More than zero: accounting for error in latent fingerprint identification.
LOUISE: I never would have guessed that he was selling fake insurance. CANEWELL: That's what the whole idea was ... he didn't want you to guess it. If you could have guessed, then he couldn't have sold nobody no insurance. --August Wilson, Seven Guitars (1996)...

Trade secrets, confidential information, and the criminal law.
The author examines the extent to which property offences in the criminal law can be used to police the misappropriation of trade secrets and confidential information. After assessing the long-standing debate on whether information can be classified as property, he argues that answering the question one way or the...

Anti-gang ordinances after City of Chicago v. Morales: the intersection of race, vagueness doctrine, and equal protection in the criminal law.
The rule of law, evenly applied to minorities as well as majorities, to the poor as well as the rich, is the great mucilage that holds society together. -- Justice William O. Douglas, 1972 (1) It seems there are two laws. There's one for this kind of area, and...

ARAB-ISRAEL RELATIONS - June 6 - Israeli Leader Hints At Possible Gaza Attack.
PM Ehud Olmert warns that Israel could soon opt for a major military operation in Gaza to try to stop rocket and mortar fire from the area that has killed three Israelis in the past month. Landing in Israel after a brief visit to Washington, Olmert told reporters that...

Shrinking spies.
Big, unmanned spy planes, like the Predators flying over Iraq, have plenty of problems. For starters, they are expensive to build and operate. More important, some can be relatively easy to spot. Shrinking such planes so that they weigh less than two ounces would result in the perfect vehicle...

IRAQ - June 10 - Bomb Kills Leader Of Saddam Hussein's Tribe.
The leader of Saddam Hussein's tribe is killed by a bomb after speaking publicly in favor of reconciliation with the government in Baghdad. Sheik Ali al-Nida, head of the Bani al-Nasiri tribe, which dominated the government under Saddam, was killed by a bomb attached to his car, a police...

Mexican police fleeing drug cartel assassins.
The escalating violence by Mexico's various drug cartels has taken a heavy toll on Mexico's police forces in recent months, with the month of May proving especially brutal. At least four high-ranking police officials were gunned down in May, along with many other police and soldiers. "Drug cartels are...

The new tycoonery.
The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics by Jonathan Chait Houghton Mifflin. 304 pages. $25. Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense...

Feds enforce new tobacco strategy which targets Aboriginal communities.
OTTAWA The federal government will enforce a new strategy to deal with contraband tobacco--the 2008 RCMP Contraband Tobacco Enforcement Strategy--with a focus on what government officials claim to be tobacco illegally manufactured and sold on First Nations land. "There are three components to this strategy,"...

Comrade J: Russia's Master Spy in America.
Reviewed by John M. Handley, Ph.D. Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America after the End of the Cold War, by Pete Earley, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2007 (ISBN -13: 978-0-399-15439-3) 340 pages, $25.95. Pete Earley, formerly a reporter...