Criminal Law

Even Terrorists Deserve to Be Sentenced

Jonathan Hafetz | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Criminal Law, Constitution, Terrorism, Military Commissions, Guantanamo, September 11, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Bay, 9/11, Politics News

Most of the 169 remaining Guantanamo detainees will never be charged in court. They will thus never be given what those accused of the most serious terrorist offenses receive: the opportunity to be tried and sentenced if found guilty.

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Verdicts Handed Down In D.C. Activists' Trial

HuffingtonPost.com | Arin Greenwood | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Abortion, Dc, Law, Video, Hayden Panettiere, District of Columbia, Paul Strauss, Voting Rights, DC Voting Rights, Trials, Criminal Law, D.C., D.C. Superior Court, DC News

WASHINGTON -- D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin handed down verdicts on Wednesday in the trial of eight D.C. activists arrested last April whi...

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Arrested D.C. Voting Rights Protesters Plan First Amendment Defense

HuffingtonPost.com | Arin Greenwood | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Law, First Amendment, Video, Vincent Gray, District of Columbia, DC Vote, Criminal Law, Michael A. Brown, d.c. Voting Rights, Ann Wilcox, D.C., Michael D. Brown, Protesters, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Eight District of Columbia voting rights activists arrested at an April rally on Capitol Hill will go to trial in the D.C. Superior Cour...

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Ai Weiwei: Artist, Dissident and ... Tax Evader?

Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Chinese Criminal Law, Detention, Human Rights Watch, Ai Weiwei, Phelim Kine, Article 201, Article 211, China, Rule of Law, Criminal Law, Taxes, Taxe Evasion, Beijing Fake Cultural Development Ltd., World News

If Ai Weiwei is determined to be a "personnel directly in charge" of the Beijing Fake Cultural Development Ltd. he could potentially be criminally and economically liable.

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Lock-up: What Behind the Mass Incarceration Across the Nation?

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crimes, Criminal Law, Felony, Jim Crow, Jim Crow Laws, Michelle Alexander, Racial Caste System, Racialized Social Control, Social Control, The New Jim Crow, War on Drugs, Misdemeanors, Mass Incarceration, Mass-Incarceration-and-Colorblindness, Colorblindness, Politics News

Where have all the black men gone? Michelle Alexander, in her recently released book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, answers the question head on.

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Prayer, Confession and the Police

Mark Osler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice System, Interrogation, Berghuis v. Thompkins, Interrogation Techniques, Separation of Church and State, Religion News

Are we comfortable with prayer being used as a technique to get confessions? For many of us, there is something deeply troubling about this trend, which has been almost uniformly approved of by courts.

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Criminalizing Friendship: Immigration Foes Overreach

Tim Lynch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Enforcement, Criminal Law, Undocumented Immigrants, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration Law, Politics News

Do you know anyone that is in the country illegally? If you do, you had better watch your step. Millions of Americans may have violated federal immigration law and are probably unaware of it.

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Minor Infractions: Supreme Court to Hear Case Involving Immigrants With Low-Level Possession Offenses

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Caribbean Returnees, CARICOM Returnees, Criminal Law, Federal Immigration Law, Idp, Immigrant Defense Project, National Immigrant Justice Center, Carachuri-Rosendo, Crimmigration, Gary Patrick Anderson, Breaking Political News, Martin Escobar, Praxedis Castro-Rodriguez, Donald Overton Powell, Politics News

One week from today the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder which can potentially impact countless legal immigrants and asylum seekers.

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Gatesgate: They've All Got It Wrong.

Lionel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jim Crowley, Criminal Law, Skip Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Racial Profiling, Cambridge Police, Politics News

The case has forced Americans to look at the issue of policing from the perspectives of African-Americans and cops themselves. If we're smart we'll learn from this.

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The Criminal (In)justice System

Saul Segan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Legal System, Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, Pharmacist, Criminal Justice System, Self-Defense, Politics News

Pharmacist Jerome Erslund was accosted by two gunmen in his place of business and is now being charged with murder.

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Too Close to Home: Human Trafficking in Canada

Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Canada, Human Rights, Criminal Law, Human Trafficking, Female Trafficking, Women's Rights, Human-Trafficking, Child Trafficking, Canadian Trafficking Laws, Canadian Human Trafficking, World News

Human trafficking is a rampant problem in Canada, and one that is not being addressed.

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Free Miguel Tejada

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Instead of imaginative prosecutors stretching the law to go after stupid lies in hotel rooms, baseball should take strong, decisive, and immediate action to clean up the game.

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The Devastating Consequences of Prosecutorial Misconduct

John Terzano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, Exculpatory Evidence, The Justice Project, Post-Conviction Dna, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Murder, US Prison System, Prison System, Prison, Crime, Criminal Justice System, Prisoners, Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, Politics News

Tim Masters was fifteen years old at the time of his alleged crime, and was not convicted until 12 years later. He languished in prison for almost ten years, and spent half his life trying to prove his innocence.

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The Case for Evidence Preservation

John Terzano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Evidence Preservation, Prison, Crime, Dna Evidence, Biological Evidence, Criminal Law, Rolando Cruz, Politics News

Post-conviction DNA testing has lead to the exoneration of more than 200 wrongfully convicted individuals in the United States. But testing cannot take place unless the evidence is preserved.

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Take the Handcuffs Off the Economic Recovery

Eric E. Sterling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Criminals, Criminal Law, Prison, Felons, Politics News

The economic effect of more than ten million American adults who can't buy cars, houses, furniture, appliances, or other durable goods is like 9-11, Katrina, and every other hurricane combined.

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The Food of Love, Eat It or Else!

Ivan Katz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Classical Music, Susan J. Fornot-Lippencott, Andrew Vactor, Judicial Follies, Champaign County, Champaign County Municipal Court, Sentencing, Noise Ordinances, Criminal Law, Media News

It is, in theory, difficult to criticize a judge for seeking to craft a sentence that fits the offense, but doing so on such trivial matters as noise ordinance violations is a massive waste of judicial resources.

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