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At this week's very weird press conference, the Florida Highway Patrol announced that the investigation of Tiger Woods' incident with his golf club-swinging wife is over. Woods paid a small motor vehicle fine and the rest of the story remains a mystery. The FHP said there was insufficient evidence to subpoena Tiger's medical records from the hospital where he was treated for his injuries.So -

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Dear Whoopi; I tried to be clear in my first letter in the hope you would simply apologize for saying Roman Polanski didn't plead guilty to "rape rape". But in an awkward attempt to put out the flames of outrage, you made things worse by trying to "explain" yourself. You said on The View that what you MEANT was that because Polanski admitted to the charge of "unlawful sex with a minor" - he

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Dear Whoopi;Yesterday on "The View", you said Roman Polanski pleaded guilty to "unlawful sex with a minor", but that it wasn't "rape rape". So I've been wondering -What the hell is "rape rape"?I know you said your point was to articulate the nature of the crime to which he pleaded guilty - which, you said, was somehow DIFFERENT from "rape".It isnt."Unlawful sex with a minor" IS the crime of

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(originally written for the Patriot Ledger)After weeks of speculation, it’s clear now that Michael Jackson's death is being treated as a "homicide" and that the focus of the investigation is Conrad Murray, a doctor who was at Jackson's house when the singer died. Search warrants were executed at Murray’s homes and offices in two states and Murray reportedly admitted giving Jackson several

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Drew Peterson's attorneys filed a much-anticipated motion last week in the criminal case involving Peterson's alleged murder of his ex-wife, Kathleen Savio. They asked the court to render a new Illinois law unconstitutional because it allows certain statements, presumably made by Savio as well as Peterson's missing (though presumed dead) "current" wife, Stacey, to be admitted against him at

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“Wendy Murphy’s fearless television reporting on the JonBenet Ramsey murder always made me sit up and listen. She wasn’t afraid to say the things a lot of us thought but didn’t say because of the threat of litigation. Now Ms. Murphy has written a book, And Justice for Some, in which she exposes the injustices in our justice system. She is an activist for victims’ rights. I loved her book.”—

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WENDY J. MURPHY, J.D.Wendy is an adjunct professor at New England Law|Boston where she teaches a seminar on sexual violence and directs two projects she developed in conjunction with the school's Center for Law and Social Responsibility. The "Sexual Violence Legal News" project is an internet-based alert service that distributes appellate cases of interest, with editorial comment, related to

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One of the children's books I've written, with the help of Massachusetts artist Valerie Battaglia.

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Disclaimer: I represented Lucia Whalen – the “911 caller” in the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.In the flurry of commentary from columnists, bloggers, pundits and activists hoping to shine a light on "lessons learned" from the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the rhetoric around what it means to be "post-racial" or to "transcend" race - has been mind-numbingly

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And Justice For Some, Penguin/Sentinel (2007)Using Title IX's "Prompt and Equitable" Hearing Requirements to Force Schools to Provide Fair Judicial Proceedings to Redress Sexual Assault on Campus, 40 New England Law Review, No. 4, pp. 1007-1022 (2006)"Federalizing" Victims' Rights to Hold State Courts Accountable, 9 Lewis & Clark L.Rev. 647 (2005)The Overlapping Problems of Prosecution Sample

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