How many veterans are among Prez Obama's 944 federal prison commutations? How many more veterans are clemency worthy?
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"Will Team Trump bust the marijuana business?"
The title of this post comes from this CBSNews.com article addressing the question looming over the otherwise positive results for marijuana legalization advocates on Tuesday: will a Trump White House aggressively enforce federal marijuana prohibition? The article begins: Supporters of the marijuana industry should be celebrating this week’s passage of...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarijuanaLaw/~4/fj-68eHyL1Y" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
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Criminal, Creepy Clowns Flood Southern California
It recently made national headlines that a creepy clown craze has swept the globe. Across the nation, police have received reports of people in creepy clown costumes trying to lure children or scare people. While the state of California seems to have escaped it the past several months, creepy clowns have official hit Southern California. Through a series of Facebook and social media posts, it was announced that clowns would be visiting Los Angeles County schools, including Pasadena and Whittier. In Fontana, California, a 14-year-old high school student was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats against students on social media. The teen had taken “a scary clown picture” under the name of “FontanaKillerClown” and posted it on Instagram. He was arrested at school and booked into a juvenile detention center. In Glendora, California, police also arrested a 19-year-old man on suspicion of making threats against his old high school through social…
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The Felony DWI- Potential Repercussions and Alternative Courts
Unlike the run-of-the-mill misdemeanor DWI, a third offense could trigger the filing of a felony DWI which comes replete with serious prison time and the potential for a 10 year or permanent denial of your driving privilege. And don’t be fooled, BOTH the criminal matter and the driving privilege issues of a felony DWI require immediate, experienced representation. That is why it is critically important to have a legal team with the resources, experience and level of skill necessary to represent your interests. Not doing so could mean your life as you know it. This is important because the right attorney will be able to discuss with you all of the repercussions that can arise from a potential felony DWI conviction. This would include the possibility of losing your driving privileges for 10 years, without an opportunity for a limited driving privilege. An experienced and knowledgeable attorney would be able to advise you of whether…
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Veterans Day
With all that is happening right now, it would be easy to forget, but we must not. Let us all thank the veterans of our armed forces, without whom all our country's great documents of liberty would be nothing but empty promises.
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Federal White Collar Crime Lawyer Discusses More Legal Trouble for Wall Street
Financial crimes are taken very seriously by federal prosecutors says Leading Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyer Mick Mickelsen Much of the 2008 financial crisis in the United States has been traced back to Wall Street, however, comparatively few bankers and financiers have been forced to answer for their alleged misconduct. Now, a relatively new federal agency wants to change that. Financial ... Read More The post Federal White Collar Crime Lawyer Discusses More Legal Trouble for Wall Street appeared first on .
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Meintijes-van der Walt on Eyewitness Evidence
Lirieka Meintjes-van der Walt (University of Fort Hare) has posted Judicial Understanding of the Reliability of Eyewitness Evidence: A Tale of Two Cases (Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol. 19, 2016) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: One of the most...
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TN: Off-duty police officer was citizen informant on DUI call
An off-duty police officer saw defendant appeared drunk in her car in a Sonic parking lot and called it in. He was a citizen informant. State v. Irwin, 2016 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 841 (Nov. 8, 2016). The search of … Continue reading →
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Reason.com: Prominent Civil Liberties Groups Anticipate Life Under President Donald Trump
Reason.com: Prominent Civil Liberties Groups Anticipate Life Under President Donald Trump by Anthony L. Fisher: If Trump makes good on his many threats to curtail liberty, there will be resistance. Regarding Trump’s plan to engage in the mass deportation of … Continue reading →
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Fascinating exit poll data on Arizona and California marijuana legalization support/opposition
Thanks to Tom Angell, Marijuana Majority founder and Twitter fiend, I now have seen that CNN has great exit poll data detailing and breaking down by a variety of demographics who voted for and against the marijuana reform initiative in Arizona (which failed) and California (which passed). For those who...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarijuanaLaw/~4/SusZvKXJ80g" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
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Injury Crash in Nampa Currently Under Investigation
IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE - generated by our News Release ListServer DO NOT REPLY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE District 3 Patrol 700 S. Stratford Dr., Meridian 83642 (208) 846-7550 Fax (208) 846-7520 For Immediate Release: 11/11/2016 at 3:25 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office On November 10, 2016, at approximately 12:45 p.m., Idaho State Police investigated an injury crash involving a bicycle and a passenger vehicle. The crash occurred near the intersection of N. Midland Blvd. and Lone Star Rd. in Nampa. Further information is not available at this time. The investigation is ongoing. do / eh -------------
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No, It is Not Legal to Smoke Marijuana While Walking On the Sidewalk in Downtown Los Angeles
...or in any other California city or town for that matter. On November 8, California passed Proposition 64 (text of the Proposition here, analysis here) which legalized the recreational use of marijuana. The LA Times reports on the passage of Prop 64 here. From the LA Times:The approval of the ballot measure creates the largest market for marijuana products in the U.S. It comes six years after California voters narrowly rejected a similar measure. Activists said passage would be an important moment in a fight for marijuana legalization across the U.S.“We are very excited that citizens of California voted to end the failed policy of marijuana prohibition," said Nate Bradley, executive director of the California Cannabis Industry Assn. "Proposition 64 will allow California to take its rightful place as the center of cannabis innovation, research and development.” Discouraged law enforcement officials said they will closely monitor implementation of the…
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Gershowitz on Post-Trial Plea Bargaining in Capital Cases
Adam M. Gershowitz (William & Mary Law School) has posted Post-Trial Plea Bargaining in Capital Cases: Using Conditional Clemency to Remove Weak Cases from Death Row (Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 73, 2016) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:...
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Trump Transition Teams: 3 Kids and a Son In Law
Donald Trump remains true to his shallow roots. He's just moved from Celebrity Apprentice to Dynasty in naming his transition team. He's put his three adult offspring and a son in law in charge of picking who will run our country. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Paul Ryan: Medicare Killer
Paul Ryan, who has always planned to privatize and gut Medicare, now says Donald Trump is on board. You can hear Ryan say he's already talking about it with Trump this Fox News interview. He says overhauling Medicare is more of a priority... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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OH5: Raw marijuana shake around in the front area of the car was PC for a search
Raw marijuana shake around in the front area of the car was probable cause for a search. State v. James, 2016-Ohio-7660, 2016 Ohio App. LEXIS 4531 (5th Dist. Oct. 31, 2016). “In conclusion, Pankey is incorrect to present this case … Continue reading →
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Indonesia's president Joko Widodo hints at abolishing death penalty
Source: The Guardian (5 November 2016)https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/05/indonesias-president-joko-widodo-hints-at-abolishing-death-penaltyIndonesia’s president Joko Widodo has indicated his country wants to move towards abolishing the death penalty.Speaking ahead of a three-day visit to Australia, Widodo told the ABC he thinks Indonesians will change their minds on execution laws as citizens in Europe had done in the past.“We are very open to options,” he said.“I don’t know when but we want to move towards that direction.”The execution in Indonesia last year of Australian drug traffickers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran strained relations between the two countries. Widodo’s trip to Australia will be his first bilateral visit since Canberra withdrew its ambassador to Indonesia in protest against the executions.“Indonesia has regulations, Indonesia has its own law, which still allows execution. That’s…
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Injury crash near the Jerome Minidoka Line
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: 11/12/16 4:46 a.m. Please direct questions to the District Office On Saturday, November 12, 2016, at approximately 1:33 a.m., the Idaho State Police investigated a one-vehicle injury crash on Interstate 84 at milepost 200, near the Jerome Minidoka County lines. Florencio Aguinaga, 40, of Rupert, was eastbound in a 2002 Honda Accord. Aguinaga's vehicle went off the left shoulder of the roadway, overcorrected, rolled across the lanes off the right shoulder. Aguinaga was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the vehicle. Aguinaga was transported by air ambulance to Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello. NEH/AC -------------
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Stop Crying Long Enough To Blame
That the names Newt Gingrich, Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani are back in the news shouldn’t come as any surprise. You knew they would be there, backing the dark horse, because no one else would let these toxic losers anywhere near their administration. And if nothing else, Trump prizes loyalty, because he wouldn’t know integrity if it bit him in the ass. There will be plenty to do going forward, because these are the people who will be in charge of something. Crying about the pain of it all is what got us here. Dealing with it will be hard. If you can’t stop feeling bad about it, crying over how it will impact you and your feelz, then you will be useless in dealing with it. In fairness, there would be plenty to do going forward had Clinton won. Remember what a great president Barack Obama was for the Constitution? Yeah, he sucked, unless you were one of the lucky ones who happened to get your tummy rubbed by his rhetoric or occasional forays into actually…
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DWI Courts: An Alternative, Problem-Solving Approach to Curb Drunk Driving
Among the most under cited yet interesting DWI law-related topics in contemporary jurisprudence is the increased use of problem-solving courts. DWI/DUI courts are a type of diversion court designed to alleviate the burden of DWI/DUIs on regular court and corrections resources. These problem-solving courts use alternative interventions and treatment for offenders who plead guilty to driving while impaired or […] The post DWI Courts: An Alternative, Problem-Solving Approach to Curb Drunk Driving appeared first on Minneapolis DWI Lawyer Douglas T. Kans.
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