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[...] crush videos cannot be shoehorned into an existing First Amendment category and must instead be analyzed as a unique doctrinal problem - something that has not been done either by case law or commentators.27 The question of whether crush videos may be prohibited is important in itself. Crush videos are almost indescribably brutal, and the terrible cries of the animals in the videos make plain just how severely they suffer.228 This pain is easily preventable, as evidenced by the sweeping success of 18 U.S.C. § 48, and the cost of the law, measured in terms of speech, is remarkably slim. [...] the ability to outlaw crush videos will provide government with the flexibility to combat other criminal depictions, which include the types discussed above and genres that have not yet been...
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In response to prison overcrowding, California has turned to county governments to assume the burden of housing tens of thousands of offenders who wou...
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Originally published July 26, 2011
Keywords: Morrison, mail and wire fraud, private placement shares, securities, fraud
On March 16, 2011, Judge P...
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The mothers of two teenagers killed in a September car crash in Ransomville demanded fast action Monday on the criminal case against driver John O. Schmitz, 19, of Ransomville.
Kat Messing, whose daughter, Taylor, 17, of Niagara Falls, died in the crash, said she wants the case wrapped up before she is sent to Afghanistan in October. "I want it done," said Messing, a member of the Army National Guard. "I really do feel it's being dragged out. They were killed in September and this is April.
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Originally published July 26, 2011
Keywords: Morrison, mail and wire fraud, private placement shares, securities, fraud
On March 16, 2011, Judge...
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Using a real-world criminal case, this paper demonstrates how probabilistic analysis can be used to determine whether a hypothetical, Reasonably-Prudent Individual, with full information concerning the consequences of driving while intoxicated at a specific Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) level, could reasonably conclude such driving would probably cause injury.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas -- While the custody fight for the hundreds of children seized from the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch has devolved into legal chaos, a criminal probe is quietly moving forward.
The investigation is continuing," Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange said in an e-mail to the Deseret News. "When we have completed our investigation, we will present our case report to the prosecutors for their action.
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By Brian McCready Milford Bureau Chief bmccready@nhregister.com
MILFORD -- There's still a chance the criminal case against former Superintendent of Schools Harvey B. Polansky will be settled out of court, his attorney said Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Enlightened, Inc. ("Enlightened"), a leading provider of Information Technology (IT) consulting services in public safety, announced today the release of a robust record sharing system for DC criminal justice community. The system parallels the actual case filing processes, electronically moving arrest data from the police department to the prosecutors and then case data from the prosecutors to the courts. Other agencies are able to participate within the process in order to receive arrest and case filing notifications.
The previous process required duplicate entry of information and travel by public safety personnel to other criminal justice offices to obtain the required paperwork. The new approach saves time, increases data accuracy, and prov...
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Any discussion of federal penal law must begin with an important caveat: There actually is no federal criminal "code" worthy of the name. A criminal c...