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Sentencing Law and Policy
Assessing reasons for California’s steep drop in death sentences in 2011
Main December 30, 2011Assessing reasons for California's steep drop in death sentences in 2011The Los Angeles Times has this new piece noting the signficant drop in California in the number…
Criminal
Tough on Crime, Smart on Crime
By Ken Shigley
(The following President's column appeared in the December 2011 issue of the Georgia Bar Journal.) My first job after law school was as an assistant district attorney in the small…
Food Safety News
Have the Feds Finally Found Food Producers They Can Throw the Book At?
Though Peanut Corp of America has been cited for responsibility in nine deaths and more than 700 illnesses from Salmonella in its peanut butter, its president, Stewart Parnell, has remained…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Setting my DVR for “Weed Wars”
Main November 27, 2011Setting my DVR for "Weed Wars"As detailed on this official website, the Discovery Channel will begin broadcasting this coming week a new four-part series titled "Weed Wars."…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Federal prosecutor in Western NY (wisely?) recommending lots of capital prosecutions
Main October 24, 2011Federal prosecutor in Western NY (wisely?) recommending lots of capital prosecutionsThis lengthy new piece out of Buffalo, which is headlined "William Hochul puts death penalty to frequent…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Kansas Prosecutors Say Key Evidence in Case Against Planned Parenthood Was Destroyed
The Kansas City Star: Key evidence in Planned Parenthood case destroyed, prosecutors say, by Brad Cooper & Joe Lambe:The country’s first criminal prosecution of Planned Parenthood was left teetering Friday…
MS Litigation Review & Commentary
Why Wasn’t Ed Peters Prosecuted for Mississippi State Crimes?
That's a question that was asked in this weekend's Clarion-Ledger article by Jerry Mitchell following the unsealing of Ed Peters' grand jury testimony [available here courtesy of NMC] in Scruggs-gate. …
Sentencing Law and Policy
Are Ventura County prosecutors involved in a kind of “kids for cash” scheme by trying more juves as adults?
Main August 31, 2011Are Ventura County prosecutors involved in a kind of "kids for cash" scheme by trying more juves as adults?The provocative question in the title of this post…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: “Taking Plea Bargaining Seriously: Reforming Pre-Sentence Reports after Padilla v. Kentucky” by Jack Chin
"Taking Plea Bargaining Seriously: Reforming Pre-Sentence Reports after Padilla v. Kentucky" St. Louis University Public Law Review, Forthcoming GABRIEL JACKSON CHIN, University of California, Davis, School of Law.ABSTRACT: This essay…
Sentencing Law and Policy
NYC prosecutors now seeking to dismiss rape charges against DSK
Main August 22, 2011NYC prosecutors now seeking to dismiss rape charges against DSKThis new AP story, headlined "Prosecutors seek to dismiss Strauss-Kahn charges," provides the latest notable twist on a…