Collecting DNA From Arrestees, Cont.
Updated: 2012-07-30 22:52:31
, . HOME Main Collecting DNA From Arrestees , . Cont July 30, 2012 3:52 PM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments On July 18, I noted that Chief Justice Roberts had issued a stay in Maryland v . King , permitting Maryland's process of collecting DNA samples from persons arrested for burglary or violent crimes to . continue Today , the CJ issued this in-chambers opinion explaining his . order To begin , there is a reasonable probability this Court will grant certiorari . Maryland's decision conflicts with decisions of the U . S . Courts of Appeals for the Third and Ninth Circuits as well as the Virginia Supreme Court , which have upheld statutes similar to Maryland's DNA Collection . Act Finally , the decision below subjects Maryland to ongoing irreparable harm . A ny time a State is
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This morning on Fox News: WALLACE: What about… a weapon that can fire a hundred shots in a minute? SCALIA: We’ll see. Obviously the Amendment does not apply to arms that cannot be hand-carried — it’s to keep and “bear,” so it doesn’t apply to cannons — but I suppose here are hand-held rocket launchers [...]
Civil lawsuits for police misconduct are notoriously difficult to win, especially when the basis for them lie in constitutional right violations. 
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At least in Scandinavia and Northern Europe (via Urban Demographics and originally from here): No big surprise here. There are no reasons to have heavy metal in African or Asia. It’s just not cultural place for this genre. And yes, Scandinavia and Iceland are well known bastions of heavy metal bands. But Greece and Portugal? [...]
Brennan’s defense was that although he intentionally disrobed in a public place, he shouldn’t be guilty of indecent exposure because his was an act of public defiance, protected by the Constitution. 
Anyone teaching deviance, criminology and other related fields should be interested in that one: the 2012 World Drug Report, published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. It comes with a lot of data and great visualizations. WORLD DRUG REPORT 2012 from SocProf on Vimeo. The report also contains some great static maps [...]
Florida Criminal Law Blog Published by Florida Criminal Defense Attorney M . James Jenkins Home Website The Firm Contact Us Home Narcotics Trafficking Florida Supreme Court rules no knowledge of drugs for Conviction required Posted On : July 14, 2012 by Jim Jenkins Florida Supreme Court rules no knowledge of drugs for Conviction required The Florida State Supreme Court , on July 12, 2012, in a 5-2 ruling , in State v . Adkins upheld a 2002 law which puts the burden of proof on defendants to prove that the citizen defendant did not have knowledge what was in the container or package , etc . they were carrying contained illicit narcotics . Florida is the only state in the country that does not require the prosecution prove that defendant citizen knew the substances they were carrying were
Jeff Ellis Management argued that all lifeguards were responsible for their assigned zones and that leaving those zones before a shift was over opened the company to legal liability for the patrons who were inside the lifeguard’s safety zone.
Recent creative court punishments have ranged from ordering a man to buy his wife flowers to forcing a young person to wear a sign outside a store he had stolen from. 
The use of forensic animation evidence should be limited to substantive animations, wherein the sequences can be proved using scientific and mathematical computations.
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In law school, this student would get perfect. 
To be more precise, the court ruled that mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles are unconstitutional. However, making that sentence an option, which a judge can choose to impose at his or her discretion, appears to still be allowed, for now.