CrimLaw
This blawgger links to peculiar mainstream media stories related to criminal law, discusses Virginia Supreme Court decisions and shares anecdotes and photos from his day-to-day life.
Author: Ken Lammers is an assistant commonwealth attorney in Wise, Va.
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Prosecutors • Legislation & Lobbying • States • Virginia • Prosecutor
Recent Posts from CrimLaw
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Animotoing
I've been playing around with Animoto. It's a site to which you upload pictures and it mixes them with music and effects. Here's an example using various logos I've used over the years: The effects…
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Should Juries Be Able to Declare a Defendant Innocent?
In yesterday's CLTV, I proposed that juries be given three options: guilty, not guilty, and innocent. Scott doesn't cotton to this idea at all.It shifts the burden of proof from the prosecution to the defendant,…
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CLTV 38: Levels of Proof & Presumptions
Why presumption of innocence is a poor concept, levels of proof, and allowing jurors to decide innocence. Larger CLTV version here.
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Never Wanted to be a LawProf so Much . . .
How much does it pay?"Salaries for full professors vary widely and remain undisclosed by most private schools. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the mean annual salary in 2006 for law teachers was…
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Giving Officers Contradictary Duties
Previously on CrimLaw:2) Should the Denver Chief of Police be fired for enforcing the laws he's sworn to enforce? ----- Comment: well that Denver comment is certainly pure sound-byte spin. are you saying the citizens…
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When is a Rockefeller Not a Rockefeller?
When he's Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a German who tried to kidnap his daughter.
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No Dissent for You
The problem with refusing to let a Supreme Court Justice publish his dissent is that there are plenty of other places to publish it and it gets more attention than it ever would have.
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BritGov Loses Prisoner Info
for 130,000 prisoners.
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The Virtual Boyfriend Plot
If you plan to kidnap your virtual boyfriend you probably shouldn't leave your real dog behind.
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Things are Looking Bungles Bad
Y'know it's bad enough that the Reds have been so bad this year and engaged in a fire sale that has even their most hardbitten fans contemplating abandoning them:One last thing: I said I’d…