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... Advisory Board of Parole.-The following bill was introduced in the Maryland Senate on February 18, 1914: An Act to create an unpaid advisory Board to be known as the "Advisory Board of P[r] ... See full document

... The court stenographer shall be present at' such settlement and shall take down all the objections and exceptions of the respective counsel to all or any of the instructions given or ref[r] ... See full document

... It was resolved that the existing unrestricted constitutional guaranty against incriminating testimony by one accused of crime should be abolished and in its place should be substituted,[r] ... See full document

... Pound, "bills for reform of federal procedure,* including one for a commission to draft a complete federal practice act, are before Congress, and procedural reform has received the weigh[r] ... See full document

... Mkliner, secretary of the New York City Probation Association and for a considerable period probation officer at the Night Court in New York City, pointed out the great difficulties atte[r] ... See full document

... Mayer, former justice of the Court of Special Sessions of New York City, discussed the "Administration of the Criminal Law in the Inferior Courts." He called attention to the fact that w[r] ... See full document

... On December io and ii, i9og, a conference of the city magistrates of New York state, called by the State Probation Commission, was held at Albany to exchange views and experiences and to[r] ... See full document

... A Progressive Amendment to the California State Constitution.-On October iO,1911, the people of the state of California adopted an amendment to the state constitution by adding a new sec[r] ... See full document

... The early hostility of the judiciary to the parole system is illustrated by the fact- that during the twelve years' life of this law, from 1889 .to i9oi, only 115 indeterminate sentences[r] ... See full document

... Hitch said: "The General Assembly of Georgia convenes within a few weeks, and I would suggest that this association memorialize the governor and through him the General Assembly to creat[r] ... See full document

... It is simply the appellate judge that has the last word and it is quite probable that had it been Judge Ferris instead of Judge Latshaw who had tried the case and Judge Latshaw instead o[r] ... See full document

... A fair and impartial trial, upon the law and the facts, without tangled and technical rules, should be accorded the accused, and when this is done, and not until then, a multiplicity of [r] ... See full document

... insane," and thereupon the court shall sentence such person to confinement in a state asylum for the criminal insane for such term as he would have had to serve in prison, but for the fi[r] ... See full document

... The supreme court in its opinion said: "It is not decided that the court may not in a proper case, where the direct facts showing the commission of a crime are given in evidence by those[r] ... See full document

... RULES GOVERNING PAROLE IN NORTH DAKOTA of the state, for service and return, and it shall be the duty of any such officer to receive the same and to apprehend and immediately return and [r] ... See full document

... FEDERAL OFFICE OF PRISONS Committees on the Federal Office of Prisons-Aims.-The object of the committee of the National Committee on Prison Labor on the Federal Office of Prisons is to c[r] ... See full document

... Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, That in any case in a District Court in which any person shall have been convicted of any offense, other than one punisha[r] ... See full document

... Court Records.-When a child or adult defendant is placed on probation, the judge shall sign a probation order which shall be filed with the court records of the case, and the judge or cl[r] ... See full document

... If the Supreme Court shall be of opinion, after consideration of all the matters thus submitted, that the judgment of the court appealed from was such as should have been rendered in the[r] ... See full document

... They are allowed to receive all letters sent them and are also allowed the daily newspapers and current magazines and periodicals, Kentucky-The inmates of the Kentucky state prison are d[r] ... See full document