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Editorial: Outrage should be aimed at gun laws that put weapon in Loughner's hands
Insanity and mental competency claims in criminal law have always rubbed people the wrong way. So, it comes as no surprise that a lot of folks have a hard time coming to terms with the legal ruling this week that Jared Lee Loughner is mentally unfit to
Updated: 05/26/2011 09:28P
Top court set to rule on 'erotic asphyxiation' case
JA was originally convicted and sentenced to 18 months in jail by an Ottawa judge who said it was against the law to have sex with an unconscious person. The decision was reversed last year by Ontario's Appeal Court, which found JA was not committing
Updated: 05/26/2011 08:39P
It's Time to Reconsider Graduation Prayer in Public High Schools
His books include Hallowed Secularism: Theory, Belief, Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and his latest, Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism, which will be published in May, 2011 by Indiana University Press.
Updated: 05/26/2011 07:08P
Republicans retaliate against Blue Hog bloggers
The authors, Matt Campbell and Jeff Woodmansee, work in the criminal coordinator's office of the state Supreme Court and the Pulaski Law Library at UALR, respectively. Surely you read the Blue Hog Report. The name says it all — partisan Arkansas
Updated: 05/26/2011 07:07P
Kill The Un-American Patriot Act
No law that so violates Fourth Amendment rights can be said to “unite” or “strengthen” America. The Act effectively jettisons that long-cherished principle of civilized criminal law and American jurisprudence: that one is presumed innocent until (and
Updated: 05/26/2011 06:38P
Jailing Of Suicide Man - Time To Review Our Criminal Code
It is well known that about 95 per cent of all cases of suicide and attempted suicide suffer from mental illness, most of which is depression. Only a few cases of suicide, like suicide bombing and suicide for religious reasons do not have mental
Updated: 05/26/2011 06:11P
Criminal Law: Post-Conviction Relief - Plea Agreement - Amendment
Where a trial court made an unauthorized amendment to a plea agreement deleting commitment of the defendant to a 120-day shock incarceration program, the original written judgments committing the defendant to the shock program
Updated: 05/26/2011 06:07P
Criminal Law: Drug Trafficking – Search Warrant – Probable Cause
Where a defendant in a drug trafficking case filed a motion to suppress his statements challenging their voluntariness and the trial court failed to hold a hearing on the voluntariness issue, this was error, and because the
Updated: 05/26/2011 05:57P
Criminal Law: Sex Offenses – Sufficiency Of Evidence – Double Jeopardy
(1) Where a victim of sexual abuse testified that she did not remember a specific incident described in one count of forcible sodomy, there was not sufficient evidence for the jury to find the defendant guilty on the count,
Updated: 05/26/2011 05:57P
Criminal Law: Sentencing - Wire Fraud - Downward Departure
Where a defendant, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with a fraud scheme perpetrated in his role as the owner of a title and escrow company, argued for a downward departure based on his son's medical condition and
Updated: 05/26/2011 05:40P
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