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National Law Journal

Hate Crime Statutes Don't Impede Free Thought, They Deter Crime

OPINION: New criticism has followed recent applications of these statutes. But they're needed.
9 minute read

National Law Journal

IN BRIEF: Mark Zuckerberg Testifies, Defends Facebook-Oculus Deal

By | January 23, 2017
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a Dallas federal courtroom Jan. 17 that he did not buy stolen technology when his company purchased the virtual reality developer Oculus for $2 billion in 2014. Plus more in this week's column.
16 minute read

Daily Business Review

Timing of Mexico Drug Lord's Extradition Seen as Political

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's abrupt exit to face charges in the U.S. marks the end of an era in which he was Mexico's most notorious drug cartel boss and, for some, the stuff of folk legend.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Common-Law Forfeiture Doesn't Exist in Pa., Court Says

The concept of common-law forfeiture does not exist in Pennsylvania and the state government has no legal basis, absent statutory authority, for seizing so-called derivative contraband, the Commonwealth Court en banc has ruled.
12 minute read

The Recorder

People v. Jones

By | January 20, 2017
4 minute read

The Recorder

In re Miles

By | January 20, 2017
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Fulton Commission OKs $6M in Justice Reinvestment Spending

The Fulton County Commission has approved more than $6 million in spending for the county's Justice Reinvestment Initiative, a multipronged program aimed at reducing the population at the Fulton County Jail, improving behavioral health care for inmates and moving cases more quickly through the courts.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Perils of Resisting Extradition to the United States

In their International Criminal Law and Enforcement column, Nicholas M. De Feis and Philip C. Patterson reviews 'United States v. Tuzman', where a defendant was subjected to "provisional arrest" in Colombia at the United States' request and sent to the notorious La Picota prison in Bogota, and then had to fight to be extradited.
16 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Roche, PICS Case No. 17-0063 (Pa. Super. Jan. 4, 2017) Stevens, P.J. (20 pages).

By | January 20, 2017
Trial court properly convicted appellant of two counts of first-degree murder and appellant's challenge to the denial of his motion to suppress his statements to the police failed because the credible testimony of the officer who took appellant's Miranda waiver showed that appellant was not impaired by alcohol and appellant waived his challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence by failing to specify the elements upon which the evidence was allegedly insufficient. Affirmed.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Vargas, PICS Case No. 17-0048 (C.P. Monroe Nov. 21, 2016) Patti-Worthington, P.J. (13 pages).

By | January 20, 2017
Despite a plea agreement of guilty and nolo contendere in return for dropping other charges, a husband accused of indecent assault and videotaping his wife and minor children in the shower fled the country to avoid sentencing. When finally apprehended and returned for trial, he sought to revoke his pleas on grounds they were involuntary and unknowing. The court denied the motion.
10 minute read

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