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JUVENILE LWOPS VIOLATE 8TH AMENDMENT
The Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on life sentences without parole for juveniles in non-homicide crimes, the ruling, already being viewed as a major Eighth Amendment decision, finds that such sentences categorically violate the bar against cruel and unusual punishments.
(LAW.COM)

 

WHY WE HAVE EXCLUSIONARY RULES
Even if this began as a horrible screw-up based on bad intel, the proper procedure should not have been to see this through to the end. As you can see from the video, these officers came into a family home where there were children and immediately started shooting.
(Suggested by John Milham)

CONLAW CLOUD
The "cloud," already well formed with Hotmail and Google docs, is a potential treasure trove for police investigators. But how can we make sure the cloud doesn't rain all over Americans' Fourth Amendment rights to avoid unfair searches? That's the goal of a new coalition behind the Web site.
(Suggested by Sean Duffy)

STEVENS BLOG SITE
This is a very nice collection of comments on Justice Stevens. I especially like this one:
"...walking into a Court reception, Stevens relieved a law clerk of the task another Justice had assigned her: serving coffee to that Justice and the other men in the room. 'Thank you for taking your turn with the coffee,' Stevens told her. 'I think it's my turn now.'
(LEGAL TIMES)

IN YOUR FACEBOOK!
Denise New's 16 year old son filed charges against her last month and requested a no contact order after he claims she posted slanderous entries about him on the social networking site. New says she was just trying to monitor what he was posting.
(KATV)

FORENSICS CHALLENGED
In her first public comments about her controversial 2008 ruling disallowing fingerprint evidence in a high-profile death penalty case, Baltimore County Circuit Judge Susan Souder called fingerprint examination "subjective" and said she hoped better standards would be created to improve the reliability of the evidence.
(CATONSVILLE TIMES)

FORENSICS PRACTICES CHALLENGED BY JUDGE
In a move that may be a first, federal District Judge Nancy Gertner of Boston has put defense lawyers and prosecutors on notice that they should no longer assume that evidence routinely accepted in the courts is reliable. Defense lawyers, she wrote, should vigorously challenge fingerprints, bullet identification, handwriting, and other trace evidence, and prosecutors should be prepared to show it is valid. "In the past, the admissibility of this kind of evidence was effectively presumed, largely because of its pedigree ? the fact that it had been admitted for decades," Gertner wrote. "As such, counsel rarely challenged it, and if it were challenged, it was rarely excluded or imited. That needs to change," she said.
(BOSTON GLOBE, suggested by Carlos Williams)

ACT NOW
In September 2009, the House of Representatives passed the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA), including in the bill the repeal of the "Aid Elimination Penalty" for students convicted of drug possession offenses. Last week Congress was poised to include the entirety of the SAFRA legislation into the health care reconciliation bill. But, because the process does not allow amendments that directly change policy (or, more correctly, it would have required the "super majority" vote), the amendment was taken out of the bill. If you would like to pressure Congress to repeal this draconian measure CLICK HERE
(STUDENTS FOR SENSIBLE DRUG POLICY)

BEFORE BROWN
Before Brown, There Was Mendez examines the impact of a 1947 decision which found the segregation of Mexican-American school children unconstitutional. Mendez v. Westminster proved to be critical in the analysis used seven years later in attacking segregation and which culminated in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.
(IMMIGRATION POLICY CENTER)

FILLY JIHADI
For years, Jihad Jane had been a joke to those who kept tabs on her online. When Web-monitoring groups learned her true identity and laughed at photos of Colleen R. LaRose, the Muslim sympathizer from Montgomery County, quaffing beer in photos on her MySpace page. But then she crossed a line.
(PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER)

I SPY WITH MY LITTLE OLE FBI
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has obtained a Justice Department document that shows U.S. law enforcement agencies are mining social media sites like FaceBook and Twitter, undercover logging as "Friends" and exchanging messages with suspects, targeting friends or relatives of suspects and browsing private information such as postings, personal photographs and video clips. That "poke" you get just might not be so friendly
(AP, suggested by CARLOS WILLIAMS)

DUMBERER
A North Carolina man has been sentenced to three days in jail for violating probation by leaving the state to appear on The Jerry Springer Show.The Gaston Gazette reported Thursday that Richard Peterson's probation officer spotted him on the TV program taped in Connecticut. The 30-year-old man and his girlfriend got all-expenses-paid trip to appear on the show, where Peterson boasted about a one-night stand with a stripper and the rest is, well, media history.
(Jerry Springer Show, suggested by WKRG-TV)

MUTINY TRIAL SET OFF
Nearly a year after a bloody mutiny, 86 out of the 700-900 paramilitary troopers of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) who allegedly took part in the massacre of 74 people, including many Bangladeshi Army officers, went to trial in Dhaka, Bangladesh at the very scene of the 33-hour murder spree. But just as quickly, the trial was continued.

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(HINDU TIMES, suggested by DEMOTIX)

GOOD REFERENCE SITE
This site is run by the Washington Post, it offers profiles of government decision-makers,including lawmakers, administration officials, Hill staffers, lobbyists and political strategists. The profiles are linked to WashingtonPost.com stories. Make sure you check out the blog The Plum Line.
(WHORUNSGOV.COM, suggested by THE HILL)

GROW ROOMS VIDEO
If you've ever even remotely considered putting a grow room in your house, think twice. This video was shot by police officers as they entered these two homes. It resulted in a federal prosecution. (See "Stand By Your Woman" below.)Now, imagine sitting there while they play this video?

REGULATED COMMERCIAL DOUBLE SPEAK
Not more than a week after the Tebow anti-abortion Super Bowl Ad flap, CBS has rejected a paid advertisement from NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), that was intended to appear on the CBS Super Screen billboard in New York City's Times Square. The fifteen-second ad, asserting that taxing and regulating the adult use and sale of marijuana would raise national revenue, was scheduled to appear on CBS' 42nd Street digital billboard but the idea was scotched by higher-ups at CBS Headquarters.
(NORML, suggested by ALTERNET)

STANDING BY HIS WOMAN
For the second time in as many months, Dom Soto has walked his man - or, in this case, woman - out of a federal prosecution involving a major drug conspiracy. On Wednesday afternoon, US District Judge Kristi Dubose granted Soto's Motion for Judgment of Acquittal as to Yzumy Rodriquez who was accused of having taken part in a marijuana growing operation involving three houses in the Eight Mile area. Law enforcement authorities raided the properties in October and found 500 marijuana plants in the three homes, one of those homes owned by Rodriguez's husband. The trial continues with Juan Sabina and Rodriquez' husband Jose Noriega standing trial.
(MOBILE PRESS REGISTER)

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