Diane Dimonds Weekly Column

Searching the Family DNA Tree to Solve Crime

Diane Dimond | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Searching the Family DNA Tree to Solve Crime, Colorado Leads the Way on Familial DNA Testing, Diane Dimond, American Civil Liberties Union, Solving Cold Cases, Lonnie David Franklin, The Grim Sleeper Serial Killer Case, California Uses Familial DNA Testing, States Using Familial DNA Testing, Familial DNA Testing, Maryland Rejects Familiar DNA Testing, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Morgan Harrington, Aclu, Dan and Gil Harrington, Codis: Combined DNA Index System, Cold Case, Denver News

We all get how important the discovery of DNA has been in identifying criminals over the years. But DNA technology has now graduated and for the most part states just haven't kept up.

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Tragedies Like Japan Spawn Charity Crimes

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diane Dimond, Red Cross, Unicef, State's Attorneys General Issue Warning on Japan Charity, Facebook and Japan Charity Fraud, Phone Scams, Charity Scams, Tragedies Like Japan Spawn Crime, Charity Navigator's Web Site After Japan's Catastrophe So Many of US Hit the Web for News It Was Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel for the Dishonest. Fraudsters Had Laid Charity Traps, FBI's Jenny Shaerer, Charity to Japan, Doctors Without Borders, Internet Crime Complaint Center, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Japan's Quake and Tsunami Charity, Charity Fraud, Internet Fraud and Japan, Cyber Criminals and Japan Tragedy, Salvation Army, Impact News

It's not too late to give to charities serving the victims in Japan - Just give C-A-R-E-F-U-L-L-Y, please. Another tragedy born of Mot...

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Our Youngest Lifers

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 14 Year Old Murderer, Our Youngest Lifers, Child's Brain Not Like Adults, Human Rights Watch, 2, David Berkowitz Has Four Parole Hearings, Charles Manson Up for 12th Parole Hearing, U.S. Only Nation to Imprison Children for Life Without Parole, Quantel Lotts, Disposable Kids, 574 American Children Sentenced to Life Without Parole, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Jordan Brown, 8 Year Old Murderer, Rights of the Child Article 37 of UN Document, 11 Year Old Murderer, Lwop, Dimond, World News

America is also the only known nation in the world that allows children under the age of 18 to be tried as adults and sentenced to prison forever with absolutely no chance for parole.

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Civilian Court Wrong Place for Terror Trial

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bombing of U.S. Embassys, Ahmed Ghailani Verdict, Civilian Courts v.s. Military Courts, Diane Dimond, Ghailani Guilty on Only One Charge, Ghailani 285 Counts of Murder and Conspiracy to Murder, Civilian Court Wrong Place for Terror Trial, Eyewitness Hussein Abebe, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, First Guantanamo Prisoner in US Civilian Court, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, Politics News

The Obama administration had insisted on having the Ghailani trial in civilian court as a sort of proof to the rest of the world of America's moral superiority. But the end result to this test case was a near disaster.

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Thieves Target Your Children

Diane Dimond | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Diane Dimond, Thieves Target Your Children, Identity Theft Resource Center, Children's SSN's Stolen, Social Security Administration, Identity Theft, Credit Check Your Child's SSN, The Minors 17-10 Database, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Stolen SSN, Healthy Living News

Do you remember when you got your first Social Security card? I do. I was about 14 years old and wanted to take a part time job at a Dairy Queen whi...

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The Media Lies to You -- Beware!

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reality TV, Obama's State Dinner, Diane Dimond, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, The Media Lies to You, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Congresswoman Sheeila Jackson Lee, Cirque Du Salahi Be Careful Who You Trust, Congressional Homeland Security Committee, Politics News

I took some time off my regular schedule to write a book. It's all about how we as a society have abrogated our opinion-making and handed it over to ...

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Keeping the "Most Dangerous" Locked Up Indefinitely

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diane Dimond, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Nushawn Williams, Keeping Prisoners Past Their Release Date, Civil Committment, Man Deliberately Spread AIDs, Politics News

You are the judge and jury on this one. There are a lot of numbers to take into account here so read carefully. A man who knew he was HIV positive ...

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Why Do We Tolerate Parents Who Let Kids Go 'Barefoot'?

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Troubled Childhood of Colton Harris-Moore, Harris-Moore Arrested in the Bahamas, Diane Dimond, Camano Island Washington, Colton Harris-Moore, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, The Barefoot Bandit, Why Do We Tolerate Parents Who Let Kids Go ?Barefoot'?, Media News

Across the country these days - in every village, town, city and state - there is a collective effort to slash operating budgets. That's probably a wi...

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When Neighbors Help Neighbors Fight Crime

Diane Dimond | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: UNC Health Care, Theodore Walker, Melissa Williams, Diane Dimond, When Neighbors Help Neighbors Fight Crime, Freddie Shelton, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Chapel Hill North Carolina, RBC Bank, Joey Shelton, Healthy Living News

This is the America I told my daughter we lived in when she was growing up. "If you're ever in trouble, honey, just ask your neighbor for help. Fin...

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Connecticut's Catholic Church Just Doesn't Get It

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diane Dimond, Statute of Limitations on Child Abuse, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Beth Bye, Dr. George Reardon, Archbishop Henry Mansell, Beth Bye Connecticut, St. Francis Hospital Hartford, Rep. Beth Bye, George Reardon, Connecticut Catholic Church, Catholic Church Connecticut, Henry Mansell, Religion News

If this is how the Church reacts to allegations against Dr. George Reardon, a lay member of a Catholic institution, imagine what kind of lengths it would go to in protecting one of its criminal priests.

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Some Sex Crimes Get a Pass - Why?

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diane Dimond, Attorney Wendy Murphy, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Defense Lawyer Mickey Sherman, Some Sex Crimes Get a Pass - Why? Statute of Limitations on Sex Crimes, Why Can't a Jury Hear About a Sex Criminals Past?, Politics News

By placing a limit on how far back the prosecutor can go to punish a sex predator aren't we telling countless victims that the justice system doesn't apply to them?

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Glorifying the Criminal

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frank Lucas, He Hooked a Generation on Heroin, Diane Dimond, Ike Atkinson Aka Sergeant Smack, Ridley Scott, American Gangster, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Blue Magic Heroin, Glorifying the Criminal, Denzell Washington, Books News

Frank Lucas is a proven liar and many of his oft-repeated fabrications have found their way into this book, presented as truth. Why should anyone buy it?

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Keeping the World Out of the Courtroom

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diane Dimond, Instructions to the Jury, State Senator Vincent Fumo, Restricting Jurors Internet Contact, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Florida's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee, Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Not Allowed in Court, Keeping the World Out of the Courtroom, Dr. Robert Lindeman Aka "Flea", Media News

Our justice system is playing technological catch up with the times. We're long past the point where a simple "do not discuss this case amongst yourselves or with others" will do the trick.

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The Impact of Victim's Impact Statements

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brent King, Could You Talk to Your Child's Killer?, Diane Dimond, Carrie McGonigle, Chelsea King, John Gardner, The Impact of Victim, Amber Dubois, Kelly King, Impact Statements, Registered Sex Offenders Who Kill, Could You Forgive Your Child's Killer?, Pedophile Killers, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Victim Imact Statements, Maurice DuBois, Impact News

Imagine being in a room with the person who murdered your child. How would you react? What would you want to say to the killer? Every day in Americ...

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Our Nation's New Drug Policy - NOT!

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Treatment Works, Diane Dimond, Failed "War on Drugs" Redux, 15.5 Billion Dollar Anti-Drug Policy, Portugal's Success in Drug Treatment vs Incarceration, Our Nation's New Drug Policy - NOT, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, LEAP Executive Director Neill Franklin, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, 65% of Money Goes to Law Enforcement, Drug Czar Gil Kerlikoske, Politics News

What we've done for the last 40 years has not worked. So, why would we continue down the same path? What would happen if we put the emphasis on anti-drug therapy and education?

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Death by Train -- A Teenage Trend?

Diane Dimond | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Death by Train, Diane Dimond, Death by Train - a Teenage Trend?, Palo Alto California, Teen Suicide, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Gina Gentile, Norwood Pennsylvania, Vanessa Dorwart, Healthy Living News

If we don't communicate about the horrors suicide leaves behind for survivors, then we deny our kids knowledge and perspective that might save them.

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Committing Adultery? You Could Go to Jail

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adultery Still Illegal in More Than 20 States, Diane Dimond, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Tiger Woods' Apology, Committing Adultery? You Could Go to Jail, Adultery Laws, Tiger Woods Affair, Tiger Woods, Sports News

If you're thinking of stepping out on your spouse you might want to check your local law first. In more than 20 states, including Florida, adultery is punishable by a fine or even jail-time.

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Domestic Abuse - Celebrity Style

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlie Sheen, Aspen Colorado, Diane Dimond, Carlos Irwin Estevez, Charlie Sheen's History of Violence, District Attorney Arnold Mordkin, Brooke Mueller Sheen, Judge James Boyd, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Yale Galanter, Domestic Abuse, Entertainment News

Inside a cozy courtroom in Aspen, Colorado this week I came face to face with Carlos Irwin Estevez as he appeared to face multiple domestic abuse charges. You probably know him as Charlie Sheen.

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Good News for a Change!

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diane Dimond, Crime Stoppers, Crime Statistics, Crime Statistics 2009, Crime Stoppers Chairman Lt. Tom Kern, 2009 Crime Rates Lowest in 40 Years, Crime Rates Down for 2009, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Morris County New Jersey Crime Stoppers Chairman John Sette, Some Good Crime Stat News for a Change!, Impact News

Am I a Pollyanna to think that maybe the hard economic times we've all gone through the last couple of years resulted a communal feeling fighting the same common enemy, and we're less likely now to victimize our fellow survivors?

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Where Guns Go to Die

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diane Dimond, Smelters for Gun Destruction, Shredded Guns, What Do Police Do With Confiscated Guns?, Diane Dimond's Weekly Column, Gun Destruction Programs, Melted Guns, Where Guns Go to Die, National Association of Police Chiefs, Fbi, Confiscated Guns, Atf, Tamco, Politics News

We want police to get dangerous guns off the street, right? Well, they are -- in record numbers. Now the problem is what to do with all those confiscated guns.

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