13 Apr Rethinking Pre-Trial Detention
If you were falsely charged with a crime, is there someone in your life who could drop everything and keep you within their sight or sound twenty-four hours a day...
10 Apr Senate Bill 91: Criminal Justice Reform
The lag time between research and science and legislators and laws can be most easily measured in decades - and that's how it is supposed to be. But for those...
08 Apr Crashing The System: A Thought Experiment
Here is an interesting piece from the New York Times - in a nutshell, it explores the plea bargain and what would happen if thousands of people accused of crimes...
06 Apr Justice Department Lets Bill Allen Off the Hook
After years of drama we finally learn that the U.S. Department of Justice says that Bill Allen can't be prosecuted by the State of Alaska. The Anchorage Daily News just...
05 Apr Reexamining Sex Offender Laws
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in Articles, Criminal Law, Defendant's Rights, Legal 101, My .02 Cents, National News
With the benefit of hindsight, I believe sex offender registration requirements and mentally deviant sexual offender (MDSO) therapy reached their apogee sometime in the last two years. Arguments can be...
19 Mar Green Rush: Marijuana in the Last Frontier
Police raid pot delivery business offices in Anchorage, Fairbanks | Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Charges filed against owners of marijuana businesses | Juneau Empire News Reporter Turned...