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Ways to communicate now with clients and collegues have grown tremendously since the days of just using the telephone, faxing a letter and even Emailing. If Email no longer gets the job done, what are our alternatives?
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he is “dubious” of a 2016 law that effectively took away the Drug Enforcement Administration’s most potent weapons against distributors and manufacturers of prescription opioids, and that he would support new legislation to expand the agency’s arsenal, reports the Washington...
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Ohio corrections director Gary Mohr believes the justice system sends too many people to state prisons who shouldn’t be there. Union County Prosecutor David Phillips takes a harder line, saying many criminals deserve the accountability of hard time. Franklin County Judge Charles Schneider wants more...
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Supreme Court justices from across the spectrum voiced concern on Wednesday about personal privacy and government snooping in a case that tests whether police can obtain cellphone location data of suspects without a warrant, the National Law Journal reports. In Carpenter v. United States, the...
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This month, Cook County prosecutors in Chicago dropped charges against 15 men, and two others claiming innocence won a new trial—all based on false confessions.
Even for Chicago, the so-called “false confession capitol of the nation,” this was extraordinary. The Chicago Tribune called it the largest...
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A week ahead of a Senate hearing on bump stocks, the Las Vegas district attorney issued a powerful call to ban the firearm accessory, which enabled a gunman to kill 58 people in minutes at an Oct. 1 concert. The renewed spotlight on the issue...