A new bill that has just been passed by the California Senate would increase prison time for sex offenders and extend parole terms for certain kinds of offenders. The bill, Chelsea’s Law, will now head to the California Assembly and if it passes, will end up on the desk of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign [...]
Friday, March 19, 2010
A court in Philadelphia has held that a school girl, whose sexually explicit images were found on a cell phone, cannot be forced to face charges of child pornography. It has been one of the more interesting cases featuring overly aggressive prosecutors and the defense of civil liberties. The entire controversy began when school officials [...]
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Nicole Howell’s worst nightmare came true when she was accused of having sex with one of her students. The finger was pointed at her by one of her own. A 16 year old male student of hers that claimed Nicole had sex with him. Her world was turned upside down as she defended herself from [...]
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Sex crimes are unique types of cases because they involve a crime against an individual’s body. Unlike many other types of criminal cases, sex crimes are not monetary crimes and do not involve a person’s property. In sex crimes cases, we are often dealing with a crime of power that can potentially create lasting psychological [...]
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Today’s technology has given us some of the greatest invention of our time. We have advanced more as a society in the past 20 years than we have the previous 2,ooo years. With all of this new found technology it has brought some new problems that we have never had to think about or deal [...]
Friday, August 27, 2010
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