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Fort Dix Verdict Highlights the Problem of Conspiracy Law

By | 12.23.08 | 7:00 am

The jury’s guilty verdict on Monday in the case of the Fort Dix Five reflects the problem Justice Jackson highlighted in 1949 when he called criminal conspiracy an “elastic, sprawling and pervasive offense . . . so vague that it almost defies definition.”

Terrorism Cases Hinge on Paid Informants

By | 12.19.08 | 2:05 pm

The trouble started for Mohamad Shnewer and his old high school buddies from Cherry Hill, NJ in a Circuit City store in Mount Laurel in January 2006. When a store clerk saw the videotape that a customer wanted transferred to DVD –- showing men shooting assault weapons into the woods More…