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9 Jul 2015, 8:18 pm by Stephen Bilkis
Although the statute grants the trial court broad discretion to dismiss a petition in the furtherance of justice, the reason for the dismissal must be "readily identifiable and sufficiently compelling;" The Court concluded that it was a " rare and unusual case [that] cries out for fundamental justice beyond the confines of conventional considerations'". [read post]
9 Jul 2015, 6:00 am by Administrator
” However, Justice Osler added the wrinkle that “the person so undertaking must know that he has no such power. [read post]
9 Jul 2015, 5:14 am by SHG
Update:  Murray Newman, who knows stuff inside the Harris County Criminal Justice Center, provides a great deal of backstory to the Temple investigation and this decision. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
The American instinct is to hear this most recent information and immediately ask about criminal charges. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 11:17 am by Lisa A. Mazzie
Homosexuality was considered a psychiatric disorder until 1973, and same-sex intimacy had been criminalized until well into the 20th century. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 10:56 am
In lawsuits filed in both state and federal court in San Francisco today, EFF asked judges to order the Justice Department and California to turn over the requested records. ''The federal government, specifically the Drug Enforcement Administration, has taken pains to hide its use of Hemisphere, telling police agencies to 'never refer to Hemisphere in any official document,''' said Hanni Fakhoury, EFF senior staff attorney. ''The public has a… [read post]
7 Jul 2015, 8:38 am by Marc Climaco
As part of the ACLU’s goal of reforming our prisons and ending mass incarceration, we work on criminal justice reform for LGBT people and people with HIV. [read post]
6 Jul 2015, 9:30 am by Michael Knapp
  After all, the concern with continued retention of electronic copies is centered on privacy interests, not possessory interests. [read post]
5 Jul 2015, 9:30 pm by Quinta Jurecic
  Thursday, July 9th at 2 pm: The Stimson Center will host a launch event for "Confronting the Crisis of Global Governance," a new report of the Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 1:55 pm by John Floyd
In 2010, the Poison Control Centers received only 304 calls about bath salts. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 5:54 am by Amy Howe
United States, in which the Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutionally vague, “is a huge deal in the Ninth Circuit. [read post]
2 Jul 2015, 5:30 am by Kori Shafer-Stack
  However, investigators from the Montana Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation and Montana State Fund learned after observing surveillance video footage in 2013 that Christensen was actively engaged in construction activities, including walking up and down a ladder several times, lifting pieces of lumber, stacking lumber, and throwing lumber. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 7:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But we're talking about diverting tens of thousands of juvenile cases out of the criminal justice system which is nothing to sneeze at. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 10:01 pm by Dan Flynn
  The FBI, the Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Branch, and the U.S. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 6:55 pm by Samuel Goldberg
I invite you to watch as the cases go down into the trenches of the criminal justice system. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 7:28 am
 I’m considerably less delighted that we arrived there because 5 Justices of the Supreme Court have so decided the matter. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 1:30 pm by Kali Borkoski
This morning the Court issued opinions in Johnson v. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 10:14 am
The Court has indeed long held that marriage is a fundamental right, and few would dispute Kennedy’s claim that the “institution [is] at the center of…many facets of the legal and social order. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 6:56 am
 NOTES:1 Julia Kozma, Manfred Nowak and Martin Scheinin, A World Court of Human Rights - Consolidated Statute and Commentary (Vienna: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2010). [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 3:00 am by Jeff Welty
At Sentencing Law & Policy, Professor Doug Berman notes that Justice Kennedy – the critical swing vote in so many of the Court’s decisions in recent years – has essentially asked for litigation over the constitutionality of the long-term use of solitary confinement. [read post]