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• Misconduct By 3 Sekhon Firm Lawyers Puts Up to 700 Clients in Peril

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  Sekhon & Sekhon claimed a 95 percent success rate concerning more than 1,000 immigrants that the law firm helped to win political asylum in the United States. But now up to 700 could be deported because they lied to immigration judges and asylum officers after the law firm and interpreters urged them to do so, ...
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• the million dollar question

  
  I'm Laila Yuile, and This Is How I See It — Authority: 125
  Why? As happens often in my experience with blogging, writing about one topic invariably opens the door to another.Last week I blogged about the gun registry – in particular, how using domestic violence or spousal murder as a reason for continuing the registry is not only ridiculous, but dangerous. The responses ...
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• Supreme Court Overturns 9th Circuit a Third Time in Bludgeon Murder Case

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  For the third time, the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and restored the death penalty for a man convicted of the bludgeon murder of a 19-year-old woman in 1981. The Supreme Courts per curiam opinion (PDF) said it is “fanciful” to believe that a lawyer ...
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• Don’t Bother Defending Yourself in Maine New Hampshire

  
  The Agitator — Authority: 649
  Two people in dark clothes follow you for several blocks. It’s after midnight. You look back several times at them. They say nothing, but they continue to follow. What to do? Well, don’t even think about menacingly gripping that pocket knife you’re carrying to scare them off. They could be undercover cops ...
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• Lawyer Says D.C. Sniper Trusted Him the Most; Details Will Be in the Book

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  Baltimore lawyer J. Wyndal Gordon says he had a special bond with convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad and he plans to write a book about his one-time client. Gordon was a stand-by counsel for Muhammad in a trial for six of the sniper killings, and he attended Muhammads execution for a different murder in Virginia, ...
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• FSC Should Do Its Work in Public

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  " Texas commission reviewing complaints about handling of forensic evidence in criminal cases should work in public ," is the title of the editorial from the Saturday edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. John Bradley, new head of the Texas Forensic Science Commission,says he wants the panel to work with ...
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• Morning Links

  
  The Agitator — Authority: 649
  Jonathan Turley criticizes the leniency courts grant to parents who neglect to obtain medical attention for their kids for religious beliefs versus those who neglect their children for other reasons. I agree with him. Seems like there are First and Fourteenth Amendment issues, here. Dog bed. This is one brave ...
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• Prosecutors from Va. and NY Vied for Trial of 9-11 Suspects

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  Top prosecutors from Manhattan and Alexandria, Va., visited a secret command center in the Justice Department’s headquarters on two different occasions to present their case for handling the trial of suspected Sept. 11 plotters being held at Guantanamo Bay. Attorney General Eric Holder chose Manhattan for the trial ...
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• Police Search for Missing Florida International Law Student

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  Campus police are searching for a law student from Florida International University who wasn’t reported missing until he had been gone for nine days. The third-year student, Tom Daniels, was last seen storming out of a CiCi’s Pizza restaurant nearly two weeks ago, according to the Miami Herald and NBCMiami.com. As ...
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• Reflecting on the Supreme Courts consideration of juvenile life without parole ...

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 481
  Since the U.S, Supreme Court heard oral argument last week in Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida , commentators have speculated on how the Justices will rule in the two controversial cases ( here and here and here ). As posted last week, both cases involve juveniles who received a sentence of life ...
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• Terrorist Trials

  
  Philosophy On The Mesa — Authority: 125
  Last week, the Justice Department announced their decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others connected to the 9/11 attacks in federal court in New York. Predictably, the announcement has sent conservatives into paroxysms of melodramatic hand-wringing. Here is Joe Leiberman: “The terrorists who ...
  14 hours ago

• Cautionary tale of spot fines gone awry

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  Cautions may reduce the burden on courts, police time and cost less money – but downgrading serious crime cannot be justified Criminal trials cost money, and money is what the government is trying hard not to spend. For one thing, if you cut down on their number, you dont have to pay lots of lawyers. Criminal ...
  21 hours ago

• Suffolk County: Coram man dead after being tasered by police

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 509
  I don’t think that the activist community in Suffolk County realized our police had tasers. People should try to stop the use of this weapon. It has a history of abuse and suffering. Police think it is non-lethal, so they overuse it, which creates consequences like the death of a man in Coram. There are [...]
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• 14/11/2009

  
  Perfect Path — Authority: 420
  BFI, Stephen St, London W1
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• Bring On The Show Trials

  
  Conservative Compendium — Authority: 476
  The latest Friday news dump involved the announcement that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, along with four other terrorists, will receive a trial in civilian courts in New York City.  This unwise decision is not about justice. Mohammed has already confessed to his crimes – over two years ago.  This ...
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
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• Relax - Theyre Only Murderers

  
  Burning our money — Authority: 603
  So lets get this straight . For some reason the Major and I havent quite been able to fathom,  Mr Barrowclough  decided to let out convicted murderer Patricia Gillette to go shopping in Bromley. Amazingly, she legged it, and is now on the loose among us. Well, maybe its not so bad. Maybe shes one of those ...
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• Luzerne County, PAs Cash for Kids Scandal OK with School Officials

  
  GlennSacks.com — Authority: 551
  Months ago, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, a scandal came to light.  Prosecution is still underway, so we dont know the outcomes of any criminal trials.  But the allegations are that two  juvenile court judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, were taking kickbacks from operators of juvenile correctional ...
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• Saturday Links/Open Thread

  
  The Agitator — Authority: 649
  Hit & Run commenters are hilarious . Accused Georgia killer has sat in prison four years without a trial, apparently because the state claims it can’t afford to pay an attorney to defend him. Illinois police handing out tickets for air fresheners. Sacramento police respond to wrong house after getting ...
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• Victim impact statements

  
  StephenFranks.co.nz — Authority: 107
  Justice Minister Simon Power responded instantly and sensibly to the launch of the SST campaign to allow victims to give the Court their views on sentencing. More sensibly than the new President of the Law Society. The latter could have said something like "I commend the quick response of the Minister of Justice, ...
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