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How Stand Your Ground and Ohio Domestic Violence Law Got it Wrong
It seemed to flip lady justice on her head and presumed, at least temporarily, someone's guilt instead of a presumption of innocence. This article was based on the rise in false domestic violence charges specifically related to divorce and custody
Updated: 04/12/2012 08:56P

Lawyers in Zimmerman case boast years of experience
Going against De La Rionda and Guy will be O'Mara, a well-respected criminal defense lawyer who has also served as a television legal analyst. He replaced Zimmerman's two previous defense lawyers - Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig - who stepped down from the
Updated: 04/12/2012 08:50P

Recksiedler assigned Zimmerman case
Recksiedler, 39, of Sanford, has been a judge a little more than a year. Criminal law is not her specialty. Trial work is. She has been a lawyer 15 years, having graduated from the Stetson University College of Law.
Updated: 04/12/2012 08:41P

Flight Risk, Gravity of Crime Weighed in Setting Large Bond
Among the factors listed in Criminal Procedure Law §510.30 for use in determining the amount are the defendant's character and reputation, financial resources, family ties and length of residence, criminal record, the sentence if the person could be
Updated: 04/12/2012 08:22P

Flight Risk, Gravity of Crime Weighed in Setting Large Bond
Among the factors listed in Criminal Procedure Law §510.30 for use in determining the amount are the defendant's character and reputation, financial resources, family ties and length of residence, criminal record, the sentence if the person could be
Updated: 04/12/2012 08:22P

What Others Say: New public safety law deserves fiscal support
The new law profoundly changes how criminals will be handled in Georgia. In short, it attempts to reserve prison for only violent offenders and the worst property and drug criminals. The rest of the brood will be funneled to a presumably increasing
Updated: 04/12/2012 07:41P

Goldstein, Howe & Russell, P.C. | Argument preview: The crack cocaine
Arguing that a 2010 law lowering the punishment for crack crimes should be applied to those whose crimes occurred before that law was passed but who were sentenced afterward will be Stephen E. Eberhardt, a solo practitioner in Tinley Park,
Updated: 04/12/2012 07:39P

Goldstein, Howe & Russell, P.C. | Argument preview: The crack cocaine
Arguing that a 2010 law lowering the punishment for crack crimes should be applied to those whose crimes occurred before that law was passed but who were sentenced afterward will be Stephen E. Eberhardt, a solo practitioner in Tinley Park,
Updated: 04/12/2012 07:39P

Liberal Values and Criminal Law
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law! Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
Updated: 04/12/2012 07:28P

Shatter committed to enshrining rights of crime victims in law
This arose from various differences, including those in criminal justice systems, in the role of victims in the civil law and adversarial systems, different profiles of victims, differences in the auxiliary support services across the EU and varying
Updated: 04/12/2012 07:24P