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  • Technology blocks smuggled cellphones, but not approved calls, at state prison


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    Maryland corrections officials recently adopted technology that blocks contraband cellphone use at one prison facility and plan to use the technology at other facilities soon. The technology kicks smuggled cellphones off the facilitys network, the Baltimore Sun reports, but allows calls made by phones on an approved…
    3 days ago

  • Notable developments in penalty phase of Jodi Arias capital trial


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    As reported in this new USA Today article , the "sentencing hearing for convicted killer Jodi Arias ground to a halt Monday when her lawyers refused to call any witnesses and a judge refused their requests for a mistrial and to withdraw from the case." Here is more: Judge Sherry Stephens stopped proceedings and ...
    3 days ago

  • Baltimore police sergeant sentenced for perjury


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    A police sergeant in Baltimore City has been sentenced to a year in prison for providing false information to obtain a search and seizure warrant. On Monday, Sergeant Dennis Workley was sentenced to one year in prison, all suspended, and three years of supervised probation for misconduct in office. Workley was ...
    4 days ago

  • "How to Legalize Pot"


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    The title of this post is the headline of this notable new op-ed in todays New York Times authored by Bill Keller.  Here are some excerpts from an interesting read: The marijuana debate has entered a new stage.  Today the most interesting and important question is no longer whether marijuana will be ...
    4 days ago

  • Former Prosecutor Backs Dunlap Commutation


    The StandDown Texas Project — Authority Authority: 154
    "COs Death Penalty System Too Broken to Use: Commute Dunlaps Sentence," is Richard Blochs essay at Huffington Post. Hes the former Arapahoe County Chief Deputy District Attorney. In the twenty years I spent with the Arapahoe County District Attorneys Office,...
    4 days ago

  • Exoneree Curtis McCarty


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    Omaha World-Herald columnist Matthew Hansen writes, "Decades on death row drive death penalty fight." Heres the beginning of this must-read: Oklahoma is killing a man at midnight, and so as darkness falls, another man on H Block slips off his...
    4 days ago

  • The Kansas Death Penalty Has Cobwebs


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    Thats the title of a lengthy report by Dave Helling for the Kansas City Star. It may be weeks before Kansans know if prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Kyle Flack, accused of killing four people in Franklin County...
    4 days ago

  • Florida News & Commentary


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    The Palm Beach Post publishes the editorial, "Scott should veto ‘Timely Justice Act’ on the death penalty." Its by Randy Schultz for the Post Editorial Board. In 2006, the American Bar Association showed Florida how to fix the state’s death...
    4 days ago

  • LIVE STREAM: Jodi Arias 1st Degree Murder Death Sentencing Phase


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    Jodi Arias was found guilty on Tuesday, May 7. At issue is whether Arias’ killing of Travis Alexander was committed in an aggressively heinous manner. Arias said in an interview immediately following her sentencing that she would prefer the death penalty to life in prison. - RELATED: PHOTOS: See Jodi ...
    4 days ago

  • WATCH: Live Stream Of Jodi Arias Sentencing Phase


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    Jodi Arias was found guilty on Tuesday, May 7. At issue is whether Arias’ killing of Travis Alexander was committed in an aggressively heinous manner. Arias said in an interview immediately following her sentencing that she would prefer the death penalty to life in prison. - RELATED: PHOTOS: See Jodi ...
    4 days ago

  • SCOTUS unanimously reverses habeas win for defendant based on state elimination of "diminished capacity" defense


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    Only a matter of weeks after it was argued, the Supreme Court this morning unanimously decided that the Sixth Circuit got a habeas issue wrong in Metrish v. Lancaster, No. 12-547 (S. Ct. May 20, 2013) ( available here ). Here is the start of the SCOTUS opinion, per Justice Ginsburg: Burt Lancaster was convicted in ...
    4 days ago

  • WATCH LIVE: Jodi Arias Death Sentencing Phase


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    Jodi Arias was found guilty on Tuesday, May 7. At issue is whether Arias’ killing of Travis Alexander was committed in an aggressively heinous manner. Arias said in an interview immediately following her sentencing that she would prefer the death penalty to life in prison. - RELATED: PHOTOS: See Jodi ...
    4 days ago

  • ‘Zoloft Defense’ Cop’s Sentencing Continues (Months After His Suicide)


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    Anthony Orban, a former police detective convicted of kidnapping and raping a Dave and Buster’s waitress, committed suicide while awaiting sentencing in his cell last fall. Despite Orban’s death, lawyers are still trying to figure out what to do with him, so to speak. Orban, 33, was found dead in his cell at ...
    4 days ago

  • LIVE STREAM: Jodi Arias – Life Or Death Sentence Phase


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    Jodi Arias was found guilty on Tuesday, May 7. At issue is whether Arias’ killing of Travis Alexander was committed in an aggressively heinous manner. Arias said in an interview immediately following her sentencing that she would prefer the death penalty to life in prison. - RELATED: PHOTOS: See Jodi ...
    4 days ago

  • Judge investigated personal ID theft case, pointing police to suspect who got 13 years


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    As an Oregon judge, Christopher Marshall had presided over many an identity theft case. So when the Multnomah County circuit court jurist himself was victimized in a health club gym locker break-in, he quickly developed a game plan. In addition to canceling his credit card accounts, he found out where…
    4 days ago

  • Restraining Orders/Protective Orders


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    We’ll explain about restraining orders, and what you can do if you were charged with violating a restraining order. Definition What’s commonly known as a restraining order is actually called a protective order , or an injunction . It prohibits the adverse party (the person with a restraining order) from doing ...
    4 days ago

  • Acting Justice Nield dishes out more punishment.


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    On Tuesday May 14 Mark Anthony Munro,aged 52 years was sentenced by Acting Justice Nield, in the Supreme Court on charges of aggravated robbery and intentionally inflicting grievous bodily harm.Munro who shot a security guard during an armed robbery at the Mawson Club in May 2004 was jailed for 18 years with a [...]
    4 days ago

  • How quickly can and will (hundreds of) imprisoned crack defendants file "Blewett claims"?


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    As first discussed in this post and further here , a split panel of the Sixth Circuit on Friday handed down a significant (and questionable) ruling in US v. Blewett declaring that the reduced mandatory minimum crack sentences set out in the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 must be applied even to those offenders ...
    4 days ago

  • Is OJ providing a high-profile test case for the application of Lafler and Frye?


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    I have not been following closely the Nevada state habeas proceedings in which convicted armed robber and kidnapper (and acquitted murderer) OJ Simpson is contesting his convictions and sentences.  But this recent Christian Science Monitor article spotlights how "The Juice" is now, yet again, in court bringing ...
    4 days ago

  • Legislative and executive officials revving up Floridas machinery of death


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    As reported in this lengthy new local article , "Gov. Rick Scott has accelerated the pace of signing death warrants in Florida by lining up three executions over the next few weeks, the most in such a brief period of time in more than two decades."   Here is more about his actions and recent similar activity within ...
    5 days ago

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