Locally, the big criminal justice news was former UNC basketball player P.J. Hairston getting a criminal summons. He allegedly punched a high school basketball player during a pickup game at the Durham YMCA. WRAL has the story here. I don’t know whether Tar Heels are more likely to cringe when hearing Hairston’s name or that of Rashad McCants, who says that Roy Williams knew about the academic fraud at the university and claims that UNC owes him “over $10 million due to the exploitation of me as a player and the lack of education that I received.” In other news: New edition of Black’s Law Dictionary. Check out this interview with Bryan Garner, editor of Black’s Law Dictionary and legal writing guru. Garner explains why he decided to include “SODDI defense” and other new terms, and gives recommendations for good non-legal dictionaries as well.The tenth edition of Black’s just came out. On Amazon, you can get it for just $81.19, a discount of a full seventy-six cents off the MSRP! New use for dog sniffs. ARS Technica reports here that police in Rhode Island have a dog that is “trained to ferret out gadgets, such as thumb drives and hard drives, that might contain kiddie porn.” To be clear, the dog can’t discern the contents of such devices, but rather is “trained to identify scents such as metals and other components” typically found in electronic gadgets. Provocative big-picture articles. Two think pieces caught my eye this week. On CNN, New York [...]
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