IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE - generated by our News Release ListServer DO NOT REPLY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Idaho State Police District 5 5205 South 5th Ave. Pocatello, Idaho 83204-2299 (208) 236-6466 FAX: (208) 236-6068 For Immediate Release: 4/22/17 - 8:16 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office Idaho State Police is currently investigating a crash southbound on Interstate 15 at mile marker 83, near Fort Hall. At this time both southbound lanes are blocked. Motorists should expect delays. 3933 -------------
Crash blocking left lane SB I15@83 near Fort Hall
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Motorists Expect Delays EB I84@183
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: 04/22/2017 8:45 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office Idaho State Police is investigating a vehicle fire eastbound Interstate I84 at milepost 183. Both eastbound lanes are blocked due to low visibility from the smoke. 3642 -------------
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Update: Motorists Expect Delays EB I84@183
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: 04/22/2017 8:53 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office *** Update *** The left lane of is now open. The right lane is still blocked. 3642 *** End Update *** Idaho State Police is investigating a vehicle fire eastbound Interstate I84 at milepost 183. Both eastbound lanes are blocked due to low visibility from the smoke. 3642 -------------
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Update: Motorists Expect Delays EB I84@183
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: 04/22/2017 8:53 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office *** Update Correction *** The left lane of I84 is now open. The right lane is still blocked. 3642 *** End Update *** Idaho State Police is investigating a vehicle fire eastbound Interstate I84 at milepost 183. Both eastbound lanes are blocked due to low visibility from the smoke. 3642 -------------
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***Update*** Crash blocking SB I15@83 near Fort Hall
IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE - generated by our News Release ListServer DO NOT REPLY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Idaho State Police District 5 5205 South 5th Ave. Pocatello, Idaho 83204-2299 (208) 236-6466 FAX: (208) 236-6068 For Immediate Release: 4/22/17 - 9:20 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office ***Update*** The southbound left lane of travel is now open. The right lane is still blocked at this time. 3933 ***End of Update*** Idaho State Police is currently investigating a crash southbound on Interstate 15 at mile marker 83, near Fort Hall. At this time both southbound lanes are blocked. Motorists should expect delays. 3933 -------------
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DUI in Michigan – Get the Police car dash-cam Video
In my role as a Michigan DUI lawyer, examining the evidence is a critical step in every drunk driving (OWI) case I handle. Can you imagine a doctor or dentist treating a patient without first conducting a thorough examination? It’s essentially the same thing for a lawyer to properly (emphasis on proper) represent someone facing a DUI charge. As much as any doctor, dentist or lawyer will want to know what the problem is, he or she will also want to know what it is not. In the context of a DUI arrest, a driver’s contact with the police and what follows, including the stop (was the car, in fact, swerving? Did it cross the yellow line? Did the driver commit some other traffic infraction?), the field sobriety tests, and the arrest itself aren’t just important to the case, they essentially make up the case. As a result, it is standard practice in my office to obtain and review the video evidence in almost every drinking and…
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M.D.Fla.: Def failed to show equitable right to return of property under 41(g) while he’s in jail
Defendant failed to make a showing for equitable relief for return of property under Rule 41(g) while he’s in jail. United States v. Rehaif, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 61019 (M.D. Fla. April 4, 2017): After considering the Richey factors, the … Continue reading →
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N.D.Ga.: Prior illegal search of cell phone was moot by SW based on prior acquired info
Even though the government conducted an illegal warrantless search of defendant’s cell phone, they later obtained a search warrant based on previously acquired information, so the independent source doctrine applies. United States v. Keel, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 58895 (N.D. … Continue reading →
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Short Take: Do You Agree To Be Tased?
With a client, a juvenile, sitting in the can, Rick Horowitz found himself in a quandary. You can imagine my surprise, then, when I was retained to defend a juvenile, and the District Attorney told me that I needed to log on to Evidence.com to download discovery. Evidence.com is an SaaS solution, owned and operated by Axon. For those who don’t know, “Taser International is now Axon.”8 And neither Evidence.com, nor Axon—not even in its prior incarnation as “Taser International,” for that matter—are listed in WIC 827 as lawfully able to receive, or disseminate, juvenile records. No corporation is. The prosecution has discovered the internet, and it’s not by accident. The nice folks over at Taser, seeking to expand their product line of tech items to a decidedly not tech-adept crowd, figured out that one of the areas where the “trust” they developed with law enforcement, and by extension, prosecutors, could be exploited…
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Morning Radio: Cianci
Sunday.Off point.Rest.Crime podcasts are getting better.None better than S-Town.But Crimetown has game.About the greatest city in America, and a very complicated man, the former Mayor.Buddy!
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Let Virginia governor’s death penalty commutation lead to no more executions
For decades, Virginia has been a leader in sending people to death row and in executing them rather than delaying doing so, as is common in California. On April 21, 2017, Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe took at least one action in the opposite direction, commuting the death sentence of Ivan Telguz, who was sentenced to death after being convicted for murder-for-hire of his child’s mother. Teleguz garnered widespread and very vocal support to commute his sentence, including from several former Virginia attorneys general. The vast majority of capital defendants and other criminal defendants fight their cases in obscurity. Would Governor McAuliffe have given much thought — let alone having commuted — Teleguz’s death sentence had his case not garnered so much publicity? In any event, thanks to Governor McAuliffe for commuting Teleguz’s death sentence. May he commute all remaining death sentences, and may capital punishment be abolished…
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DIARY OF A MAD PRESIDENT 100 DAYS
Dear Diary, coming up on 100 days as the big kahuna. The Big cheese. El Jefe. Da man. That's me! Got a guy on the supreme court. Voted to allow an execution in Arkansas. Only sad part was the scum executed wasn't Mexican. Oh well, better luck next time. 100 days- promised to end Obama care on day one. Oh well. Promised to build wall on day one. Oh well. Promised to stop North Korea from launching missiles on day one. Oh well. Promised to rip up Iran deal on day one. Oh well. Promised tax cuts on day one. Oh well. Promised to expose global warming as chinese fake news on day one. Oh well. Promised to lock-up Hillary on day one. Oh well. Promised to declare China a currency manipulator on day one. Oh well. Promised to end World Bank on day one. Oh well. Promised to not interfere in regional conflicts like Syria. Oh well. Promised to withdraw from NATO on day one unless Germany paid fair share. Oh…
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Mother Allegedly Sends Car Flying Over Roundabout While Drunk
For those who are new to driving in Boston and the greater Boston area, rotaries can be among the most confusing and seemingly dangerous features of the road that one can encounter. These feature drivers going around in circles at relatively high speeds and do not seem to be yielding to other drivers regardless of who has right of way. As it turns it, rotaries, or roundabouts as they are called in Great Britain, can cause problems anywhere. This is especially true when a driver trying to negotiate one of them is drunk. According to a recent news article from Cornwall Live, a mother was allegedly driving drunk with her 19-month-old son when she approached a roundabout at high rate of speed. This was captured on video, and instead of entering the traffic circle and driving around, as she was legally required to do, she drove straight into the roundabout from the edge, and her car rode up the beam and flew 14 feet into the air. At this point, the video showed the car…
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"I used to support legalizing all drugs. Then the opioid epidemic happened."
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Sunday TV: Series "El Chapo" Premiere
I'm looking forward to the start of the Univision series El Chapo tonight. The fictionalized series about the life of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was based on the collective work of screenwriters and journalists in Univision's investigative... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Sunday Open Thread
I haven't followed the news this week, so there's been little to write about. That will probably change soon. In the meantime, here's an open thread, all topics welcome. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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The Motor Vehicle Accident, the Death and Texting
The Motor Vehicle Accident, Death and TextingThis post examines a recent opinion the Supreme Court -Genesee County, New York issued in a civil case: Vega v. Crane, 2017 N.Y. Slip Op. 27062 (2017). The court begins the opinion by explaining that[t]his action was commenced by Plaintiff seeking to recover for injuries she sustained in a motor vehicle accident that occurred on December 8, 2012. The Plaintiff's vehicle was struck by a car driven by Collin Ward Crane, who died as a result of injuries he sustained in the accident (herein after referred to as `Decedent’). Plaintiff alleges that the Decedent's girlfriend, Taylor Cratsley, [a named defendant], (herein after referred to as `Cratsley’), was texting the Decendent while he was driving, thus distracting him and causing the accident.Plaintiff moved for partial summary judgment on the issues of liability and serious injury. These motions were granted against the decendent, his estate and his father…
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Unfair Federal Sentencing Scheme Causes Judge to Retire
Federal judges retire, not as frequently as other government and private sector employees but eventually they do leave the bench, one way or the other. The ABA Journal reports that federal judges, like many other retirees, retire because they can earn more money in the private sector. But there are a few federal judges who because of job dissatisfaction; namely, because they are part of a system that dispenses justice in a consistently unfair manner. Sentencing people to serious mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment, especially for criminal conduct that does not fit the punishment, can take a debilitating toll of judges who subscribe to the notion of a fundamental fairness that embodies the principle that the punishment should fit the crime. Federal Sentencing, Mandatory Minimums Unfair As we pointed out in a recent post (April 16), the federal sentencing scheme is both uncertain and unfair. This sentencing scheme, not the lure of more money, prompted the…
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Notable recent work from the Prison Policy Initiative on prison wages and medical co-pays in prisons
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Making the case that older punishments may not be so much crueler than current ones
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