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And on JNet's US criminal databases page:

• Sex Offenders
• Prison, fugitive databases 

Finding a US lawyer:

• Find a Lawyer    WestLaw's LawOffice site allows you to search any country for a lawyer by name or speciality
• Law Office - Find a Lawyer
• Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator     Basic information about over 900,000 lawyers and law firms, mostly in the US. The database can be searched by individual, firm, location, corporation, or government agency.  Also contains an international search database.
• American Bar Association   directory
• FindLaw       Considered one of the best resources for lawyers to find their experts, so why shouldn't you use it too?
• West Legal Directory
• Lycos Directory of Databases to Find lawyers

Legal news:

• Lawyers Weekly
• FindLaw - Legal news          Daily news feeds from Reuters are available in fourteen categories at this time, rangin from telecommunications to US Justice Department to various types of litigation news. There is a searchable archive
• GanglandNews
• APBOnline    Internet crime and justice news service
  
  

Law libraries:

• Duke University School of Law Journals            Duke University's School of Law provides the full text of six of its journals
• Cornell Law Library            Links to US Supreme Court decisions and other American legal sites
• Other Cornell Law Library Legal Research Guides
• InSITE--Law Site Reviews from Cornell Law Library    Periodic compilation of reviewed law-related web sites

Government sites:

• US Supreme Court
• FBI Exceptional Files Case List                A 774 page list of historically-significant FBI Files that are available upon request from the FBI. If you see something you like, you may ask for it by name and file designation.
• FBI         Home Page
• FBI FOIA Reading Room    Hundreds of documents released under FOI. With a useful alphabetical listing
• FBI Top Ten          The FBI'sTen Most Wanted
• Oakland Crime Map
  

Resource pages:

• APBOnline's Criminal resources    Good list of links
• PoliSci Almanac   Excellent briefings, biographies of Supreme Court, law courts
• Crime Resources          How to cover crime in the States
• U.S. Law          A resource page for American law
•  Join Together Online Gun violence issues
  

Police Scanners:

• Yahoo's Police Scanners

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