourse
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Record Expungement Can Change Your Life: What You Need to Know
It could be something that’s been looming over your head for years. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t change things as they stand. Depending on the circumstances, record expungement can change your life. And, absolutely for the better. Consider the case of Maria Alvarez. She was dating a guy who asked her to come along on an adventure. When the escapade turned into breaking into a house, Maria was more than a little scared. She was charged with burglary. For whatever reason, the prosecutor decided to make her an example. Maria was not offered any kind of deal. Instead, a jury found her guilty of burglary charges. Fortunately, her sentence was suspended. That said, Maria has a criminal record as a result of a stupid mistake. By the time Maria went to trial, she already dropped the boyfriend who got her into trouble. Since the judge imposed probation instead of imprisonment, Maria complied with his mandate. At the same time, she completed…
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Study: Bad cops immune to criticism, need greater oversight, accountability
At Texas Standard, we find a report on a new study by Shefali Patil out of the UT-Austin business school proclaiming that police accountability activism causes liberal cops to become dispirited and do a lesser job than their conservative colleagues.Basically, Dr. Patil and her researchers created four datasets: 1) They surveyed 164 officers at two agencies, then 2) had veteran police managers review body cam footage from those officers and score them. 3) They examined supervisors' ratings of 82 officers across four agencies. And 4) they ran a "time-lagged survey of 184 officers in a single agency."Leaving aside the small sample sizes described there, and the VERY small sample sizes from which the opinions of subsets of officers would be drawn, as it turns out, the peculiar definitions of "liberal" and "conservative" may underlie the conclusions in this study. Here's what they were measuring when they say "liberal" and…
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The New Predatory Sexual Assault Charges Against Weinstein Are Shrewdly Tactical
The New York District Attorney’s Office recently announced that a Manhattan grand jury has indicted Harvey Weinstein for additional sexual assault charges relating to a third complainant. Specifically, Mr. Weinstein is facing an additional charge of Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree (Penal Law Section 130.50). Mr. Weinstein was already facing a charge of Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree based upon the allegation that he had forced a different woman to perform oral sex upon him against her will, and a separate count of Rape in the First Degree for allegedly raping a second complainant. Interestingly, he is also now facing two counts of Predatory Sexual Assault (Penal Law Section 130.95). These new charges significantly alter the forecast for Mr. Weinstein and seriously hamper his defense for tactical reasons discussed below. Predatory Sexual Assault charges are very serious Class A-II felonies. They carry mandatory minimum prison sentences of ten years in…
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Fagan & Geller on Police, Race, and the Production of Capital Homicide
Jeffrey Fagan and Amanda Geller (Columbia Law School and NYU Department of Sociology) has posted Police, Race, and the Production of Capital Homicides on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Racial disparities in capital punishment have been well documented for decades....
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Complainants Are Used To Being Coddled
Complainants are coddled by police who arrive at the scene. They are coddled by the victim rights advocates who step in to shepherd them through the system. And they are coddled by the prosecutors who prepare them to... Read More
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Crash Blocks Interstate 84 Near Eden
IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE - generated by our News Release ListServer DO NOT REPLY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE District 4 Patrol 218 West Yakima, Jerome, ID 83338-5904 (208) 324-6000 Fax (208) 324-7897 For Immediate Release: 7/3/2018 at 10:49 a.m. Please direct questions to the District Office Idaho State Police is on scene of a crash eastbound Interstate 84 at milepost 187, near Eden. The eastbound and westbound lanes of Interstate 84 are blocked at this time. 3725 -------------
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Obstruction of Justice Penalties in Minnesota
You probably have a rudimentary understanding of what the term “obstruction of justice” encompasses, but what does it really mean, and how is the charge handled in Minnesota? We explore answers the those questions and more in today’s blog on obstruction of justice in Minnesota. Obstruction of Justice in Minnesota Obstruction of justice is defined in Minnesota Statute 609.50, which states that an individual is guilty of obstruction of justice if they “obstruct, hinder, or prevent the lawful execution of any legal process, civil or criminal, or apprehension of another on a charge or conviction of a criminal offense.” The law is open to interpretation, and because of this, there are many ways in which obstruction of justice can occur. Here’s an example of some of the more common ways a person can obstruct justice, but this is by no means a comprehensive list: Interfering with a crime scene. Lying to a police officer during an interaction or…
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The Border “Crisis”: It’s About Child Protection, Not Family Separation
Across the United States there are courts established that deal on a daily basis with the nearly 438,000 American children in foster care. These children have been “separated” from their families for a myriad of reasons. The children have been the victims of abuse and neglect, sometimes inflicted by their parents or caretakers that the […]
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Avoid a DUI This Fourth of July Weekend
In California, drunk driving arrests tend to spike in the summer, particularly on and around certain holidays. The Fourth of July is no exception. In 2016, more than 1,110 drivers across the state were arrested on suspicion of DUI on the Fourth of July. That same night, at least 35 fatalities were tied to drunk […]
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State Department’s 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report Stresses Role of Local Communities in Combating Human Trafficking
Last week, the U.S. State Department released its annual Trafficking in Persons report for 2018. This year’s report stresses the importance of understanding human trafficking from a local perspective, and outlines community-based initiatives to combat the practice. The report puts forward a cross-cutting framework for cooperation among multiple stakeholders. In particular, cooperation must take place vertically between, national, regional, and local governments, and horizontally between law enforcement officials, service providers, and other key stakeholders, such as NGOs. According to the report, the most comprehensive model for community-based action would also involve the following steps: Conducting assessments of the nature and scope of the problem (How many potential victims are there? What demographic is most affected? What are the underlying socioeconomic factors fueling the human trafficking problem in the community?) Raising awareness on victim…
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Minnesota’s Revenge Porn Law: A Recent Decision
Minnesota’s Revenge Porn Law We have previously written about challenges to Minnesota’s revenge porn law based on the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech and expression. We recognized in our earlier posts that, at least as of now, there have not been any decisions from either the Minnesota Supreme Court nor the Minnesota Court of Appeals addressing the potential First Amendment problems associated with Minnesota’s revenge porn law. Nevertheless, we believe there is a compelling case that Minnesota’s revenge porn law suffers from constitutional infirmity. In other words, it is likely that Minnesota’s revenge porn law cannot withstand constitutional scrutiny. Recent Decision in Dakota County Recently, a district court judge in Dakota County came to a different conclusion. Because the case is still pending, and because the defendant in that case enjoys the presumption of innocence until and unless the prosecutions satisfies its burden of…
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Arafa on Islamic Criminal Law
Mohamed A. Arafa (Alexandria University - Faculty of Law) has posted Islamic Criminal Law: The Divine Criminal Justice System between Lacuna and Possible Routes (2 Journal of Forensic and Crime Studies 102 (Spring 2018)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:...
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