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The Bureau of Legal Dentistry encourages the use of multiple dental impressions to create a “dental lineup”, similar to a suspect lineup used to identify alleged perpetrators of crime. Currently, dental impressions collected as evidence are compared only to those collected from a given suspect, which may bias the resulting outcome.
MAP International was founded in 1954 by J. Raymond Knighton, the first Executive Director of the Christian Medical Society, now known as the Christian Medical and Dental Associations (CMDA). Knighton had heard reports of missionary doctors in remote parts of the world lacking necessary medicines and health supplies to adequately treat their ...
North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission , 574 U.S. 494 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case on the scope of immunity from US antitrust law . The Supreme Court held that a state occupational licensing board that was primarily composed of persons active in the market it regulates has immunity from ...
The Legal Aid Society provides a range of civil legal services, as well as criminal defense work, and juvenile representation in Family Court. The organization's primary purpose is to provide free legal assistance to New Yorkers who live at or below the poverty level and cannot afford to hire a lawyer when confronted with a legal problem. [19]
Pro bono publico (English: 'for the public good'), usually shortened to pro bono, is a Latin phrase for professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment. The term traditionally referred to provision of legal services by legal professionals for people who are unable to afford them.
Supplementary Homicide Reports (abbreviated SHR) is a database of homicides in the United States maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as part of its Uniform Crime Reports program. The database consists of detailed reports of homicides reported to the FBI by local law enforcement agencies in 49 states and the District of ...
Criminal records in the United States contain records of arrests, criminal charges and the disposition of those charges. [1] Criminal records are compiled and updated on local, state, and federal levels by government agencies, [2] most often law enforcement agencies. Their primary purpose is to present a comprehensive criminal history for a ...
The Criminal Appeal Reports are a series of law reports [1] of decisions of the Court of Criminal Appeal, the criminal division of the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords [2] from 15 May 1908 onwards. [3] [4] They are published by Sweet & Maxwell. [5] [6] Publication began in 1909 and have been edited by Daniel Janner since 1994.