Top Ten Stories of the Week ending April 3, 2009:
Law Practice Management Law Firm Manager Writes Post Columnist About Clueless Associates
Mar 30, 2009, 08:44 am CDT
Information and Communication Technologies Development Index
The new Information and Communications Index of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) compares developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) in 154 countries over a five year period from 2002 to 2007.
The Index combines 11 indicators into a single measure that can be
used as a benchmarking tool globally, regionally and at the country
Report: Gun Violence and Illegal Firearms Trafficking on the U.S.- Mexican Border
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 State Lawmakers Reach Historic Agreement to Reform Rockefeller Drug Law
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 authority to send non-violent addicts to treatment instead of jail.
The new drug reform agreement is included in New York budget bill A156 as Part AAA beginning on page 113. To see Part AAA in Microsoft Word format click on the link below to the information provided by William Halsted of the New York Legislative Retrieval System.
Findlaw Case Summaries: New York Court of Appeals. March 26, 2009.
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March 26, 2009
CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE
Findlaw Case Sumaries: Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
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March 24-26, 2009
CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, SENTENCING
Findlaw Case Summaries: U.S. Supreme Court. March 24-25, 2009.
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March 24-25, 2009
CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, HABEAS CORPUS
ABA Journal Newsletter. March 27, 2009.
Top Ten Stories of the Week ending March 27, 2009:
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Law Enforcement Case Study: Search and Seizure in Cyberspace
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:
New ABA Publication: 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 Justice Section _____________________________