Three suicides by hanging in one week: First Kate Spade, then the sister of the Queen of Holland and now Anthony Bourdain. I wasn't a frequent watcher of Bourdain's show, although I've seen several of them. He's someone you had... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
R.I.P. Anthony Bourdain
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Third Superseding Indictment - Manafort
Special Counsel Mueller added two counts to Paul J. Manafort Jr.'s Indictment and charged Konstantin Kilimnik with these same two counts (Counts 6 and 7) - (see Third Superseding Indictment here). The new counts and new charges allege Obstruction of...
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Jones & Wagner on Law and Neuroscience
Owen D. Jones and Anthony D. Wagner (Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences and Stanford University - Psychology) have posted Law and Neuroscience: Progress, Promise, and Pitfalls (in The Cognitive Neurosciences, 6th Edition (Gazzaniga, Mangun, and...
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Human Rights Violations Alleged at West Texas Immigration Detention Facility
A recent report from a coalition of Texas immigrant advocacy organizations alleges that a group of approximately 80 African immigrants have suffered multiple serious human rights violations while incarcerated at the West Texas Detention Facility (WTDF) in Sierra Blanca, Texas. These violations allegedly occurred during a period of about a week in early 2018. LaSalle Corrections, a private prison company, operates WTDF. All of the detained individuals were being held for deportation after receiving final orders of removal, and many of them had been detained for months or even years due to difficulties in returning them to Somalia. Many of the detained men, who were primarily Somalian nationals, claim that they suffered numerous instances of abuse by correctional officers, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, and verbal abuse. The men allegedly endured dangerous and unsanitary living conditions at the detention facility, were denied appropriate medical and mental health care,…
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First on Corporate Crime
Harry First (New York University School of Law) has posted General Principles Governing Criminal Liability of Corporations, Their Employees and Officers (White Collar Crime: Business and Regulatory Offenses (Obermaier, Morvillo, Anello and Bohrer, eds.) (Law Journal Seminars Press) (2017)) on...
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Injury Crash On Interstate 84 Near Gowen
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: 6/08/2018 6:35 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office Idaho State Police is on scene of a two-vehicle injury crash westbound Interstate 84 at milepost 58, near Gowen Road. The right lane is block. More information will be released when it becomes available. 3435/3683 -------------
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Abel on Batson v. Kentucky
Jonathan Abel (Stanford Law School - Constitutional Law Center) has posted Batson’s Appellate Appeal and Trial Tribulations (Columbia Law Review, Vol. 118, No. 3, 713) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Batson v. Kentucky is widely regarded as a failure....
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**Update* Injury Crash On Interstate 84 Near Boise
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: 6/08/2018 6:50 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office ***Update*** All lanes are now opened 3435 Idaho State Police is on scene of a two-vehicle injury crash westbound Interstate 84 at milepost 58, near Gowen Road. The right lane is block. More information will be released when it becomes available. 3435/3683 -------------
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Balisacan on Police Provocation and Fourth Amendment Reasonableness
Ryan Hartzell C. Balisacan (University of the Philippines) has posted Incorporating Police Provocation into the Fourth Amendment 'Reasonableness' Calculus: A Proposed Post-Mendez Agenda on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In some cases that involve the deployment by police officers of...
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Injury Crash US 12 @ 32.5, near Peck
IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE - generated by our News Release ListServer DO NOT REPLY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE District 2 Patrol 2700 North and South Highway Lewiston, ID 83501-1732 (208) 799-5151 Fax (208) 799-5146 For Immediate Release: 06/08/18 07:00 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office On June 8th, 2018 at approximately 2:21 p.m. an injury crash occurred on US 12 at milepost 32.5, near Peck, Idaho. A black 2012 Chevy Malibu driven by Oshae L Perez, 22, of Lapwai, Idaho was traveling eastbound when Perez crossed over the center line into the westbound lane of travel hitting a 2000 Freightliner medium conventional truck driven by Cari M. Wiese, 36, of Newport, Washington head on. The westbound lane was blocked for approximately two hours. Perez was transported to Clearwater Valley Hospital in Orofino, Idaho. Both drivers were wearing their seatbelts. ARA -------------
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Defendant Appeals Sentencing for Drug Related Charges
People v. AA June 5, 2018 This appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court of New York County rendered on June 13, 2016. The defendant was convicted by a jury of two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. He was sentenced as a second violent felony offender to ten years. There are three judgments that took place subsequently in the same court with the same judge. The defendant was convicted of second-degree use of drug paraphernalia, fourth-degree conspiracy and third-degree sale of a controlled substance. As a result, his probation was revoked, and he was sentenced to two concurrent ten-year sentences. Continue reading
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"Trump’s Endorsement Of A New Marijuana Bill Is A Real F-You To Jeff Sessions"
The title of this post is the headline of this BuzzFeed article which is as astute as is it crass. Here are excerpts: President Donald Trump "really" supports new legislation in Congress that would let state marijuana legalization thrive, untouched by the Justice Department, he said Friday. The endorsement was...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarijuanaLaw/~4/47Qbcg41ErM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
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Roberts & Gazal-Ayal on Sentencing Reform in Israel
Julian V. Roberts and Oren Gazal-Ayal (University of Ottawa - Department of Criminology and University of Haifa - Faculty of Law) have posted Statutory Sentencing Reform in Israel: Exploring the Sentencing Law of 2012 (Israel Law Review, 46(3), p. 455-479)...
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ACLU brings novel lawsuit against Kansas DA for failing to disclose diversion options to defendants
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Florida Police Find Driver Carrying Concealed Hatchet
A man who was pulled over by the police while he was driving in Florida was allegedly discovered carrying a hatchet in his vehicle during a routine traffic stop. A 23-year-old man from Danville, Kentucky, was traveling in his vehicle through Clearwater, Florida, last Thursday, when he was involved in a routine traffic stop. When the officer approached the man’s car he was identified as Travis Byerly, and he was reportedly driving with a license that had been suspended nearly a month prior, to which he allegedly did not dispute when it was discovered. Continue reading →
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DE PERSEGUIDOR A PERSEGUIDO
http://www.expreso.com.pe/opinion/pedro-novoa/la-cultura-del-macho-paleolitico/ La cultura del macho paleolítico Fecha sábado 9 de junio del 2018Fecha 7:20 amTag Pedro Novoa Se llega a la luna, se inventan realidades virtuales, el cerebro humano alcanza empinándose los astros sin el menor rubor, pero no puede sacudirse del machismo atávico. Esa suerte de mandato genético que sigue viajando en las venas de la mayoría de hombres, sin hacer distinción de clase o edad. Como menciona el escritor Román Gubern, pareciera que el hombre contemporáneo aún no borra ciertos mandatos instintivos. Esas órdenes de sobrevivencia básica que lo obliga a copular con cualquier hembra que esté a su alcance. Debía y tenía que prolongar la especie, debía perpetuar su estirpe a como dé lugar, valía tirar de los cabellos, tumbar, atacar y encajar la simiente.…
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PA Superior Court Recognizes Defendant’s Right to Present Personal Safety Defense in Fleeing or Eluding Case
Criminal Defense Lawyer Zak Goldstein The Pennsylvania Superior Court has decided the case of Commonwealth v. Weber, reversing Weber’s conviction for fleeing or eluding where the trial court precluded him from presenting the statutorily-recognized “personal safety defense." The Facts of Commonwealth v. WeberIn Weber, the defendant was charged with fleeing or eluding police in violation of 75 Pa.C.S. Sec. 3733. At trial, police testified that they saw the defendant driving through an intersection in Pittsburgh at a high rate of speed. The officers were in uniform and driving a marked police vehicle. They followed the defendant and learned that his vehicle’s registration sticker had expired. When the defendant stopped at an intersection, the officers pulled up next to him and were able to see that his car had valid, but expired inspection and emission stickers, as well. Based on these…
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Lori G. Levin Named as 2018 Leading Lawyer
I am thrilled to have been named, once again, an Illinois Leading Lawyer in Criminal Defense. Lori G. Levin Attorney at Law 180 N. LaSalle, Suite 3700 Chicago, IL 60601 312-767-2356 levin@lorilevinlaw.com www.lorilevinlaw.com (Meetings may also be scheduled in the Northern Chicago suburbs upon request.)
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Neal Davis Gains Leniency for Federal White Collar Crime
You may have heard the term “white collar crime” before and assumed it meant crimes committed solely by people who have well-paying jobs — or so-called “white collar” professions. That’s not always the case. Case in point: A retired Fort Bend County jail guard was recently charged with a federal offense for a non-violent white collar crime which involved the misappropriation of money. As reported in the Houston Chronicle, Burnie Joseph Haynes pocketed nearly $290,000 in military pension checks which had been sent over a 20-year period to his uncle, who died in 1996. Such fraud is a federal white collar offense. On March 22, Haynes pleaded guilty in federal court to the theft of public money, a jailable offense. He admitted taking $286,302 from a bank account for which he’d been a signatory with power of attorney. But Haynes was able to get probation and avoid jail time — thanks to his attorney, Neal Davis. As the Chronicle…
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Crash Blocks Interstate 84 Near Malta
IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE - generated by our News Release ListServer DO NOT REPLY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE District 4 Patrol 218 West Yakima, Jerome, ID 83338-5904 (208) 324-6000 Fax (208) 324-7897 For Immediate Release: 06/09/2018 at 3:21 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office The Idaho State Police is currently investigating a single vehicle injury crash eastbound Interstate 84 at milepost 244, near Malta. The left lane is blocked. 3725 -------------
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