about 2 years ago - 7 comments
The big news of the weekend thus far, for me at least, has been the announcement by the NYCLU that it is filing suit in New York, alleging Constitutional violations by the State for its failure to provide adequate resources to public defenders. From the press release: “Every day, in courtrooms throughout the state, New
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Veteran’s Day edition! Governor Rell is opposed to the $260million proposal to build new prisons, which was covered here. This NYT piece considers whether suspension of parole is an Ex-Post Facto violation. Norm covers the CT angle, while Scott has the New York perspective. Indignant Indigent has a great post on why it is ineffective
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In an exciting move, SCOTUS today granted cert. in a capital habeas case [petition here, opposition here] to decide whether someone can receive ineffective assistance during the plea bargaining process. The actual facts are slightly more complicated, but as Scotusblog notes, the basic question (which was added later by the Court) is what is: the
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It’s Monday. Have you set your clocks back one hour? The topic du jour is snitching, so let’s start off with the Windypundit’s exploration of the snitching debate from an economics perspective. Speaking of economics, Grits has this absolutely terrific post on why economic theory doesn’t apply to plea bargaining. Corrections Sentencing follows up on
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Ugh. It’s almost winter. Here are stories to keep you warm on this cold, dark morning: It’s not much, but at least the 18-year old West Hartford kid charged with having sex with his girlfriend is out on bail. CDW’s weekly roundup is here. GA isn’t the only state with capital defense payment problems. Speaking
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Another Monday, another edition of the Jumpstart! Anne Reed has posted the third installment in her series on “A trial lawyer’s guide to social networking sites”. [Here are one and two.] Mark Bennett is conducting a clinic on how to cross examine an expert. Scott Greenfield is expressing his desire to become a law school
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Another Monday, another weekend full of interesting reads. Think that person you e-mail is real? Think again. CTLP writes about David Pollitt and highlights the use of fear. The National Institute of Justice’s latest journal includes this article entitled “Police Lineups: Making Eyewitness Identification More Reliable”. [H/T: CDW] Bennett informs us that there still are
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Columbus Day edition! From the Columbus Dispatch: Challenges to residency restrictions and “sex offender ghettos”. Mark Bennett has a copy of Phil Russell’s plea agreement. Robert Guest takes an in-depth look at written plea agreements and what you have to agree to give up. CDW discusses Catholics usually being disqualified from sitting on death juries
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It’s just another Manic Monday. CT seems to be a bad place to be a teacher. Karoli has all the details about a teacher forced to resign because a girl’s parents didn’t like his choice of summer reading. More than 20% of CT inmates have moderate to severe mental illnesses. More on this later. Matlock
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Is it Monday already? Fear not, the jumpstart is here! Anne Reed’s Deliberations is hosting blawg review this week. This post at the blog “Friends of Justice” has the most detailed reporting of the trial of Mychal Bell. It is bad. Scott at Simple Justice looks on “Superlawyers” with disdain. Cheese, please! A closer look
