Notable data on marijuana case processing after Brooklyn DA pledge to limit prosecutions
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Does latest US Sentencing Commission data hint at the emerging impact of the new Sessions memo?
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Benefits of doing a juice cleanse
Doing a cleanse may seem excessive but research does show that it can improve overall body health. Here are the top benefits to doing a one correctly.More fruits and veggies in your diet — Ideally, you should have five servings of fruits and vegetables in your diet every day. However, very few people can meet this requirement due to hectic daily lifestyles. Juice diets can help you meet this requirement by upping your intake of fresh fruits and veggies but in liquid form.Lose weight — Switching to a juice diet means that you remove all food from your diet for four to five days. Not only will you improve your health, but you also lose unnecessary fat. The cleanse will also clean out your intestines of accumulated human waste resulting in a distinct weight loss at the end of the cleanse.Better health — Natural fruit and vegetables are definitely good for health as compared to supplements. As a result, upping your intake of fruit and vegetable juices will improve…
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Officials Seek Motive in University of Texas Stabbing Spree
A University of Texas stabbing spree on May 1 that left one student dead and three injured led to many unanswered questions. Police detained junior biology major Kendrex White after he was discovered wielding a “large, Bowie-style hunting knife,” a report in the Texas Tribune noted. The UT police chief later said the suspect may have suffered from mental health issues. White was said to be calmly walking around the busy plaza in front of Gregory Gym when he was picked up. Police found a bloody scene at the plaza. One man was bleeding on the ground and three others were wounded a block away. University of Texas stabbing shocked the campus Police said all of the victims were male and aged 20 or 21 years old. Images posted on the Daily Texan showed White being handcuffed by two campus police officers. A large knife holder was visible at his hip. CNN reported White was involuntarily committed and later released in another city. White subsequently told the TV station…
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Stone Island is an Italian premium men's apparel brand
Stone Island is an Italian premium men's apparel brand from Ravarino famous for its compass patch that buttons on the upper sleeve of the left arm.Massimo Osti (b. 1944; † 2005) started his first label C.P. Company in 1974. Stone Island was set as a secondary line or diffusion collection of his main tag. The brand specialized in surface treatment of fabrics and dyeing techniques. The business was bought by GFT in 1983, Osti abandoned in 1994, it is now run by Carlo Rivetti.Originally the spots were green edged, badges from 2000 onwards became black edged. There are a run of rarer 'white badges' which were originally made on certain jackets to celebrate the millennium. The white badge is currently evident on coats which use materials that Stone Island develops themselves in-house. Novel jacket designs include the "Liquid Reflective" coat, that uses thousands of small shards of glass which reflect to light.In the late 1990s the make has been…
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The History of the Administrative Petition: Dispatches from the Lost World of Administrative Law
Daniel Carpenter, On the Emergence of the Administrative Petition: Innovations in Nineteenth-Century Indigenous North America, in Administrative Law from the Inside Out: Essays on Themes in the Work of Jerry L. Mashaw 349 (Nicholas R. Parrillo ed., 2017). Karen Tani “#DearBetsy,” tweeted civil rights activist Alexandra Brodsky on July 6, 2017, “Rescinding Title IX guidance moves us backwards when we desperately need progress in ending campus sexual violence.” The hashtag linked the message to many others, including personal accounts of sexual assault and also (contrary to original intentions) demands for greater protections for the accused. All these missives are aimed directly at Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.1 And they are fascinating, for they suggest a regulatory landscape different from the one we teach in law school—a landscape in which savvy use of social media may be as important as the Administrative Procedure Act and in which…
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Will Algorithms Be The Death of Bail?
New Jersey, of all places, is leading the nation in the elimination of bail. While bail bondsmen are screaming about how criminals will be released to rape your daughter at night, not that they have a financial horse in the race, and the Attorney General has tweaked the guidance a few times, it turns out that low-level defendants are being cut loose. So it’s working? This may seem like an unusually technocratic approach to public defense. But it’s not so unusual anymore, at least not in New Jersey, where the state has recently undergone a holistic technological transformation of its arcane court system, all in the service of eliminating the use of bail statewide. Jersey took the algorithm route, which predicted a defendant’s likelihood of returning to court or committing a new crime on a scale of 1 to 6. The purpose was to end the pre-trial incarceration of indigent defendants for the inability to pay bail. In 2016, the Department of Justice, under President…
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Short Take: Has Penn Lawprof Amy Wax Lost Her Gloss?
Paul Caron notes that University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax won a prestigious award. In 2015, Professor Wax received the University of Pennsylvania’s Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching (only three other Penn law professors have received the award in the past twenty years). On the one hand, this informs us that she must have been a pretty damn good teacher, which isn’t something one necessarily finds among academics. Ironic, sure, but they’re loved for their scholarship far more than their ability to do the job of teaching students. On the other hand, so what? Had Amy Wax not won this bourgeois distinguished teaching award, would it then be fine that the students of the Penn law school chapter of the National Lawyers Guild wanted to banish her? While we do not challenge Professor Wax’s right to express her views, we question whether it is appropriate for her to continue to teach a required first-year course. The Penn Law…
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How Do DWI Charges Vary By Substance in Atlantic City?
New Jersey’s driving while intoxicated (DWI) law covers driving under the influence of various substances. In particular, the law covers both drug and alcohol “intoxication.” If you were arrested for alcohol-based DWI, your penalties may be less severe than if you were arrested for drug-based DWI. On top of that, you may also face penalties if you were driving with an open container or possessed drugs when you were arrested. If you are facing DWI or drug charges in South Jersey, talk to one of our attorneys. The Atlantic City DWI defense lawyers at the Law Offices of John J. Zarych have decades of experience handling DWI cases in New Jersey and may be able to help you fight your charges as well. Levels of DWI in New Jersey Under N.J.S.A. § 39-4:50, there are multiple ways to be convicted of DWI. More specifically, there are two “tiers” of DWI: Low-Tier DWI The first level of DWI covers only alcohol-based DWI. More specifically, there are four…
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Maritza Garrido Lecca
http://larepublica.pe/politica/1096485-apologia-de-la-ignorancia El ser humano a lo largo de su existencia y por creación divina manifiesta, expresa, exterioriza, todo tipo de sentimientos, amor, miedo, cobardía, compasión, solidaridad, odio….. De ellos el odio y la cobardía han cobrado en los últimos días singular importancia pues, tras veinticinco años de encierro empiezan a ser liberados los peruanos condenados por terrorismo. Un muy pequeño sector de la población, específicamente los dueños del Perú y aquellos que viven del dolor y pobreza secular de las mayorías, están escandalizados y no han encontrado mejor alternativa que instaurar el miedo porqué son cobardes por naturaleza y es tanto su odio que derrama pus en los cerebros de aquellos animales que disfrutan de los mendrugos de queso arrojados por pestilentes. Veinticinco años no les…
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Hurricane Irma Courthouse Closures
Due to weather conditions created by Hurricane Irma, the following Alabama county courthouses will be closed on September 11, 2017: Barbour Blount Bullock Calhoun Chambers Cherokee Clay Cleburne Coffee Coosa Dale Elmore Etowah Geneva Henry Houston Lee Macon Montgomery (including Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building) Pike Randolph Russell St. Clair Talladega Tallapoosa Federal courthouses in the Middle […]
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Hurricane Irma Courthouse Closures
Due to weather conditions created by Hurricane Irma, the following Alabama county courthouses will be closed on September 11, 2017: Barbour Blount Bullock Calhoun Chambers Cherokee Clay Cleburne Coffee Coosa Dale Elmore Etowah Geneva Henry Houston Lee Macon Montgomery (including Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building) Pike Randolph Russell St. Clair Talladega Tallapoosa Federal courthouses in the Middle […]
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Intersection Accidents Occur Frequently in Georgia
Every year as many as 2.5 million intersection accidents are reported by The Federal Highway Administration. In most of these crashes, at least one vehicle is making a turn, usually a left turn. Nationally, about 40 percent of all crashes occur at intersections. It’s the second largest category of accidents after rear-end collisions. Although the traffic is usually traveling at a lower speed at intersections, meaning injuries from intersection wreck are likely to be less serious than a head-on collision, the consequences of these wrecks can be grave. Approximately 50 percent of serious collisions occur at intersections. About one in five of all fatal collisions occur at intersections. The Causes of Intersection Accidents According to a 2010 report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, about 36 percent of 2.1 million crashes in 2008 studied by the National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey (NMVCCS), were intersection crashes. Of these 756,570…
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Spotlighting concerns over increases in heavy marijuana use
In this recent post, I noted that last week the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released here some key data from its 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). The SAMSHA data showing decreases in teen marijuana use garnered considerable attention, and rightly so...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarijuanaLaw/~4/oWyWy8XTPAY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
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$100,000.00 Verdict – Dead Tree Branch @ Park
“If it predictable its preventable”, as the cartoon above illustrates. Bottom Line: Dead tree branches fall, it is predictable and therefore dead tree branches must be removed form over designated camp sites. If not, its just a matter of time before a customer suffers personal injury or death from a falling branch. A business must protect its customers from dangerous conditions on the property. A business open to the public must check for and remove dangerous conditions to prevent injury and protect its customers If a business violates these safety rules, and as a result, someone is injured, the business is responsible for the harm. The James Foundation manages Meramec Springs Park near Rolla, MO. The James Foundation rents campgrounds to the public. One of these campgrounds is called the “circle campground”. The circle campground is a little over an acre in size and has 15 designated campsites. They maintain…
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The Harm of Having a Criminal Record in Massachusetts
Having a criminal record can make life extremely difficult. Getting the job or house you want with a felony, or even a misdemeanor, can be impossible. When a person is facing criminal charges, he or she may plead guilty to a lesser charge simply to get the uncomfortable process over with. This makes sense, criminal prosecution is rarely a pleasant process. But considering the consequences of having a record, doing everything possible to avoid one is in your best interest. Felonies vs. Misdemeanors In Massachusetts, a felony conviction will likely result in difficulty finding future employment and in the inability to vote. Certain jobs, including some in the state and federal sectors, will be completely off-limits to someone with a felony conviction. And if you’ve been convicted of a sex offense, forget about working in the school system. School districts simply do not hire people with sex offense-related convictions. For these reasons, among others, it is crucial that you…
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"Guideposts for the Era of Smart Decarceration"
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Woolley on The Prosecutor's Role
Alice Woolley (University of Calgary) has posted Reconceiving the Standard Conception of the Prosecutor's Role ((2017) Canadian Bar Review (Forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The standard conception of the prosecutor’s role requires her to seek justice, to be...
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Notable accounting and review of federal collateral consequences facing nonviolent drug offenders
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Court of Appeals Rules that a Citation Was Sufficient Even Though It Failed to Allege Multiple Elements of an Offense
Last year, the court of appeals ruled that a citation that failed to allege an essential element of an offense was sufficient to serve as the State’s pleading. The court concluded that “the standard for issuance of an indictment [which must allege every essential element of an offense to be valid] is not precisely the same as [for] a citation,” and under the more relaxed standard, the citation adequately identified the offense even though it failed to allege an essential element. State v. Allen, __ N.C. App. __, 783 S.E.2d 799 (2016) (an officer cited a motorist for an open container violation, but failed to allege that the container was in the passenger compartment of the defendant’s vehicle; more information about Allen is here). Last week, a divided panel of the same court ruled that a citation that failed to allege multiple elements of an offense was sufficient. The new opinion raises questions about just how low the bar is for citations, and…
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