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		<title>TOO MUCH DISCRETION VESTED IN IMMIGRATION JUDGES?</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2012/01/26/discretion-vested-immigration-judges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum grounds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum trends]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Severe graduated from Barry Law in December 2011.  He was one of Professor Birdsong&#8217;s favorite students.  During Michael&#8217;s last semester he wrote a very interesting and well researched paper in the Refugee Law Seminar arguing that U.S. Immigration Judges have much too much discretionary powers.  I agree with him. Michael has given me permission to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weird Criminal Law Stories 243</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2012/01/25/weird-criminal-law-stories-243/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weird Criminal Law Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birdsong's weird criminal law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stupid criminals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ PENNSYLVANIA: A man allegedly assaulted a police officer who made a traffic stop of him for DUI on a lawn tractor. Mark Grove, 44, had a coffee mug full of beer sitting on his tractor.  He allegedly told the office “I’m drunk. Just take me home.”  He then kicked the officer and, once in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weird Criminal Law Stories 242</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2012/01/18/weird-criminal-law-stories-242/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CANADA: We learn that a 19 year old British Columbia woman drove to the local police station to pick up her boyfriend who had been caught and cited for drunken driving.  However, there was problem – she, too, had been drinking and had to be arrested at the station. “The moral of the story is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A STUDENT WANTS THE END OF THE WET FOOT DRY FOOT POLICY</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2012/01/17/student-wet-foot-dry-foot-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://birdsongslaw.com/2012/01/17/student-wet-foot-dry-foot-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum grounds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuban asylum policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugee law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my Refugee Law students, Minoru Ohye, has written an interesting  and timely paper wherein he argues that the U.S. should end what has been come to be called the &#8220;Wet Foot Dry Foot&#8221; policy toward accepting Cuban refugees.  Mr. Ohye was born in Cuba and escaped from there with his family as a boy.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A PRIMER ON NORTH KOREA</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2012/01/11/primer-north-korea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asylum Matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugee law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us know little about North Korea.  However over the recent holiday period we learned that  North Korea&#8217;s leader,  Kim Jong Il, died after seventeen years of ruling over his impoverished country. His youngest son, Kim Jong Un has now taken over power. My refugee seminar student, Jessica Smith, has written and interesting and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weird Criminal Law Stories 241</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2012/01/09/weird-criminal-law-stories-241/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weird Criminal Law Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birdsong's weird criminal law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stupid criminals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SOMALIA: This probably is not a crime in Somalia – but it should be. A radio station in this country operated by the al-Shabab Islamist group is giving guns and bombs to children who call in and correctly answer questions about the Koran.  We hear that first prize is a $700 AK-47 assault rifle; second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCHOOL IS OUT FOR THE HOLIDAYS</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2011/12/23/school-holidays/</link>
		<comments>http://birdsongslaw.com/2011/12/23/school-holidays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Thoughts philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Birdsong has worked very hard this past semester at school and on the blog. As of today school is officially out for the holidays.  He will return with more Weird Criminal Law Stories and some Refugee Law Student Papers when classes resume on January 9, 20112. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weird Criminal Law Stories 240</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2011/12/21/weird-criminal-law-stories-240/</link>
		<comments>http://birdsongslaw.com/2011/12/21/weird-criminal-law-stories-240/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weird Criminal Law Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birdsong's weird criminal law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stupid criminals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mankato, MN: Two young girls wearing their PJ’s were seen walking along a street late at night leading a goat.  They told a police officer who stopped them that he was their pet, he lived in a closet and they sneaked him out for a nightly walks to keep their parents from knowing they had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weird Criminal Law From Abroad</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2011/12/14/weird-criminal-law-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weird Criminal Law Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birdsong's weird criminal law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stupid criminals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SWEDEN: A Swedish man was recently arrested for firing a gun out of a window of his apartment in an effort to shoot down a UFO.  It was his girlfriend who called the police on the man.  Although he was arrested, the man was in good spirits and told police that “all was OK because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Weird Florida Crime Stories</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2011/12/07/weird-florida-crime-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://birdsongslaw.com/2011/12/07/weird-florida-crime-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weird Criminal Law Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birdsong's weird criminal law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stupid criminals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Miami, FL: A woman was arrested after she drew a picture of a bomb and wrote the word “Boom” on her friend’s suitcase as a prank before the friend left for the Miami airport. The friend tried to check the bag with the bomb picture on it. This caused a major airport alert.  The friend [...]]]></description>
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