criminal law

CA: Public Interest Firms Not Immune From Suit

August 31, 2010 16:48

Black v. California Appellate Project, Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Four, June 4, 2010 (Unpublished). Facts: Plaintiff was convicted of first degree burglary, and based on his prior criminal history, was sentenced to 38 years to life.  Plaintiff appealed and...

California Amends Statue of Limitations for Criminal Lawyer Legal Malpractice

August 18, 2010 15:25

California Statute Modifies Limitations Period for Certain Malpractice Claims Against Criminal Lawyers Another in Our Series of Hinshaw Lawyers for the Profession® Alerts California Assembly Bill No. 316, 2009-10 Reg. Sess. § 2 (2009) Brief Summary The California legislature, in what is believed to ...

Punishment of Haman

August 14, 2010 05:21

Owen Jones and Robert Kurzban recently posted their paper, “Intuitions of Punishment” (forthcmoing in the University of Chicago Law Review) on SSRN.  Here’s the abstract. * * * Recent work reveals, contrary to wide-spread assumptions, remarkably high levels of agreement about how ...

Thomas Nadelhoffer

August 12, 2010 04:01

From The Project on Law & Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School (PLMS): Below is a fascinating and enlightening 51-minute interview of Thomas Nadelhoffer by Harvard Law Student Brian Wood.  The interview, titled “Developments in Neuroscience and their Implications for Criminal Law,” ...

Petition Dismissed Based on Support From Substantial Evidence

July 26, 2010 15:37

In the Matter of Mark Scott v Brian Fischer, as Commissioner of Correctional Services, et al. In this Article 78 cases, petitioner sought review of respondent’s conclusion which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.   During a pat frisk of petitioner by...