Word: criminalled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jerry Bruckheimer is the Michael Moore of criminal law. Defense lawyers love his CSI shows because they have caused juries to demand DNA analysis in nearly every two-bit 7-Eleven holdup. Prosecutors, meanwhile, feel hampered by the fact that 10 eyewitnesses are not enough to satisfy CSI-watching jurors...
But all those sprays and lasers and high-tech microscopes, it turns out, are expensive. "DNA analysis is used every six seconds on CSI," says Robert J. Castelli, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who was a police officer for 21 years. "To analyze properly a sample...
President Bush's foreign-policy team will have to focus most of its energy on fixing Iraq after an occupation that even they admit was badly planned. But inevitably, other international problems will be competing for Bush's attention as well. MIDDLE EAST PEACE During Bush's first term, Palestinian...
“The transformed sentiments may be better or worse than those of the individuals of which the crowd is composed…A crowd is as easily heroic as criminal.”
The Court officially began hearing open arguments for the 2004-2005 term on Oct. 4, and their docket is particularly interesting. Two of the most important cases this year are Roper v. Simmons and Johnson v. California. The first involves the highly controversial issue of juvenile execution, and thus American...