Gregg D. Caruso (SUNY Corning) has posted Free Will Skepticism and the Public Health-Quarantine Model: Replies to Objections (Draft Chapter In Unjust Deserts: Free Will Skepticism, Criminal Behavior, and the Public Health-Quarantine Model, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:...
Caruso on Free Will Skepticism and the Public Health-Quarantine Model
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A month out from the election, recreational marijuana reform ballot initiatives are ahead in the polls in all five states
For a variety of reasons, I have been thinking that a majority but not all of the five state ballot initiatives coming to voters this November to legalize recreational marijuana were likely to pass. However, this Washington Post article has a headline suggesting my forecast for recreational marijuana reform efforts...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarijuanaLaw/~4/8eTtHcfS3YI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
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Texas completes first US execution in nearly three months and only third since April
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Noting the tide starting to turn in litigation challenging sex offender residency restrictions
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Fatal Crash US12 MP58 west of Kamiah
IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE - generated by our News Release ListServer DO NOT REPLY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Idaho State Police Regional Communication Center - North 615 W Wilbur Ave Suite A Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83815 Please direct questions to the appropriate District Offices District 1 (208) 209-8620 Fax (208) 209- 8618 District 2 (208) 799-5150 PRESS RELEASE FOR DISTRICT TWO CASE # L16001311 --------------------- PRESS RELEASE ----------------------------- DATE: 10/06/2016 TIME: 12:43 AM LOCATION: US12 MP 57.8 West of Kamiah ASSISTING AGENCIES: Lewis Co Sheriff, Idaho Dept of Transportation VEHICLE #1 ------------- DRIVER: Rex D. Pevehouse AGE: 83 ADDRESS: Orofino, ID INJURIES: Fatal HOSPITAL/LOCATION TAKEN: Pine Hill Funeral Home, Orofino VEHICLE: 2009 Subaru Legacy 4Door WRECKER: Miles Towing SEATBELT WORN: No ------------- VEHICLE #2 …
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"6 Million Lost Voters: State-Level Estimates of Felony Disenfranchisement, 2016"
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Pennsylvania CPA Charged in New Jersey Mortgage Fraud
Barry E. Horrow was charged by information in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania with four counts of bank fraud and one count of aiding and abetting. The information alleges that Horrow was a CPA who owned and operated Horrow and Associates, first in Delaware County and then in Chester County, Pennsylvania. From January 2005 through […]
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After A Bar Fight, Assault Case Dismissed Based On Self-Defense
Recently, a man from Reynoldsburg, Ohio came to the Columbus law offices of Luftman, Heck & Associates after a bar fight resulted in a misdemeanor assault charge. The man was reasonably nervous because despite his claim that he acted in self-defense, this offense is punishable by up to 180 days in jail and $1,000 fine. [...]The post After A Bar Fight, Assault Case Dismissed Based On Self-Defense appeared first on Columbus Criminal Attorney.
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New Ignition Interlock Devices Will Have GPS Capabilities
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety has announced a new rule that requires DUI offenders to install new ignition interlock systems in their vehicles, and some of the new systems will have the ability to collect GPS data. The new rule went into effect September 1, and it requires any vendor of ignition interlock devices to install a new wireless modem in all systems. These modems have the capability of providing the state with “real-time” data as to a person’s location within five minutes accuracy. These modems capture, record and send your GPS data when your vehicle is in use, so the state will know when and where you are using your vehicle. DPS Disagrees However, the Department of Public Services has a different story. While some new units will have the capability to track driver information, they stated that they are not requiring the new systems to have this feature. They also told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that the DPS will not “collect or house…
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Update - Crash Blocks Eastbound Interstate 84 East of Twin Falls
IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE - generated by our News Release ListServer DO NOT REPLY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE District 4 Patrol 218 West Yakima, Jerome, ID 83338-5904 (208) 324-6000 Fax (208) 324-7897 For Immediate Release: 10/06/2016 at 9:25 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office *****Update***** The left lane of eastbound Interstate 84 is no longer blocked. KJ / SC *****End of Update***** The Idaho State Police is currently investigating an injury crash eastbound Interstate 84 at milepost 175, east of Twin Falls. The two eastbound lanes of travel are blocked at this time. More information will be released as it becomes available. KJ / SC -------------
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Great Supreme Court Fellows opportunity for all current and future sentencing researchers/advocates
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*Update* Multiple Crashes Near Rigby
IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE - generated by our News Release ListServer DO NOT REPLY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Idaho State Police District 6 1540 Foote Dr. Idaho Falls, Idaho 83402-1828 (208) 525-7377 FAX: (208) 525-7294 For Immediate Release: 10/06/2016 at 9:40 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office ***UPDATE*** On Thursday, October 6, 2016, at approximately 4:19 p.m., the Idaho State Police investigated reports of multiple crashes near Rigby on U.S. Highway 20. The area experienced some severe weather including rain and hail, and drivers failed to slow for the inclement conditions. Initially, a driver of a 2005 Toyota van lost control, and the vehicle rolled into the median. Other motorists in the area, failing to slow for the road conditions and for the existing crash, resulted in a total of three reportable crashes and several non-reportable slide-offs and minor crashes. As we approach the time for…
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Update - Crash Blocks Eastbound Interstate 84 East of Twin Falls
IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE - generated by our News Release ListServer DO NOT REPLY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE District 4 Patrol 218 West Yakima, Jerome, ID 83338-5904 (208) 324-6000 Fax (208) 324-7897 For Immediate Release: 10/07/2016 at 1:30 a.m. Please direct questions to the District Office *****Update***** On October 6, 2016, at approximately 8:12 p.m., the Idaho State Police investigated a three vehicle fatality crash eastbound Interstate 84 at milepost 175, east of Twin Falls. Minnie Vangorder, age 24, of Elko, NV, was driving westbound Interstate 84 at milepost 175 in a 2013 Toyota 4Runner, when she struck the rear of a 1994 Ford Ranger pickup driven by Randy Hansen, age 63, of Jerome, ID. Hansen's vehicle drove through the median and into the eastbound lanes of Interstate 84, where his vehicle struck the front of a 2007 Toyota Sienna driven by Sheri Christensen, age 53, of…
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News Roundup
Reuters reported this week that Yahoo “secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials.” Reuters says that the government sent Yahoo a classified request to search the email accounts, likely under the authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The scope of the surveillance is unprecedented and involved “hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts.” The revelation comes just a month after the company announced that state-sponsored hackers stole information from 500 million Yahoo accounts in 2014. Change those passwords and keep reading for more news. Charlotte. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department released full-length dash and body camera footage of the Keith Lamont Scott shooting this week, according to the Charlotte Observer. A separate report from the Observer says that the police…
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Friends Don’t Let Friends Trade on Inside Information
Sarah Baumgartel, Privileging Professional Insider Trading, Ga. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2016), available at SSRN. Ezra Mitchell Just when you thought it was safe to avoid yet another article on insider trading comes Sarah Baumgartel’s imaginative and insightful paper. Baumgartel’s point of entry is several recent and pending cases that in some ways extend, and in other ways limit, the peculiar misappropriation theory, a judicial development that continues to prove not only that bad cases make bad law but that they also can make for good scholarship. Before I get into a few of the details, here’s the bottom line: The misappropriation theory, and especially the Commission’s redaction of “confidential relationship” in Rule 10b5-2, are yet another example of facilitating the economic inequality that has achieved such prominence in contemporary discourse. Baumgartel doesn’t quite put it this way, but she does argue that the manner in which…
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Quarter of Texas police shooting deaths unreported to AG despite mandate
About a quarter of Texas police shooting deaths over the last decade - more than 200 - went unreported to the state Attorney General despite criminal penalties on the books for noncompliance, our own Amanda Woog observed in a Houston Chronicle editorial.Woog reported that, "Scott Bowman, Howard Williams and Jordan Taylor Jung, of Texas State University, have documented more than 200 police shootings that were not reported to the AG's office, but should have been. This is around 15 percent of the total deaths in police custody that were missing, and when looking at the subset of deaths by police shooting, more than 25 percent were unreported." See their analysis.The academics discovered these undisclosed police shootings by using the media-analysis methodology pioneered by the Guardian and Washington Post in their national compilations of police shootings. They found more than 200 which had not been reported to the Attorney General in which it would have been…
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Return of the Killer Trophies
A couple generations ago, someone lied to parents. They were told that it was their duty to build their child’s self-esteem. The next day, parents demanded a trophy, lest their kid feel badly about the fact that they didn’t come in first place. This solved two problems at the same time, the first having to do with the parents’ desire to produce exceptional offspring. The second was the desire not to see their child less than confident in their abilities, even if their abilities were inadequate. What dad wanted his son to suck at baseball? What son wants to be the kid all the good players laughed at? Unfortunately, this is was an inherently flawed plan of action, as the kid still sucked at baseball and all the other dads and kids realized it. And dad wasn’t able to shake off the realization that he produced a baseball dud. But there was a bigger problem. Instead of figuring out what junior did well, where his strength might be, where he could…
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Huq on Disparate Policing and Stop-and-Frisk
Aziz Z. Huq (University of Chicago - Law School) has posted The Consequences of Disparate Policing: Evaluating Stop-And Frisk as a Modality of Urban Policing (Minnesota Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Beginning in the 1990s, police...
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Shirley Coto of Deerfield Beach, Florida Arrested for DUI Manslaughter and Child Neglect
Shirley Coto of Deerfield Beach was arrested last Sunday for 22 criminal charges that include DUI, manslaughter, and child neglect. Coto, 40, allegedly drove a vehicle while impaired without a valid driver’s license and with four unrestrained children. She got into a car accident that killed one of her passengers, 6-year-old Ruby Meza. Coto was booked into Broward Main Jail and had a brief court hearing on Monday where a Broward judge read all of her charges. Her hearing was rescheduled to an unspecified date to give her time to notify her attorney to attend. It is unclear if the judge set bail for Coto. According to the arrest report, the alleged fatal crash occurred on May 23 last year. Coto was driving a friend’s Nissan Ultima without permission, a valid driver’s license, insurance or registration along with four unbelted children to a liquor store on West Hillsboro Boulevard. As she was driving out of the liquor store’s parking lot, Coto crashed…
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Based Upon Training And Experience
In a remarkable decision, Chief Justice Brian Quinn of the Texas Court of Appeals, Seventh District at Amarillo, does something that could destroy the very foundation of the criminal justice system. He’s intellectually honest. A logical reasoning sequence based upon some “training and experience” — because drug traffickers have been seen breathing, then breathing is an indicia of drug trafficking. Because they normally have two hands, then having two hands is an indicia of drug smuggling. Silly — maybe, but one can wonder if that is the direction we are heading. Whether it be driving a clean vehicle, Contreras v. State, 309 S.W.3d 168, 171 (Tex. App.—Amarillo 2010, pet. ref’d), or looking at a peace officer, Gonzalez- 2 Galindo v. State, 306 S.W.3d 893, 895-96 (Tex. App.—Amarillo 2010, pet ref’d), Contreras v. State, 309 S.W.3d at 171; or looking away from a peace officer, GonzalezGalindo v. State, 306 S.W.3d at 896; or a…
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