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Two notable end-of-year appeals to SCOTUS

7 minutes ago ago from Sentencing Law and Policy

Thanks to How Appealing, I saw these two articles reporting on notable new sentencing appeals come from state officials to the US Supreme Court: From the San Jose Mercury News here , Schwarzenegger makes last plea to U.S. Supreme Court in prison case From the Louisville Courier-Journal here , Sex-offender case appealed to U.S. Supreme Court Because the Supreme Court has so far dodged the California prison litigation, I am not sure ...

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New Bangladesh Chief Justice takes oath

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December 24, 2009 by sridhar Filed under World Newz Leave a Comment M Tafazzul Islam was on Wednesday sworn in as Bangladesh's new Chief Justice with President Zillur Rahman administering his oath of office. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina along with her cabinet members, outgoing Chief Justice and other former chief justices attended the ceremony at Bangabhaban (President's House). Rahman had appointed Islam, a ...

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THE CIVIL RIGHTS COLD CASE PROJECT

19 hours ago ago from BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS

Addie Mae Collins Carole Robertson Cynthia Wesley Denise McNair Dorothy Malcolm Mae Murray Dorsey Wharlest Jackson Clifton Walker Rev. George E. Lee Lamar Smith Herbert Lee Vernon Dahmer Louis Allen James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner These are the names of just a few of the many brutally murdered Civil Rights Movement workers who put their lives on the line ...

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Profile of Intimate Partner Violence in Large Urban Counties in the U.S.

18 hours ago ago from RightsForMothers.com

The U. S. Department of Justice report, Profile of Intimate Partner Violence Cases in Large Urban Counties,   (October 2009) by Erica L. Smith and Donald J. Farole, Jr., Ph.D., was recently released.  I was fortunate enough to be able to attend a discussion with the authors on this report, accompanied by a judge from one of the sixteen urban counties that participated in the study.  Some of the highlighted information is below, with links to ...

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UPDATE: DONALD GATES CASE; D.C. JUDGE ORDERS INVESTIGATION OF FBI ANALYST'S WORK; INNOCENCE PROJECT PRESSES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION;

16 hours ago ago from the charles smith blog

"GATES WAS CONVICTED BASED IN PART ON IMPROPER TESTIMONY FROM AN FBI FORENSIC ANALYST WHOSE WORK HAS SINCE BEEN WIDELY DISCREDITED. ANALYST MICHAEL MALONE TESTIFIED AT GATES’ TRIAL THAT HAIRS FROM THE CRIME SCENE WERE "MICROSCOPICALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE" FROM GATES’ HAIRS. THIS STATEMENT VASTLY OVERSTATED THE CONCLUSIONS THAT CAN BE DRAWN FROM HAIR COMPARISON. ALTHOUGH A 1997 REPORT FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FOUND SIGNIFICANT ...

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