Reasonable suspicion: Indictable offences
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I thought the information well researched and documented, although much of it was not new to me, it went into greater depth, and connected more of the dots, naming the dots, and citing offences for which there are laws on the books. It begs for a public investigation, by law. Like any normal crime the elements of motive, opportunity and means are presented to I the jury and Occam's solution that the simplest explanation is likely the correct solution to a problem, holds true.

Although, with so much sound information and analysis available in this and other books on the subject of 9/11, I despair that justice will ever be served by the means provided by the nations founders, which has been maliciously perverted and usurped. However, believing as I do that, ultimately, the truth will out and the truth shall make one free, I do not despair, and recommend this book for drawing closer to the truth. I recommend as well the book, "9/11 Prophecy", as I have recommended, "Another Nineteen" to its author James F. Fitzgerald, in pursuit of that truth.
899625
Once again a good book by a pioneer in criminal profiling. John Douglas makes criminal profiling understandable to the reader. He's a major pioneer in the field and has helped solve many crimes. A very good read.

A.A. Yakima, WA.
3989869
A familiar case from media coverage, but covered more completely here.  A well written, unbiased view of the events surrounding this sad case.  The author alludes to several possible reasons for the murders, but draws no  conclusions, and that is as it should be as the evidence doesn't clearly support one or another.  In that sense the reader is left perhaps dissatisfied, but this is a true crime account - and that is the true conclusion of this particular case.
4443324
An excellent documentation of events; including affidavits of key witnesses "missed" by the original purported 'investigation' which was largely comprised of opinion vs facts and evidence.. Iran almost practices higher standards than were applied to this case.  Hopefully, some investigators with brains, guts and integrity will finally bring justice to Natalie's apparent murder.

STATUTES OF LIMITATION -

There well may be probable cause for 1st degree murder charges - For Which There Is NO Statute of Limitation. Read the evidence and the law carefully for intent criteria (and see what more is discovered from current investigation).

Furthermore, while under California law there's a statute of limitations of 3 years for manslaughter/ 6 years for second degree murder,

This can work to the defendant's Disadvantage.
For example, let's say you are charged with first degree murder thirty years after the crime. You want to argue that you may only be guilty of manslaughter.

Because the statute of limitations has passed, the Court will not allow the jury to consider the lesser crime against you. It will be either Murder One or Nothing.

In that circumstance, a defendant may choose to waive the statute of limitations on the lesser crime so that the jury may consider it.
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From National Review Online, November 2005:

Leon F. Scully, Jr. was probably the only legal scholar ever to examine the original documents and actual events behind Weeks v. United States and Mapp v. Ohio " the Supreme Court cases that gave us the exclusionary rule of evidence and similar court-imposed constraints on law enforcement. The story he tells " of collusion, rigged test cases, ACLU conniving, and illegitimate precedents " will be of great interest to attorneys, prosecutors, and especially police officers. A short Introduction sets forth the case, with the command of both language and the law that characterizes the entire book.
2201951
What factors lead to false or wrongful convictions? Is there an underlying psychopathology in some police or prosecutors that lead them to unjustly accuse and even frame innocent persons? This book examines three well-known cases, one each from the US, UK, and Italy, to shed considerable light on the factors leading to wrongful convictions, including the misconduct of police and prosecutors. Two of these cases have led to exonerations of clearly innocent persons, but in the third, from the US, a person who may have been wrongfully convicted remains in prison. This book should be read by all persons seeking to gain a better understanding of wrongful convictions.
417367
An indispensable book for anyone interested in writing about the PCIJ judgements. The book is well-systematized and was extremely useful for my LLM research. Even though I disagree with some of the author's conclusions, his dichotomy opposing the internal lawyer viewpoint to the international lawyer viewpoint is really useful.
4007761
This is an excellent book which searches for answers as to what happened to Madeleine in Portugal in 2007. It helps to evaluate the forensics evidence in a constructive way, and dispels the inaccurate views of haters on the internet. An amazing book!
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Using scores of individual cases, the independent scholar Thomas records the varied ways U.S. Justice Department agents tried to intimidate dissenters and suspected traitors into silence during World War I and the years after it when Wilson was promoting the League of Nations. The more sensational Palmer raids rounding up masses of immigrants on the basis of little more than rumors or vague suspicions are known as the standard example of government wartime practices going to excesses. But the scale of these and related, longlasting controversy obscured the widespread questionable practices Thomas relates in this work. The "focus on prosecutions had the effect of understating the scope of the department's activities. Far more commonly, department investigators watched, warned, and reprimanded suspected seditionists." In this, the Justice Department agents had a "tremendous degree of latitude" in making individual decisions about "speech [which] interfered with the war effort."

The latitude given to agents led to such practices as warnings on taking certain political positions, threats of arrest, entrapment schemes, approaching relatives or neighbors for damaging evidence, and impersonations. The wide, ill-defined net cast included clergy, African-Americans and other minorities, union members, and leftist activists and sympathizers. In most cases, these were Americans citizens simply exercising what they regarded as their right of free expression, association, or political activism guaranteed by the Constitution and taken for granted. In some cases, individuals were treated as dissidents simply for arguing that the War would last longer than the political leaders were saying it would.

The government excesses Thomas records could have been taken from newspapers in the months leading up to the Iraq War. For they are more or less the same as those used by the Bush Administration to stifle dissent and concerns over the Iraq War. By reaching back in history, Thomas informs or reminds one that such activities are not unprecedented, and in fact are predictable even in a democracy. Knowing about them, one can be on guard against them and in most cases prevent the institutionalization and unquestioned rationalization of them which would make them a permanent part of society.
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One of the greatest things about this book is the selective inclusion of case studies. Rather than have a book full of opinions, the authors stick to leading court cases where the opinions are the rule. It is these ruling of the high courts that shape the practices of criminal law, because they set the standard for how we interpret the US Constitution.

The Constitution of the USA includes rules governing criminal procedure, such as the 5th and 6th amendments, all the way to more recent ones regarding the salaries of Senators. This book specifically shows how the Supreme Court interprets the Constitutions effects on criminal trials. In the third chapter, on the subject of arrest, search, and seizure, we use the case of Herring v. United States (2009). The majority opinion was that the Exclusionary Rule (again, an interpretation of the law) didn't bar evidence found during an arrest, even if the arrest was based on an invalid warrant. Any high school student who recently took US Government will probably say but hang on, in Mapp v. Ohio, didn't the court say that..? Given, the case of Mapp set up rules for searching houses, but Judge Roberts wrote that an arrest of a known criminal (Herring was well-known to the police) based on a mistaken warrant wasn't unreasonable. Some examples are rather humorous, such as California v. Greenwood, which ruled that bags of garbage can be taken by the police and searched without a warrant. According to Judge Byron White, trash bags on the curb aren't protected by privacy.

Further chapters include Supreme Court cases regarding pretrial confinement, confessions, interrogations, and even conflicts of interest in criminal defense attorneys. The book contains carefully selected Supreme Court cases, each one specific to the interpretation of part of the Bill of Rights. Anyone studying criminal law must use this book, because it goes to great lengths to explain how the courts interpret the law.
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I found this a very interesting book, although at times it was a bit like reading a textbook. A wide range of issues were highlighted through case studies.  We like to think our justice system is unbiased, has a high level of integrity and can be relied on provide a just outcome.  Whilst we don't suffer from rampant corruption, this book highlights that like doctors and the rest of the community, the legal profession and police are not infallible.  Political pressures, economics, time constraints, quality of investigation, tunnel vision, competence of officers etc all contribute to how well our justice system really works.  We would expect however that when it is patently obvious the wrong person has been incarcerated that there would be a timely process to make things right.  Sadly that's not necessarily the case.
If you are interested in this aspect of our community life then this is a very good book to read.  I have no doubt you will associate the issues raised with many cases you know of well beyond the scope of the rapists, murderers and thieves.
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A clear, concise, easy to read guide for anyone who needs to understand competency to stand trial. It gets right to the point, providing a practical overview of the court system, as well as activities designed to help defendants become competent. Written by an expert forensic psychologist, it covers important key points, but at the same time avoids complicated jargon and unnecessary fluff, making it a clear winner.
435664
With much of the author's evidence provided by two excellently researched books by Knightley & Kennedy, this book gives an indepth account of the legal ramifications of Stephen Ward's trial and its aftermath. Very clearly laid out Robertson demonstrates how and why the judiciary at the time behaved in such an abominable fashion. The abuse of power is very concerning even to this day. Robertson is currently having Ward's case referred to the Court of Criminal Appeal to have the conviction overturned. He makes a very strong case for this to happen. And it is probably only someone with the calibre of Geoffrey Robertson that can convince the Court to provide the trial transcript and all the relevant documents that have been secreted and locked away in the Cabinet Office since 1963. If you want simply to learn about the legal case for having Ward's conviction overturned, this is the book for you. If you want the fuller story of who Ward was, why he acted the way he did and what the full circumstances were surrounding him,  his friends and enemies and the whole scope of the Profumo Affair, then I would suggest the books of Knightley & Kennedy.
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Imagine you are a prosecutor. A murder occurs in your jurisdiction and you want the case cleared as easily as possible. An autopsy of the gruesomely murdered victim indicates an act carried out with extreme vengeance and strong male homosexual overtones.

  The police have an idea of who committed the robbery but prefer not investigate a tough gang. You get a little bit of hearsay about a suspect who was 170 miles away from the scene at the time of the incident. And the suspect is an 18 year old female, hardly the description of a twisted male homosexual.  You arrest her and try to improve the case. When it is time to go to trial, you have no forensic evidence, eye witnesses, or confession. Can you win the case?

 The answer, quite shockingly, is yes. This what to do:

1) Inflame the jury. Human beings , first and foremost, are emotional creatures. Appealing to passion will usually override logic and facts.

2) Make deals with witnesses.  Suspects charged with crimes will be happy to lie in return for leniency. Use  a jail house snitch. Our nation's jails are full of innocents who allegedly confessed their crimes to complete strangers while in custody. Some of the more notable wrongful convictions have included Kerry Max Cook and  Ron Williamson.

3) Try the case in front of a former prosecutor. All know that the criminal element deserves punishment, to hell with the facts. And if the judge is a former colleague from the same office, a sweet result is nearly guaranteed.

4) Create the possibility of guilt. Of course, guilt is supposed to proven beyond a reasonable doubt, but so what?  When the jury is inflamed, jail house snitches sing, accused witnesses testify, and the judge is a former chum, the high standard of doubt can be decreased to "it's possible she did it."

 The above scenario is the unexaggerated and sorrowful story of the conviction of Nevada native Kirstin Blaise Lobato. Lobato was convicted in the May, 2002 of murdering a homeless man and sexually assaulting his corpse in Las Vegas. While CSI and many other TV dramas focus on the scientific methods used for capturing criminals, much less is said about the emotional and inflammatory modus operandi utilized for convicting the innocent. This short work is an easily readable yet shocking introduction into the realm of prosecutorial malfeasance.

 This book should be mandatory reading for  introductory criminology courses, and anybody with a budding interest in wrongful arrest and miscarriages of justice. It is another fine work from the editor of "Justice: Denied! The Magazine for the Wrongfully Accused."

by Michael Fox
Japan Institute for the Study of Wrongful Convictions
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One suspect then two then WHO?  Never believed it was the accused.  In a quandary?  You will be too. Catch me if you can!
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This book could easily have bogged down into minutae, but the writer shared this complex and interesting case with clarity.  It is a fast read and explains the intricacies of an excellent investigation without getting the reader lost in professional jargon.  I am impressed with how well this book is written and found it to be a very interesting and enjoyable read.
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AN UNDER-REGULATED PRESS?
DONT MAKE US LAUGH, LEVESON

An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers

Even a cursory review of this book demonstrates that journalists now tread in a complex legal environment, writes Sunday Times Editor Martin Ivens, in the foreword to this new and important legal text from the Oxford University Press.

Here is a book that by turns, will fascinate, inform, caution and probably worry a great many editors, journalists and their legal advisers.  As a first edition, it will almost undoubtedly emerge as the definitive work of reference on the legal complexities governing the newsgathering process --
including the protections as well as the pitfalls.
Covering every conceivable aspect of the legalities and regulatory restraints with which eager newsgatherers and their legal teams should be deeply concerned, the authors somewhat ruefully advise that the law and regulation of newsgathering has moved into the spotlight.

The focus of this book therefore is the legal and regulatory oversight of newsgathering practices.  But as the authors, Gavin Millar QC and Andrew Scott, and their associate contributors point out, these rules, laws and so on, are scattered around disparate areas of statute, the common law and industry-generated codes of practice. which are conveniently brought together in this book, together with recent legislation.  Interestingly, the authors adopt a critical as well as analytical approach to their subject matter.

Following a detailed yet succinct introductory section which includes some pithy comments generally, on freedom of the press, the writers have logically divided the book into four parts.  Part I investigates the protection of sources and journalistic materials.  Part II deals with access to public information, including information held by government and the courts.

Part III covers the regulation of intrusive newsgathering, harassment, entrapment and the category of clandestine newsgathering, which includes, among other things, theft undercover filming and recording, and computer hacking.

Part IV is a detailed explication of publication torts and defamation practice, the features of defamation law and ethical newsgathering.  This is perhaps the section of most interest to the public, as well as journos and lawyers.  The influence of the law of defamation, say the authors, is perhaps less definitive than the rapidly developing law of confidentiality and privacy.

Bearing in mind the multiplicity of laws, regulations and so forth which now impact on the process of newsgathering, plus such regulatory bodies as the Press Complaints Commission, now the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), it is not difficult to agree with the remark by Martin Ivens that this book puts paid to the idea that the press had been unregulated.

As an editor, he adds, I sometimes look across the ocean with envy at the protections afforded to American journalists by the First Amendment the linchpin of the American Constitution (which) protects free speech but does not cover the way in which journalists gather their material.

Whatever opinions you may entertain regarding press freedom, this book presents the full panoply of regulation which governs newsgathering in the UK.  Logically structured, it is easy to navigate and its extensive footnoting makes it an excellent research tool, particularly with its lengthy tables of cases and legislation.  Practitioners, especially media lawyers, not to mention editors and journalists should all have a copy.

The publication date is cited as at 2016.