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• Online Criminal Justice Degrees

  
  Dapx - Published news — Authority: 183
  Find out about criminal justice online degree programs.
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• PD’s Office Worker Allegedly Had Sex With Non-Client at Jailhouse Meetings

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 671
  In a seemingly routine situation, an interviewer for the Pinellas-Pasco Public Defenders Office repeatedly signed in to visit an inmate at a local Florida jail on behalf of his legal team. But when Pinellas County sheriffs deputies launched an investigation in response to an anonymous tip they discovered that the ...
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• Ex-White House Attorney Charged in Attempted Murder of His Wife, a Skadden Lawyer

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 671
  A 57-year-old former deputy White House counsel has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly beating his wife with a flashlight and choking her in their Connecticut home. John Michael Farren is being held in lieu of $2 million bail in the claimed attack on Mary Margaret Farren, 43, who has a counsel position ...
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• There is a difference between respecting liberty and taking a liberty.

  
  Cllr. Martyn Findley (BNP) — Authority: 127
  There is nothing new about sham marriages and if the numbers are rising as reported in the news today then I cannot pretend to be surprised by that either. The next registrar that is surprised to find that a bride and groom who do not speak English, or even have a common language, and appear to have not previously ...
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• Surgeon Indicted for Alleged Liver-Transplant Lie

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 671
  A surgeon has been indicted by a federal grand jury in California for allegedly lying about the identity of a patient into whom a liver was transplanted in 2003 and directing his staff to submit falsified records. While in charge of the former liver-transplant program at St. Vincent Medical Center, Dr. Richard Lopez ...
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• Surviving Law School Buddy Gets 39-Month Term in $9M Insider-Trading Scheme

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 671
  Stanko Grmovsek began his stock-trading career while he was still in law school, prosecutors say, turning a $30,000 student loan into $300,000. Then, in what he called "the worst decision in my life" in a court statement, he and a former roommate at Osgoode Hall School of Law began operating an insider-trading scheme ...
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• For Some, Every Muslim is a Guilty Muslim

  
  Womanist Musings — Authority: 593
  Islamic terrorist has become a catch phrase to justify the loss of rights and freedoms while engaging in racism.   I remember thinking just after 9/11 that this event would trigger  attacks against Muslims of color because of their visibility.  History has certainly proven me to be correct on this point.  Mosques ...
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• AG opinion: Perry likely could pardon wrongly convicted deceased Timothy Cole

  
  Texas Politics — Authority: 439
  Gov. Rick Perry likely has the authority to grant a posthumous pardon to Timothy Cole, who died in prison after being convicted of a rape he didnt commit, according to an opinion released today by Attorney General Greg Abbott. Abbotts...
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• Unacceptable.

  
  Delaware Liberal — Authority: 529
  On pretty much every front, really. And that is the most family friendly title I could come up with.If you havent seen the NJ article this AM recounting some of the history of the despicable Dr. Bradley, then do yourself a favor. People with blood pressure issues should be forewarned. But this is a just a horror show ...
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• US: 1 in 10 Children in Juvenile Facilities Report Sexual Abuse by Staff

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 638
  (New York) - New government data suggesting high levels of sexual abuse of confined youth in the United States should galvanize the Department of Justice to swiftly issue national standards to end prison rape, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
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• Deterrence Studies at Odds

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 138
  Both studies have received earlier news coverage, noted here .  I believe that the most accurate and succinct comment on the topiccomes from Cass Sunstein and Justin Wolfers in their 2008 WashingtonPost OpEd, " A Death Penalty Puzzle ," noted here : In short, the best reading of the accumulated data is that they ...
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• An ‘ornery’ judicial view of Mich. sex offender laws

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 601
  Retiring Van Buren County Circuit Judge William C. Buhl is a rarity among Michigan’s mostly reserved black robe set. “When things bother me, I get tired of people talking and saying this is horrible and not doing anything about it,” he said near the beginning of an in-depth interview covering his frustrations ...
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• The Atkins MR/ID Capital Punishment Flynn Effect Project: Announcement and request for assistance

  
  Intellectual Competence & the Death Penalty — Authority: 135
  Anyone familiar with Atkins MR/ID death penalty cases knows that the Flynn Effect is a frequently argued measurement issue in these cases.  To facilitate a thorough understanding of the pro- and con-Flynn Effect research literature, a small group of individuals are working together to build a master archive of FE ...
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• Ireland : Blasphemy Now Against the Law

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 519
  Irish atheists fight back:Dissing religion now a secular rapBy Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / January 6, 2009On January 1st a new law took effect in Ireland -- the so-called "Blasphemy Law." This law makes it a criminal offense to make blasphemous statements regarding any religion. The penalty for this blasphemy is a ...
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• Law Prof’s Advice to Suspended Wizards Guard: Turn Off Twitter

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 671
  Providing a legal analysis tonight of the National Basketball Associations stunning indefinite suspension today, without pay, of Gilbert Arenas, a Vermont Law School assistant professor offered a succinct suggestion to the star Washington Wizards guard: Turn off your Twitter account. It was bad enough to bring guns, ...
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• Iraq Veteran Jailed Over Stop-Loss Rap; It’s Just a Song, Lawyer Says

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 671
  When the rest of his unit deployed to Iraq recently, a U.S. Army specialist who already is a veteran of the war there stayed behind. Thats because Marc Hall has been in custody since early December, accused by the military of making threats against others in a vulgar, violent rap tune that is posted on his personal ...
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• Are The DOJ Criminal Divisions Priorities Wrong?

  
  Wash Park Prophet — Authority: 132
  Federal criminal prosecutions are at record highs . The surge is surprising. After all, crime rates in the U.S. are at the lowest levels seen since the early 1960s. Immigration offenses (overwhelmingly, unlawful re-entry near the U.S. Border) account for more than a quarter of all criminal and were up about 20% in ...
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• Systemic Racism & the “Race to Execution”

  
  racismreview.com — Authority: 507
  The New York Times reported recently that a leading group, The American Law Institute , which created the intellectual framework for the current system of capital punishment almost 50 years ago, pronounced the project a failure and walked away from it (h/t to Sister Scholar ).  Even though there were other ...
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• Do Metra riders get unfair share of funding?

  
  Chicago Muckrakers — Authority: 109
  The answer is yes if you believe the allegations in a civil rights lawsuit filed today. A class actionlawsuit was filed today alleging that an Illinois transit funding scheme enactedin 1983 funneled a disproportionate amount of transportation money towhite people riding the Metra than to minorities taking the ...
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• Former Beauty Queen Charged With Changing ID to Defraud Banks

  
  GlennSacks.com — Authority: 488
  Here s a fun piece ( Sphere , 12/28/09).  Its just chock-full of intriguing possibilities that we hope to find out more about in the not-too-distant future.  And as an extra added bonus, its got some brand new (at least to me) information about the DV system. Alaska resident Rachel Yould is scheduled to be ...
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