News Roundup (July 20, 2012)
Jeff Welty
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July 20, 2012
Some of you aren’t getting email notifications of new posts. Sorry about that. Our IT folks are working to resolve the glitch, but it may take a little time. I’ll […]
READ POST "News Roundup (July 20, 2012)"July 19, 2012
Jamie’s post yesterday about the legislature’s amendments to the JRA was great, and absolutely essential for criminal lawyers. Shea’s recent post on the expansion of continuous alcohol monitoring was equally […]
READ POST "Cocktail Party Review: The 2012 Legislative Session (July 19, 2012)"July 13, 2012
Over the past several days, the national news has been dominated by the issuance of an investigative report about the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal, a topic I previously […]
READ POST "News Roundup (July 13, 2012)"July 6, 2012
Jeff’s away and has left me in charge of the news roundup. So there’ll be no Gizmodo stories this week. (I’m still figuring out how to work my iPhone.) Fortunately, […]
READ POST "News Roundup (July 6, 2012)"June 29, 2012
Apparently the Supreme Court issued some sort of decision this week about broccoli, or health insurance, or something. But it wasn’t all mandates and Medicare: there were several significant criminal […]
READ POST "News Roundup (June 29, 2012)"June 22, 2012
The biggest news locally this week was the General Assembly’s passage of S 416, which will dramatically alter, if not effectively repeal, the Racial Justice Act. I summarized the bill […]
READ POST "News Roundup (June 22, 2012)"June 20, 2012
Every now and then someone asks about the significance of a trial judge’s commission. Just what is a judge’s commission, when is it needed, where does it come from, and […]
READ POST "What Is a Judge’s Commission? (June 20, 2012)"June 15, 2012
There were so many significant and interesting stories this week, it’s hard to decide where to begin. But I’ve settled on this USA Today story about federal inmates serving sentences […]
READ POST "News Roundup (June 15, 2012)"June 12, 2012
In District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), the United States Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess firearms for lawful purposes […]
READ POST "Second Amendment Update (June 12, 2012)"June 8, 2012
The General Assembly’s in session, and Republican legislators are moving to amend the Racial Justice Act. An AP article on point states that the proposal would “strip away much of […]
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