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• Virginia’s Naked Coffee Guy Convicted

  
  The Agitator — Authority: 648
  Erick Williamson, the Springfield, Virginia man arrested earlier this year for being naked in his own home was convicted of indecent exposure on Friday. The judge sentenced him to 180 days in jail, but suspended the sentence. I’m still not sure how the conviction holds up, given that the two alleged witnesses had ...
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• More on neuroscience and criminal justice

  
  Intellectual Competence & the Death Penalty — Authority: 133
  More on the increasing interest (and use) of neuroscience-based brain scan techniques in criminal court proceedings.  Check it out at the Stanford Law School:  Center for Law and the Biosciences . Technorati Tags: psychology , school psychology , educational psychology , forensic psychology , neuropsychology ...
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• Tory party to review householder rights

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Backing for people who tackle intruders at home • Grayling signals change in law under Conservatives A Conservative government would consider strengthening the rights of householders who tackle burglars on their property, the shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, said today. The move could potentially ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Saturday Links: Thundersnow Edition

  
  The Agitator — Authority: 648
  The D.C. area is supposed to get something called thundersnow today, which sounds pretty spectacular. We’re also looking at up to 20 inches of the white stuff. Fun! Your snowbound links: Texas pre-kindergarten program isolates 4-year-old kid because his hair is too long. Here’s a new regulation I could ...
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• Convicted for Being Naked in Own Home, Man Complains of ‘Living in a Fishbowl’

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 690
  Convicted today by a Virginia judge of indecent exposure for walking around naked in his own home without drawing the blinds, Erick Williamson didnt get any jail time. But the 29-year-old commercial diver still plans to appeal, even though his sentence included no jail time and no fine. It is possible that his ...
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• Prosecutor Wins Murder Conviction, Is Jailed for Contempt Over Trial Objections

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 690
  After winning a second-degree murder conviction Wednesday against Tyrone Wells, lead prosecutor Eusi Phllips wound up in jail himself yesterday. He was given a five-day contempt sentence by the Criminal District Court Judge Arthur Hunter for using "discourteous language toward the court" and "disorderly behavior ...
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• Did Ex-Marine Take US Customs Job in Plan to Help Mexican Drug Smugglers?

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 690
  Faced with miles of new fencing at the United States border and upgraded security technology, Mexican traffickers reportedly are using another tactic to bring illegal drugs into this country—corrupting the border police. Among those who may have applied for a Customs and Border Protection job with the intention of ...
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• Atkins court decisions: Williams v LA (2009), Burke v Ohio (2005), Pierce v Thaler (2009)

  
  Intellectual Competence & the Death Penalty — Authority: 133
  Three more Atkins court decisions posted to the Atkins Court Decisions sidebar.  Thanks to Kevin Foley and Karen Salekin for the files.  Click on citation to view the file. Williams v LA (2009) Burke v Ohio (2005) Pierce v Thaler (2009) Technorati Tags: psychology , forensic psychology , criminal ...
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• Sentencing Recommendation for Deneilo Bradshaw

  
  Capitol News Service — Authority: 132
  Jurors in the murder trail of Deneilo Bradshaw, convicted yesterday of the murder of police informant Rachel Hoffman were today asked whether Bradshaw should live or die.  As Mike Vasilinda tells us, the trial has been hard on both the victim’s and defendant’s families. Rachel Hoffman’s mother read a statement ...
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• Some Insight into the State Religion of Alabama

  
  PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Authority: 139
  (And, no, Southern Baptist is a distance second to College Football of the Alabama and Auburn variety). Understand, I love football and have certainly adjusted my schedule to see a game.  Further, I am very much looking forward to January 7th and hopefully the Longhorns’ second BCS title. Having said all of that, ...
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• Lawyer Charged in Alleged Scheme to Divert Mortgage Payoffs to Fake Company

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 690
  A Massachusetts attorney is accused of using his legal skills to identify properties that were about to be sold and then recording documents to make it look as though a fake company he created held the mortgage on them. But before Leon Gelfgatt could collect the $1.3 million in mortgage payoffs that he allegedly hoped ...
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• Perry outclasses those that bothered to show in CJ reform debate

  
  We Could Be Famous — Authority: 461
  What an outrage! I cannot believe some campaign produced a largely unoffensive YouTube video! I give the story that an anti-Mitch video was online for all of an hour a big fat who cares. The Gamblog called it "virtual mud," but I call it unnoticeable dandruff. The only thing I dont understand is why a campaign ...
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• Retired 32-Year Prosecutor Indicted Over Forfeiture Fund Expenditures

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 690
  The former lead prosecutor for Kimble County has been indicted on there on two charges of misapplication of fiduciary property. Former District Attorney Ron Sutton, who retired at the end of 2008 after 32 years with the prosecutors office, is accused of spending seized funds for travel and staff bonuses, reports the ...
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• Hate Crimes on the Rise

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 441
  America becoming post racial?Maybe we need to take a deep breath and start working on it in 2010. So far weve not gotten the hang of it. A recent report says that hate crimes have spiked as we end the first decade of the 21st century.Conservative religious leaders did their best to defeat the federal hate crimes bill ...
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• Abolishing the Death Penalty

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 482
  Thats the title of a post at the Washington Posts On Faith blog written by Rev. Geoffrey Black, Rev. Linda Jaramillo, and Rabbi David Saperstein.  LINK Many December holidays - Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa alike -involve the lighting of candles. This symbolizes the spirit of peace,hope, and new beginnings, ...
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• Texas voters killing death penalty

  
  METRO COLUMNISTS — Authority: 435
  Given our macho, tough-on-crime self-image, I doubt that Texas legislators will ever find the gumption to kill the death penalty here. But another group of Texas voters is doing it a little at a time -- jurors. An interesting story today says death sentences have dropped dramatically in Texas in recent years. ...
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• Report: Fewest Death Sentences Since Death Penalty Reinstated in 1976

  
  Eye on Williamson — Authority: 133
  Via the DMN, Death sentences in Texas declining along with nationwide trend, anti-capital punishment group says . There are three factors that most believe go into this. Life without parole now being an option, the high cost of death penalty cases, and the number of people that have been exonerated and jurors ...
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• Slain abortion foe honored as Operation Rescue’s ‘Person of the Year’

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 614
  An Owosso man who was gunned down while standing in front of Owosso High School protesting abortion has been named the Operation Rescue “Person of the Year.” James Pouillion, 63, was a well known face in both Owosso and Flint for his anti-abortion protests. He was allegedly gunned down by Harlan Drake. Drake ...
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• Top Stories of 2009 - #s 6: Want some *real* #acornfacts?

  
  Facing South — Authority: 605
  As the year draws to a close, Facing South is taking a look back at the big stories that shaped the region and the top 10 stories we did at FS that made a big splash. Heres #8: #8 - HOW ABOUT SOME REAL #ACORNFACTS? When a November poll showed that 52% of Republicans nationally believe ACORN stole the 2008 ...
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