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Door to Door Breast Exam Guy Arrested

Story.  [Mark Godsey]

This Week's Top 5 Crim Papers

This week's top 5 papers on SSRN, with number of recent downloads, are:

(1)	182	Report on Guantanamo Detainees: A Profile of 517 Detainees through Analysis of Department of Defense Data Mark Denbeaux, Joshua W. Denbeaux, Seton Hall University - School of Law, Denbeaux & Denbeaux, Date posted to database: February 21, 2006 Last Revised: March 6, 2006
(2)	126	Therapeutic Forgetting: The Legal and Ethical Implications of Memory Dampening Adam J. Kolber, University of San Diego School of Law, Date posted to database: March 2, 2006 Last Revised: March 16, 2006
(3)	107	The Year of Jubilee . . . or Maybe Not: Some Preliminary Observations about the Operation of the Federal Sentencing System After Booker Frank O. Bowman, University of Missouri at Columbia School of Law, Date posted to database: February 21, 2006 Last Revised: April 21, 2006
(4)	77	Sexual Punishments Alice Ristroph, University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law , Date posted to database: February 21, 2006 Last Revised: March 1, 2006
(5)	74	Regulation by Generalization Frederick Schauer, Richard J. Zeckhauser, Harvard University - John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University - John F. Kennedy School of Government, Date posted to database: November 15, 2005 Last Revised: April 17, 2006

S. Carolina Considers Making Sell of Sex Toys a Felony

Story here.  [Mark Godsey]

Priest on Trial for Killing Nun in 1980

Story here.

RIP, Tom Farris, Esq.

There is no good way to die, but this one is better than some others: To die (quickly) while arguing a case.  Tom Farris was twice a graduate of UNC, and I can only imagine he was making an impassioned argument on behalf of his client when he passed away. [Jack Chin]