7th Circuit: Illinois Eavesdropping Law Cannot Be Enforced To Stop People From Recording Police
May 19, 2012
Last year we wrote a story about a woman who avoided a potential 15-year jail sentence after being acquitted of felony charges for violating an Illinois law that prohibits secretly recording conversati...
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Failure To Calibrate Alcohol-Check Devices Puts Hundreds Of California DUI Convictions At Risk
Mar 31, 2012
Questions surrounding how the San Francisco police department may have failed to conduct accuracy checking and calibration of alcohol-test devices could result in hundreds of DUI convictions being thro...
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Alabama Seeks Death Penalty For Grandmother Charged In Death Of Granddaughter
Mar 31, 2012
Prosecutors in Alabama will seek the death penalty for a grandmother recently charged with causing the death of her granddaughter by forcing her to run for three hours as punishment for lying. The gran...
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President Obama Announces New Mortgage Crime Task Force Focusing On Financial Institutions
Feb 29, 2012
President Obama recently announced the creation of a new task force made up of a special unit of prosecutors and state attorneys general which will investigate abusive lending practicesthat contributed...
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Man Pleads Guilty To $1.1 Million Mortgage Fraud Scheme In Rhode Island
Feb 18, 2012
A disbarred lawyer from Rhode Island recently pleaded guilty in federal court to three counts of bank fraud and two counts of filing false federal tax returns in relation to a $1.1 million mortgage fra...
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Widow Of Fresno Businessman Ordered To Pay $114.5M In Ponzi Scheme
Jan 21, 2012
The widow of a Fresno businessman who committed suicide after authorities began investigating his alleged Ponzi scheme must pay $114.5 million in damages to hundreds of victims throughout California, ...
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Ninth Circuit Overturns Conviction Due To Prosecutor’s Inflammatory Closing
Nov 19, 2011
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently overturned a California mans drug trafficking conviction because the prosecutors inflammatory remarksduring his closing argument at trial were improper ...
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First Offender Gets Maximum Sentence In Vicious Attack On Prosecutor And Lawyer
Nov 05, 2011
An Ohio man with no criminal record was recently sentenced to 21 years in prison for viciously stabbing an assistant prosecutor and her brother, a criminal defense lawyer, earlier this year. Originally...
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Ninth Circuit: Jared Loughner To Return To Federal Mental Health Facility In Missouri
Oct 13, 2011
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that Arizona mass-shooting suspect Jared Loughner will return to the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisonersin Springfield, Missouri to continue...
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Increase In Federal Criminal Laws Diminishing Mens Rea
Oct 13, 2011
recent Wall Street Journal reporthighlighted an alarming trend: as the federal code becomes increasingly bloated with more criminal laws, mens rea the long enduring criminal law principle which holds ...
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