CA - California Woman Gets Life For Severing Husband's Penis
Catherine Kieu Becker Original Article 06/28/2013 SANTA ANA (AP) - A California woman who cut off her husband's penis and threw it in a garbage disposal has been sentenced to life in prison with...
View ArticleIdiot Wind*
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="arial">Two posts went up at two blogs yesterday, apparently without knowledge by either writer that the other would be writing on the same subject. One was by...
View ArticleYour Call Is Very...
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">Marketing philosopher <a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/06/your-call-is-very-important-to-us.html" target="">Seth...
View ArticleDC - Supreme Court to Decide What a Child Porn Image Is Worth
Original Article 06/28/2013 By Mark Kernes WASHINGTON - Child pornography, of course, is against the law, but that hasn't prevented millions of people from posting such material on the internet, nor...
View ArticleAUSTRALIA - Can you rehabilitate a rapist?
Original Article 06/28/2013 By ROSEMARIE MILSOM IT is not a job that many of us seek. Newcastle sexologist Vanessa Thompson treats about 15 convicted sex offenders; some are to be sentenced; others...
View ArticleNY - Senate passes bill to close sex offender loophole
Original Article Just another useless law. Something a politician can put his name on to look "tough" on ex-sex offenders. It's already a crime to report an invalid address on the registry, so this is...
View ArticleNYT: Bloomberg Says Math Backs Police Stops of Minorities
NYT: Bloomberg Says Math Backs Police Stops of Minorities by David W. Chen: Ratcheting up the rhetoric over New York City’s stop-and-frisk police practices, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said on Friday...
View ArticleNYT: Secret Court Declassifies Yahoo’s Role in Disclosure Fight
NYT: Secret Court Declassifies Yahoo’s Role in Disclosure Fight by Claire Cain Miller and Nicole Perlroth: [...] Read more!
View ArticleWaPo: Don’t let DOMA fool you — the Supreme Court is restricting your rights
WaPo: Don’t let DOMA fool you — the Supreme Court is restricting your rights by David Cole, discussing, inter alia, Clapper and the denial of the right to sue over potential Fourth Amendment violations...
View ArticleHuffPo: Restore The Fourth: Group Organizes Nationwide Anti-NSA Spying...
HuffPo: Restore The Fourth: Group Organizes Nationwide Anti-NSA Spying Protests On July 4 (video): [...] Read more!
View ArticleCovey on Plea Bargaining Law after Lafler and Frye
Russell D. Covey (Georgia State University College of Law) has posted Plea-Bargaining Law after Lafler and Frye (Duquesne University Law Review, Vol. 51, 2013) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In...
View ArticleDrones in the news today
Denver Post editorial: Police drones and privacy concerns. The Hill: New Jersey considers anti-drone legislation by Carlo Muñoz: New Jersey lawmakers, on Friday, joined 42 other state legislatures in...
View ArticleIA: Extending stop that should have ended made it unreasonable
Defendant was pulled over as a possible “tired or impaired driver.” During the stop, however, it was apparent defendant was neither. Dragging out the stop to ask for consent made it unreasonable. State...
View ArticleIA: Defense counsel ineffective for overlooking valid motion to suppress
Defense counsel overlooked a valid motion to suppress, and that’s prejudice. Conviction reversed and remanded. A motion was filed, but denied by the trial court as untimely. [Why couldn't the trial...
View ArticlePerfumed perpetrator wouldn't get ticket under new Texas statute
Don't know how I missed this 2011 Austin story, but if you did too, check out this TV news report about a girl given a Class C misdemeanor ticket in school for allegedly disrupting class by wearing too...
View ArticleALERT - Professional Survey Request: Registrant Compliance Checks
Original Article 06/29/2013 Dear Potential Participant, My name is Nicole Pittman and I am a national expert on the harmful application of sex offender registration and notification laws to children....
View ArticleInjury Crash on Bogus Basin Road
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View ArticleBut For Video: This Won't Hurt (Me) A Bit
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="arial">There are two things about rights that make them special. First is you get to exercise them without penalty. Second, if they're violated, there...
View ArticleAngeblicher „Zuhälter“ freigesprochen
Die Liste der Anklage war lang: Zuhälterei, Raub, räuberische Erpressung und Körperverletzung wurden dem 23-Jährigen vorgeworfen. Er soll eine 21-jährige Rumänin mittels Gewalt und Todesdrohungen zur...
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