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 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.
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March 26, 2009
CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE
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March 24-26, 2009
CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, SENTENCING
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March 24-25, 2009
CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, HABEAS CORPUS
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Search and Seizure in Cyberspace:
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 _____________________________
March 2009 Volume 2 Number 3.
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The TS-SIS Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the recipient of the Renee D. Chapman Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Technical Services Law Librarianship for 2009 is Curt E. Conklin.
Curt is the Associate Director for Technical Services at the Brigham Young University Howard W. Hunter Law Library in Provo, Utah. He has worked there for 37 years in a variety of positions all within technical services. He has also been a member of AALL for 35 years. Some of his many contributions in the field of technical services include:
· One of the founding members of TS-SIS
