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Texas Lawyer

Inadmissible: Judge Resigned, Runs

By | January 06, 2014
The ex-judge who voluntarily resigned amid allegations that she had improper ex parte communications by texting a prosecutor during a trial is now campaigning to become an elected prosecutor herself.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Life Without Parole: A Sentence That's Cruel but Not Unusual

The American Civil Liberties Union recently released a report aptly titled "A Living Death." It deals with the phenomenon of life sentencing without possibility of parole. Known as "LWOP," it might as aptly be called "LWOH," for life without hope.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Bills Take Aim at 'Knockout Game,' In Which Strangers Are Attacked

New Jersey lawmakers are targeting a new breed of criminal activity, couched as a game, that has led to sometimes fatal assaults on innocent people.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

DOJ Surveillance Law Memo Can Remain Secret, Court Says

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit says the government can keep secret a 2010 Justice Department memo addressing the authority and legality of FBI phone surveillance.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Cancer-Stricken Inmate Seeks Release Before Death

A dying bank robber, now serving the last 24 months of a 16-year prison sentence, may not fully understand the scope of the pro bono effort that's been organized to help him. But the state's largest law firm is embroiled in an 11th-hour plea to secure his release.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Search and Seizure Law Isn't Going to the Dogs

The U.S. Supreme Court made the right decision in holding that police officers, who used a drug-sniffing dog on a defendant's front porch to investigate a tip that marijuana was growing inside, conducted an unconstitutional search.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Yale Rejects Bid To Rescind Honorary Degree

An organization representing victims of asbestos exposure was appalled after last year's conviction in an Italian court of a Swiss billionaire accused of creating an environmental disaster that led to thousands of people dying from asbestos-related illnesses.
4 minute read

The Recorder

United States v. Dharni

By | January 03, 2014
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

AG Joins Amici Opposing 'Straw Purchase' of Guns

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has joined an amicus brief in which a coalition of states are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to find that firearm "straw purchases" violate federal law regardless of whether the buyer is legally eligible to purchase a gun.
2 minute read

The Recorder

People v. Carboni

By | January 03, 2014
4 minute read

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