Explore these links at your leisure. Some of the sites are basic search engines. Other sites, such as Cornell, Findlaw, and Indiana, provide information about legal subjects. There are several superb criminal justice  sites, such as Greek's Links, with numerous hyperlinks to other criminal resources.  The federal and state codes and cases sites are useful in the criminal law course. Two of my favorite sites for leisure reading about real life crimes and defenses are Famous Trials and TruTV's Crime Library of infamous criminal cases.

These Center for Criminal Justice Advocacy links are just a tiny drop in the ocean of criminal law information available on the web. But they are guaranteed to start you on an endless ride. Good surfing!
Knowledge is of two types - we know a subject ourselves or
we know where we can go to get information about it.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

HERE ARE A FEW WEB SITES THAT YOU MAY FIND USEFUL TO VISIT AS YOU PUT YOUR TOES
IN THE WATERS OF THE CRIMINAL LAW:
BACK TO CTA HOMEPAGE
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
GUIDE TO LOCAL COURTS
crimes and defenses.com
criminal law
LINKS
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SEARCH ENGINES


LEGAL RESEARCH LINKS

  • PLOL - Free Online Library
  • Criminal Law Overview - (1- Findlaw), (2- Cornell), (3- Justia), (4- Stanford  Philosophy), (5 - Summary)
  • Death Penalty - (1 - Info), (2 - Resources),
        (3 - Index), (4 - Pro), (5 & 6- Anti),
        (7- Capital Defense Weekly),
        (8 - DPIC), ( 9 - TX executions)
  • Sentencing (1 - Blog)
  • White Collar  (1),(2)  (3 - Blog)
  • Terrorism - (1 - blacklist), (2 - al-Queda),
         (3 - Center), (4 - Homeland Security),
         (5 - Unabomber), (6 - McVeigh)

INFORMATION

  • Broadcast News Footage (1), (2)
  • Calendar - (1 - Duration between two dates),
(2 - Calendar home)
  • Climatology   (1 - Naval Observatory), (2 - sunrise/sunset), (3 - sunset), (4 -ordering from NCDC)
  • Crim Records - (1 - Public Data), (2 - Dataland), (3 -  Explained), (4 - TxDPS)
  • Dictionary - (1 - Websters), (2 - Free), (3 - One Look), (4 - Medical), (5 - Legal) , (6 - Legal), (7 - Legal)
  • Dictionary, Foreign Language (1), (2), (3), (4 - Spanish), (5 - Spanish)
  • Distance Between Cities - (1), (2)
  • LLRX - law and technology resources
  • Maps -      (1 - Map Quest),  (2 - Maps Live),   (3 - Maps .Com),   (4 - U. Tx.),  (5 - Yahoo) ,   (6 -Maps On Us),   (7 - Natl. Geo.) ,  
  (8 -USGS), (9 - Rand), (10 - Webster),                               (11 - Oddens), (12 - historical), (13 -Google)
  • Maps, Aerial - ( 1 - TerraServer) (2 -world) (3 - aerial), (4 - TerraFly) (5 - Google Earth) 
  • Measurements - (1), (2 - Conversion of Weight, Mass, Speed, Temp, Length, Distance, Angles, Numbers, Density, Volume, Energy, Flow Rate, Force, Frequency, Light,Pressure, Power, Viscosity), (3 - Weights and Measures),  (4 - Metric Conversion), (5 - Conversion of Length, Weight, Volume), (6 - Math Conversion), (7 - Converter
  • Military Search (1), (2), (3)
  • People (Finding) - (1 - People -Searching for), (2 -  Roots), (3 - Virtual Chase), ( 4 - Any Who), (5 - Search Bug), (7 - Knowx), (8- Pipl), (9- I23 People), (10 - Sleuthing)
  • Phone Numbers -  ( 1 - Switchboard), (2 - Who Where), (3 - World Pages), (4 - Reverse & Email), (5 - Worldwide), (6 -Super Pages) , ( 7 - Yellow Pages), (8- Info Space), (9)
  • Photos - (1)
  • Public Records -  (1  - Vital), (2 -Directory)
  • Sex Offender Databases - (1 - DOJ), (2), (3 - states), (4 - Texas)
  • Quotes - (1 - Wiki)
  • Time Web Sites - (1 Navy), (2 - World Clock), (3 - World), (4 )
  • Translation Web Sites - (1), (2 - Yahoo) , (3),
        (4), (5), (6), (7 - good)
  • Weather (1 - Wunderground), (2 - extreme -National Climatic Data Center) See below
  • Who Owns a Web Site - From IP Addresses         
         (1), (2)
  • Writing: OWL - site map

CURRENT CRIMINAL LAW NEWS


VIDEOS (WATCH)

  • HOME -Please watch this superb film.
  • Democracy Now -  News you can trust with                                            reporter Amy Goodman
  • WikiLeaks-- Peeling back the veneer of  lies
  with numerous episodes of lawyers in court

GOOD BLAWGS* (BLOGS) WITH A CRIMINAL BENT

  • Clews - Here's a true-crime story blog.

BLAWGS WITH GENERAL LEGAL INFORMATION

  • Becker-Posner Blog This one, in an                   intellectual league apart, presents two of our most    brilliant thinkers, one of whom is Judge Richard        Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.

RADIO & PODCASTS  (LISTEN)


                                   


CENTER FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY

The climate is an angry beast,
and we have been poking at it with sticks,
e.g., in 2010, 30.6 gigatons of global
CO2 emissions (1) - a new record.

With 4.5% of the world's population, the US is responsible for nearly 30% of global CO2 emissions. The output fromTexas alone exceeds that of all of Canada. Humans add about 16,000,000,000 metric tons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year.

It was 20,000,000 years ago that the Earth's atmosphere last had our current  atmospheric levels of CO2. (1) Three hundred and fifty parts of CO2 per million of atmospheric air or less is thought by some to be the maximum concentration compatible with maintaining the planet in the state to which human life is currently adapted.* Fossil fuel use, along with deforestation, is responsible for a great deal of the CO2 increase.

Methane (CH4), like CO2, is a heat-trapping gas. It is 25 times more potent than CO2
as a greenhouse gas over a 100-year period.
As it escapes into the atmosphere, methane adds even more to the pace of global warming. Concentrations of atmospheric methane have increased 150% since 1750.

Our species faces 3 enormous problems: population growth, resource depletion, and global warming. Future generations of homo sapiens may suffer mightily for what we have done to our only home. (1)

*Note: It'll be at least five hundred parts per million within the next forty years according to this expert. This guy explains possible effects of global warming in a manner a 14-year-old can understand, (1 -politics and science from a Nobel Peace Prize winner) Here's a skeptical expert.

Want less. Use less. Conserve energy.
Get off the carbon highway!

FEDERAL  DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS


FEDERAL LAWS (Statutes, Rules)

  • FDsys (Govt. publications)


FEDERAL  LEGISLATION


FEDERAL AGENCIES


FEDERAL COURTS

         History of Fed. Ct. System
  • (1st  - First [Boston]; ME, MA, NH, PR, RI)),
  • (2nd - Second [NY]: CT, NY, VT)
  • (3rd - Third [Philadelphia]: DE, NJ, PA, VI)
  • (4th - Fourth [Richmond]: MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)
  • (5th - Fifth [New Orleans]: LA, MS, TX) Blog
  • (6th - Sixth [Cincinnati]: KY, MI, OH, TN)
  • (7th - Seventh [Chicago]: IL, IN, WI]
  • (8th - Eighth [St. Louis]: AR, IA, MN, MI, NE, ND, SD)
  • (9th - Ninth [San Francisco]: AK, AZ, CA, HI, ID, NV, OR, WA)
  • (10th - Tenth [Denver]: CO, KS, NM, OK, UT, WY)
  • (11th - Eleventh [Miami]: AL, FL, GA)

FEDERAL CASES AND DOCUMENTS


FEDERAL MILITARY


STATE CONSTITUTIONS AND BILL OF RIGHTS
 

STATE LAWS (Statutes, Rules)


STATE COURTS

  • State Court Web Sites (1), (2)
  • Texas Court of Appeals (1st - Houston);      (2nd - Ft. Worth); (3rd - Austin); (4th - San Antonio); (5th - Dallas); (6th - Texarkana);   (7th - Amarillo); (8th - El Paso); ( 9th - Beaumont); (10th - Waco); (11th - Eastland); (12th - Tyler); (13th - Corpus Christi); (14th - Houston)

STATE AGENCIES


STATE AND LOCAL PROSECUTORS


INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW

  • International Criminal Court - (1) ,  (2)
  • International Criminal Law Link - (1 - EISIL),   (2 - NYU), (3 - llrx), (4 - Wings)

ETHICS


OTHER RESOURCES

  • Serving Time: Punishment in America -  recorded by the "History Guys"                      Audio Tape  1    Audio Tape 2

FOR FUN

  • Bored When you feel like doing something stupid.
  • Nudes  Warning:  For mature adults only!
  • Art  (1)      Arts & Letters (1)
  • Source Watch - General information re the truth behind rumor.


  • OLD-TIME RADIO CRIME DRAMAS (Put your computer beside the bed, turn off the lights, and tuck yourself in to close the day with a classic from this list.)

  • Lum & Abner (This one has nothing to do with crime, but  it's funny.)
          Sun Tzu's Art of War; Marcus Aurelius



DISASTER (for locals)  HURRICANE, FLOOD, ETC

  • Evacuation Routes from Houston - (I-10 to SA ); (I-45 to Dallas);  (US 290 to Austin);  (US 59 to Nacogdoches) [In 2005 with Hurricane Rita approaching, Governor Rick Perry, Houston Mayor Bill White and Harris County Judge Robert Eckels  simply told citizens to "gas up and go" without any effective planning; many tens of thousands who heeded their advice were stranded perilously on highways; luckily the hurricane bypassed us; let's hope the politicians exercise better judgment and planning the next time we face the real probability of a hurricdane strike.) (In 2008's Hurricane Ike, Mayor  White, became more of a statesman and true public servant, doing a much better job; Governor Perry again proved himself to be little more than a posturing politician, (He later ran for President in 2011 and revealed himself to be a slow-thinking, stumbling debater); Eckels is gone to a silk-stocking law firm; so far, his replacement, County Judge  Ed Emmett, appears to be a valid public servant.]
            Weather Channel; National Warnings   
  National Doppler Radar ; Lightning;
            Channel 2 KPRC; Channel 13 KTRK (1); Channel 11 KHOU;




         Taught by a Berkeley Law Professor

We've sodomized this planet with a chain saw, coal shovel and gas nozzle -
Fact: Temperatures in the lower 48 states were 8.6 degrees above normal for March 2012 and 6 degrees higher than average for the first three months of the year, according to calculations by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That far exceeds the old records. (1)