HOPE - A Probation Model at Work: Over the weekend at Sentencing Law and Policy, Doug Berman posted a link to a National Institute of Justice and Pew Center study on the impact Hawaii's Opportunity with Probation Enforcement Program (HOPE). The study, conducted by Angela Hawken of Pepperdine University and UCLA's Mark Kleiman, takes a look at HOPE, which "relies on mandate to abstain from illicit drugs, backed by swift and certain sanctions and preceded by a clear and direct warning[,]" and its probationers. According to the Pew Center, the research shows that HOPE probationers were significantly less likely to be arrested for a new crime, to use drugs and to have their probation revoked. The results of the study sound promising, and other states may want to take a look at Hawaii's model - though Delaware may want to use a different acronym.
Ninth Circuit Panel Rules on Use of False Confessions: On Saturday, CrimProf Blog posted on a three-judge panel's ruling in the civil case, Crowe v. City of San Diego, that a coerced statement may be used as the basis for a civil rights claim if it is used in pretrial proceedings. The panel then defined pretrial proceedings to include juvenile hearings and grand jury indictments. Crowe arose from the investigation and prosecution of three innocent teenagers for the murder of Michael Crowe's 12-year-old sister Stephanie Crowe. According to Jose Luis Jiménez and Greg Moran's article in the San Diego Union Tribune, "[t]he criminal case against the youths disintegrated just before trial, when DNA tests showed the 12-year-old girl's blood on the T-shirt of a transient, Richard Tuite."
First One in Line: At Volokh Conspiracy, Randy Barnett posts on an enterprising Georgetown Law student's attempts to be the "First One @ One First." According to Barnett, and Georgetown Law student Mike Sacks, "First One @ One First" will follow Mike Sacks' attempts to be the first one in general admission line "[f]or every politically salient case" being argued before the U. S. Supreme Court. This won't be an easy feat. Sacks writes that he was the first one in line for oral arguments in Citizens United v. FEC only because he camped outside the U. S. Supreme Court the night before oral arguments.
Ninth Circuit Panel Rules on Use of False Confessions: On Saturday, CrimProf Blog posted on a three-judge panel's ruling in the civil case, Crowe v. City of San Diego, that a coerced statement may be used as the basis for a civil rights claim if it is used in pretrial proceedings. The panel then defined pretrial proceedings to include juvenile hearings and grand jury indictments. Crowe arose from the investigation and prosecution of three innocent teenagers for the murder of Michael Crowe's 12-year-old sister Stephanie Crowe. According to Jose Luis Jiménez and Greg Moran's article in the San Diego Union Tribune, "[t]he criminal case against the youths disintegrated just before trial, when DNA tests showed the 12-year-old girl's blood on the T-shirt of a transient, Richard Tuite."
First One in Line: At Volokh Conspiracy, Randy Barnett posts on an enterprising Georgetown Law student's attempts to be the "First One @ One First." According to Barnett, and Georgetown Law student Mike Sacks, "First One @ One First" will follow Mike Sacks' attempts to be the first one in general admission line "[f]or every politically salient case" being argued before the U. S. Supreme Court. This won't be an easy feat. Sacks writes that he was the first one in line for oral arguments in Citizens United v. FEC only because he camped outside the U. S. Supreme Court the night before oral arguments.
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