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“Edward Snowden Charged With Espionage Over NSA Leaks”

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The Huffington Post on June 21, 2013 released the following: Reuters “By Tabassum Zakaria and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON, June 21 (Reuters) – The United States has filed espionage charges against Edward Snowden, a former U.S. National Security Agency contractor who admitted revealing secret surveillance programs to media outlets, according to a court document made public […]

MO - Another extortion web site named in class-action suit

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Original Article 06/21/2013 By Truman Lewis The site charges a fee to remove inaccurate information, the suit alleges A lawsuit charges that a website claiming to be a national sex... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Oregon Allows Sleep Driving As Possible Defense for Drunk Driving

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As a Massachusetts OUI attorney, there will be rare cases where a driver had no intention of driving, but because of some sort of disorder or episode, got behind the wheel without any intention of driving. A question in these...

WI - Milwaukee police whipping up hysteria, like usual!

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Brief Lifespans

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<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">During dinner last night, I was trying to explain to Dr. SJ why I hated the new version of tweetdeck, a twitter interface that was created by somebody else, bought by twitter&nbsp;and improved to the point that it's gone from great to awful. She, unwed to anything techy aside from me, asked why they would do such thing.<br> <br> I explained that every six months or so, everything on the internet seemed to change. Nobody left anything alone, and even ...</font>

A Hard Earned Raise For Atlanta Cops

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<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">As&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/radleybalko/statuses/348132850178072577" target="">Radley Balko</a> wrote when he twitted this story, what could possibly go wrong?&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/apd-email-says-traffic-money-fund-future-pay-raise/nYRF4/" target="">WSBTV.com</a> in Atlanta reveals:<br> <br></font> <div class="cmArticle cmOembedContainer"> <blockquote><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">Channel 2 Action News has obtained an email sent to Atlanta police that says traffic ticket money will fund future pay raises.</font></blockquote> <p>No incentive there, right, because police are far too professional to let their personal financial interest color the exercise of authority and discretion.</p> <blockquote>An ...</blockquote></div>

Edward Snowden Charged by a Federal Criminal Complaint With Espionage Over NSA Leaks

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CNN on June 21, 2013 released the following: “U.S. charges Snowden with espionage By Chelsea J. Carter and Carol Cratty, CNN Washington (CNN) — Federal prosecutors have charged Edward Snowden, the man who admitted leaking top-secret details about U.S. surveillance programs, with espionage and theft of government property, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in […]

PSA: Still Time To Sign Up For Advance iPad From The ABA

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<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="arial">It's not your iPad, but your <a href="http://apps.americanbar.org/cle/programs/t13ail1.html?sc_cid=CET3AIL-C">Advanced iPad</a>.<br> <br></font> <blockquote> <h4><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="arial">Program Description</font></h4> <p>Few technologies have so quickly and positively affected the legal profession as has the iPad®. Join us for this live iPad® demonstration to learn even more amazing things your iPad can do and how it can benefit your law practice. We'll cover just a few of the practical iPad® tips and then delve deep in to a discussion and demonstration of legal specific apps ...</p></blockquote>

CA10: Standing by entrapment by estoppel rejected

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A GPS device was placed on the vehicle defendant was driving that he did not own. The police were tailing him, too. He took off in a highspeed chase and tossed a gun out the window which the neighborhood postman observed. He had no expectation of privacy, and entrapment by estoppel is rejected. United States v. Wilfong, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 12559 (10th Cir. June 20, 2013): [...] Read more!

Criminal Law: Quo Vadis?

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Is it time to start lamentations on the death of the classic tough-as-nails criminal lawyer?

Selbstleseverfahren, Band 9

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Controlled Substances # 4: Investigating "Victimless" Drug Crimes

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Alex Kreit, guest-blogging on his new casebook, Controlled Substances: Crime, Regulation, and Policy (Carolina 2013): After a hiatus in my guest blogging series, I’m back to finish up with a few more posts this month. Thanks again so much to...

Illinois State Bar Association's 137th Annual Meeting

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    I am attending the Illinois State Bar Association's 137th Annual Meeting in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. I am a member of the ISBA's Assembly, Standing Committee on Women and the Law and Criminal Justice Section Council. I am also the Ex-Officio Chair of its Standing Committee on Continuing Legal Education.   It is important to be an active member of the bar to keep abreast of current issues of law and the legal [...]

New Jersey Sobriety Checkpoints: Drunk Driving Roadblocks Are Just Another Tool in DWI Traffic Enforcement

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There is a good chance that as a motorist here in the Garden State, you or someone you know may have either seen or been subject to one of the many drunken driving roadblocks that pop up here and there across the state every month. For those who are unfamiliar with these "tools of the trade," understand that they are designed to catch motorists who may be intoxicated behind the wheel by being located in areas know to have a statistically high incidence of DWI. As New Jersey drunk driving lawyers, we seem to get numerous questions from potential clients regarding the legitimacy of these roadblocks, or DWI checkpoints as they are also referred. When asked by prospective clients, we must tell them that, yes, the constitutionality of these police roadblocks was addressed (back in 1979) by none other than the U.S. Supreme Court (Delaware v. Prouse). In the aforementioned case, it was decided that it was unconstitutional to stop and detain a motorist without articulable suspicion that he or she is either unlicensed, his or her car is unregistered, or the vehicle or its occupant(s) is otherwise subject to seizure for a violation of law. This seemed like a win for those opposed to sobriety checkpoints, however the issue was again addressed here in New Jersey (State v. Kirk) in the 1980s.

One criminal act produces two crimes

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The Facts of the Case: A building containing offices and retail establishments was broken into and burglarized. Moments after the silent alarm system went off, the appellants, along with a third person, were found inside including various tools that were...

The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Whatever Those Women Think Is True

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So the jurors are all of what has occasionally been referred to as the "female persuasion." This has, somehow,  become a newsworthy piece of information.  Can six women be fair?  Are they tough enough to convict?  Do they have the cojones?*  Are they too weak-kneed, too faint-heartedly feminine to acquit even though a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do?And who are these six on whom the fate of the western world depends?  These six women about whom we (or at least I) know essentially nothing but odd factoids.2 rescue animals, though not professionally (is there such a profession?)2 have been victims of "non-violent" crimes2 are married to lawyers.1 has been arrested and had her case "disposed of" (whatever that might mean).1 looks Hispanic maybe. 0 appear to be African-American.Their job will be to sift through the evidence they'll hear over the course of the next month or two, decide who's telling the truth about which things so they can agree about what actually happened that night (the law doesn't require that they be right, just that they agree) and how those agreed "facts" fit within the framework of the likely impenetrable instructions on the law the judge will give them.Will they be fair?  Can they be?  Can 6 non-blacks fairly sort the evidence (whatever it might be) of an incident which has become racially charged whether or not it was racially motivated?  Can soft-hearted animal rescuers fairly evaluate the circumstances and motivation of human killing?  Do those husband/lawyers screw everything up? When they're done, and assuming that they eventually do agree about what they must, George Zimmerman will have been found guilty of something or not guilty of anything.  And neither you nor I nor anyone else (including those 6 women) will know whether those factoids had anything to do with whether they were or were not fair in how they listened and discussed and evaluated and decided.Nor will we know whether they got it right (whatever exactly that means).I still won't know what happened that night.  Nor will you.  Nor, and this is central, will they.That's not exactly true, of course.  I know, and unless you've been living under a rock so do you, and surely they do or will, that Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin and that Martin died from the gunshot.  Almost everything else is, and will ultimately remain, a subject of conjecture and guesswork.Many years ago, my sister was called for jury duty and made it into the box to be questioned.  It was, as I understand it, a civil case involving something falling off a building or a scaffolding or some such and perhaps injuring a passerby.  Several years had passed since then.  Finally the trial.  Justice.  Truth will out.  All that good stuff.My sister raised her hand.  I don't see how it's possible to know what happened after all this time just because these people will come in here and tell their stories.  It's just not possible to know who's telling the truth and who's not and who's just mistaken and how memory might have ebbed over the years.She was hauled into chambers.  She was sent home.  She was also, of course, right.See, it matters who those 12 6 jurors are because they have to decide.  But it's impossible for them to know.  Which is why the lawyers work so hard to get jurors they think might be inclined to accept their version of what the evidence shows or doesn't show.And why I've spent so much time over the years explaining to my client thatNo DNA doesn't mean the jury has to acquit.No eyewitness doesn't mean the jury has to acquit.Haven't found the gun doesn't mean the jury has to acquit. Your brother or mama or baby mama or the fucking Pope coming into the courtroom and testifying that you couldn't have done it because you were with him/her at the time doesn't mean the jury has to acquit.  (The Pope would be great, though, if he'd come to court and testify to the right things.  Baby mama not so much.)You getting on the stand and saying you didn't do it sure as hell doesn't mean the jury has to acquit.And the fact that you're absofuckinglutely innocent absofuckinglutely doesn't mean that the jury has to acquit.Because no matter how much they talk about trials as a search for truth, they're not.  And Beyond A Reasonable Doubt means, in the real world, whatever the jury believes enough to satisfy itself.  Because trials, as I've said before, are about proof not truth.  And proof, as I've said before, is whatever convinces those folks in the jury box.  Or what doesn't.It's not random.  Most jurors try hard to get it right, and most juries probably come pretty close most of the time.  But innocent people are convicted.  Guilty people go free (or are convicted of something more or less than what they actually did).  And sometimes . . . .  Well, they're planning to take another stab at trying to get 12 jurors out in Phoenix to agree about whether Jody Arias should be killed in prison or just rot away there until she dies.But six women in Florida?What will Nancy Grace say?--------------------*I actually have the transcript snippet of a female criminal defense lawyer explaining to a judge that she "wouldn't have the balls" to make the argument the prosecutor was making.

"Oregon Supreme Court upholds governor's death penalty moratorium"

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From Jurist: The Oregon Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Thursday that a death row inmate cannot reject a reprieve by the governor. Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber [official website] in 2011 issued a temporary reprieve [JURIST report] for death...

Does it matter when the Prosecution decides to file a DUI charge?

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Recently an article came out in the Seattle Times discussing the delayed filing of DUI charges in King County compared to other jurisdictions in Washington State.  The reporter suggested the delayed filing of DUI charges was bad, and called out the King County Prosecutors office because of it.  In the article an example is used of a guy who was arrested for DUI but the charge was not filed for a

Ermittlungsverfahren gegen Mollath-Verteidiger Strate

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Die Staatsanwaltschaft Hamburg strengt auf Bestreben der Staatsanwaltschaft Augsburg ein Ermittlungsverfahren gegen den Hamburger Strafverteidiger Dr. Gerhard Strate an, der auf seiner Internetseite zahlreiche Dokumente aus dem Wiederaufnahmeverfahren in der Sache Gustl Mollath veröffentlicht hat. Ihm wird vorgeworfen, mit einer Veröffentlichung derartiger amtlicher Schriftstücke des Strafverfahrens gegen § 353d Nr. 3 StGB verstoßen zu haben. Die Norm des § 353d StGB „Verbotene Mitteilungen über Gerichtsverhandlungen“ führt im Strafrecht ein Schattendasein und soll den ordnungsgemäßen Ablauf von Strafprozessen sicherstellen und ist (in erster Linie) als Presseinhaltsdelikt konzipiert. Eine ähnliche Regelung enthielt bereits § 17 des Reichspressegesetzes von 1874, nach der die Anklageschrift und andere amtliche Schriftstücke eines Strafprozesses nicht durch die Presse veröffentlicht werden durften, bevor diese in öffentlicher Verhandlung kundgegeben wurden oder das Strafverfahren beendet war. Im Wesentlichen inhaltlich übereinstimmende Normen haben ihren Niederschlag in den heutigen Landespressegesetzen gefunden. Bei der Übernahme dieser landesgesetzlichen Regelungen in das Strafgesetzbuch wurde das Verbot auf alle Arten der Veröffentlichung, nicht nur diejenige durch Presse oder Rundfunk, ausgedehnt. Die Vorschrift sollte dadurch den Charakter eines Sondergesetzes für die Presse verlieren (Begründung der Bundesregierung, BT-Drucks. 7/550, S. 283). Auf der anderen Seite wurde die Strafbarkeit dahingehend eingeschränkt, dass § 353 d Nr. 3 StGB lediglich die Veröffentlichungen „im Wortlaut“ unter Strafe stellt. Aufgabe dieser Strafvorschrift ist es, die Unbefangenheit der Verfahrensbeteiligten, insbesondere der Laienrichter (Schöffen) sowie der Zeugen zu sichern (BT-Drucks. 7/550, S. 283 f.). Des Weiteren soll sie den von einem Straf-, Bußgeld- oder Disziplinarverfahren Betroffenen vor einer vorzeitigen Bloßstellung schützen (Bericht des Sonderausschusses für die Strafrechtsreform, BT-Drucks. 7/1261, S. 23). Im Rahmen der „Flick-Spendenaffäre“ veröffentlichte der „stern“ in drei Ausgabe Berichte über die Ermittlungen der Bonner Staatsanwaltschaft und zitierte dazu im Wortlaut aus den Vernehmungsprotokollen eines Beschuldigten und zweier Zeugen. Die Staatsanwaltschaft erhob daraufhin Anklage gegen mehrere Redakteure und legte ihnen zur Last, sie hätten als Verantwortliche im Sinne des Pressegesetzes amtliche Schriftstücke eines Strafverfahrens in wesentlichen Teilen im Wortlaut öffentlich mitgeteilt, bevor diese in öffentlicher Verhandlung erörtert worden seien und bevor das Verfahren abgeschlossen worden sei. Das Amtsgericht Hamburg beschloss nach Durchführung der Hauptverhandlung, das Verfahren auszusetzen und das Bundesverfassungsgericht über die Verfassungsmäßigkeit des § 353 d Nr. 3 StGB entscheiden zu lassen. Dieses schränkte den Straftatbestand soweit ein, dass die Strafbarkeit entfällt, wenn die Veröffentlichung mit Einwilligung des von der Berichterstattung Betroffenen erfolgt (BVerfGE 71, 206). So liegt es hier im Fall der Wiederaufnahme Mollath. Der lesenswerte Schriftsatz von Rechtsanwalt Strate an die Staatsanwaltschaft Hamburg ist nun ebenfalls in seiner Dokumentation zu finden.
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