It's up at abyss2hope. Here is the legal section:
In Rape Is Never the Fault Of the Victim posted at Womanist Musings, we get a discussion of a gang rape case in the UK where a14 year old girl was assaulted by 9 boys.
In A question that needs to be asked.. posted at The Hand Mirror, we get a discussion of a previous trial against convicted rapist Liam Reed where he was acquitted of hanging a woman by a phone cord after claiming that the victim consented.
In Cert. Grant: Do Prisoners Have a Right to Use New Technology To Prove Their Innocence? posted at Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog, we get a discussion of District Attorney’s Office v. Osborne where the issue is whether a prisoner convicted of rape can sue a prosecutor’s office to obtain DNA evidence for more sophisticated testing than was available at the time of the prisoner’s trial
In Vindication posted at Crisis Worker Diary, we get a discussion of the outcome of a civil case in Florida.
In Prosecutorial Double Standards - He Gets Off, She Goes to Jail posted at Gender & Sexuality Law Blog, we get a discussion of the decision to not prosecute the former Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer for his illegal behavior.
In Defining Unfounded Cases And The Relationship To Fraudulent Rape Reports posted at abyss2hope: A rape survivor's zigzag journey into the open, I discuss why a higher rate of unfounded rape cases isn't proof that there is a higher rate of fraudulent rape cases.
In Constitutionality of Park Ban Upheld in Indiana posted at Sex Crimes, we get a discussion of a ruling by Superior Court Judge Vicki Carmichael which came in response to a lawsuit brought by Eric Dowdell because the law prevented him from attending his son’s baseball games.
In Postconviction DNA posted at Crime and Consequences, we get a discussion of a request by a man convicted in an error-free trial to independently test the DNA evidence which was used to convict him.
In Can't Stop The Music, Take 2: Supreme Court Denies Cert In Victim Impact Statement Cases posted at EvidenceProf Blog, we get a discussion about admissibility issues related to victim impact statements given as videos.
In A challenge to severe Oregon sex offense sentences worth watching posted at Sentencing Law and Policy, we get a discussion of an attorney's argument that six-plus years in prison for a woman convicted for touching her clothed breasts to the back of a 12-year-old boy's head amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
In ‘Visionary’ pathologist gets credit in cold cases posted at On the Record, we get a discussion how cold cases were able to be solved because pathologist Dr. Rudiger Breitenecker decided to save forensic evidence even though at the time there was no way to analyze that evidence.
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