Virginia-Tech Update: Three articles were written in the Washington Post today discussing the massacre. The first article by Ian Shapira and Tom Jackman gives a more detailed recap of the events that took place yesterday. The gunman was said to be armed with "a 9 mm semiautomatic and a .22-caliber handgun, both with serial numbers obliterated." 7:15 a.m. he killed a young woman and her resident adviser in one of the dorms, then at 9:45 another shooting occurred at the science and engineering building (Norris Hall) shooting 30 faculty, staff, and students. Then took his own life. The second article by Alec MacGillis and Adam Kilgore brings up the issue of the two hour time gap between the shootings where students were not properly notified. It was not until after the killing spree at approximately 10:16 a.m. that students got an email telling them not to move. The third article by Dan Eggen and Paul Kane regarding the postponement of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales' testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee due to the shootings. The New York Times also has three articles out. The first article by John M. Broder and Christine Hauser and the second article by Shaila Dewan focus on eye witness testimonies at the time of the shooting. The third article by Christine Hauser identifies the killer as Cho Seung-Hui, 23 a South Korean English Major.

Panetti Case: Howard Bashman collects articles on the Panetti case, to be argued tomorrow, at How Appealing. Our notes on the briefs are here and here.

N.Y. Addicts: New York is suffering a dilemma with their repeat addicts that come into "hospital detoxification units so often that dozens of them spend more than 100 nights a year in those wards." The article by Richard Perez-Pena of the New York Times, also pointed out that for every 30,000 patients, $300 million dollars was paid to the hospital for detox, and $50 million is spent on the first 500 most expensive patients.

Stealing From Law Firms A private investigator was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison and $307,103 in restitution for cheating several big U.S. law firms out of thousands, according to this AP story by Larry Neumeister. Michael Lair (46) of Montana "pleaded guilty to wire fraud earlier this year," and accepted around $200,000 from law firms pretending to have access to information on high profile lawsuits.