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• Hopelessly Deadlocked
  Jury declares mistrial in Leon Houston trial
  KINGSTON, TN—A judge has declared a mistrial in the case against a Roane County man accused of killing a sheriff's deputy and his friend. Defense attorney Jim Logan told the jury that the murder victims fired the first shots and caused the shootout. Read more in MEMBERS IN THE NEWS.

• Benjamin Hooks, Leading Jurist and Civil Rights Leader
  NEW YORK — Benjamin Hooks was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 31st, 1925. Memphis, like most cities in the racially segregated American South at the time, openly discriminated against African Americans in all areas of public life. Hooks' family exposed him early to what civil rights activists of his generation came to call the "Freedom Struggle." More...

• Justices Uphold Lethal Injection in Kentucky Case

  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Kentucky’s method of execution by lethal injection, rejecting the claim that officials there administered a common sequence of three drugs in a manner that posed an unconstitutional risk that a condemned inmate would suffer acute yet undetectable pain. More...

• Court Details Opposition to Bias in Jury Selection
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, ruling that a Louisiana prosecutor had used improper tactics to pick an all-white jury for a black defendant’s murder trial, on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a man who has been on death row for 12 years. More...

• Editorial

  The Supreme Court Fine-Tunes Pain

  The Supreme Court’s regrettable ruling upholding Kentucky’s use of lethal injection is a reminder of why government should get out of the business of executing prisoners. Rather than producing a crisp decision upholding the constitutionality of lethal injection, the court broke down into warring opinions debating the ugly question of how much unnecessary pain the state may impose. Most compelling were the dissenters, which wanted to know more about whether Kentucky was torturing inmates needlessly, and Justice John Paul Stevens’ challenge to capital punishment in all forms.

• Prosecution, Defense Attorneys Trade Charges During Closing Arguments In Nicholson Trial
  Jury To Begin Deliberations Wednesday Morning
  Marvin Nicholson should never have been a serious suspect in the murder of a 15-year-old drug dealer, much less charged with the crime, Nicholson’s attorney told a Hamilton County Criminal Court jury Tuesday evening.

• FBI Release Annual US Crime Report
  LAWFUEL.COM - The Legal Newswire - The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is a nationwide, cooperative statistical effort of more than 17,000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies voluntarily reporting data on crimes brought to their attention. Since 1930, the FBI has administered the UCR Program and continued to assess and monitor the nature and type of crime in the Nation. More...

• Brief Reviews Trauma Among Youth in Juvenile Justice System
  The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice has published "Trauma Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: Critical Issues and New Directions." This research and program brief provides an overview of trauma among youth in the juvenile justice system, including its scope and impact; and reviews tools, curricula and approaches for addressing trauma among justice-involved youth. Issues related to implementing trauma services within the juvenile justice system context are also discussed. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is a component of the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Benjamin N. Cardoza School of Law, Yeshiva University

Cases of People Who Have Been Proven Innocent,
but Would Still Be In Prison if Courts
Didn't Consider New DNA Evidence

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