Tag: criminal justice system
member name: Duane B.
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March 28, 2006 11:45 AM EST --
The comments in response to my first posting on the proposed South Carolina law to allow the death penalty for persons twice convicted for criminal sexual conduct with children under the age of eleven . . .
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July 01, 2007 04:55 PM EDT --
The chief prosecutor of St Louis is preparing to release a report that took two years to develop that may show that convicted murderer Larry Griffin, executed in 1995, was innocent of the crime. . . .
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December 14, 2007 04:29 PM EST --
The New Jersey legislature is set to pass a bill to abolish the death penalty and the Governor has said he will sign the bill into law, becoming the first state in forty years to . . .
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July 26, 2006 09:45 AM EDT --
The State of Georgia has come up with the perfect solution to the problem of supervising its estimated 10,000 convicted sex offenders: export them to other states. A new Georgia state . . .
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October 08, 2006 01:03 PM EDT --
A New York man has been freed from jail after serving 21 years for a rape that he did not commit. Scott Fappiano, 44, was released after DNA evidence proved that he was not guilty of the . . .
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December 27, 2006 09:49 AM EST --
During the last few decades the state and local governments has taken a much stronger stance against domestic violence against women, although estimates of the problem indicate that many cases . . .
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October 30, 2006 01:59 PM EST --
I have posted below a link to a Newsweek article dealing with the new efforts of cities to deal with the homeless/panhandling problems by forbidding churches and other non-profits from . . .
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December 29, 2006 09:27 AM EST --
The US Department of Justice has issued a report that indicates that domestic violence rates have fallen by more than fifty percent from 1993 to 2004. The sharp decline is attributed to a number of factors . . .
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April 03, 2006 02:46 PM EDT --
In previous chapters on my article on why I think we should commute all death sentences to life without parole I have alluded to the many things that can go wrong in the normal process of identifying, . . .
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April 07, 2006 12:21 PM EDT --
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In recent days we have been treated to another wonderful example of exactly the wrong message being sent in a situation involving sex and a teenager. . . .
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April 11, 2006 02:23 PM EDT --
This chapter will deal with the issues of faked or innaccurate forensic lab work, poor legal representation and official misconduct on the part of the police and prosecutors. Again, . . .
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May 18, 2006 11:32 AM EDT --
The history of the modern insanity defense starts in 1843, 163 years ago in England, when Daniel McNaughton shot and killed the Secretary to the Prime Minister because he thought the Prime Minister was . . .
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March 17, 2008 10:10 AM EDT --
This week the Supreme Court will hear arguments concerning the Second Amendment of the Constitution, the amendment that deals with the issue of the right to "bear arms" and exactly . . .
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July 31, 2006 10:08 AM EDT --
My first article on sexual hysteria, Breast Hysteria, outlined the American obsession with breasts and the revulsion, in some quarters, with the concept and images of a mother breast-feeding her infant. . . .
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December 31, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
We rarely see a person with a physical illness or injury that is offered treatment and refuses. In fact, we know that that are literally millions of Americans who have physical . . .
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April 26, 2008 02:00 PM EDT --
The Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act commonly referred to as the RICO laws that were originally used to prosecute organized crime activities have in recent years been . . .
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May 08, 2006 12:25 PM EDT --
Earl Washington was pardoned by Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore in 2000 after DNA tests proved that he was innocent of the rape and murder of Rebecca Williams in 1982. Mr. Washington was in jail for . . .
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June 07, 2006 10:34 AM EDT --
Lee Baca, the Sheriff of LA County thinks it is and he said so and an interview with CNN. The criminal justice system in LA is overwhelmed with the sheer volume of arrests that are . . .
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August 26, 2006 09:05 AM EDT --
The California Senate approved a bill to permit the distribution of condoms in California jails if signed by Governor Schwarzenegger. Opponents of the bill claim that the distribution of . . .
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April 30, 2007 08:54 AM EDT --
I own a gun. It is a .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle . . .
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