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"Legal links for attorneys and private investigators that will aid professionals."
Author: Joe Cadillic is a private investigator at Murphy & Associates in Marblehead, Mass.
Blawg Related Categories: Trials & Litigation • Evidence • States • Massachusetts
Recent Posts from Mass Private I
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Google Scholar a new law search engine.
Users can go to the Google Scholar online search engine and type in case names, topics or key words to find the relevant cases. “We think this addition to Google Scholar will empower the average…
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Virtual cop to run police lineups in the future?
A major cause of miscarriages of justice could be avoided if computers, rather than detectives, guided witnesses through the identification of suspects. That's according to Brent Daugherty at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte…
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The 2007 National Institute of Justice survey of law enforcement forensic evidence processing.
The "Crime Report" made the following observation:Only four in 10 law enforcement agencies have computerized tracking systems for forensic evidence, according to the results of a survey by the National Institute of Justice. The NIJ…
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National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Releases Preliminary Recommendations on Strengthening Forensic Science.
"Contrary to media portrayals of forensic science in popular TV shows, forensic science evidence presented in court is often based on speculative research, subjective interpretations and inadequate quality control procedures. Ensuring the scientific integrity of…
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More people are seeking to have their criminal records sealed or expunged.
U.S. job seekers are crashing into the worst employment market in years and background checks that reach deeper than ever into their pasts.The result: a surge of people seeking to legally clear their criminal records.In…
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A Chicago private investigator is under investigation for supposedly paying a witness.
Cook County prosecutors contended today that a private investigator working with students at Northwestern University's Innocence Project paid a witness in their investigation of a man they believed was wrongly convicted of murder in 1982."This…
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The Supreme Court to decide on prosecutorial immunity involving false testimony.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether prosecutors who use false testimony should be liable for a wrongful conviction. "This case sits near the intersection of a pair of well-settled issues," federal defenders…
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Scent lineups called into question how accurate are police or drug dogs?
A dog’s sniff helped put Curvis Bickham in jail for eight months. Now that the case against him has been dropped, he wants to tell the world that the investigative technique that justified his arrest…
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Crime mapping is a new website that tracks crime in your neighborhood.
As of 11/3/09 they only cover a few areas across the U.S.CrimeMapping.com has been developed by The Omega Group to help law enforcement agencies throughout North America provide the public with valuable information about recent…
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Are the police in San Jose, CA. using "Resisting Arrest" too often when dealing with suspects?
Scott Wright was fixing the emergency brake on an old Cadillac in a parking lot near Willow Glen last year when the San Jose police rolled up. Within minutes, he had been shot with a…


