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: 06/16/18 11:41 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office Idaho State Police is currently investigating of a crash eastbound I84 at milepost 47, at Cloverdale Road. Both east and westbound lanes are currently blocked. More information will be released as it becomes available. 3933 -------------
Interstate 84 Blocked Both Directions At Cloverdale in Boise
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*Update* Interstate 84 Blocked Both Directions At Cloverdale in 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: 06/17/18 2:20 a.m. Please direct questions to the District Office ***Update*** The westbound lanes of travel have been reopened, but are limited to one lane of travel at this time. The eastbound lanes from Eagle Road to Cole Road are expected to be shut down until Sunday morning. More information will be released as it becomes available. 3984 / 3318 **End of Update** Idaho State Police is currently investigating of a crash eastbound I84 at milepost 47, at Cloverdale Road. Both east and westbound lanes are currently blocked. More information will be released as it becomes available. 3933 -------------
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What is the Equal Protection Guarantee?
The 14th Amendment to the Federal Constitution provides, among other things, a guarantee of equal protection under the laws. Few clauses within American jurisprudence are more well known, but few citizens actually understand the general nature of the equal protection guarantee. To understand the nature and scope of the guarantee, one must first go back in time to its ratification. Shortly after the end of the American civil war, Congress proposed and the states ratified what has come to be known as the Reconstruction Amendments. These include: the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. The legislative history–i.e., the proceedings leading to the enactment of a law, including reports and floor debates–clearly indicates that Congress was concerned with the discrimination and harassment of minorities, especially slaves recently emancipated under the 13th Amendment’s proscription of slavery. This concern led to, among other things, the…
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Tolerable Cruelties (Update)
When the Obama administration placed the young children separated from their immigrant parents for unlawfully crossing the border outside “concentration camp” walls, it swiftly turned into an opportunity for human traffickers to get free slaves. That was certainly terrible and unacceptable, and something had to be done. Children of a very tender age need to be held. comforted and cared for. But if adults in a facility provide them with the human contact they desperately need, they expose themselves to allegations of sexual molestation. At the very least, they commit nonconsensual touching, and America is better than that. Molesting the children of incarcerated immigrant parents is outrageous and unacceptable, and something must be done. When the Obama administration created a path to citizenship, people from other nations saw the opportunity to get here, any way they could, to give their children a better life. Certainly one can’t blame them for loving their…
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*2nd Update* Interstate 84 Blocked Both Directions At Cloverdale in 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: 06/17/18 5:20 a.m. Please direct questions to the District Office ***Update*** All westbound lanes of travel are open at this time. **End of Update** ***Update*** The westbound lanes of travel have been reopened, but are limited to one lane of travel at this time. The eastbound lanes from Eagle Road to Cole Road are expected to be shut down until Sunday morning. More information will be released as it becomes available. 3984 / 3318 **End of Update** Idaho State Police is currently investigating of a crash eastbound I84 at milepost 47, at Cloverdale Road. Both east and westbound lanes are currently blocked. More information will be released as it becomes available.…
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Short Take: Literal But Nonsensical? There’s An App For That
How cool is it that Google has this app called “Translate,” and anybody can get it right on, wait for it, their smartphone? Even a cop in Kansas. Imagine you’re driving in a foreign country and a police officer stops you on the road. You don’t speak the cop’s language and they don’t speak yours, so a halting exchange ensues using a laptop and Google Translate. You’re not always sure what the officer is asking, and you end up agreeing to something you didn’t quite understand, and are arrested. That’s what happened to Omar Cruz-Zamora, a Mexican native in the US on a legal visa, in Kansas last September. Cruz-Zamora spoke Spanish. Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Ryan Wolting did not. But Wolting had a smartphone and, boom, technology! Based on a typed exchange using Google Translate, he agreed to let police search his car—he wasn’t legally required to—and was arrested for possession of 14 pounds of…
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VI: Decriminalization of small quantities of marijuana doesn’t eliminate an officer’s ability to search for it with PC
The fact of decriminalization of an ounce or less of marijuana does not obviate the ability of the police to conduct a frisk or a search for marijuana. The probable cause calculus remains the same, although the result of the … Continue reading →
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MI: Inability to meet plain error standard on a 4A claim doesn’t preclude an IAC claim for it
The fact defendant on appeal couldn’t satisfy the plain error standard for a search and seizure claim doesn’t mean that he can’t show ineffective assistance of counsel on the same claim. An IAC claim requires a more developed record. People … Continue reading →
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Are Stronger DWI/DUI Laws Effective?
Everyday there is news about alcohol-related traffic accidents and fatalities. Such tragedies underscore the necessity of strengthening existing laws; however, they also highlight the fact that even stronger laws might not create the desired results as many states continue to suffer from a high number of such accidents. New Mexico efforts In New Mexico, Governor […] The post Are Stronger DWI/DUI Laws Effective? appeared first on Minneapolis DWI Lawyer Douglas T. Kans.
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VI: BOLO information shared at beginning of shift satisfies collective knowledge
BOLO information shared with officers at the beginning of their shift qualifies as collective knowledge. Emanuel v. People, 2018 V.I. Supreme LEXIS 10 (June 15, 2018) (relying on United States v. Braden, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 115755 (W.D. Tenn. July … Continue reading →
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MO erroneously suggests bad faith for exclusionary rule requires pattern and practice evidence
The question of consent from a disturbed and hallucinating man is moot–the state relies on exigent circumstances. In the process, however, the court suggests that defendant’s argument the police acted with bad faith might require pattern and practice evidence of … Continue reading →
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A money-laundering conviction reversed for insufficient evidence plus the D.C. Circuit agrees that individualized jury determinations of drug quantity in conspiracy prosecutions are necessary to trigger mandatory minimum sentences – United States v. Calvin Stoddard, et al, __ F.3d _ (D.C. Circuit, No. 15-3060 (June 15, 2018).
Every May and June the black-robed folks down at 3rd and Constitution like to shake off DeeCee’s early summertime torpor by reversing some matters and announcing some new legal principles. This was Circuit Judges Griffith, Srinivasan and Wilkins’ turn. Back in 2012, the Government began investigating a notorious drug dealer, Jermaine Washington, who had recently been released from prison. After employing traditional surveillance techniques, the Government successfully applied for two wiretaps on Washington’s cell phone. The evidence presented at appellants’ trial consisted largely of recorded conversations and Washington’s interpreting language in his conversations with the three defendants. A jury convicted Stoddard and Woodruff under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1), and 846 for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin. It acquitted Jerome Cobble, Washington’s cousin, of those charges but convicted…
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*3rd Update* Interstate 84 Blocked Both Directions At Cloverdale in 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: 06/17/18 8:24 a.m. Please direct questions to the District Office ***Update*** On June 16, 2018, at approximately 11:33 p.m., the Idaho State Police investigated a multiple vehicle crash eastbound Interstate 84 at milepost 47, the Cloverdale overpass. A commercial vehicle and SUV were traveling eastbound when they slowed for construction traffic. A second commercial vehicle struck the SUV and the first commercial vehicle from behind. Four other vehicles were involved in the crash. Two occupants were transported by ground ambulance to St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. More information will be released as it becomes available. 3725 / 3632 ***End of Update***…
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"What Tocqueville Would Think of Today’s Criminal Justice Reforms"
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The Political Truths
1. All talk about Democrats winning any majority in the U.S. House and Senate is now over. It was over a long time ago if you were paying attention.2. What were going through right now with Trump is exactly what Huey Long brought to Louisiana many years ago.A particular strain of populism.3. The only polls that matters are.....The economic indicators in The Rust Belt in the early months of 2020. Everything else is hogwash.3. One big mistake the wave of female candidates in New Mexico can make is to invite one person to come down and help them campaign.Who's that person?Hillary of course.Talk about waking up a sleeping conservative base on a down year election.4. Turn off the TV. Listen to the Bee and the Breakfast Club. 105 FM. Weekdays, 6-9. And then New Mexico Mornings with Tom A. and then Rugged Radio with Russ.The holy trinity of Southeastern New Mexico radio.5. The question right now is how will the…
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*4th Update* Interstate 84 Blocked Both Directions At Cloverdale in 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: 06/17/18 10:05 a.m. Please direct questions to the District Office ***Update*** Idaho State Police is still on scene of the crash, and the eastbound lanes of Interstate 84 are still completely blocked. Motorists should use the detour in place at Eagle Road or find alternate routes of travel. Traffic congestion is especially heavy between the Meridian and Eagle exits. More information will be released as it becomes available. 3725/3761 ***End of Update*** ***Update*** On June 16, 2018, at approximately 11:33 p.m., the Idaho State Police investigated a multiple vehicle crash eastbound Interstate 84 at milepost 47, the Cloverdale overpass. A commercial vehicle and SUV were…
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Arrest, Guilt, and the Difference Between the Two
Anna Roberts, Arrests as Guilt, __ Ala L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2018), available at SSRN. Elizabeth Joh We live in a world in which the most detailed information is used to identify and make judgments about us. Facebook wants to know whether you like grass, or a certain kind of wrestling. Google may sell advertisements based on searches for “chest pain.” But in the criminal justice world, we can be sloppy, and dangerously so. As Anna Roberts explains in her forthcoming article, Arrests as Guilt, there is a marked tendency to interpret the eleven million arrests made every year as findings of guilt. That is, we see that someone is arrested, and we conclude that the person is guilty of a crime. That assumption, made too often by journalists, academics, and the public, creates a host of problems. Most of us can readily recall examples when media outlets appear to equate arrests with guilt. “Perp walks”—deliberately stigmatizing public…
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A Gun Alone
As state courts have proven extremely reluctant to give any slack to the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment, exercising the right without being arrested first has often been honored primarily in the breach. Possess a gun, get arrested and, only afterward, get cut loose provided the person possesses the requisite permits. But an Illinois appellate court’s analysis in an opinion by Justice P. Scott Neville, Jr. challenges the “outdated” assumption. The State argues that the discovery of the gun gave Whitlock probable cause to arrest Penister, reasoning that “the police were not required to *** determine whether he had a valid FOID card or a Conceal Carry Permit prior to effectuating his arrest.” According to the State’s reasoning, an officer has probable cause to arrest anyone engaged in an activity that requires a license, and the officer can wait until after the arrest to determine whether…
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Finding Skimming Schemes
Schemes that involve the skimming of money are very difficult to detect, investigate, and ultimately prove. These types of schemes are carried out before money is recorded in a company’s accounting system. Because of this “off-books” nature of the crime, little to no trail is created for investigators to follow. Skimming happens at the point of entry of money into a business. The gatekeeper who receives those funds is the most likely person to steal the money. Typical jobs that might involve access to funds in this way include bank teller, waitress, store cashier, salesperson, or medical billing clerk. Hundreds of jobs could afford someone an opportunity to skim funds from a company, but these common examples illustrate the ease of theft but the difficulty of investigation. Imagine a case involving a waiter or waitress who takes an order from a customer, which includes an appetizer, a meal selection, and a beverage. The customer receives all the food and pays…
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ANDRÉS CALDERÓN y sus berrinches de última generación
Hace muy poco en un fino debate sostuve y hoy sostengo reiterativamente, que las universidades, las de mejor infraestructura, las que cobran carísimo la pensión, no forman profesionales sino seguidores de una corriente de pensamiento y eso es lo que hace en su columna el autor del enlace que, además, es profesor de la Universidad del Pacífico. En uno de los párrafos del artículo que firma, escribe: "....en el primer caso, le paga (por publicidad) a quien puede comunicar de forma más efectiva, a los medios de comunicación privados, inmensamente superiores en alcance e impacto a los medios estatales. Una cosa es mejorar y controlar la inversión en publicidad estatal y otra muy distinta es prohibirla del todo....." Antes comparó el servicio de la prensa con medicinas e instrumental médico y otros servicios que el Estado directamente NO brinda al ciudadano pero DEBE HACERLO y sustituye…
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