To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw October 4-8, 2010. United States First Circuit, 10/08/2010 Tevlin v. Spencer District court’s denial of defendant’s request for habeas relief from his convictions for first-degree murder, armed robbery, and assault and battery…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw October 4-8, 2010. United States First Circuit, 10/07/2010 US v. Figueroa-Gonzalez Conviction of defendant for carjacking and firearm use during and in relation to a crime of violence is affirmed as there…
A significant note from the Duke Law Journal by Joanna Huang with the above title has been posted today September 29 on the Sentencing Law and Policy blog According to Ms. Huang, “…in 1987 the United States political and social systems lost trust in the judiciary and severely limited its…
.Following up on our postiing about U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Bryer, we wanted to share with you the following excerpts from news and commentary sent to us by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School September 24, 2010. 1.. On Thursday, the Senate…
Volume 3 Number 9 September 2010. September 2010 Detecting and Avoiding Fake Anti-Virus Software From the Desk of David Badertscher Your Computer Is Infected with Malware! You may be familiar with this or similar messages appearing on a website, urging you to take action purportedly designed to clean your allegedly…
Theodore Pollack, Senior Law Librarian at our public access law library writes: “Here is an interesting feature for Google Scholar regarding attempting to locate journal articles that are not easily available in Westlaw, Lexis, or HeinOnline. If you set the preferences in Google Scholar to libraries that you have access…
The National Archives has created a new online public website that features more than 3,000 historic documents, photos and videos available for download, along with applications for teachers to create and share history lessons about the items, officials announced. The new website, DocsTeach.org, offers historic items such as a short…
I often find there is little time to read all of the books I would like, or even need, to and therefore find myself resorting to book reviews. Last Sunday I read a review that to me seemd exceptional and would like to share it with you. David Badertscher REVIEW::…
Apparently the court system in Missouri thinks so. In her article, Missouri Tells Judges Cost of Sentences, publsihed in the September 18 New York Times, Monica Davey reports that “When judges here [Missouri] sentence convicted criminals, a new and unusual variable is available for them to consider: what a given…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw September 13-17, 2010. Criminal Law & Procedure United States First Circuit, 09/14/2010 Merlonghi v. US In plaintiff’s suit against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), for the actions…