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(Philadelphia) - U.S. mayors and police chiefs said
Wednesday they would call on the next president to revive
fading federal support for local crime-fighting efforts. The
officials, speaking at a U.S. Conference of Mayors forum,
discussed ideas that could be presented in the first 100
days of the new administration. The proposals included
spending money to hire more police, give them better
technology and fight the spread of assault and rapid-fire
weapons used against them. Federal spending to bolster local
law enforcement has dropped sharply since 2001, when it
totaled $2.1 billion, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., told a news
conference Wednesday. "Add everything up now, it's $400
million," he said. (More)
(Harrisburg) - A former state lawmaker and an aide
avoided jail time by pleading guilty Tuesday to forging
signatures, including a dead person's, on nominating
petitions for the 2006 primary. Linda Bebko-Jones, 62, and
her former chief of staff Mary B. Fiolek, 60, were both
sentenced in Dauphin County to 12 months' probation and
fined $1,500. They each pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor
charges -- forging and submitting false signatures and
criminal conspiracy. All other charges were dismissed. Kevin
Harley, a spokesman for the attorney general's office, said
the offenses go to the heart of the elections process.
Bebko-Jones and Fiolek admitted creating numerous bogus
signatures on at least three different nomination petitions
that were attested to as authentic and filed with elections
officials. (More)
(Pittsburgh) - Pathologist Cyril Wecht should not be
retried on federal fraud and theft charges and the case
against him should be dismissed, his lawyer told an
appellate court on Monday. Attorney David Fine told a
three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
that U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab erred April 8 when he
declared a mistrial without questioning jurors, consulting
with the attorneys and considering other alternatives.
"Here, clearly there was an irregular procedure," Fine said.
"He should have polled the jury." Wecht, whose consultations
on high-profile deaths have earned him millions, is accused
of using his former Allegheny County coroner's staff to do
work for his private practice. (More)
Who says New York doesn't need any more lawyers? The
American Bar Association thinks it does. Starting this week,
some 10,000 attorneys, judges and other legal professionals
will flock to the Big Apple for the legal organization's
131st annual meeting. The six-day event, starting on
Thursday, will include the ABA's House of Delegates session,
which will take up some controversial issues for the legal
profession on Monday and Tuesday. One contentious proposal
slated for a vote by the House of Delegates, the
policymaking body of the ABA, would ease the
conflict-of-interest rules regarding attorneys who switch
jobs from one private law firm to another. The proposal,
known as Recommendation 114, would treat lateral attorneys
the same way it addresses attorneys who move from government
jobs to private law firms. (More)
The ethical hornets' nest stirred up by the refusal of an
acting West Virginia chief justice to recuse himself from a
multimillion-dollar appeal involving his major campaign
contributor has reached the U.S. Supreme Court in a petition
framing today's increasingly unsettling intersection of
money and judicial elections. The high court petition,
fall-out from a bitter battle between competing coal
companies, asks the justices to resolve "a recurring issue
of far-reaching national importance." When, in the context
of campaign contributions, does due process demand a judge's
recusal? Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., No. 08-22.
(More)
(West Chester) - Elegant. Functional. Hi-tech. Asked to
pick from those adjectives to describe the new Chester
County Justice Center on a recent tour of the building,
Christine Geunther, the county's assistant director of
facilities, couldn't. "It's a little bit of all of the
above," she said. The half-million square foot building that
rises seven stories above the 200 block of West Market
Street in the county seat does, in fact, contain a dash of
elegance, a boat load of functionality and enough hi-tech
gadgetry and greenery to keep its visitors engaged. There is
the formal beauty of the cherry wainscoting and crown
molding in the courtrooms, as well as a circular tray
ceiling that adorns the main courtroom. (More)
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U.S. Attorney
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background left, and Assistant Director in Charge for the
FBI Washington Field Office Joseph Persichini, Jr., address
the media about the anthrax investigation at the Justice
Department in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008. (AP
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