New strategy in battering cases: about a third of jurisdictions prosecute even without victim's testimony

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Police departments and courts nationwide are following the path blazed by San Diego in prosecuting domestic batterers without testimony from the alleged victim. Using photographs, eyewitnesses, 911 calls, and medical records, police can often rebut a victim who claims she was not beaten. Many victims do not want their batterer imprisoned for a variety of reasons. However, such violence often escalates over time. Casey Gwinn, who launched San Diego's program, says it has saved 100 women's lives in the past decade.

Witnesses, Testimony, Victims of crimes, Crime victims, Family violence, Domestic violence, states

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House of delegates backs model laws: Uniform Adoption Act receives key endorsement from ABA

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A remarkably noncontentious session of the House of Delegates at the midyear meeting in Feb witnessed the swift approval of several measures with little debate. Chief among these was the Uniform Adoption Act, drafted in five years of wrangling by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Other measures approved included an updated Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act, a revised Uniform Commercial Code Article 8 (Investment Securities), and the Uniform Prudent Investor Act.

United States, Laws, regulations and rules, Adoption

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Jury deadlocks in Oswald mock trial; verdict based on "testimony" of actor-witnesses elicited by real-life lawyers

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A mock trial of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was held at the ABA's 1992 convention, but it ended inconclusively. The mock jury, a cross section of Northern Californians, deadlocked with seven favoring conviction and five acquittal. Actors played the witnesses, but real lawyers handled the case. Although based on the historical record, old evidence was enlivened by new technology such as computer animation.

Mock trials, Oswald, Lee Harvey

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