State couldn’t appeal a suppression order after it moves to dismiss a case. It should have appealed the dismissal order or both. State v. Cruz, 2017 Wash. LEXIS 997 (Nov. 2, 2017). Dropping a coat with a gun in the … Continue reading →
WA: Appeal should have been from dismissal after granted suppression order; appeal dismissed
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C.D.Ill.: Ins. co. has standing to sue that audit would be 4A violation, and it’s claim is ripe. Motion to dismiss denied.
An insurance company subject to government audit has standing to challenge the legal bais for the audit. Its Fourth Amendment claim is ripe: “Fidelity’s Fourth Amendment claim in Count 1 presents a purely legal question, which renders the claim fit … Continue reading →
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News Scan
Carjackings Climbing in Chicago: After declining for seven years, carjackings in Chicago started increasing in 2015, nearly doubling in the next two years. An in-depth report In today's Chicago Tribune by writer Jeremy Gorner notes that while the focus over the past several years has been on the city's astronomical murder rate, virtually all types of violent crime have been increasing in Chicago with carjackings heading to a 10-year high in 2017. Although most of the nearly 600 murders in the city have been in the poorer high-crime districts, the 661 carjackings have occurred all over Chicago including the trendy Wicker Park, Bucktown and Logan Square neighborhoods. Both homicides and carjackings had been lower in 2014, compared to previous years, but both crimes began to increase after the highly-publicised October 2014 police shooting of Laquan McDonald. While correlation does not prove causation, some officers believe that the…
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KENJI FUJIMORI – Y LA JUSTICIA POR MANO PROPIA
https://diariocorreo.pe/opinion/justicia-mortal-783929/ “Un partido político moderno no puede ceder a la tentación fácil, al impulso emocional -incluso humano y natural- del deseo de venganza de quien, dominado por el miedo, exige el linchamiento, el castigo irreversible, para que no pueda haber impunidad a manos de una justicia que no funciona”. “Un partido democrático está obligado a reflexionar sobre las consecuencias de cobrar justicia por mano propia, como el pueblo hace muchas veces por desesperación”. “Un partido pensante está obligado a proponer una verdadera reforma de la justicia para el siglo XXI. No puedo en conciencia permitir que nuestro partido sustituya lo que es su deber y una deuda del fujimorismo con el pueblo peruano -la institucionalidad- por una decisión apresurada, demagógica y populista solo porque puede reportarle un beneficio político de corto…
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The Differing Degrees of Criminal Diversion of Prescription Medication and Prescriptions: NY Penal Law Article 178
The prescription drug epidemic may not be as rampant as the crack and cocaine abuse in the 80s and 90s, but it is no less harmful and frightening. Whether a drug is Oxycodone, Xanax, Hydrocodone, Adderall or some other prescribed controlled substance or narcotic, the potential harm to the abuser, his or her family and the community-at-large is great. Because of this, law enforcement from the NYPD in New York City to smaller police departments, as well as the District Attorneys prosecuting crime in the associated jurisdiction, have sought to disrupt the illegal trade and sale of these drugs. That is where the crime of Criminal Diversion of Prescription Medication and Prescriptions, New York Penal Law Article 178, becomes part of law enforcement’s arsenal to combat the illegal sale, possession and trade of prescription drugs. This blog entry will identify and address the differences between the varying degrees of Criminal Diversion of Prescription Medication – NY PL…
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Update Crash Blocks SH78@23
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: 11/04/17 4:10 A.M. Please direct questions to the District Office Update On Friday, November 3, 2017 at approximately 11:53 p.m., the Idaho State Police investigated a single-vehicle crash westbound SH78 at milepost 23, in Owyhee county. Glen T. Welch, 72, of Caldwell, was driving a 2018 Freightliner Tractor pulling a trailer filled with sugar beets. The vehicle veered into the shoulder, overcorrected, and rolled onto its side where it came to rest across both lanes of travel. Welch was wearing a seatbelt. The lanes were blocked for approximately 4 hours. 4031/3638 ----- Idaho State Police is responding to a crash westbound State Highway 78 at milepost 23, north of…
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ACLU Put Client First, Makes Sleepy DoJ Sad
Regardless of your views on abortion, there just wasn’t a hard legal issue that a pregnant, under-age undocumented immigrant on American soil had a right to one. You don’t have to like the rights we afford people here, but them’s the breaks. And so the government sticking its nose into Rochelle Garza’s case was, itself, bizarre and shocking. Garza, in her capacity as Doe’s court-ordered guardian, is the named plaintiff in Garza v. Hargan, a class-action challenge to what the ACLU calls the Trump administration’s exercise of a “veto power over unaccompanied immigrant minors’ access to abortion in violation of their Fifth Amendment rights,” among other constitutional claims. The public only learned of Doe’s plight when it made national headlines last month, but by then she had been waiting for nearly a month — since Garza and another local attorney, Marie Christine Cortez,…
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Short Take: Killer Cars
When the tragedy is perpetuated by a bullet, the cries for gun control ring out. When the tragedy is caused by a truck, what can you say? In the coming days, politicians will try to convince you that what happened on the West Side Highway in Manhattan this week was an issue of terrorism, immigration, or religion. But just like the plague of mass shootings is a gun problem, the thousands of people killed by cars as they walk our streets every year is a car problem. The obsession with calling a tragedy “terrorism,” with its nouveau definition of being whatever the unduly passionate say it is, contributes nothing. All of the factors that were involved are in play, but whether a change to any one of them would have thwarted the tragedy, or will prevent any future tragedy, is obscured by the screaming politics that drown out the mourners’ dirge. But rarely does anyone blame the vehicle, even though trucks and cars kill tons of people. More than 40,000 Americans…
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ALFREDO BULLARD: MATAR AL BEBÉ VIOLADO ES LA PERFECTA SOLUCIÓN EN LA MENTE DE UN VIOLADOR.
“Es mejor MATAR al bebé violado y desaparecerlo porqué así no quedan huellas y el violador sabe que con ello nadie lo podrá acusar de nada”, esta es la conclusión del articulista luego de una razonamiento lógico sobre EL “ITER CRIMINIS” (la ruta, por así decirlo, planeada por el delincuente para cometer un delito). Como cualquier cosa que escriba puede lesionar gravemente el alma y la siquis del comentarista me abstengo de comentar su desafortunada intervención, deseo que ustedes amigos y amables lectores tomen conocimiento del pensamiento de Alfredo Bullard en el tema de la pena de muerte para violadores de bebés menores de siete años seguidos de muerte (lo indica el proyecto presentado) para mí bastaría con el daño propio de la violación para matarlo sin la menor compasión. ¿Por qué? Porqué defiendo la vida y la de ese…
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Raúl Tola y los pobres diablos “Perúpaísdevioladores” - “Sinécdoque difemístico” -
http://larepublica.pe/politica/1137390-contra-la-historia “En medio de una polémica nacional por un asunto de la máxima gravedad no han faltado esos pobres diablos que han encontrado la ocasión perfecta para hacer alarde de lo que consideran astucia y picardía, sembrando las redes sociales de comentarios trasnochados y bromas misóginas. ¿Acaso estos tristes sujetos no violentan a la mujer con su complacencia, su inmadurez o su pura imbecilidad? ¿Necesitamos más ejemplos para ponernos en los zapatos ajenos, entender la pertinencia del eslogan en disputa y comenzar a enfrentar en serio a la violencia de género, una aberración que entre nosotros resulta de una cotidianidad espeluznante?” QUE PIENSO Recuerdo la foto de un clip (los que sirven para sujetar papeles) con una sencilla leyenda: “La necesidad es madre de todos los inventos”, agregaría para el caso de…
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Mar{ia Luisa Del Río - PerúPaís de putas
"Perú es el tercer país más violador del mundo. El dato es firme y es resultado de un estudio de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS). El hashtag #PerúPaísDeVioladores genera tanta rabia en algunos, que si una mujer lo dice públicamente, la emprenderán contra ella con la misógina amenaza de crear el hashtag #PerúPaísDePutas. Rarísima respuesta." Quién sepa leer que lea, somos, lo dice una organización internacional, somos el tercer País más violador del Mundo, ¿Podemos concluir por ello que nuestro País es de violadores? o más bien que, de la referida información concluir que: somos el tercer País donde existen más violaciones; ustedes tienen la palabra.
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First Indictments in Mueller Investigation
Attorney Page Pate joins CNN International to discuss the expected first indictments in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the U.S. election. Transcript – Cyril… read more → The post First Indictments in Mueller Investigation appeared first on Pate & Johnson Law Firm.
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Florida Police Officer Makes Illegal DUI Arrest Outside of His Jurisdiction
With some exceptions, police officers generally work for a county or city department. In Florida, we do have the Florida Highway Patrol and officers who work for multiple agencies and federal law enforcement officers, but most cases of common crime, like DUI cases, will involve a county or city police officer. Those police officers are generally only allowed to investigate crimes and make arrests for crimes that occur within their jurisdiction. There are a couple of exceptions. One is when the police officer is pursuing a suspect. For instance, if a police officer observes a crime occur in his/her county and the suspect runs or drives into the next county, that police officer can chase the suspect into the next county. The police officer cannot chase the suspect forever and should contact a police officer in the next county to take over, but the officer does not have to stop at the county line. Another exception is when exigent circumstances…
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"Can Jared Kushner Save Criminal Justice Reform?"
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Some more diverse reading about the opioid crisis
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Trump, Using Nixon's Playbook, Commits Yet Another Impeachable Offense
University of Missouri Law Professor Frank Bowman writes a blog, Impeachable Offenses, that should be essential reading as we try to sort through and process the myriad outrages committed almost daily by the malevolent shit gibbon that, at least for now, resides in the White House. Far more fair and balanced than this blog, it was recently described by The New York Times as "dedicated to “a more rigorous analysis” of impeachment than the one found in the mainstream news media. Professor Bowman has allowed me to re-post his latest piece, originally titled "Trump Commits Another Impeachable Offense: Siccing Federal Criminal Investigators On His Enemies."Guest Blog by Professor Frank BowmanOn July 27, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against Richard M. Nixon. The second article charged that President Nixon abused the powers of the presidency either by using or trying to use federal investigative agencies…
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"Lawyer dog" incident hardly unique; judges like loopholes that deny counsel
Recently, the Louisiana Supreme Court made national headlines by ruling 8-1 that a defendant who said, "Why don't you just give me a lawyer, dog?" wasn't really asking for a lawyer.In the same vein, Texas 14th Court of Appeals in Texas ruled on October 31st that a defendant who said he wanted to call his sister to ask her to get him a lawyer also didn't unambiguously say he wanted a lawyer. In part, that's because the detective kept interrupting him to keep him from being more explicit! And at the end of the day, the ploy worked! The appellate court said the defendant's desire for representation was insufficiently explicit to be binding, even though it's obvious to any sentient person he wanted an attorney because it was "the only option I have."This garbage has been going on as long as I've been around the criminal-justice arena and it's indefensible. When someone says they want a lawyer, cops should stop questioning…
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Maine Gov vetoes bill designed to establish structure for voter-approved recreational marijuana industry
As reported in this NBC News piece, "Maine Gov. Paul Lepage’s decision to veto a bill on Friday that would have built a recreational marijuana retail market is a major buzzkill for those in the state who voted to legalize the drug last year." Here is more on the decision...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarijuanaLaw/~4/AERxaNdtRyU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
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How to Fight a Connecticut Breach of Peace Arrest
Fighting breach of peace charges just got easier in Connecticut. Talk to any of the best criminal defense lawyers attorneys in Greenwich, Stamford or Darien Connecticut, and they will likely agree that the Connecticut crime of Breach of Peace Second Degree under C.G.S. 53a-181 is a vague crime which can actually get you arrested in Connecticut for using abusive or obscene language. But is a foul mouth all it takes to get locked up? Yes..that is, until our Supreme Court got involved this Summer. Threats of Physical Harm Are Now Required Prior to the Connecticut Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in State of Connecticut v. Nina Baccala, if you had the intent to cause someone “annoyance, inconvenience, or alarm” and you used obscene language, then you could get arrested in Connecticut for Breach of Peace Second Degree. But the Supreme Court looked closely at this statute and changed the rules regarding enforcement, prosecutions, and arrests for Breach of Peace…
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"Can Los Angeles repair the damage done by the war on marijuana?"
The title of this post is the headline of this notable new Los Angeles Times editorial. Here are excerpts: Make no mistake, the war on marijuana has not been colorblind. Despite national surveys showing that white people and black people use marijuana at approximately the same rates, blacks have over...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarijuanaLaw/~4/MpN9eUDGvzE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
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