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Article • October 5, 2014
Filed under: Victims, State Legislation
Oregon Defense Investigator under No Duty to Reveal Identity to Victim by Oregon Defense Investigator under No Duty to Reveal Identity to Victim   The Oregon Court of Appeals reversed the revocation of a private investigator's license for failing to tell a crime victim that he worked for a criminal …
Article • September 20, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
Filed under: Victims, Restitution
Courts Struggle with Child Pornography Restitution Following Supreme Court Ruling by Courts Struggle with Child Pornography Restitution Following Supreme Court Ruling The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals is among the latest federal courts to tackle the issue of restitution for victims of child pornography – an issue addressed in a …
Unfair Punishment by Sam Levin Unfair Punishment by Sam Levin Part One: Victim Discrimination A state program that’s supposed to help crime victims denies people who have had run-ins with the law or are afraid of being victimized again. The front door was wide open when police arrived at the …
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
Oregon Victim’s Right to Restitution Survives Prosecutor’s Statutory Violation by Mark Wilson Oregon Victim’s Right to Restitution Survives Prosecutor’s Statutory Violation by Mark Wilson The Oregon Court of Appeals held that a prosecutor’s failure to comply with state restitution laws did not deprive a trial court of authority to impose …
Article • June 6, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
Oregon Garnishment Exemption Protects Funds in Prisoners’ Accounts by Mark Wilson Oregon Garnishment Exemption Protects Funds in Prisoners’ Accounts by Mark Wilson An Oregon judge has held that a prosecutor improperly seized money from a prisoner’s trust account to pay a court-ordered “compensatory fine.” In 2006, Norman Earl Schlunt was …
Publication • June 1, 2014
Filed under: Victims, Restitution
Compensating Victims of Crime Douglas Evans CUNY 2014 Compensating Victims of Crime Douglas N. Evans Research & Evaluation Center John Jay College of Criminal Justice June 2014 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | Preparation of this report was supported by a grant from Justice Fellowship. The author wishes to thank the members of Justice …
Brief • May 20, 2014
Burritt v. Polk County, WI, Plf MoL Mot to Alter & Amend Judgment, Child False Accusation of Sexual Assualt, 2014 PAUL BURRITT, vs. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN Plaintiff, LISA DITLEFSEN, and POLK COUNTY, 12-cv-909-wmc Defendants. ORDER ON PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT HIS FED. R. …
Brief • May 6, 2014
Burritt v. Polk County, WI, Order on Plaint's Motion, Child False Accusation of Sex Assualt, 2014 PAUL BURRITT, vs. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN Plaintiff, LISA DITLEFSEN, and POLK COUNTY, 12-cv-909-wmc Defendants. PLAINTIFF’S MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT HIS FED. R. …
Brief • May 5, 2014
Burritt v. Polk County, WI, Plf Mot for Leave to Supp Mot to Amend, Child False Accusation of Sexual Assualt, 2014 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN PAUL BURRITT, Plaintiff, vs. LISA DITLEFSEN, and POLK COUNTY, Defendants. 12-cv-909-wmc MOTION OF PLAINTIFF PAUL BURRITT FOR LEAVE TO …
Brief • May 5, 2014
Burritt v. Polk County, WI, Plf Atty Declaration, Child False Accusation of Sex Assualt, 2014 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN PAUL BURRITT, Plaintiff, vs. LISA DITLEFSEN, and POLK COUNTY, Defendants. 12-cv-909-wmc MOTION OF PLAINTIFF PAUL BURRITT FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT MOTION TO ALTER AND AMEND …
Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
Colorado Prisoner who Murdered Guard Gets Life Without Parole by Last month, Prison Legal News reported that the parents of a slain Colorado prison guard did not want the prisoner who murdered him to face the death penalty. Edward Montour, who beat Lima Correctional Facility guard Eric Autobee to death …
Article • March 15, 2014 • from PLN March, 2014
When Victims Speak Up in Court – in Defense of the Criminals by Andrew Cohen A death penalty case in Colorado has generated an unusual fight between a district attorney and two parents who oppose capital punishment against the man who murdered their son. One of the most profound changes …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Possession of Rape Video Warrants Restitution; Victim Awarded Over $1 Million Thus Far; Supreme Court Grants Cert. by When she was a little girl, Amy’s uncle videotaped himself raping her, then shared the video with other pedophiles. Now in her 20s, Amy (a pseudonym) is seeking restitution from everyone who …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Director of Victims’ Rights Group Sent to Prison for Embezzlement by A Pennsylvania federal district court has sentenced a woman to two years in prison for stealing money from a victims’ rights organization she headed. Between June 2006 and June 2008, Mary Beth Semerod, now 59, stole $205,883.52 from the …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Oregon Rape Victim's Rights Clash with Rights of Accused Rapist by The Oregon Supreme Court, sitting en banc, has dismissed a rape victim's interlocutory appeal of a trial court's order allowing her accused rapist to review her Internet search history on her personal computer as part of his defense. In …
Article • October 15, 2012
California: Joint Venture Program Compensates Crime Victims by On December 12, 2011, pursuant to the Prison Inmate Labor Initiative of 1990, better known as the Joint Venture Program, San Quentin State Prison officials donated a total of $38,232 to seven Bay Area nonprofit agencies that provide services to victims of …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Hawaii Audit Finds Offenders Rarely Pay Restitution Owed by Thirteen years after the Hawaii Office of the Auditor issued a report critical of the state judiciary’s efforts to collect restitution payments from offenders, only a small fraction of tens of millions of dollars in restitution has been collected, which has …
Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow by James Forman, Jr. by James Forman, Jr.* In the last decade, a number of scholars have called the American criminal justice system a new form of Jim Crow. These writers have effectively drawn attention to the injustices created by …
Article • July 15, 2012 • from PLN July, 2012
Maryland DOC Rescinds Ban on Prisoner’s Book by On July 20, 2011, the Maryland Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services (DPSCS) rescinded its ban on The Marshall Plan: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther, a memoir co-authored by Maryland state prisoner Marshall “Eddie” Conway and Dominque …
Publication • 2012
Filed under: Victims, Statistics/Trends
Criminal Victimization Crime Rates Summary BJS 2012 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics October 2013, NCJ 243389 Jennifer Truman, Ph.D., Lynn Langton, Ph.D., and Michael Planty, Ph.D., BJS Statisticians I n 2012, for the second consecutive year, violent and property crime rates increased for …
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