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Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Important Stuff

Study: Gun ban didn't reduce violence
    Washington Times

"The federal assault-weapons ban, scheduled to expire in September, is
not responsible for the nation's steady decline in gun-related
violence and its renewal likely will achieve little, according to an
independent study commissioned by the National Institute of Justice
(NIJ). 'It is thus premature to make definitive assessments of the
ban's impact on gun violence. Should it be renewed, the ban's effects
on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small
for reliable measurement,' said the report .... NIJ is the Justice
Department's research, development and evaluation agency -- assigned
the job of providing objective, independent, evidence-based
information to the department through independent studies and other
data collection activities." (08/17/04)

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040816-114754-1427r.htm

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Barbecues to tempt hunger strikers
    Ananova [UK]

"Israel is threatening to barbecue meat outside the cells of
hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners to break their spirit. Some
1,700 Palestinian inmates are on hunger strike for better prison
conditions and more family visits, reports The Daily Star in Lebanon.
But the Israeli Prisons Service is refusing to meet the conditions
and is threatening action to break the strikers' spirit.'Among the
various methods we plan to employ is holding barbecues outside the
walls of the affected prisons,' an Israeli Prisons Service spokesman
said." (08/17/04)

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1062713.html

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Louisiana: Loads of legislation
    The Times-Picayune

"Louisianians will awake today facing as many as 520 new laws
governing their lives, most of them tinkering with existing statues
but some major new initiatives. Among the news laws to go on the
books are a statewide ban on open containers of alcohol for all
occupants in vehicles, a mandate that all motorcycle riders wear
safety helmets, and the threat of jail time for parents who
intentionally withhold child support. ... And those who use guns to
commit crimes within 1,000 feet of a parade route could get two years
added to any sentence meted out for the crime itself." (08/15/04)

http://tinyurl.com/4mm53

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Court backs beer-lover's license suspension
    Fox News

"A judge ruled the state can suspend the driver's license of a man who
lost his driving privileges after his doctor reported to police that
he drank a six-pack of beer a day. But the judge also said Keith
Emerich may obtain restricted driving privileges as long as he uses a
device that tests his blood-alcohol content before starting his car.
Emerich, 44, a printing company employee, was notified in April he
would lose his license, about two months after he disclosed his
drinking habit to doctors treating him for an irregular heartbeat."
(08/17/04)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129232,00.html

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Medical marijuana advocates ready to sue in MN
    Marijuana Policy Project

"The Marijuana Policy Project announced [Tuesday] that it will sue the
city of Minneapolis if its City Council votes to bar a medical
marijuana initiative from the November ballot. 'The reasons given by
the Charter Commission and members of the council's Intergovernmental
Relations Committee for keeping this proposal off the ballot are
transparently phony,' said Neal Levine, a former Minneapolis resident
who now serves as director of state policies for the Washington,
D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project. 'We are fully prepared to go to
court, and to spend whatever it takes to prevent the city's voters
from being disenfranchised.' Citizens Organized for Harm Reduction
turned in more than 12,000 signatures in support of the initiative
charter amendment, under which Minneapolis would authorize medical
marijuana distribution centers to serve patients using marijuana with
their physician's recommendation 'to the extent permitted by state
and federal law.'" (08/17/04)

http://www.mpp.org/releases/nr081704.html

Massachusetts: Court rules on use of confessions
    Boston Globe

"The state's highest court ruled yesterday that judges should begin
instructing juries in criminal trials to be skeptical when police
fail to tape-record confessions or statements made by defendants in
custody. In a 4-to-3 decision with broad implications for police
investigations, the Supreme Judicial Court said that if defendants
request it, judges must tell juries that the high court wants
statements to be recorded 'whenever practicable' and that the absence
of recordings is evidence to be weighed 'with great care and
caution.' Alaska and Minnesota are the only states where high courts
have ordered police to tape interrogations to prove that confessions
were voluntary." (08/17/04)

http://tinyurl.com/6uhel

Children of criminals to be "targeted" and "tracked"
    Independent [UK]

"Children of criminals are to be 'targeted' and 'tracked' from an
early age by the Government to prevent them following their parents
into a life of crime, as part of a campaign to tackle the next
generation of offenders. In an offensive on youth crime, a programme
to prevent 125,000 children whose fathers are in prison from joining
them in jail, is being planned by the Home Office." (08/16/04)

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=551894

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