In a 75 page, 19 count indictment, prosecutors allege that Mr. Blagojevich and his associates sought illegal profits from the governor’s authority to award money and jobs in construction, legal work, consulting and investmentments. Included in the indictment are allegations that Mr. Blagojevich and his associates “schemed to auction off…
A Report of the Violence Policy Center* authored by Senior Policy Analyst Tom Diaz Introduction Mexico is under siege, its democratic governance is at risk. This report examines the role of the U.S. civilian gun market in the drug-related violence in Mexico that is creeping northward into the United States.…
New York Governor David Paterson, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith announced an agreement of Friday March 27 that would effectively end the harshest provisions of the New York Rockefeller Laws The Agreement ends mandatory jail for first-time and non-felony offenders. It also gives judges total…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. March 24-25, 2009 CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, HABEAS CORPUS Knowles v. Mirzayance, No. 07-1315 The District Court’s grant of Petitioner’s habeas petition is reversed, where, whether the state court’s denial of his…
Case Discussed: U.S. v. Wellman, 2009 WL 37184 (S..D W. Va. 2009) From: Quinlan Law Enforcement E-News*, March 26, 2009. Search and Seizure in Cyberspace: Fourth Amendment issues abound in P2P child porn case The emergent nature of the Internet has caused the Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and…
Criminal Mental Health and Disability Law, Evidence and Testimony: A Comprehensive Reference Manual for Lawyers, Judges and Criminal Justice Professionals Exaamines in detail the legal relationships that link criminal justice, mental health, and disability discrimination law. Co-sponsored by ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law and the ABA Criminal…
Update from the Lexis Alert Service, March 25, 2009. 1. People v. Rivers, 1636, 3191/03, SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT, 2009 NY Slip Op 298; 58 A.D.3d 529; 870 N.Y.S.2d 790; 2009 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 272, January 22, 2009, Decided, January 22, 2009, Entered, THE…
BY LYONETTE LOUIS-JACQUES Foreign Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago D’Angelo Law Library Published by GlobaLex June/July 2007 From the Introduction: “This bibliography lists selected English-language resources on comparative criminal procedure. It focuses on journal articles, book chapters, and treatises covering comparative criminal procedure generally,…
Update from the Lexis Alert Service, March 24, 2009. 1. People v. Mynin, 5138, 4387/05, SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT, 2009 NY Slip Op 455; 58 A.D.3d 581; 872 N.Y.S.2d 50; 2009 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 460, January 29, 2009, Decided, January 29, 2009, Entered, THE…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. March 16 – 20, 2009: U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, March 17, 2009 US v. Vargas, No. 08-1377 Sentence for drug offenses is affirmed where: 1) the district court did not…