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• EC king sentenced to 15 years in prison!

  
  Dispatch Now 24/7 — Authority: 147
  AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday, reports Lubabalo Ngcukana.The sentence was handed down by Judge Sytze Alkema in the Mthatha High Court.The king, who has five wives and five children, was found guilty of kidnapping a mother and her six children after he had ...
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• Kings awaits sentencing in Mthatha court

  
  Dispatch Now 24/7 — Authority: 147
  The Mthatha High Court is filled to capacity as the abaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo waits to learn his fate on whether he will be going to jail or not, reports Lubabalo Ngcukana.Judge Sytze Alkema is expected to hand down sentence on Friday.On October 21, Alkema convicted 44-year-old Dalindyebo on a number of ...
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• Minor breakouts of major gripes

  
  Ideologically Impure — Authority: 403
  I’d long ago realised that part of the reason I post cussy rants about things that seem like just small issues, not a huge deal, isn’t there something more important to worry about – is because those “small issues” just tap into much bigger problems. Today, two such small issues reared their annoying heads. ...
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• Some justice in death of cyclist

  
  Take the Lane — Authority: 126
  The motorist who killed cyclist Jesse Augustine back in 2008 is going to prison for four years. The Hamilton Spectator reported this week that 52-year-old James Albert Lake, of Caledonia, was sentenced Monday to four years after pleading guilty back in September to impaired driving cause death and failing to remain ...
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• Capital Defense Lawyer Explains Missed Appeal Deadline

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 639
  A Texas death-penalty lawyer, called on yesterday to explain why he blew a deadline for filing an appeal, blamed a lack of time to prepare and his client’s increasingly erratic behavior. It was the second time that lawyer David Dow was in the news for filing a late appeal. The first time, Dow criticized the chief ...
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• Poll finds that one-third of all youths may be involved in child porn . . . er, sexting

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 123
  This new Wired story , which is headlined "Survey: One-Third of Youths Engage in Sexting," provides the basis for my post title.  Here are the details: If you think the sexting phenomenon is growing, you’re not imagining it.  According to a new survey, almost one-third of youths admit they’ve engaged in ...
  18 hours ago

• The Revolt of the Judiciary Continues

  
  bob tarantino — Authority: 105
  Further to this post , another judge (with the nodding approval of Kirk Makin) decides that politics is really where he has the most to contribute : D efying community anger andCanadas drift toward more punitive, U.S.-style sentencing laws, anOntario judge has given two aboriginal youths a lenient punishment ...
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• Thomas Hits Stevens for ‘Novel’ View on Cruelty of Execution Delays

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 639
  Is a 29-year delay in execution “unacceptably cruel” and a constitutional violation? Justices Clarence Thomas and John Paul Stevens sparred over the question in dueling opinions issued Tuesday on the Supreme Court’s refusal to review the case of convicted murderer Cecil Johnson. The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times ...
  23 hours ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• ACT sentencing gone to the dogs

  
  The RiotACT — Authority: 149
  I was disappointed to see yet another piss-weak “sentence” in relation to a conviction for animal cruelty.  The CT reports (here: man-deserved-harsher-penalty-rspca) that Saron Youn has got off with community service and a good behaviour bond for neglecting his two dogs to a point where they were attempting to ...
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• New federal sentencing data from the US Sentencing Commission

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 123
  I am pleased to discover that the US Sentencing Commission has some fresh new sentencing data now up on its website.  Here are links to the new data runs, with descriptions from the USSCs website: Fourth Quarter FY09 Quarterly Sentencing Update :  An extensive set of tables and charts presenting fiscal year ...
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• A few Justices discussing time on death row again

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 123
  As noted in this effective post at SCOTUSblog by Lyle Denniston, a few Justices took the time to discuss the time that Cecil Johnson spent on death row before he was executed early Wednesday in Tennessee.   Here are the highlights of Lyles effective reporting: “This case deserves our full attention,” wrote ...
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• Ninth Circuit rejects "en masse" plea process for illegal entry cases in Arizona

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 123
  A Ninth Circuit panel today handed down an interesting ruling that seem to have the potential to upset a whole lot of federal criminal convictions in at least one district. The ruling comes in US v. Roblero-Solis , No. 08-10396 (9th Cir. Dec. 2, 2009) ( available here ), and here is how the opinion starts: To ...
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• Son gets life for arranging fathers slaying in 2006

  
  Sacto 9-1-1 — Authority: 443
  From Kim Minugh: In the final chapter of the emotional drama that was Norik Abramyans killing, a Sacramento Superior Court judge today sentenced the mans son to life in prison for arranging and paying for the murder in 2006. The sentence, handed down by Judge James L. Long, allows 22-year-old Vardan Abramyan (photo ...
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• Developmental Psychologist Says Teenagers Are Different

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 530
  Thats the title for, " A Conversation With Laurence Steinberg ," conducted by Claudia Dreifus for the New York Times science section. Laurence Steinberg, a developmentalpsychologist at Temple University in Philadelphia, is one of theleading experts in the United States on adolescent behavior andadolescent brain ...
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• Discarded Verdict Form in High Profile Death Penalty Case May Be Focus of Appeal

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 639
  Jurors in a high profile death penalty case in Illinois announced Nov. 10 that theyd reached a verdict in the case against Brian Dugan. But a few minutes later, they resumed deliberations. Their ultimate verdict was death. But the judge handling the case has informed defense attorneys that the original discarded ...
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• Big Brother - Adam ‘Baller’ Jasinski Gets Out Of Jail But…..

  
  Backseat Cuddler — Authority: 586
  Big Brother 9’s winner, Adam Jasinski has been locked up and going nuts behind bars and the judge has finally given his a dose of mercy.  (See his crime details here)  Adam has been let out of jail until his trial date with a huge list of rules to follow:ADAM JASINSKI INDICTED BY FEDERAL GRAND [...]
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• fMRI Used as Evidence in Sentencing for Murderer

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 583
  Brian Dugans attorney used fMRI evidence during his sentencing for the murder of Jeanine Nicarico (right). Magnetic resonance imaging has been hailed as a possible means of creating the ultimate lie detector . Yet the first publicized fMRI evidence admitted into a US court was not used to separate fact from ...
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• Swiss men in Libya sentenced

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 554
  Update 2  22:50  Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Reports were published Tuesday evening 1 December by several international news agencies that two Swiss businessmen, Max Goeldi and Rachid Hamdani, have been sentenced to 16 months in prison and fined $1,671 each by a Libyan court. Reuters received an e-mail ...
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• Jurors Should Have Heard of Veteran’s Stress Disorder, Supreme Court Rules

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 639
  The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a Korean War veteran on death row deserves a new sentencing hearing because his lawyer did not introduce evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder. The Washington Post calls the unsigned opinion “strikingly sympathetic” to veteran George Porter, while the New York Times said ...
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