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The Court’s ruling is especially welcome in today’s economic climate, as budget cuts curtail state funding of legal services programs. The Court upheld IOLTA narrowly, by a 5-4 margin; it is troubling to imagine the fate of legal services programs, and of the...
A local prosecutor in Virginia Beach, Va., announced a similar plan: no new prosecutions of misdemeanor domestic-violence cases. "I deeply regret that the victims of domestic violence will not have a prosecutor on their side, while the defendants will be able to retain their own attorneys or have attorneys...
As a smattering of hospitals and clinics create drug-rep-free zones, PHRMA spokesman Jeff Trewhitt points out that doctors who shun salesmen also forgo the free samples, which are often used to treat indigent patients. Nevertheless, physicians are relying less on sales pitches and turning instead to unbiased sources...
Last week gave Fowler even more reason to wonder. A state judge ordered a man named Jeffrey Pierce released after serving 15 years of a 65-year sentence for rape. Gilchrist placed him at the scene of the crime, but DNA evidence proved he was not the rapist. In response...
The change of heart may be most remarkable in Texas, where 40 people were put to death in 2000. So far this year, seven have been executed. Governor Rick Perry, Bush's Republican successor, recently signed a bill giving the accused access to state-paid DNA testing, the strongest such...