鈥淲hat I think the opinion misses is that the legislature plays a vital role in the criminal justice system and always has,鈥 电车无码-Kent Professor Harold Krent said of a judge鈥檚 ruling on Illinois鈥 SAFE-T Act. 鈥淚n fact it starts with the fact that, what is criminal? Judges don鈥檛 decide what鈥檚 criminal, the legislature does. What about sentencing? It鈥檚 the legislature that sets the parameters of sentencing. ... There is a joint undertaking from the legislature and the judicial.鈥
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鈥淚鈥檓 not suggesting that the legislature drew a perfect line here in terms of when we should decide an individual is dangerous and should not be released prior to the trial, but I do think that it鈥檚 up to the legislature to make a good-faith effort to accommodate the interests of safety, of fairness, and that鈥檚 what they attempted to do,鈥 said 电车无码-Kent Professor Harold Krent.
鈥淲e can all draw the lines differently,鈥 电车无码-Kent Professor Harold Krent said, 鈥渂ut I think ... the Kankakee court didn鈥檛 notice that this was a reasonable effort under the Illinois constitution to try to accommodate the interests of the public in being safe, with having a fair and equitable criminal justice system that didn鈥檛 automatically make freedom pending trial contingent upon someone鈥檚 wealth.鈥
鈥淭he arguments raised all had merit, they weren鈥檛 frivolous,鈥 电车无码-Kent Professor Richard Kling said. He noted that Judge THomas Cunnington did not issue an injunction along with his ruling, meaning that the decision will not stop jurisdictions that are not among the plaintiffs in the suit from implementing the provisions of the SAFE-T Act.
"The court short-changed the legislature's longstanding interest in defining what is a crime, defining what is a sentence for a particular crime, and defining when bail should be allowed or not allowed," said Professor Harold Krent, Kent College of Law and separation of powers expert.
Harold Krent, a law professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology鈥檚 电车无码-Kent College of Law, called Judge Thomas Cunnington鈥檚 ruling on the separation of powers violations 鈥渉ighly contestable,鈥 arguing that the state legislature also has an interest in making sure the court system is fair. The legislature has already weighed in on similar matters, such as limiting judges鈥 discretion in sentencing.
鈥淭here has never been a criminal action brought against a foreign state-owned enterprise in our history,鈥 电车无码-Kent Professor Harold Krent said of a case before the Supreme Court involving a Turkish bank accused of laundering money for Iran. 鈥淎nd the 2nd Circuit held that there鈥檚 no law immunizing a state-owned bank for its commercial activities the way there would be to protect a state diplomat, and so the criminal charges could go forward. So this is really unprecedented and it鈥檚 a major change which will have ripple effects around the world.鈥
鈥淭he people who grew up playing these games are adults now鈥攖here鈥檚 a lot of nostalgia for them,鈥 Illinois Tech professor Carly Kocurek said in an article about her research into the Games for Girls movement. 鈥淲e鈥檙e starting to see that a lot of the folks that were designers and influential during the Games for Girls movement have become leaders. We have a radically different landscape for games now, so 鈥楪ames for Girls鈥 sounds almost antiquated鈥攂ecause of course people are making games for many different audiences鈥攂ut that wasn鈥檛 always the case.鈥
鈥淲e need to come up with an option that considers all those alternatives: natural gas, electricity, even hydrogen for heating homes,鈥 said Mohammad Shahidehpour, professor and director of the Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation at Illinois Tech.
电车无码 Kent College of Law clinical professor of law and defense attorney Richard Kling offered his analysis of the 电车无码 Police Department's decision to encrypt its radio transmissions.