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Just A Thought
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NYTimes: N.S.A. Halts Collection of Americans’ Emails About Foreign Targets
NYTimes: N.S.A. Halts Collection of Americans’ Emails About Foreign Targets by Charlie Savage: WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency said Friday that it had halted one of the most disputed practices of its warrantless surveillance program, ending a once-secret form … Continue reading →
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Short Take: If You’re Happy And You Know It
Most of us never give much thought to the exclusion of deaf people. And deaf people don’t give a damn about the exclusion of blind people, because they’re deaf and not blind, and deaf is definitely worse based on a poll at Gallaudet University. This is why clapping is literally horrifying. Britain’s largest national student union has told attendees of its annual conference they would face “consequences” for cheering and clapping because these forms of expression exclude deaf people. What those consequences might be is unclear, though it clearly involved repeated warnings, public shaming, and the occasional burning of a witch. And like all truly exhausting problems, it required the institution of official rules to make it so. In response to the complaints, the Durham University student union proposed a motion at the conference that would see clapping and whooping banned at all future NUS events. According to the motion, “access needs of…
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Melanie’s Law Not Often Used in Drunk Driving Cases in Mass.
While it is good that there has been a strong push to enhance drunk driving laws, especially in cases involving serious or even fatal drunk driving accidents, it will not do any good if the new stricter laws are not enforced when the opportunity presents itself. However, according to a recent news article from the Boston Globe, that is exactly what is occurring. For those who are not familiar with Melanie’s law, it was passed more than a decade ago. The purpose of the 2005 law was to make the penalties for drunk driving offenses much tougher in Massachusetts to prevent serious drunk driving accidents, including fatal ones that occur in Boston and other parts of the state. While there were various changes to the already existing drunk driving laws, the major change, as pushed by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and other groups, is to require an alcohol breath ignition interlock device on a defendant’s vehicle, and it would be on it until defendant…
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CA4: Exigency didn’t justify search of a car for a weapon where there was no threat and no gun crime
Defendant was stopped and arrested on a police call, but it wasn’t for a gun crime. Therefore, because defendant was cooperative and the scene was completely under control and there were no confederates involved, a search of the car for … Continue reading →
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ALFREDO BULLARD Y LA VIDA DE LOS .PERROS
http://elcomercio.pe/opinion/columnistas/perra-vida-alfredo-bullard-noticia-1987863?ref=portada_home Me gusta leer a Bullard porqué es abogado como yo y rico a diferencia mía. Es sintomático en sus comentarios la frugalidad con las que intenta explicar un fenómeno social para aterrizar en el tema de su preocupación, en éste, por ejemplo, su meta es la inversión privada y las garantías que el “sistema legal” encubriendo con tal definición (“sistema…”) al Estado o “gobierno” por lo menos; Bullard aboga por su patrón y no es un insulto, todos mal que nos pese, tenemos patrones la diferencia está en que los pobres tenemos muchos patrones aun cuando la lucha por “el triunfo” ya no tenga ningún significado, y los ricos cuando menos uno, ¿Por qué pienso que aboga por sus patrón?, veamos: …
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MO: Two week old information in call to child maltreatment hotline was not stale nor without exigency
A call to a child maltreatment hotline was made two weeks after the observation that motivated the phone call. The exigency still existed for a warrantless entry. State v. Prince, 2017 Mo. App. LEXIS 348 (April 25, 2017). Defendant’s vehicle … Continue reading →
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Harris County hearing officers Pants-on-Fire testimony in bail litigation lacked credibility, finds federal judge
Amazing news! Congrats to Civil Rights Corps and the Texas Fair Defense Project, who secured a remarkable 193-page injunction against Harris County from federal District Judge Lee Rosenthal declaring that the local bail system unconstitutionally deprives poor misdemeanor defendants of their freedom because of their inability to pay. See the Houston Chronicle's coverage. Grits uploaded her ruling here.Judge Rosenthal heard testimony from the Hearing Officers setting bail amounts on the front lines and poignantly found them non-credible: "The Hearing Officers' testimony that they do not 'know' whether imposing secured money bail will have the effect of detention in any given case ... and their testimony that they do not intend that secured money bail have that effect, is not credible." In fact, she attributed "little to no credibility in the Hearing Officers' claims of careful case-by-case consideration." In the hearings she…
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Fighting Yale University Arrests & School Discipline Expulsion Hearings
As the best Yale New Haven criminal lawyers know, all your years of studying and hard work to get to Yale University can go up in smoke if your Yale University arrest, criminal case and school discipline hearing is not handled properly. The New Haven Connecticut criminal courts do not extend special treatment to you because you go to an Ivy League school. In fact, New Haven courts and prosecutors generally expect more from you if you’re a Yale grad or undergraduate student. So if you’re facing a Yale University arrest and school discipline hearing, contact a top Yale New Haven criminal lawyer attorney who regularly defends Yale criminal cases, and who can work with you and your family to try and get your case dismissed quickly, and even more importantly, protect the integrity of your Yale University transcript. Yale University Police Have Power to Arrest With over 13,000 students attending Yale University in New Haven, it’s no surprise that Yale…
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Texas To Consider Making Bullying and Cyberbullying a Crime
The post Texas To Consider Making Bullying and Cyberbullying a Crime appeared first on .
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Single Vehicle crash in Gem County
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: Saturday-April 29, 2017 9:20 a.m. Please direct questions to the District Office On Saturday, April 29, 2017, at approximately 3:50 a.m., the Idaho State Police investigated a single-vehicle fatality crash on SH52 near milepost 27, west of Emmett. David Tellez, 33, of Payette, was driving westbound in a 2004 Lincoln LS. The vehicle went off the right shoulder and rolled, coming to rest in the lanes of travel. Tellez was ejected and succumbed to his injuries at the scene of the crash. He was not wearing a seatbelt. The highway was partially blocked for approximately four hours while crews worked to clear the scene. Next of kin has been notified. 3632/3725 -------------
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Drug Dealers Charged with Manslaughter for Overdose
Drug Dealers Getting Charged for Overdose Deaths In recent years it has become popular for illegal drug dealers to mix highly potent drugs such as the heroin with a substance known as fentanyl in order to generate a more profound high for those who are taking the drug. Fentanyl is the dangerous opioid drug compound that has produced far too many deaths in Massachusetts and the New England region as a result of its use. People who receive drugs that are mixed with fentanyl have a substantially increased risk of accidental fatal overdosing. In response, prosecutors are seeing drug dealers charged for deaths resulting from the drug dealing activities. Illegal opioid drug use that prompts fatal overdosing is one of the biggest epidemics that Massachusetts law enforcement and the legislature has had to face in the recent past. According to a 2016 data brief study by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, fentanyl-related deaths are on the rise in Massachusetts.…
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Illinois Law Review creates big online symposium to mark Prez Trump's first 100 Days
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No fourth amendment violation where a traffic stop did not exceed the time needed to handle the matter for which the stop was made
In U.S. v Vargas the defendant was charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and possession of cocaine after Alabama law enforcement officers discovered cocaine and methamphetamine in Vargas’ vehicle. Vargas filed a motion to suppress on the grounds that Vargas’ traffic stop that led to the discovery of the drugs violated Fourth amendment. Here, Alabama law enforcement officer pulled over the defendant for following too close and failing to maintain its lane. The driver immediately admitted that he did not have a driver’s license. The officer asked him to come back to the officer’s car where the officer asked him routine questions about where he was going. After about three minutes the officer informed him that he was issuing him a warning for following too close. He continued to ask defendant some questions to complete the warning. He then approached the passenger to determine whether he could operate the vehicle. When the…
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Ley 30556
He dejado para una segunda entrega mis comentarios a las disposiciones transitorias, finales y modificatorias, estoy cansado tengo un poca más de tres horas escribiendo. Pienso que, no es descabellada la actitud del FA al oponerse a esta ley. Esperemos el Plan y la lectura que haré de las disposiciones que no he comentado. He aquí la ley y mis comentarios: LEY Nº 30556 EL PRESIDENTE DE LA REPÚBLICA POR CUANTO: EL CONGRESO DE LA REPÚBLICA; Ha dado la Ley siguiente: LEY QUE APRUEBA DISPOSICIONES DE CARÁCTER EXTRAORDINARIO PARA LAS INTERVENCIONES DEL GOBIERNO NACIONAL FRENTE A DESASTRES Y QUE DISPONE LA CREACIÓN DE LA AUTORIDAD PARA LA RECONSTRUCCIÓN CON CAMBIOS COMENTARIO: No dice “frente a las consecuencias de los últimos desastres naturales y acciones futuras para evitarlos”, la redacción sugiere acciones para prevenirlos de manera que, el texto no reconoce…
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When Government Breaks Rules For Ohio Administrative License Suspensions
There are few instances when the government can take our property without first holding a hearing. An Ohio Administrative License Suspension (A.L.S.) is one of those instances. If a driver refuses a chemical test or tests ‘over the limit’, an officer takes the driver’s license on-the-spot. Accordingly, to protect drivers’ rights to due process of law, Ohio has rules which must be followed for an A.L.S to be imposed. A recent A.L.S. case in an Ohio Court of Appeals demonstrates what happens when the rules are not followed. There Are Rules For Imposing License Suspensions The case is Toledo v. Ferguson. Ferguson was stopped and given field sobriety tests. The police officer charged Ferguson with OVI and imposed an A.L.S. For the A.L.S., the officer completed a BMV 2255 report and sent a copy to the court. However, the report was sent to the court six days after the arrest, and Ohio Revised Code section…
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Rivers Portrait of Warhol
Just off my third book on Warhol.Larry Rivers' portrait of him captures so much. The void.
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Maryland Gov orders "disparity study ... to ensure diversity in Maryland's medical cannabis industry"
As reported here by the Baltimore Sun, Maryland's Governor "Larry Hogan on Thursday ordered a study of whether minorities face a disadvantage when seeking to participate in the state's nascent medical marijuana industry." Here is the context and particulars surround what I think will be the first-of-its-kind state study: Black-owned...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarijuanaLaw/~4/A13saNfpJqo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
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Non-Injury crash I-84 near Eagle road
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: Saturday-April 29, 2017 4:53 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office On Saturday, April 29, 2017, at approximately 1:07 p.m., the Idaho State Police investigate a two-vehicle, non-injury crash, eastbound on I-84 at milepost 46, east of the Eagle overpass. Terry Clampitt, 49, of Boise, was driving eastbound in a 1998 Ford pickup towing a Wanco trailer. Clampitt stopped to avoid a bumper in the lane of travel. Matthew Kelley, 33, of Greensboro, South Carolina, was also eastbound, driving a 2014 Honda Odyssey van. The van struck the rear of the trailer and the trailer came unhitched from the pickup. Clampitt and Kelley were wearing seatbelts and were not…
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Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads in Criminal Procedure eJournal
are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 4,662 Encryption Workarounds Orin S. Kerr and Bruce Schneier The George Washington University Law School and Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Date posted to...
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