Criminal Law Library BlogAs of September 16, 2008.
Search run on New York State Legislative Retrieval System (LRS), September 17, 2008.
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Articles Posted in Criminal Law and Justice
ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter September 12, 2008
Lawyer Pay Being a Lawyer and Male Makes You a Top Earner, Census Report Shows
Sep 10, 2008, 06:57 am CDT
“The highest earners in 2007 were men in legal occupations, who earned a median salary in 2007 of $105,233, according to a Census Bureau report. The online report (PDF) issued in August shows women in legal occupations, which includes paralegal as well as lawyer positions, didn’t fare as well.”
ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter. September 5, 2008.
September 5, 2008.
Exclusive survey: Lawyers slow to hop on blogging and social networking bandwagons.*
Careers Interview Mistakes Include ‘Too Much Information Syndrome’ and Bad Suits
ABA Annual Meeting 2008: Criminal Justice Related ABA Policies
All four of the Policy Recommendations submitted by the Criminal Justice Section to the ABA House of Delegates were unanimously approved on August 11, 2008. To link to the final versions of each recommendation and audio recordings of the presentations and discussions, click here
Quinlan Law Enforcement: Pop Quiz August 14, 2008
From: Quinlan Law Enforcement E-News Alert, August 14, 2008
Question:
“Peals was arrested in his garage by a number of Terre Haute, Indiana police officers from the Street Crimes Unit, a unit used to perform special tasks including high-risk arrests, narcotics arrests, and narcotics information gathering. Among these officers were two K-9 units. The police officers had a warrant for Peals arrest, but they did not possess a search warrant for the home. After the officers took Peals into custody, several of the officers and K-9 units looked around the garage. Did the search of the garage violate Peals’s constitutional rights?”
ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter: Top Ten Stories of the Week
Week ending August 15, 2008
Verdicts Most Plaintiffs Who Reject Settlement Offers Do Worse at Trial
Aug 11, 2008, 06:49 am CDT
ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter : Top Ten Stories of the Week
August 8, 2008
Associates Associates Happiest With Wachtell Pay, Which is on the Hefty Side
Aug 6, 2008, 07:59 am CDT
Why Should We Care What NCJRS Stands For?
Anne Skove and her group who publish the Court-o-Rama. org (otherwise known as the “least dangerous blog”) have reminded us once again in a August 3 posting just how useful NCJRS is as an information and research source for a wide range of criminal justice related information.
Below is an excerpt from their posting:
“We are still getting used to living in a world in which not everyone knows that NCJRS stands for the National Criminal Justice Reference Service. Odder still is the idea that some people might not have heard of it or used the NCJRS site. We can hear you now saying ‘N-C-J-What-What?’ “
Seven Myths About the Specific Nature and Effect of Miranda Warnings
In their article in Criminal Justice ( “Miranda Rights…And Wrongs”,23 Crininal Justice 5-9 Summer 2008) Richard Rogers, Danies W. Shuman and Eric Drogin discuss seven myths upon which they believe”..the interpretation and application of Miranda” still rest. Here in abbreviated form are the seven myths they discuss:
Myth #1: Everyone Already Knows the Miranda Warnings
“…The criminal justice system needs to accept the falsity of the notion that ‘ everyone already knows Miranda‘ in order to begin dertermining what to communicate, how to communicate, and what to access on an individual basis”.
ABA Criminal Justice Secrtion Announces CLE Programs for 2008 Annual Meeting
ABA Criminal Justice Section Annual Meeting 08 CLE
Click here for complete Agenda www.abanet.org/crimjust/calendar/2008annual.doc
It’s Time for Justice: How to Handle Financial Exploitation of the Elderly