Prosecution

Human Trafficking a Growing Global Scourge

Andrew Lam | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Trafficking, Slavery, Sex Trafficking, Vietnam, Prosecution, Eritrea, Sex Trade, Black Market, Human Trafficking, Organ Harvesting, Crime News

Human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal business in the world, according to the State Department. It ranks only second to drug trafficking in profitability, bringing in an estimated $32 billion annually.

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If You Commit a Crime, Can You Escape Prosecution by Fleeing to a Native American Reservation?

Quora | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Native Americans, Native American Reservations, Legal Issues, Native American, Crime, Prosecution, Crime News

Each tribe sets the rules on how local and federal law enforcement operate on the reservation, within limits.

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For-Profit Criminal Prosecutions

Andrea Lyon | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Police, Crime, Public Defender, Prosecution, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Tabloid Journalism, Crime News

When there is publicity associated with a criminal prosecution, the ability for jurors, judges, and prosecutors and yes, sometimes even defense lawyers, to presume innocence becomes even more circumscribed.

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Rule Following Is for Both Government and Citizens

Brad Reid | Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Dismissal of Criminal Charges, Over-Zealous, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Prosecution, Business News

The important lesson for all is that "winning" is not the only thing. Winning is the outcome of superior products and services in the business context. Winning in law should mean that justice under law is served.

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Sometimes the Other Person Has a Point

Andrea Lyon | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Political Discord, Dna, Criminal Justice, Innocent, Innocence, Prosecutors, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Prosecution, Armchair Detective, Crime News

It is hard to admit a mistake, but for heaven's sake, there has to be a better way to evaluate a case than fighting simply to save the conviction.

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Vincent Tabak Denies Sex Thrill In Jo Yeates Killing

PA | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Trial, Sex Thrill, Jo Yeates, Tabak, Joanna Yeates Trial, Joanna Yeates, UK News, UK Crime, Lickley, Vincent Tabak, Bristol Crown Court, Pa, Strangling, Prosecution, Home News

Joanna Yeates's killer has been accused of strangling her for sexual thrills. Vincent Tabak denied claims he was aroused and gr...

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Study Of Blue Light Police Cameras Finds Crime Deterrence Depends On Police Response

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Blue Light Cameras, Cpd, Cook County State's Attorney, Urban Institute, Chicago Police Department, Urban Institute Study, Crime Rate, Chicago Impact, Study, Blue Light, Prosecution, Chicago News

A new study on the effectiveness of blue light police cameras found that crime rates do decrease as camera presence increases, but that poor video qua...

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Whose Prosecution Is it Anyway?

Andrea Lyon | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Overcriminalization, Death Penalty, Rhode Island, National Debt, Federal Deficit, Debt Ceiling, Prosecution, Crime News

There is a battle for state's rights in an unusual locale -- Rhode Island. It has to do with a man, Jason Pleau, who is charged with murder for gunning down a gas station manager outside a Woonsocket bank in that state.

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How The Dominique Strauss-Kahn Case Unraveled

The New York Times | Posted 09.02.2011

Read More: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Defense, Da, Crime, Case, Dsk, Maid, Strauss Kahn, Imf, Sexual Assault, Unraveled, Prosecution, Arrest, World News

A hotel housekeeper whose account of being sexually attacked was so compelling that it brought tears to the eyes of seasoned investigators. Preliminar...

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Punishment or Pushback: Financial Regulation in the Midst of Recession

David Coates | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Fraud, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Sec, Tom Coburn, Wall Street, Credit Rating Agencies, Main Street, Financial Crisis, Jamie Dimon, Bankers, Dodd-Frank, Carl Levin, Financial Regulation, Prosecution, Business News

While mainstream America continues to struggle with the recessionary consequences of a meltdown caused by financial excess, large financial institutions are back to profitability and back to their old ways.

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And the Academy Award for Cowardice Goes to...

David Morris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sec, JP Morgan, Deregulation, Banking, Criminal, Oscars, Ferguson, Wall Street, Academy Awards, Prosecution, Business News

As the successful prosecutions of Savings and Loan executives in the early 1990s proves, the federal government has the tools to prosecute those responsible for our economic mess. It simply lacks the inclination or courage to do so.

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The F Word: Time to Call It Torture

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UK, F Word, Britain, England, Guantanamo, Cameron, Obama, Guardian, Grit Tv, Prosecution, Bush, The F Word, Firedoglake, Cia, Laura Flanders, Grittv, New York Times, Torture Tapes, Torture, Media News

The New York Times is finally calling it torture -- when someone else has admitted to it.

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A Near Miss

Andrea Lyon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, Criminal Justice, Justice, Police, Eyewitness Identification, Prosecution, Innocence Project, Impact News

Witness memory is like any other evidence at a crime scene; it must be preserved carefully and retrieved methodically, or it can be contaminated.

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Connelly's The Reversal: Expect the Unexpected

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trials, Fathers and Daughters, Child Abduction, Michael Connelly, Prosecution, Murder, Los Angeles, Books News

In Michael Connelly's world, life is never predictable. His novels follow the same premise.

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Was It A Crime? Will Any Exec At Goldman Sachs Go To Jail?

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Sec, Prosecution, White Collar Crime, Jail?, Business News

Will Goldman survive the assault? Will the threat of criminal charges being pursued against the world's leading investment bank spill over onto others on Wall Street? Is the criminalization of the crisis underway, or is all this just a maneuver?

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Ken Lewis, Bank Of America: Repo 105 Antecedents At Lehman Brothers

Bronte Capital | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mufj, Repo 105, Bank of America, Erin Callan, Balance Sheets, Ken Lewis, Lehman Brothers, Financial Crisis, Bofa, Wall Street, Recession, Prosecution, Financial Regulation, Risk, Accounting, Ernst and Young, Business News

I agree with Felix Salmon that the former Lehman staffers who defend Repo 105 are psychopaths -- certifiably insane. They state (as if this justifies...

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Bush Ringleaders Could Face Citizen Arrests for Torture

Jeff Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Torture Prosecutions, Citizen Arrest, John Yoo, Prosecution, Torture, Politics News

In California, a citizen may make an arrest for a felony -- even if he or she didn't witness it.

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Stanford Anti-War Alumni, Students Call for Condi War Crimes Probe

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, War Crimes, Condoleezza Rice, Prosecution, Torture, Waterboarding, Stanford, Politics News

Last weekend, 150 activist alumni and present Stanford students targeted Condoleezza Rice for authorizing torture and misleading Americans into the illegal Iraq War.

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Obama's Dilemma -- Torture, Accountability and Partisanship

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Waterboarding, Legal, Partisanship, Barack Obama, Prosecution, Partisan Politics, Torture, Politics News

The treatment of prisoners during the Bush years is a stain on the moral standing of the US which the rest of the world will not easily forget.

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Living Memory, Torture, and Trials

Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuremberg Trials, Jay Bybee, Rule of Law, John Yoo, Bybee Memo, Torture, John Yoo Memo, Prosecution, World News

If we who prosecuted Germans at Nuremberg refuse to hold Americans to the same standard, we are depriving Nuremberg of its precedential value.

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Enough with the "First Hundred Days"

Alec Baldwin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, John McCain, Wall Street Bailout, Timothy Geithner Treasury Secretary, Celebrities Talk Politics, Bailout, 100 Days, Obama Administration, Geithner Taxes, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, Alberto Gonzales, Barack Obama, Prosecution, Politics News

Everyone seems to be on this "First Hundred Days" trip. What's Obama gonna do to clean up these disparate, enormous messes? Put out all the fires? Give it a rest. Obama might consider a few things, though.

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Asian Women: Rape And Hate Crimes

Jaemin Kim | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gawker Media, Ethnicity, Chinese, White People, Michael Phelps, Gawker.com, Videogames, Anime, Sexism, Dating, Defamer, Racism, Racial Stereotypes, African Americans, Korean, Rape, Rachel Getting Married, Gawker, Asian Americans, Washington State, Los Angeles, Sexuality, Black People, Stereotypes, Spokane, Asians, Japanese, Nerds, Hate Crimes, Violence Against Women, Prejudice, Legal, Prosecution, Justice, Bigotry, Interracial Dating, Sexual Violence, Interracial Relationships, Fetish, Sexual Assault, Laws, Asian Women, Bias Crime, Living News, Women, Asian Fetish, Caucasians, Sex Crimes, Salon.com, Media Responsibility, Media Bias, Healthy Living News

Reducing Asian women into a sexual object is not funny, it is not flattering. It is perilous. We can see this when Asian women are subject to race-targeted sexual violence.

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History is a Lousy Judge, Condoleezza

Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush Administration, Condoleezza Rice, Prosecution, Politics News

An investigation of the Bush administration must be undertaken by the Justice Department and by the Congress, not for the sake of history, but for the sake of all of us living now.

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Searching for Accountability in Gaza

Richard Bennet and Nicholas Quin | Posted 05.25.2011

In handling the case of the Gaza airstrikes, any war crimes prosecutor would be dealing with a mere snapshot of the greater Arab-Israeli conflict.

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Impeachment? Truth and Reconciliation Commission? No, Haul George Bush into a Court of Law, Part 2

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Murder, George Bush, John Conyers, US Military, Impeachment, Death Penalty, Iraq, Justice Department, House Judiciary Committee, Prosecution, Politics News

Vincent Bugliosi talks about prosecuting George Bush and his appearance before the House Judiciary Committee appearance.

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