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If you are caught drunk driving in Alaska you could face a vastly different penalty than if you are charged with DUI in Indiana. A new article in USA Today looks at just how differently drunk drivers are penalized from state to state and even county to county. Some states require jail time for a [...]
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A fascinating and scary article in the Wall Street Journal about how apparently easy it is to stalk someone by their cellphone GPS system.
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Only a year after the Supreme Court’s controversial Melendez-Diaz decision, court watchers are awaiting possible revisions to that decision.
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A recent report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau reveals that the American West has the highest auto theft rates in the nation, this despite the national rates of car theft declining over the last 6 years.
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The Massachusetts Supreme Court rejected a challenge to blood evidence in an OUI case on grounds of violation of the confrontation clause and the Melendez-Diaz case. As reported in Mass Lawyer’s Weekly, a blood test taken at a hospital, and submitted as evidence of intoxication in a drunk driving case, could be used without additional [...]
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Automatic license plate reader technology has been deployed in police cars across the nation for years now. And adoption rates are skyrocketing, as the systems get cheaper, and the benefits to public safety and efficient police work have become clear. Typically, the uses for these license plate scanners include locating stolen cars, amber alter searches, [...]
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The Melendez-Diaz decision continues to reverberate in criminal court cases that use documentary evidence without expert testimony. In Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Hollister, the Massachusetts Appeals Court determined that a certified document of ballistic evidence in a gun possession case violated the defendants right to confront his accuser, as outlined in Melendez-Diaz.
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Seven teens in Perry County, Pennsylvania face criminal juvenile charges, as well as school administered punishment, in another teen sexting case.
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A new article in the New York Times outlines how comparatively easy it is to falsify DNA evidence in criminal cases.
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Great post on Melendez-Diaz over at Reason by Radley Balko. He takes the position that the ruling is an important check on an often psuedo-sceintific approach to forensic evidence in criminal cases, and that the decsion could be rolled back or muted in the next Supreme Court session.
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