Criminal Justice

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• Almost Infamous: Celebrity Abusers and Their Unknown Counterparts

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  We must assume that Charlie Sheen is innocent of the domestic violence-related charges leveled against him on Christmas Day, at least until the criminal justice system runs its course. Yet his arrest once again raises the question of why so many celebrity entertainers and athletes fall into a trap of domestic abuse in ...
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• A Father’s Lament: Cannabis Prohibition, Race and My Son

  
  NORML Blog — Authority: 467
  Despite the bizarre claims of some prohibitionists and law enforcement representatives that ‘no one in America gets arrested or goes to jail for cannabis charges’, NORML receives hundreds of emails and letters a week from our fellow citizens who’ve been negatively impacted by cannabis prohibition laws–notably ...
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• Civil servants interfere over sentences

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Probation officers claim they are leaned on over offender management Civil servants have been accused of a "grotesque abuse of power" amid claims that they regularly try to influence the work of criminal justice staff when it comes to deciding on the sentencing and treatment of offenders. The probation union, Napo, ...
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• Savannah GhettoBraggingRights Community Encourages Whites to Peacefully Turn Over Property Claimed As Repara- tions in Non Violent BOW Reparations Protests: “Tis Better To Give Than Receive, Devil. Ask Jennifer Ross.” – Savannah Black Foot Soldier Ebeneze

  
  digitalmonkeys — Authority: 109
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• Obama as Scrooge: no Christmas clemency grants

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 577
  As I complained in posts here and here and here  around Thanksgiving, it was sad and telling that President Barack Obamas first use of his historic clemency power was to continue the modern (silly?) tradition of pardoning a turkey.  At that time, however, I was hoping that Prez Obama might be saving up ...
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• Tompkins a Superb Choice for U.S. Attorney

  
  Carolina Politics Online — Authority: 134
  Even a broken clock gets it right twice a day.  President Obama has made a superb choice in his nomination of Charlotte prosecutor Anne Tompkins (D).  Tompkins has a long record of being tough on crime, something you don’t see from a lot of prosecutors and district attorneys whether in Mecklenburg County or ...
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• Taser-Cop Del Shiflett Cleared in Killing of Derrick Humbert

  
  Electronic Village — Authority: 478
  The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Bradenton Police Department each cleared Officer Del Shiflett [ shown in photo ] of any wrongdoing in the taser-killing of 38-year old Derrick Humbert. [ SOURCE ] Villagers may recall that Humbert was riding a bicycle when he was pulled over by the police . Humbert ...
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• Court turns down Boy George’s Big Brother plea

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  London, Dec 24 (ANI): The High Court has rejected Boy George’s request to make an appearance on reality show Celebrity Big Brother.The ex-convict and former Culture Club singer was trying to get the court to quash a ruling passed by the Probation Service that barred him from the Channel 4 programme, which begins ...
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• Year in review: Michigan’s top HIV stories of 2009

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 603
  From terrorism to discrimination to privacy issues, HIV-related issues made headlines in Michigan in 2009. 1. HIV-as-terrorism case in Macomb County Perhaps the most watched, and outrageous, HIV related story of 2009 is the situation facing Daniel Allen, a 44-year-old Clinton Township resident who has been ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• Student Taught NYU a Lesson re Alleged $409K Liquor-Store-Receipt Fraud

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 677
  Using receipts fished out of a local liquor stores garbage, a New York University employee allegedly submitted $409,000 in fraudulent expense reimbursement claims between 2003 and 2008. John Runowicz has now pleaded not guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court to charges of grand larceny and falsifying business records, ...
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• Spurred by Sean Bell case, NYCLU forces NYPD to release Race Data of People Shot At

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 440
  A State Supreme Court judge has ordered the NYPD to turn over to the New York Civil Liberties Union data concerning the race of all people who were shot at by police officers between 1997 and 2006.The NYCLU launched a concerted effort to obtain information on police shootings after NYPD officers shot and killed an ...
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• Latest Twist in Rothstein Case: Firm Loaned $35M to Lawyers & Others

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 677
  With $1.4 billion in liabilities and $42 million in assets, according to court filings, the now-defunct Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm obviously isnt doing well in the wake of an alleged $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme by former attorney Scott Rothstein. And of that $42 million, $23.9 million represents loans and debts ...
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• Court ruling on minors and alcohol has little effect statewide

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 603
  A September ruling by the Michigan Court of Appeals regarding the use of preliminary breath tests on minors suspected of being in possession of alcohol has caused one city to change its ordinance on the matter. But several other cities say the ruling will have no impact on law enforcement. Photo courtesy of ...
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• Dad in ‘Balloon Boy’ Hoax Gets 90 Days and Mom Gets 20 Days

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 677
  The parents who falsely reported in October that their 6-year-old son was aloft above Colorado in an experimental helium balloon that accidentally launched have been sentenced to brief jail terms followed by four years of probation. During that four-year period, ruled Larimer County Judge Stephen Schapanski, neither ...
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• Advertising with Impunity on Craigslist, Foreclosed-Home Strippers Avoid Sanctions

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 677
  When a potential buyer walks into a foreclosed home, it isnt unusual to see gaping, often jagged holes where items of value including appliances, cabinets, countertops, sinks, toilets and doors, among other items of value, used to be. And it isnt just ordinary thieves who are doing the stripping. Soon-to-be-former ...
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• Colombia: Caquetá Governor Abducted and Killed

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 657
  (Washington, DC) - The killing of a state governor points up the cruel tactics of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas, who target and often kill civilians in Colombias internal armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said today.  read more
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• State will make money on deal to house PA prisoners in Muskegon prison

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 603
  The Michigan Department of Corrections says a deal to house prisoners from Pennsylvania will net the state nearly three quarters of a million dollars in revenue. The Muskegon Chronicle reports on comments from MDOC spokesman Russ Marlan: “It seems to be percolating and resonating, that we’re losing ...
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• Lawyer Briefly Detained in Snowball Incident Waxes Philosophical on Rule of Law

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 677
  A lawyer who analyzes environmental policies achieved his 15 minutes of fame last weekend when he was briefly detained by a detective in what is being dubbed The Great Snowball Incident of 2009. It all began when lawyer Daniel Schramm responded to a text message inviting him to join hundreds of people for a snowball ...
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• Morning Links

  
  The Agitator — Authority: 652
  Thank goodness the Washington Post didn’t perpetuate irresponsible Internet rumors on that snowball fight story. Instead, they went straight to MPDC for the official version of events, unskeptically published the resulting lies from the department’s spokesman, after which WaPo columnist Marc Fisher put up a ...
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