In a 75 page, 19 count indictment, prosecutors allege that Mr. Blagojevich and his associates sought illegal profits from the governor’s authority to award money and jobs in construction, legal work, consulting and investmentments. Included in the indictment are allegations that Mr. Blagojevich and his associates “schemed to auction off the Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama”.
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A Report of the Violence Policy Center* authored by Senior Policy Analyst Tom Diaz
Introduction
Mexico is under siege, its democratic governance is at risk. This report examines the role of the U.S. civilian gun market in the drug-related violence in Mexico that is creeping northward into the United States.
Top Ten Stories of the Week ending March 27, 2009:
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Case Discussed: U.S. v. Wellman, 2009 WL 37184 (S..D W. Va. 2009)
From: Quinlan Law Enforcement E-News*, March 26, 2009.
Search and Seizure in Cyberspace:
March 2009 Volume 2 Number 3.
Social Networking Sites: How To Stay Safe
From the Desk of David G. Badertscher
On Monday March 23, 2009 the Obama administration presented the details of the Public-Private Invetment Program as a major initiative to help stimulate the U.S. economy. Below are links to four documents which were prepared to help introduce this program.
Press Briefing by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Plans to Assist the Credit Markets
March, 2009 Volume 21 Issue 2
LEAD ARTICLES:
Strategies for Combating Anti-Gay Sentiment in the Courtroom by Sean Overland
Written by: Ira Winkler March 24, 2009. For the Internet Revolution Blog:
“The ‘CSI Effect’ is what people call juror expectations of forensic evidence that unequivocally proves the defendant guilty. Unfortunately, there is now a “Twitter Effect,” where defense attorneys hope for mistrials because jurors just can’t control themselves and have to tweet what’s going on inside courtrooms or deliberation areas….” See entire posting at:
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=515&doc_id=173990&
March 2009 Issue
The Law Library Association of Maryland (LLAM) is a chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL):
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March 19, 2009
Intentional Upheaval: ACRL Report Says Libraries Must Turn Crisis into Opportunity
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