Catherine Kieu Becker
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06/28/2013
SANTA ANA (AP) - A California woman who cut off her husband's penis and threw it in a garbage disposal has been sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole.
The Orange County district attorney's office says Catherine Kieu was sentenced Friday for a July 2011 attack that mutilated her estranged spouse. Kieu, who's 50, can seek parole in seven years.
The Garden Grove woman was convicted of torture and aggravated...
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CA - California Woman Gets Life For Severing Husband's Penis
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Idiot Wind*
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="arial">Two posts went up at two blogs yesterday, apparently without knowledge by either writer that the other would be writing on the same subject. One was
by Jordan Rushie at <a href="http://phillylawblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/just-keep-plugging-away-some-thoughts-from-a-year-in-solo-practice/">Philly Law Blog</a>. The other was by Leo
Mulvihill at <a href="http://lawyerist.com/whats-luck-got-to-do-with-it/">the Puddle</a>. Put Jordan and Leo together and you've got the <a href="http://fishtownlaw.com/">Fishtown
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Your Call Is Very...
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">Marketing philosopher <a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/06/your-call-is-very-important-to-us.html" target="">Seth Godin</a>
takes on an issue that I find particularly irksome, the inbound call to customer service. As badass astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, recently twitted, "after 15 minutes, I'm beginning to
think my call is not very important to you." Me too.</font>
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<p><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">Rules for treating inbound customer calls with respect:</font></p>
<p><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">0. Spend a lot more money on this. Hire more agents. Train ...</font></p></blockquote>
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DC - Supreme Court to Decide What a Child Porn Image Is Worth
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06/28/2013
By Mark Kernes
WASHINGTON - Child pornography, of course, is against the law, but that hasn't prevented millions of people from posting such material on the internet, nor millions more from downloading it to their computers, and the American legal system is chock full of people being prosecuted for both acts, since even possession of child porn is against the law.
But the law—specifically, 18 U.S.C. §2259—also requires those convicted of posting and/or...
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AUSTRALIA - Can you rehabilitate a rapist?
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06/28/2013
By ROSEMARIE MILSOM
IT is not a job that many of us seek.
Newcastle sexologist Vanessa Thompson treats about 15 convicted sex offenders; some are to be sentenced; others have served jail time.
"I do it because I choose to do it," said Thompson, an associate member of the Australia and New Zealand Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abuse. "I'm really pro-victim and the reason I do what I do is because if I can stop one person from re-offending,...
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NY - Senate passes bill to close sex offender loophole
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Just another useless law. Something a politician can put his name on to look "tough" on ex-sex offenders. It's already a crime to report an invalid address on the registry, so this is not needed, in our opinion.
06/28/2013
Sex offenders are supposed to register on a statewide database after conviction. The law says you have a right to know if an offender is living next door.
However, lawmakers said they found a loophole in the system. If a sex offender were to put...
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NYT: Bloomberg Says Math Backs Police Stops of Minorities
NYT: Bloomberg Says Math Backs Police Stops of Minorities by David W. Chen:
Ratcheting up the rhetoric over New York City’s stop-and-frisk police practices, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said on Friday that the Police Department stopped white people too frequently, and nonwhites not frequently enough, in investigating murder suspects.
Also, City Council Votes to Increase Oversight of New York Police by J. David Goodman:
Over the objections of the mayor and police commissioner, the New York City Council early Thursday morning approved by veto-proof majorities a pair of bills aimed at increasing oversight of the Police Department and expanding New Yorkers’ ability to sue over racial profiling by officers.
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NYT: Secret Court Declassifies Yahoo’s Role in Disclosure Fight
NYT: Secret Court Declassifies Yahoo’s Role in Disclosure Fight by Claire Cain Miller and Nicole Perlroth:
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WaPo: Don’t let DOMA fool you — the Supreme Court is restricting your rights
WaPo: Don’t let DOMA fool you — the Supreme Court is restricting your rights by David Cole, discussing, inter alia, Clapper and the denial of the right to sue over potential Fourth Amendment violations by the masses without proof any one plaintiff actually had his calls intercepted.
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HuffPo: Restore The Fourth: Group Organizes Nationwide Anti-NSA Spying Protests On July 4
HuffPo: Restore The Fourth: Group Organizes Nationwide Anti-NSA Spying Protests On July 4 (video):
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Covey on Plea Bargaining Law after Lafler and Frye
Russell D. Covey (Georgia State University College of Law) has posted Plea-Bargaining Law after Lafler and Frye (Duquesne University Law Review, Vol. 51, 2013) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In dissenting opinions in Lafler v. Cooper and Missouri v....
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Drones in the news today
Denver Post editorial: Police drones and privacy concerns.
The Hill: New Jersey considers anti-drone legislation by Carlo Muñoz:
New Jersey lawmakers, on Friday, joined 42 other state legislatures in drafting laws to prevent the use of unmanned aerial drones. Members of the New Jersey state Senate unanimously approved a slate of restrictions on the use of aerial drones by local law enforcement and emergency services. The legislation, passed on a vote of 36 to 0, would not ban the use of unmanned aircraft outright, according to local news reports.
Gizmondo: Sky Fighter: Meet the Man Who Wants to Drone-Proof Your Home by Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan:
FBI Director Robert Mueller finally admitted that the Bureau uses drones to carry out surveillance on Americans (say hi!). Meanwhile, the tweens next door are probably spying on you too, watching you pick your nose using a $300 drone they bought on Amazon. UAV use in America—and public anxiety over it—is exploding. And Domestic Drone Countermeasures, an anti-drone technology startup, is building a business around it.
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IA: Extending stop that should have ended made it unreasonable
Defendant was pulled over as a possible “tired or impaired driver.” During the stop, however, it was apparent defendant was neither. Dragging out the stop to ask for consent made it unreasonable. State v. Mass, 2013 Iowa App. LEXIS 705 (June 26, 2013):
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IA: Defense counsel ineffective for overlooking valid motion to suppress
Defense counsel overlooked a valid motion to suppress, and that’s prejudice. Conviction reversed and remanded. A motion was filed, but denied by the trial court as untimely. [Why couldn't the trial court see this coming?] State v. Hollie, 2013 Iowa App. LEXIS 707 (June 26, 2013).
Defense counsel did not file a motion to suppress that would have been meritless under the automobile exception, so there was no duty to file one. Caldwell v. State, 2013 Iowa App. LEXIS 669 (June 26, 2013).
As defendant was being pulled over for a taillight infraction, “McCoy made a furtive movement toward the center console as he stopped his car, a movement that was captured on a police recording of the incident.” When the officer looked in the car there were marijuana seeds scattered about. Defendant said they were left over from a previous drug arrest in the car. There was probable cause to search the car. State v. McCoy, 2013 Iowa App. LEXIS 674 (June 26, 2013).*
A CI (probably a citizen informant) reported likely hand-to-hand drug sales occurring out of a described car in front of a Radio Shack. The car was found and that was sufficient information for the officers to encounter the occupants. State v. Hill, 2013 Iowa App. LEXIS 698 (June 26, 2013).*
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Perfumed perpetrator wouldn't get ticket under new Texas statute
Don't know how I missed this 2011 Austin story, but if you did too, check out this TV news report about a girl given a Class C misdemeanor ticket in school for allegedly disrupting class by wearing too much perfume. (Somebody posted the dated item on Reddit yesterday.) The alleged perpetrator was being bullied and used the perfume in response to taunts that she "smelled."Seeing that story makes me happier than ever that the Texas Legislature this year approved Sen. John Whtimire's SB 1114. That bill prohibits giving Class C tickets to kids under 12. So the girl in the above news story couldn't get a ticket at all under the statute that goes into effect September 1st. After that, police cannot ticket children under 12 in Texas schools. For students 12 and above, all Class C charges must include "an offense report, a statement by a witness, and a statement by a victim. This would apply to offenses that were alleged to have occurred on school property or on a vehicle owned or operated by a county or school district. Prosecutors could not proceed in a trial unless the law enforcement officer met these requirements," according to the official digest (pdf) from the House Research Organization. Moreover, "The Education Code offenses of disruption of class and disruption of transportation would no longer apply to primary and secondary grade students enrolled in the school where the offense occurred." That's a big change.There are other significant amendments to the code that should significantly reduce the number of Class C tickets written in schools:Children accused of any class C misdemeanor (maximum fine of $500), other than a traffic offense, could be referred to a first - offender program before a complaint was filed with a criminal court. The cases of children who successfully completed first - offender programs for class C misdemeanors could not be referred to the court if certain conditions in current law were met.SB 1114 would prohibit arrest warrants for persons with class C misdemeanors under the Education Code for an offense committed when the person was younger than 17 years old. School district peace officers no longer would be authorized to perform administrative duties for a school district but would be limited to their current authority to perform law enforcement duties.Also, "Courts would be required to dismiss complaints or referrals for truancy made by a school district if they were not accompanied by currently required statements about whether truancy prevention measures were applied in the case and whether the student was eligible for special education services."With any luck, thanks to SB 1114, we won't hear more horror stories like that terrible tale of the perfumed perpetrator in the coming school year. Whitmire's legislation has been mostly unheralded - even to some extent on this blog, which should have lauded it in this retrospective post - mainly because it was met with only tepid opposition from law enforcement and received broad, full-throated support from nearly everyone else, regardless of party or station. The media are drawn to a fight but here there was (mostly) sweeping consensus. Be that as it may, SB 1114 was one of the major accomplishments of the 83rd Texas Legislature. Of all the criminal-justice bills passed this year, arguably SB 1114 is the item legislators can point to that will affect the largest number of average, everyday families. It'll be fascinating to parse the data down the line to find out the effect both on ticket writing and the use of traditional school disciplinary methods outside the criminal justice system, which one hopes will be enhanced with the passage of this new law.
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ALERT - Professional Survey Request: Registrant Compliance Checks
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06/29/2013
Dear Potential Participant,
My name is Nicole Pittman and I am a national expert on the harmful application of sex offender registration and notification laws to children. On May 1, 2013, I completed a nationwide investigation into the harmful impact of including children in sex offender registration and notification laws by way of a Human Rights Watch report entitled, Raised on the Registry: The Irreparable Harm of Placing Children on Sex Offender...
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Injury Crash on Bogus Basin Road
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District 3 Patrol 700 S. Stratford Dr., Meridian 83642
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For Immediate Release: 06/30/2013 02:06 a.m.
Please direct questions to the District Office
On Saturday, June 29, 2013, at approximately 6:24 p.m., Idaho State Police investigated a one vehicle injury crash on Bogus Basin Road near milepost 13, in Boise County.
Tevin Cooper, 19, of Prineville, OR, was driving south on Bogus Basin Road in a 1996 Ford Taurus. Cooper failed to negotiate a curve and went off the roadway, overcorrected, and went over the embankment off the west side of the roadway. The vehicle rolled multiple times and came to rest approximately 90 feet below the road, against a tree.
Cooper was transported by air ambulance to St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. Cooper-s passenger, Katelyn Patton, 20, of Boise, ID, was treated and released at the scene of the crash. Both occupants were wearing seatbelts. Bogus Basin Road was closed for approximately 3 hours
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Fatal Crash St. Joe River Road at 28.5
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615 W Wilbur Ave
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Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83815
Please direct questions to the appropriate District Offices
District 1 (208) 209-8620 Fax (208) 209- 8618
District 2 (208) 799-5150
CASE # C13001231
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DATE: 06/29/13 TIME: 3:27 PM LOCATION: St. Joe River Road at milepost 28.5
ASSISTING AGENCIES: Shoshone County and Benewah County
VEHICLE #1
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DRIVER Scott,Lyle R AGE 71
ADDRESS Post Falls, ID
INJURIES? - Fatal
HOSPITAL/LOCATION TAKEN Yates Hodge Funeral Home
VEHICLE YEAR 2002 VEHICLE MAKE MAZDA VEHICLE MODEL TK
WRECKER Benewah Motors
SEATBELTS/HELMET WORN? NO
INCIDENT NARRATIVE: Scott was traveling East bound St. Joe River Road when he failed to negotiate a curve near milepost 28.5 and drove off the right hand shoulder, went down an embankment and overturned.
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But For Video: This Won't Hurt (Me) A Bit
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="arial">There are two things about rights that make them special. First is you get to exercise them without penalty. Second, if they're violated, there
is a remedy. If either of these is lost, then so too is the right. But rarely is the point driven home as clearly as it is in this video.<br>
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Angeblicher „Zuhälter“ freigesprochen
Die Liste der Anklage war lang: Zuhälterei, Raub, räuberische Erpressung und Körperverletzung wurden dem 23-Jährigen vorgeworfen. Er soll eine 21-jährige Rumänin mittels Gewalt und Todesdrohungen zur Prostitution gezwungen haben. Somit stand eine erhebliche Strafe im Raum. Das Strafverfahren nahm seinen Lauf, als die junge Frau ohne Ausweis in einem Bordell aufgegriffen wurde. Sie behauptete . . . → Read More: Angeblicher „Zuhälter“ freigesprochen
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