• The Dietz Mental State Interview

    Updated: 2012-11-30 19:35:41
    HOME Main The Dietz Mental State Interview November 30, 2012 11:35 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments Dr . Park Dietz has an article in the current FBI Bulletin November 2012 titled Documenting a Suspect's State of Mind . Many investigators have interviewed suspects who seemed to know exactly what they were doing but learned a year later that the individuals claimed insanity . Or , perhaps , officers have obtained confessions only to discover that the defendants subsequently claimed themselves incapable of voluntarily . confessing What to do about it Should every suspect be promptly interviewed by a forensic psychiatrist That's probably not in the budget . nbsp Fortunately , it is not necessary . nbsp In a mental case , the defendant's mind is a crime scene . nbsp Just like physical

  • News Scan

    Updated: 2012-11-29 23:00:00
    HOME Main News Scan November 29, 2012 3:00 PM Posted by CJLF Staff 0 Comments US Prisons May House Guantanamo Detainees : The Associated Press reports that if Guantanamo Bay closes , detainees may be integrated into six Defense Department and 98 Justice department prisons in the United States according to a Government Accountability Office study . Of the 166 detainees , many are accused of plotting terrorist acts . There are currently 373 prisoners who were convicted of terrorism in U.S . . prisons Female Inmates Coming to Folsom Prison : The CimRiders Blog for the California Correctional Peace Officers Association reports the last 400 female inmates at the Valley State Prison for Women will be moved to Folsom State Prison . The unused Folsom Transitional Treatment Facility is being

  • Actress Lindsay Lohan Arrested on Assault and Battery Charges After Hitting Woman at Nightclub

    Updated: 2012-11-29 20:33:59
    Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Actress Lindsay Lohan Arrested on Assault and Battery Charges After Hitting Woman at Nightclub November 29, 2012 Posted In : Violent Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on November 29, 2012 3:33 PM Permalink At four o'clock this morning actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested in New York . It is alleged that Lohan slapped a woman at a New York City nightclub during an argument . The woman did not need medical treatment . Lohan is currently on probation in relation to a theft case having occurred last year . This arrest could result in Lohan being charged with a Probation Violation Read : Article Massachusetts

  • Unicorns and Plain Error

    Updated: 2012-11-29 17:59:02
    HOME Main Unicorns and Plain Error November 29, 2012 9:59 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments Adam Liptak has this article in the NYT on yesterday's Supreme Court argument in Henderson v . United States , No . 11-9307. The Supreme Court heard an unfocused argument on Wednesday from a Louisiana lawyer whose fumble at her client's sentencing hearing was at issue in the case . The lawyer's halting presentation put the justices in a collaborative and lighthearted mood , as they tried to puzzle out for themselves whether the sentence must stand . Unicorns figured in their . analysis The transcript is here The issue is the application of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure , not constitutional doctrine , so the holding will probably not make a binding precedent for state cases . nbsp It

  • What Happens When We "Save Money" on Law Enforcement

    Updated: 2012-11-29 13:43:05
    HOME Main Unicorns and Plain Error What Happens When We Save Money on Law Enforcement November 29, 2012 5:43 AM Posted by Bill Otis 0 Comments The CBS News Bureau in San Francisco carries this : report Oakland Crime Rate Soaring as City Loses Officers OAKLAND KCBS Burglaries are up a startling 43 percent in Oakland this year compared to last , part of an ever-growing crime problem in the . city According to the latest numbers from the Oakland Police Department , more than 11,000 homes , cars or businesses have been broken into so far this year translating to about 33 burglaries a day . The most popular targets have been cars with more than 5,700 burglarized so far this . year One of the most likely reasons for the sharp uptick in crime city officials said they believe it's the gradual loss

  • News Scan

    Updated: 2012-11-28 23:00:00
    HOME Main News Scan November 28, 2012 3:00 PM Posted by CJLF Staff 0 Comments CT Murderer Hogties , Strangles Prison Cellmate : Hilda Munoz of the Hartford Courant reports a jury convicted Connecticut prison inmate Jose Jusino of the 2009 murder of his cellmate Tuesday . Jusino was serving a 30-year sentence at the time of the killing . He had pleaded guilty to a murder in 2006. Jusino allegedly knocked his cellmate out with a punch to the head , hogtied him , then strangled him . Once dead , Jusino carved King Guala' into his cellmate's chest . King' refers to Jusino's desired gang and Guala' to his nickname . Despite Connecticut abolishing the death penalty last spring , Jusino is eligible because his crime took place before the law changed . TX Murderer Attempts Prison Escape , Kills

  • Firing Up Old Sparky

    Updated: 2012-11-28 19:51:20
    Virginia's death row "volunteer" Robert Gleason is scheduled for execution January 16, AP reports. He has chosen the electric chair, an option still available there.Gleason was serving a life term for murder at Wallens Ridge State Prison in May 2009 when he killed his cellmate, Harvey Watson Jr. After being transferred to the supermax Red Onion State Prison, Gleason strangled inmate Aaron Cooper in an outdoor recreation cage in July 2010.

  • Illinois’ Anti-Eavesdropping Law Overturned: The Price of Preventing Police Misconduct

    Updated: 2012-11-28 19:16:01
    One of the harshest of these laws can be found in Illinois’s anti-eavesdropping law, which gives a fifteen year prison sentence to anyone who records police conservations or statements without police consent.

  • Swift's Law Strikes Again

    Updated: 2012-11-28 00:46:26
    HOME Main Swift's Law Strikes Again November 27, 2012 4:46 PM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments Totally off-topic . Any time you write satire , no matter how obvious you think it is , somebody is going to take you literally . nbsp I call this principle Swift's Law in honor of Jonathan Swift and his Modest . Proposal The notorious satire paper The Onion named North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un the Sexiest Man Alive for 2012, a funny and well-deserved jab at both the stupid sexiest stories in magazines and the egomaniacal : leader With his devastatingly handsome , round face , his boyish charm , and his strong , sturdy frame , this Pyongyang-bred heartthrob is every woman's dream come true . Blessed with an air of power that masks an unmistakable cute , cuddly side , Kim made this

  • Rebutting the Myths About Race and the Death Penalty

    Updated: 2012-11-28 00:13:44
    HOME Main Swift's Law Strikes Again Rebutting the Myths About Race and the Death Penalty November 27, 2012 4:13 PM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments The Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law will have a symposium issue on the 25th anniversary of McCleskey v . Kemp out soon . nbsp The article by yours truly with the above title is available on SSRN Here is the : intro The best models which Baldus was able to devise which account to any significant degree for the major non-racial variables , including strength of the evidence , produce no statistically significant evidence that race plays a part in either the prosecutor's or the jury's decisions in the State of . Georgia 1 This is the least-known holding from the best-known case on race and the death penalty , a case that eventually went to

  • Abandonment and Prejudice

    Updated: 2012-11-27 22:46:19
    HOME Main Rebutting the Myths About Race and the Death Penalty Abandonment and Prejudice November 27, 2012 2:46 PM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments What kind of mitigating circumstances would it take to outweigh these aggravating circumstances The sentencing court found the following facts beyond a reasonable doubt . Stokley was convicted of murdering two 13-year-old girls over the July 4th weekend in 1991. Stokley is a person of above average intelligence . At the time of the crime , he was 38 years old . Stokley intended that both girls be killed . He killed one of the girls and his co-defendant killed the other . Before the men manually strangled the girls to death , both men had sexual intercourse with the victims . Both bodies were stomped upon with great force , and one of the

  • News Scan

    Updated: 2012-11-27 22:00:00
    HOME Main Abandonment and Prejudice News Scan November 27, 2012 2:00 PM Posted by CJLF Staff 0 Comments One of FBI's Ten Most Wanted Apprehended in : Mexico Brandon Lowrey of Reuters reports Jose Luis Saenz , one of the FBI's ten most wanted since 2009, was apprehended in Mexico and brought back to Los Angeles to face charges in four separate murders . Saenz allegedly killed a Los Angeles man over a drug debt in 2008. He is also being charged with shooting and killing two rival gang members in 1998, and kidnapping , raping , and killing the mother of his child when she threatened to turn him in for the killings . Saenz is an enforcer for a Mexican drug cartel and a gang member . If convicted , he is eligible for the death penalty . RI Thrill Killer Will Be : Paroled The Associated Press

  • Massachusetts Man Charged With Rape of a Child Flees During Trial, Jury Returns Verdict in his Absence

    Updated: 2012-11-27 20:00:56
    , Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Massachusetts Man Charged With Rape of a Child Flees During Trial , Jury Returns Verdict in his Absence November 27, 2012 Posted In : Sex Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on November 27, 2012 3:00 PM Permalink According to a report in Boston.com , Ciro Reyes-Palma , a Massachusetts man was in the middle of a Rape of a Child trial in Great Barrington . He was facing eleven counts stemming from allegations that he committed Rape of a girl over a three year period . The Sexual Assault began in 2009 and continued until 2011. Authorities learned that Reyes-Palma fled to Mexico on Saturday . Despite his

  • SCOTUS Gathering No Moss?

    Updated: 2012-11-27 18:04:52
    Associated Press reports:Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood have an average age of 68 years and 297 days, while the Supreme Court justices' average is 66 years and 364 days. That makes the [Rolling Stones] one year and 10 months older than the members of the highest court of the United States.

  • Republicans a victim of safer streets

    Updated: 2012-11-27 17:15:59
    HOME Main SCOTUS Gathering No Moss Republicans a victim of safer streets November 27, 2012 9:15 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments WaPo editorial writer Charles Lane has this article with the above . title Americans were unhappy about many issues as 2012 began . In one area , though , contentment reigned . By a margin of 50 to 45 percent , a Gallup Poll reported , the public felt satisfied with the nation's policies on . crime It was a well-founded sentiment . In 2010, Americans were less than a third as likely to be victimized by violent crime as they had been in 1994 the murder rate had declined by roughly half . Today we are approaching the low murder rates of the . 1950s For the Republican Party , this is a triumph and a disaster , as the 2012 election results . proved It is a

  • Faith-Based Residential Care Services and Homeless Vets

    Updated: 2012-11-27 15:24:22
    HOME Main Republicans a victim of safer streets Faith-Based Residential Care Services and Homeless Vets November 27, 2012 7:24 AM Posted by Steve Erickson 0 Comments From the current issue of the Community Mental Health Journal comes the article Do Faith-Based Residential Care Services Affect the Religious Faith and Clinical Outcomes of Homeless Veterans The abstract has the details : Data on 1,271 clients in three residential care services funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs was used to examine : 1 how religious-oriented programs differ in their social environment from secular programs , 2 how religious-oriented programs affect the religiosity of clients , and 3 how client religiosity is associated with outcomes . Programs were categorized as : secular , secular now but religious

  • ADHD, Medication, and Criminality, Part II

    Updated: 2012-11-27 14:58:39
    , , , HOME Main Faith-Based Residential Care Services and Homeless Vets ADHD , Medication , and Criminality , Part II November 27, 2012 6:58 AM Posted by Steve Erickson 0 Comments Kent pointed to a study that is making some waves which showed that people diagnosed with ADHD and who receive treatment were less likely to be convicted of crimes than those who abstained from treatment . nbsp It's an interesting study authored by some very respected social scientists . Many are assuming that the take message of the study is that untreated ADHD is associated with a greater likelihood of criminality because people with ADHD are impulsive . nbsp That may be true , but it's also quite possible that those patients who remain in treatment are simply more responsible or motivated in other areas of

  • News Scan

    Updated: 2012-11-26 23:00:00
    HOME Main News Scan November 26, 2012 3:00 PM Posted by CJLF Staff 0 Comments CA to Release First Third-Striker After Prop 36 : Passed The Associated Press reports Kenneth Corley will be the first inmate to be released from prison after California's November 6 adoption of Proposition 36. Corley has been in prison since 1996. He was a lifelong , nonviolent drug addict serving a 25 to life sentence for repeated burglaries in order to provide for his addiction . nbsp Death Row Inmate Claims He Killed Nicole Brown Simpson : Alan Duke of CNN reports death row inmate Glen Rogers confessed to his brother Clay Rogers and criminal profiler Anthony Meoli that he , not O.J . Simpson , killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in 1994. Rogers says O.J . was waiting nearby . According to Rogers ,

  • Talk About Soil

    Updated: 2012-11-24 18:53:41
    Great animated short video: Let’s Talk About Soil – English from IASS Vimeo Channel on Vimeo.

  • The Visual Du Jour – Poverty and You

    Updated: 2012-11-24 08:26:55
    Another great interactive visual on global poverty thanks to Why Poverty?: poverty compared from SocProf on Vimeo. And while you’re at it, check out this enticing trailer for the animated documentary, Poor Us: Can’t wait to see the whole thing.

  • The Visual Du Jour – Global Closet Calculator

    Updated: 2012-11-23 07:21:23
    Via Free Technology for Teachers, this interactive game to learn about global interdependence: Global Closet Calculator from SocProf on Vimeo.

  • The Pitfalls of Cross-Cultural Comparisons

    Updated: 2012-11-22 17:40:45
    Cross-culture from SocProf on Vimeo. And as promised, here are the sources for the materials I used in the video: Homes Around The World One Week of Food Where Children Sleep (Book and NYT article)

  • Lynn Massachusetts Mother Faces Assault and Battery Charges After Hitting Daughter in the Face at School

    Updated: 2012-11-21 15:03:09
    Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Lynn Massachusetts Mother Faces Assault and Battery Charges After Hitting Daughter in the Face at School November 21, 2012 Posted In : Domestic Violence Violent Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on November 21, 2012 10:03 AM Permalink A six year old Lynn , Massachusetts girl needed shoes brought up to her elementary school . The girl's mother , Rosilda Lopez was called and became upset . The twenty eight year old mother went to the school and hit the girl in the face two times . The reason : wearing the wrong pair of shoes . Another child witnessed the incident . This child told school officials . It

  • Man Accused of Trafficking Heroin in Taunton, Massachusetts Being Held on Bail

    Updated: 2012-11-20 22:04:28
    , Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Man Accused of Trafficking Heroin in Taunton , Massachusetts Being Held on Bail November 20, 2012 Posted In : Drug Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on November 20, 2012 5:04 PM Permalink Last week's Taunton Gazette reports that Leonardo Sanchez , of Lowell Avenue in Providence , Rhode Island has been charged with Trafficking Heroin Over 200 Grams as well as Carrying a Dangerous Weapon Apparently the police had been investigating Sanchez for over six months . It is alleged that he had been selling large quantities of Heroin to one particular customer for that period of time . Authorities had

  • Infographic PSA: The Good and The Not-So-Good

    Updated: 2012-11-19 18:38:06
    So, yes, I’m getting more and more into the infographic and data visualization thing. So, this is a simple and useful worksheet. (The point is, you still need to go read The Functional Art for more specific ideas. The above is a nice starting point but no more than that) But take this, for instance: [...]

  • Law blog roundup

    Updated: 2012-11-19 13:00:17
    Welcome to Monday and a week that features Thanksgiving, a holiday dedicated to family, food and football.

  • Despite Proposition 34's narrow loss, support for the death penalty is declining

    Updated: 2012-11-19 08:00:00
    The death penalty in California survived by a narrow vote on November 6, but around the country the signs are clear that capital punishment is slowly on the way out.

  • “Cleaning Fairy” Clips Her Own Wings, Pleads Guilty to Attempted Burglary

    Updated: 2012-11-16 21:52:06
    Ohio police called Warren, who insisted she hadn’t cleaned the Bush house by mistake, but that Warren randomly cleaned people’s houses all the time.

  • Massachusetts Teacher's Aide Arrested, Charged With Possession With Intent to Distribute Marijuana, School Zone Violation

    Updated: 2012-11-13 19:14:12
    , , Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Massachusetts Teacher's Aide Arrested , Charged With Possession With Intent to Distribute Marijuana , School Zone Violation November 13, 2012 Posted In : Drug Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on November 13, 2012 2:14 PM Permalink According to a report in Wicked Local , a Massachusetts teacher's aide has been arrested and charged with some Drug Crimes and Procuring Alcohol for a Minor . It is alleged that the defendant , Jennifer Olsen , twice smoked marijuana with several students . It is further alleged that Olsen provided the drugs . Authorities also claim that the defendant gave alcohol to

  • “Innocence of Muslims” Director Basseley Not Given Criminal Due Process

    Updated: 2012-11-09 18:45:29
    It was unnecessary for the federal judiciary to start a new trial for Basseley's probation violation when a pre-existing procedure was already in place.

  • Massachusetts Trial Judge's Improper Admission of Highly Prejudicial Evidence Results in Successful Appeal From Murder Conviction

    Updated: 2012-11-09 01:56:48
    Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Massachusetts Trial Judge's Improper Admission of Highly Prejudicial Evidence Results in Successful Appeal From Murder Conviction November 8, 2012 Posted In : Violent Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on November 8, 2012 8:56 PM Permalink In 2003 a Plymouth County Massachusetts jury sitting on a murder case in Brockton convicted Solange Anestal of murder in the first degree . The facts of the case are as follows . The defendant and her boyfriend lived together in an apartment in Brockton , Massachusetts On June 26, 2003 the two were home with two friends . Anestal and her boyfriend , Petitry got into an

  • "The Law and Technology Enterprise: Uncovering the Template to Legal Scholarship on Technology"

    Updated: 2012-11-08 21:58:25
    Recently Posted to SSRN: "The Law and Technology Enterprise: Uncovering the Template to Legal Scholarship on Technology" (2011) 3(1) Law, Innovation and Technology 31-83 KIERAN MARK TRANTER, Griffith University - Griffith Law School This article explores the founding commitments of...

  • Boston Man Held on High Bail After Arraignment For Cocaine Trafficking in West Roxbury Court

    Updated: 2012-11-06 02:28:26
    Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Boston Man Held on High Bail After Arraignment For Cocaine Trafficking in West Roxbury Court November 5, 2012 Posted In : Drug Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on November 5, 2012 9:28 PM Permalink Police in the Weymouth and Cohasset areas have made their third arrest as part of a lengthy investigation into Drug Dealing Activities in those Massachusetts communities . Enrique Camilo of Boston was arraigned in the West Roxbury District Court on charges of Trafficking in Cocaine Second and Subsequent Offense . His bail has been set at one hundred thousand dollars . Camilo was arrested last week after

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