Sekhon on Punitive Injunctions
Nirej Sekhon (Georgia State University College of Law) has posted Punitive Injunctions (U. Penn. J. L. & Soc. Change, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In theory, courts are only supposed...
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OK - Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling may result in removal of hundreds of names...
Original Article 06/26/2013 By Randy Ellis Names of convicted sex offenders may be removed from the state's list of registered sex offenders as the result of Tuesday's state Supreme Court ruling....
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FL - "Brittany's law" to take effect July 1st
Original Article 06/25/2013 By Brittany Jones TALLAHASSEE - Sex offenders and predators may have to spend more time in jail before they're released. Florida's new "Brittany's law," requires a judge to...
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NY - Former Troy cop's (Patrick Rosney) sex case on hold
Patrick Rosney Original Article 06/26/2013 By Bob Gardinier QUEENS - The sentencing of a former Troy police sergeant arrested a year ago in a sting for sending sexual material to a minor over the...
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NY - Sex offender ban won’t increase safety
Shana Rowan Original Article 06/26/2013 By Shana Rowan (Blog, USA Fair Inc.) It was with great disappointment that I read MPNnow.com blogger Jeffrey Arnold’s suggestion that readers contact their state...
View Article"Texas carries out 500th execution with Kimberly McCarthy"
The title of this post is the headline of this new AP article, which gets started this way: Texas marked a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday evening, executing its 500th inmate since it...
View Article"Second Circuit Suggests That the Plain View Exception Should Be Applied...
Orin Kerr has this post at The Volokh Conspiracy. In part: [T]he Second Circuit appears to be saying that there is some sort of heightened standard for when an agent is allowed to conduct a search...
View ArticleSentence is said to be severe
In this drug offense, petitioner was a 21 year old heroin addict. On September 18th, two agents of the Sheriff's Department of Louisiana, accompanied by a paid informant, and encountered petitioner....
View ArticleInjury Crash SB SH3 @86.2 St. Maries
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TN - Former DOJ attorney (Karl Gellert) sentenced for sex crime
Original Article 06/26/2013 By Caleb Whitmer A former Justice Department attorney was sentenced June 21 in U.S. District Court in Nashville for attempting to entice a minor into sexual activity. Karl...
View ArticleTexas Conducts 500th Post-Furman Execution
Texas carried out its eighth execution of 2013; the 500th post-Furman Texas execution since 1982. Texas is responsible for more than 37% of the nation's post-Furman executions. "Texas carries out its...
View ArticleNumbersL 1338, 500, 2, 180
Of course, it's just a number. You know, like 7 or 12 or 365 or 3.14159 or 714 or 56 or 511 or 186,000 or . . . . And maybe you can figure out what those numbers all mean. Because they're just...
View ArticleKansas City Personal Injury Attorneys Do Far More Than Most People Realize
Most people know that Kansas City personal injury attorneys work to obtain fair compensation for their clients, but that is about all they know about the process. Car and motorcycle accidents,...
View ArticleKansas City Personal Injury Attorneys Protect Those Injured in Slip-and-Fall...
When you suffer injuries after a slip-and-fall accident caused by property owner negligence, a Kansas City personal injury attorney will protect your legal rights and pursue justice. These types of...
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Rachel Jeantel: Court Antics and How Martin Profiled Zimmerman
Rachel Jeantel was a train wreck as a witness. She did not help the state's case. She exposed the manipulations of Team Crump. She was impeached on a few significant matters (see below the fold.) And...
View ArticleSince the GOP was so troubled by ATF's work in Fast & Furious, will they...
Though perceived and perhaps intended as a political witch-hunt, the investigation by the GOP-led House of Representatives into the Fast & Furious program reveals some of the ugly realities of how...
View ArticleNews Roundup
Pardon the brevity of this week’s roundup. I’m at a conference today and my blogging capacity is limited. But there were several important and interesting stories this week: 1. Prosecutors are asking...
View ArticleATF uses fake drugs, big bucks to snare suspects
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has locked up more than 1,000 people by enticing them to rob drug stash houses that did not exist, reports USA Today. Read more..
View ArticleUS judge tosses gun conviction against Buju Banton
A federal judge in Florida has tossed a 2011 gun conviction against Buju Banton after concluding that a juror did independent research into the case during the Jamaican reggae star’s trial. Read more..
View ArticleThis Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories
A Wisconsin cop and a Washington cop face justice for their pervy behavior, and a New Mexico jail guard and a Georgia cop get in trouble over marijuana. Let’s get to it.. Read more..
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