You can find the full text of the Vick Indictment at the link below.

Vick Indictment

Boston.com reports on the order handed down by U.S. District Court judge Nancy Gertner against the United States for the wrongful convictions of Peter Limone, Joseph Salvati, Louis Greco and Henry Tameleo.  The men were tried in 1968 and remained in prison as late as 2001, when a state judge overturned Limone’s conviction on the basis that the FBI had withheld evidence that he and the other three men had been framed.  Joseph Salvati and Louis Greco were represented by BULaw alumni (see related story).  The 235 page Memorandum and Order in Limone et al. v. United States, No. 02-cv-10890 (Jul. 26, 2007) is now available on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts website. 

The Washington Post has compiled links to all the official documents related to the US Attorney firings.  Take a look.

Westlaw has recently expanded the use of term frequency searching to case law and secondary source databases.  Previously available only in news databases, term frequency searching is now available in approximately 4,700 case law and secondary source databases.  As Westlaw noted in its product announcement, term frequency searching “is particularly helpful when you want to restrict your search by topic but few field restrictions are available (such as when you search secondary sources).”

“To use the Term Frequency feature, access one of these databases, type a Terms and Connectors query in the Search text box, then click Term Frequency. A list of your search terms is displayed. Use the Set Frequency drop-down lists to designate the number of times you want one or more terms to be mentioned in any retrieved document (e.g., require the phrase leading question to appear at least five times in any document you retrieve). Click OK to return to the Search page. Then click Search Westlaw to run the search.”

If you have any questions about using term frequency searching in your research, please contact me via email at rlsweet@bu.edu, via phone at 617-353-8853, or in person in Room 332.

We have expanded the range of materials that we can access through JSTOR.  The Arts & Sciences IV Collection contains over one hundred titles. Law, psychology, and public policy and administration are the new areas introduced with this collection. The collection also includes business and education titles.

Title list: http://www.jstor.org/about/asIV.list.html

Detailed list: http://www.jstor.org/about/asiv_content.html

In recent days, the White House has clarified the President’s commutation of Libby’s sentence and - just yesterday - Judge Walton issued an order with regard to the commutation’s effect.  The documents are at the links below.

White House Clarification

Opinion on Commutation Effect

You can find free opinions from Massachusetts state courts on the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly website.  The opinions database is updated by noon daily and you can find the decisions here much quicker than on Westlaw and Lexis.  Did I mention it was free?

Expanded coverage is now available in Westlaw for the following databases: