CrimLaw

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Death Law This Week:

(1) Wow! Everybody (except the press) wants the Scott Peterson preliminary hearing closed to the public. Other news in the Ca. Peterson case: The Defense's experts will have an opportunity to examine the bodies. No big surprise.

(2) If you know something about a murder in D.C. it's time to fess up because you can get $25,000 per homicide you provide the solution for.

(3) Swisher, the man whom governor Warner tortured by extending his life and then setting as a requirement an appeal which the governor knew had already rejected, was killed Tuesday. Swisher's not one who elicits any sympathy but what the governor did was just wrong.

(4) In the NC Peterson case a witness tells of the items the police took to investigate but cannot explain why certain bloody items were not taken and the next day another witness testifies so well it leads to suspicions that he knew the questions the Defense has been asking on cross. You'd think they'd have moved Heaven and Earth to get pictures of those footprints since they would seem to be damning evidence.

While, to date, I think the prosecution has been somewhat lacking, at this point it seems to be building momentum.

(5) How can you starve your child to death and not be convicted of murder? These peoples' attorneys must have worked some sort of miracle to hang that jury.

(6) A lady convicted of killing a two year old has been released because improper evidence was allowed at her trial.

(7) Teens:
(A) In Roanoke one girl's life is extinguished and another girl's life is destroyed. There was no happy ending here no matter what the final outcome.
(B) In Milwaukee kids who were involved in homicide by mob have been sentenced.

(8) If you murder someone in Virginia you will be found. Even if you fled to Russia.

(9) A former prosecutor urges DNA testing in a capital case he prosecuted.


(10) A federal court removes the lawyers on a death penalty appeal and then puts off the execution while the new attorney tries to come up to speed.

(11) Hmmm . . . In England they aren't allowed to publish the reason for a murder's remand until after the trial has been completed.

(12) Things Malvo told the guards.


(13) In Texas they kill hitmen; in Virginia they just can't seem to make it stick (or maybe they just can't find the right person).

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