Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads
in criminal law and procedure ejournals are here. The usual disclaimers apply. RankDownloadsPaper Title 1 327 A Daubert Analysis of Abusive Head Trauma/Shaken Baby Syndrome — Part II: An Examination of...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Judicial Support
Ethical question: if you think that a judge might be corrupt, but that the corruption can never be detected or prosecuted, do you join in his corruption for the good of your clients? Or do you avoid it...
View ArticleDo deterrence concerns justify four death sentences in India for gang rape or...
The question in the title of this post is prompted by this New York Times review of the recent sentencing for four rapist and the broader problems of sexual violence in India. The piece is headlined...
View ArticleEmpty Gestures and Photo Ops
Fifty years ago today they bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four little girls were killed.I've written about that twice before, though neither time was the bombing (a...
View ArticleArlington PD launching steroid testing after latest scandal
Earlier this year, Grits opined that it was, "Time for comprehensive steroid testing at Arlington PD," and now, reported the Fort Worth Star-Telegram ("Arlington police will undergo random drug...
View ArticleCalifornia Roundup
"Court overturns conviction, death penalty of Hector Ayala," is the AP report, via KGTV-TV. A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction and death penalty of a man for three San Diego murders,...
View ArticleVariety of Drugs Discovered in Ann Arbor Defense Attorney's Apartment
In early August, we wrote about an Ann Arbor defense attorney who had been charged with sexual assault. Now, the former Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority member will face drug charges as well as...
View ArticleBay City Man Pleads No Contest to Third-Degree CSC, Sentenced to Maximum of...
On Monday September 16, 41-year-old Chad D. Winters of Bay City was sentenced to no more than one year in jail after pleading no contest to a single count of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. In...
View ArticleBusy, Busy, Busy
Back when I worked for the federal government, there were some employees who were really, really busy. You knew this because their offices were a mess. Their telephones were no longer accepting...
View ArticlePolice Asking for Help Identifying Streaker, Getaway Driver
Football players from Stillwater and Cretin-Derham Hall were excited about the national exposure they would receive when they learned ESPN would broadcast their Friday night matchup on ESPN2. They...
View ArticleCook County Judge Reverses Herself Dismissing Unlawful Use of a Weapon Charge
A Cook County judge reversed herself on Monday, dismissing weapons charges against a Chicago man who had been stopped for speeding and informed the officer that he was carrying a loaded pistol in his...
View ArticleTraffic Ticket Do’s And Don’t’s
The light is yellow and you are late for work. The boss is rather unforgiving type, so you blow through the light, and the red and white lights begin flashing. “Pull over”, you hear. Now you are...
View ArticleLamar Odom arrested for DUI in California. Colorado DUI process not dissimilar.
CBS News reports that NBA Star Lamar Odom was recently arrested for DUI in California: "The former Los Angeles Laker and Clipper was arrested by the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in the early morning...
View ArticleFatal Three Car Crash in South Carolina; Likely Due to Alcohol
According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, an investigation of a deadly crash Saturday night is currently underway. The SC Troopers say that the accident involved three vehicles, and most likely...
View ArticleCase Summary: Client who was investigated by the police for a possible crime...
Recently, a client retained our services to assist with a serious criminal matter in which he was being investigated. The day before he came to our office desperately seeking our help, he had...
View ArticleThe Importance of SC Car Insurance
In South Carolina, and pretty much every other state, the law requires that in order to get a driver’s license either for the first time, or renewed, then you must certify that they are also insured by...
View ArticleThe court finds that the original order clearly contemplated and provided for...
These are appeals from an amended order of the Family Court of Columbia County entered 3 December 2009, which, in proceeding No. 1 pursuant to Family Ct. Act article 6, clarified a prior order of...
View ArticleAppeals Court Affirms Vacated Conviction
On Monday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that freed a California man who was wrongfully convicted in 1999 of being in possession of a concealed knife under...
View ArticleFishman on Separated Powers of Moral Entrepreneurship
Joseph Fishman (Harvard Law School) has posted Copyright Infringement and the Separated Powers of Moral Entrepreneurship (American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 51, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the...
View Article"Brown seeks 3-year delay on easing prison crowding"
The title of this post is the headline of this new article from the Los Angeles Times, which gets started this way: Following through on a deal struck with legislative leaders, Gov. Jerry Brown told...
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