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People v. Barham-337 Ill. App. 3d 1121 (Ill. App.Ct. 2003)

Case • 2003

specifically recall what she served to other members of the group or any patron other than defendant that evening. None of the servers could state that defendant consumed the beers they delivered to him or how ...

Kansas v. Crane-122 S.Ct. 407 (2002)

Case • 2002

, the approach embodied in Henricks. That Hendricks limited its discussion to volitional disabilities is not surprising, as the case involved pedophilia -- a mental abnormality involving what a lay person might ...

Kansas v. Crane-122 S.Ct. 867 (2002)

Case • 2002

, the approach embodied in Henricks. That Hendricks limited its discussion to volitional disabilities is not surprising, as the case involved pedophilia -- a mental abnormality involving what a lay person might ...

Sealey v. Glitner-197 F.3d 578 (2nd Cir. 1999)

Case • 1999

be helpful on review to have a jury verdict on the issue in the event that this Court disagreed with any ruling of law he might make, he did not instruct the jury on what constitutes a liberty interest ...

Ramirez v. Selsky-817 F. Supp. 1090 (SD NY 1993)

Case • 1993

testified, denying that the weapon was his. Defendant asked plaintiff to what his two witnesses would testify and plaintiff responded that they would be able to say that the weapon found in his cell ...

LeMarbe v. Wisneski-266 F.3d 429 (6th Cir. 2001)

Case • 2001

clarified that the Mitchell decision was explicitly limited to appeals challenging only the purely legal issues of whether the alleged facts amounted to a constitutional violation and what law was clearly ...

People v. Garcia-84 Cal. 4th 316 (2000)

Case • 2000

and discharge the first shot and ran over to see what was happening. When he looked down into the day room he saw "three inmates in the prone position." *fn3 Defendant asked for and received two more rounds from ...

Federal Crime Bill Passes

Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994

Filed under: Transfers, Police Misconduct, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Sex Offender Registration, Tuberculosis, DNA Testing/Samples, Drug Testing, Crime/Demographics, Crime, Databases, Overcrowding, Education, Disclosure of Records, Consent Decrees, Limitations, Good Time, Three Strikes, Immigration, Death Penalty, Federal Legislation, Fathers in Prison, Mothers in Prison

murder of the anarchists convicted of the Haymarket bombings in Chicago in the 1880's. That makes what has happened all the more repulsive. The crime bill establishes May 1 as "Law Day USA." The law states ...

CCA Florida Jail Operations: An Experiment in Mismanagement

Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Prison Rebellion, Systemic Medical Neglect, OB/GYN, Escapes, Overcrowding, Staffing, Toilets, Vermin, Wrongful Release, Wrongful Death, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides

on services and security measures that the contracts require and prisoners have a constitutional right to receive. As the old adage says, You get what you pay for. Catching Her Own Baby It seems that CCA ...

Stephenson v. Doe-332 F.3d 68 (2nd Cir. 2003)

Case • 2003

. But numerous precharge conferences were focused on questions of (1) whether, and on what basis, qualified immunity was available if the jury disbelieved Dingler's self-defense theory, and (2) whether qualified ...

Alexander A. v. Novello-210 F.R.D. 27 (E.D.N.Y. 2002)

Case • 2002

. The number of permanent beds was limited to what local services providers who wished to operate RTFs proposed to create and, in 1995, the number of beds reached 518 and has not increased since then. See id ...

United States v. Davis-180 F.Supp.2d 797 (E.D.La. 2001)

Case • 2001

. The Court disagrees. While it is premature to decide what specifically the jury will be told, the Court envisions a simple explanation to the effect that "the law" calls for the participation of independent ...

Wright v. City of Canton, Ohio-138 F.Supp.2d 955 (N.D.Ohio 2001)

Case • 2001

testifies that he used the knee strikes to buckle Wright's legs: A. Okay. Prior to that, as he started kicking around, I delivered what's called several knee strikes which is delivered to the common ...

King v. Riveland-125 Wn.2d 500 (1994).

Case • 1994

unsupported by consideration is not enforceable as a contract. [2] Contracts -- Consideration -- What Constitutes. An agreement presented as a "take it or leave it" proposition is not supported ...

People v. Johnson-Cal. App., 6th Dist., No. H031765 (2009)

Case • 2009

and told [*15] the court, "Ultimately I will be making a decision what happens with this case as a unit leader and I will be gone until May 30th. Even if we get the reports today it's optimistic that we ...

Washington v. Wilmore-407 F.3d 274 (4th Cir. 2005)

Case • 2005

. Wilmore's report did not specify what this information was, however. [26] During his testimony at Washington's trial for the rape and murder of Williams, Wilmore gave the following pertinent testimony ...

Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.-509 U.S. 579, 113 S. Ct. 2786; 125 L. Ed. 2d. 469

Case • 1993

and citation-free 1923 decision concerning the admissibility of evidence derived from a systolic blood pressure deception test, a crude precursor to the polygraph machine. In what has become a famous (perhaps ...

At Lowell, sex, death and a probe riddled with questions

Article • July 12, 2017

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Corizon, Guard Misconduct, Medication, Forcible Treatment, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

of trauma indicative of a beating. What neither the autopsy nor the FDLE report noted, however, was that toxicology tests showed Ellington had a potentially toxic level of a blood pressure medication, called ...

Videos Show the Dark Side of Shadow Mountain Youth Psych Facility

Article • April 18, 2017

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Private Contractors, Staffing, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Mental Health, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Staff Training

nothing. Viewing the footage, Mohr, a former psychiatric nurse and now retired professor of nursing, expressed disbelief. “That’s what we’re there for in hospitals, is to prevent ...

Vandehey v Vallario Co Expert Witness Report Jail Excessive Force 2007

Brief • October 27, 2007

other guidance given to that officer on when to use 10 certain parts of the use of force continuum? A. Besides the policy, no. At Page 43: Q. Under what circumstances would it be permissible to use ...