The Sacramento Bee reports: As many as 2,100 newly paroled sex offenders are living illegally near schools and parks under the tough residency requirements passed overwhelmingly by California voters last […]
What are the consequences in a white collar criminal case when government prosecutors coerce a corporation into leaving corporate employees without a paid legal defense team? From yesterday’s opinion in […]
The Sacramento Bee reports: The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to hear an appeal by one of Phil Spector’s former attorneys, who was found in contempt for refusing to tell […]
Legal Pad reports: Working for Robert Nudelman must have been a really bad experience because some of the fellow lawyers in his Woodland Hills firm decided to take him down. […]
The Sacramento Bee reports: A judge on Monday removed high-profile defense attorney Mark Geragos from the case of a defense contractor charged with conspiring to defraud the CIA because the […]
Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy reports: No Fourth Amendment Protection in E-Mail Addresses, IP Addresses, Ninth Circuit Holds: Commentators and Congress have long assumed that government surveillance of non-content […]
Alan Dershowitz on the Libby sentence: The outcry against President Bush’s decision to commute Scooter Libby’s sentence is misplaced. President Bush acted hours after the U.S. Court of Appeals denied […]
Forbes.com report: The mother of a condemned inmate whose execution took an hour longer than is typical sued the head of Ohio’s prisons Monday, asking the state to change the […]
The Washington Post reports: The family of Ron Goldman has purchased the rights to O.J. Simpson’s canceled book, “If I Did It,” from a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee in a settlement […]
The Sacramento Bee reports: The possibility that a former attorney for record producer Phil Spector may go to jail for refusing to testify in his murder trial became more likely […]
Justice Janice Rogers Brown on Terry Stops in drug neighborhoods: The facts of this case lead me to wonder if Terry’s prudent constraints on police conduct have been forgotten in […]
The LA Times reports: Civil rights attorney Stephen G. Yagman, whose relentless quarter-century crusade against police brutality drew both admiration and ire, was convicted Friday in federal court of 19 […]