COURTHOUSE RECORDS.
COLUMN: COURTHOUSE RECORDS Worcester Superior Court Judge John S. McCann Calixtro Cruz, 41, of 48 Freeland St., Worcester, was sentenced to two to four years in Walpole State Prison after pleading guilty to distribution of heroin. The charge was amended from distribution of...

Justices asked to act on 'error' in Erap ouster.
"Decisions made by the High Court are made by men and women who are not infallible, and judicial errors may be committed now and then, but it takes wisdom, courage, and humility for the justices to admit their mistakes," former President Estrada's spokesman, former Maguindanao Rep. Didagen Dilangalen said...

Around The Nation.
Appeal filed to stop another NPC election Five members of the National Press Club, led by holdover president Antonio Antonio, yesterday filed with the Court of Appeals a petition for review with preliminary injunction and/or restraining order against a recent decision of the Manila regional trial court...

Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser's Berlin.
Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser's Berlin, by Benjamin Carter Hett. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2004. ix, 291 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). In this excellent study, Benjamin Canner Hett traces the history of German criminal law from the late nineteenth through...

Not a deterrent to criminality; Death penalty.
Byline: Atty. PERSIDA V. RUEDA-ACOSTA HIS Excellency Jan de Kok, Commissioners Wilhelm Soriano and Eligio Mallari, Honorable Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Fellow Speakers, Delegates and Participants, good morning. When I received the invitation to be a part of this dialogue, I was reminded of...

What is constitutional.
IT is not correct to say that President Arroyos resignation from her office against her volition as a result of threat or any form of nonphysical coercion, such as the perceived clamor of the opposition or other third parties for her to resign, is within the purview of the...

Jury selection errors on appeal.
I. INTRODUCTION Claims that errors were made during jury selection are among the most common of all grounds for criminal appeals. (1) Yet appellate courts, both state and federal, seem profoundly confused about how to analyze these kinds of errors. The confusion has its roots in a...

Innocent after all?
ON OCTOBER 14, 1992, General Dmitri Volkogonov, the designated teller of Soviet secrets, declared that long-standing charges that Alger Hiss spied for the Soviets a half-century ago were and are "completely groundless." Hiss was the victim of "either false information or judicial error," he said, adding operatically, "You can...

Stirrings on the Court.
THE GOOD NEWS is that disliking the Supreme Court is all right again. In recent years most of the criticism of the Court's decisions and of its political role had come from conservatives. The liberal response had most often been that the Court is an old and venerable institution whose...

The Fourth Amendment's consent to entry exception: protecting the castle from the co-tenant's consent: Georgia V. Randolph.
INTRODUCTION In Georgia v. Randolph, the United States Supreme Court held that "a physically present co-occupant's stated refusal to permit entry prevails, rendering [a] warrantless search unreasonable and invalid as to him." (1) In Randolph, the Court attempted to draw a fine line to avoid undercutting earlier...