Heating up cold crime squads; new emphasis on solving old murders puts defense lawyers in a difficult spot
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Cold cime squads have come about from two causes, the lower crime rate freeing up investigative resources to investigate old crimes and advances in forensic technology in the areas of ballistics and DNA identification. The rise in cold-crime units has started to lead to more convictions in crimes the police had given up on. "Solvability factors" including a sign a witness lied and the availability of witnesses as well as the availability of viable physical evidence often determine the reopening of a case.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1999
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A civil rights civil war; ACLU derides Miss. prison rights lawyer but can't replace him
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The article discusses the ACLU wrath Ron Welch, the full-time class counsel in decades of claims for constitutional violations in Mississippi's prison system, has incurred. Welch has since 1970 been the class counsel in almost every Mississippi prisoner class action and effectively represents all 18,000 of the state's inmates in prison condition claims.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1999
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