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Exonerations correct only a small fraction of false convictions

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Criminal justice scholars often say that the true number of innocent people convicted of crimes is unknown—in fact, unknowable. A new University of Michigan study challenges that belief in one important context.





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Probing Question: Is the death penalty on the decline in America?

Probing Question: Is the death penalty on the decline in America?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In November, the Commonwealth of Virginia executed John A. Muhammad, the infamous “D.C. sniper” responsible for 10 murders seven years earlier. On the eve of his execution, a Washington Post poll found 66 ...


Lawyers: Google execs not liable for abuse video

Technology / Internet

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Four Google executives should not be held responsible for a video posted online that showed teenagers abusing an autistic youth in Turin, their lawyers argued Wednesday in an Italian court.


Rare economic espionage case ends in jury deadlock

Technology / Internet

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Two men accused of the rare charge of economic espionage against the U.S. have been acquitted on two counts, but they could face a retrial on three other counts on which a jury deadlocked.


The court will now call its expert witness: the brain

The court will now call its expert witness: the brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Will advances in neuroscience make the justice system more accurate and unbiased? Or could brain-based testing wrongly condemn some and trample the civil liberties of others? The new field ...


Framed for child porn -- by a PC virus

Framed for child porn -- by a PC virus

Technology / Internet

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(AP) -- Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.


School sued for punishing teens over MySpace pix

Technology / Other

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 6

(AP) -- Two sophomore girls have sued their school district after they were punished for posting sexually suggestive photos on MySpace during their summer vacation.


Legal counsel affects death penalty cases

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Legal counsel is a matter of life and death in Houston, but it is not necessarily tied to a defendant's socioeconomic status, according to new research by Scott Phillips, associate professor of sociology and criminology at ...


Rare economic espionage case going to trial

Technology / Other

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Two men accused of stealing computer chip blueprints - and trying to tap the Chinese government to help launch a startup built on the contraband - are becoming the first defendants charged with economic espionage ...


First-of-Kind Study Shows Model Can Be Used to Rate Courtroom Psychiatric Experts Performance

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- What does it mean when expert psychiatric witnesses in a court case reach opposing conclusions on the same sets of evidence? A new study out of the University of Cincinnati College of Law suggests via mathematical ...


Investigators in the United States and Egypt have smashed a computer "phishing" identity theft scam

FBI smashes US-Egypt cyber 'phishing' ring

Technology / Internet

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Investigators in the United States and Egypt have smashed a computer "phishing" identity theft scam described as the biggest cyber-crime investigation in US history, officials said Wednesday.



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