If you’re found guilty of DUI in Virginia, to get a restricted license you have to have ignition interlock installed on your vehicle. That is now state law. But one of the issues that comes up sometimes is if you have to drive for work, would you have to get the ignition interlock installed on […]
Can I Drive a Work Vehicle Without Ignition Interlock on it?
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Safety concerns prompt Oklahoma corrections officials to order removal of inmates from private center
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Sincere marijuana reform question: exactly what are DEA officials "scared" of?
The question in the title of this post, which I am now posting to all the blogs in which I now participate, is my sincere reaction to this new Washington Post article headlined "DEA operations chief decries legalization of marijuana...
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State v. Tate
You're defending a client charged with domestic violence,
and he's got two priors for that crime, making it a third degree felony. The prosecutor asks you if you're willing to
stipulate to the prior convictions.
Before you decide, you need to take a look at the Ohio
Supreme Court's decision yesterday in State v. Tate.
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HuffPo: OK State Troopers beat deaf man for not responding to their verbal commands
HuffPo: Police Allegedly Beat Pearl Pearson For Disobeying Orders He Could Not Hear by David Lohr:
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21-year-old Detroit Man Goes on Trial for Allegedly Murdering Three People
Last week, trial was scheduled to begin for 21-year-old James Paul Simpkins II of Detroit who is accused of killing his brother and two others. Simpkins allegedly killed the three victims at a Flint home in 2012 during a house party, according to news articles at Mlive.com.
The party was taking place on July 18 of 2012 when police were dispatched to the residence after an altercation broke out in which one of the alleged victims called Simpkins "crazy." Prosecutors claim Simpkins opened fire inside the home where party goers were drinking and smoking marijuana. The defendant called 911 himself, claiming that his brother had been shot and that someone assaulted him. Authorities claim that the defendant did the shooting himself. One woman who survived being shot fled through a window at the home and contacted police. She was able to lead them to the suspect.
Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton claims that Simpkins opened fire on the party after another person present began taunting and harassing him, calling him "crazy" or something similar.
Simpkins is charged with assault with intent to commit sexual penetration, assault with intent to murder, felony firearm, and three counts of murder. If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in prison.
Michigan criminal defense attorneys know that in situations where many people are "partying" or consuming alcohol and drugs, the risk of violence often increases. While it is certainly a tragedy that three people lost their lives, it is also tragic that a young man may spend the remainder of his life behind bars.
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Statistics on Tractor-Trailer Accidents And Personal Injuries
There are so many people injured in car accidents every year it would astound the average person. In fact, statistically speaking, there is a higher chance of someone being injured or even being killed in a car accident, before being injured in a plane crash. This statistic strikes me as curious, as the fear of […]The post Statistics on Tractor-Trailer Accidents And Personal Injuries appeared first on .
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4 Ways to Tell if President Obama is Bluffing on Surveillance Reform
Will Obama put human rights at the heart of reform? Or will he perpetuate a spying program that puts free speech and privacy rights of people around the world at risk?
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Teen Singer-Actor David Cassidy of TV's "Partridge Family" Charged with 3rd Drunk Driving Offense
Generally speaking, the police are not too selective when it comes to stopping motorists on New Jersey parkways and interstates, city streets and rural routes for any number of traffic offenses and vehicle-related infractions. Whether any one of these routine police stops develops into a drunken driving arrest has much to do with the observations that the officer in charge makes during the stop and whether or not the driver has actually consumed an alcoholic beverage recently.
As Garden State residents already know, the focus on anti-drunk driving enforcement has resulted in frequent DWI awareness campaigns tied together with enhanced anti-drunken driving police activities, such as saturation patrols and roadside sobriety checkpoints. Ultimately, most anyone who travels on New Jersey roadways while under the influence of alcohol or drugs may find themselves on the receiving end of a DWI or drug DUI summons with the attendant risk of heavy fines and other penalties.
Most anyone who drives a motor vehicle here, or anywhere across the country, likely understands that with police traffic enforcement comes the potential for drunken driving arrests. Few, if any, people are immune from being stopped by a traffic cop for even the smallest offense or most minor of infractions. Quite often, arrests of everyday men and women can include some from the ranks of the rich and famous.
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David Cassidy Arrested for DUI Again
70’s Pop Icon Arrested on DUI Charges Again, Could Face Jail Time Former 1970’s teen heart-throb David Cassidy has been arrested on DUI charges again, and could face jail time. The pop idol was arrested on Friday, January 10th, in Los Angeles on charges of driving under the influence. This is his third DUI arrest since 2010. According to […]The post David Cassidy Arrested for DUI Again appeared first on South Carolina DUI Defense Lawyers | Strom Law Firm, L.L.C..
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Ohio completes execution using novel two-drug lethal injection protocol
As reported in this new local article, headlined "Dennis McGuire executed using new 2-drug combination," the great state of Ohio has yet again pioneered and used a brand new execution protocol. Here are the details: Dennis McGuire and his attorneys...
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5 Arrested for Housing Scheme Using Adverse Possession
Sandra Elaine Barton, 30, Christopher Spencer Barton, 31, Daniel Paul Vedenoff, 29, Sheldon W. Feigel, 50, and Craig Merrill Mortensen, 60, all of Fresno, California, were arrested and charged with 288 felony counts including perjury, filing false court records and preparing false evidence. Cambria Lisa Barton, 21, remains at large. The five individuals allegedly ran […]
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Study Shines Ugly Light on Arrest Figures of Both White and Black Males
According to a new study published in Crime & Delinquency, nearly half of all black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the U.S. will have been arrested at least once by the time they are 23. The study, which examined arrest data across age and race, found that a large portion of […]The post Study Shines Ugly Light on Arrest Figures of Both White and Black Males appeared first on The Appelman Law Firm Law Blog
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Ohio Supreme Court Suggests That People Living Together Are Couples for Purposes of Domestic Violence Statute
The Ohio Supreme Court has held that a boyfriend can be convicted of domestic violence for an assault on his live-in girlfriend, even where the state did not prove they shared living expenses. The case is State v. McGlothan, Slip Opinion No. 2014-Ohio-85. In 2011, the defendant had been living in his girlfriend in her apartment […]
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ACLU: Police Hunger for Drones May be Growing, but So Are Privacy Concerns
ACLU: Police Hunger for Drones May be Growing, but So Are Privacy Concerns by Sandra Fuller:
Deployed without proper regulation, drones equipped with facial recognition software, infrared technology, and speakers capable of monitoring personal conversations would cause real harms to our privacy rights.
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Additional Coverage of Ohio's Botched Execution
"Ohio Execution Using Untested Drug Cocktail Renews the Debate Over Lethal Injections," is by Rick Lyman at the New York Times. Dennis McGuire took 15 minutes to die by lethal injection Thursday morning at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in...
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Vermont Considers Two Wrongful Conviction Reforms
Four years after Vermont passed legislation to allow post-conviction DNA testing, state legislators are now considering two bills - SB 184 and SB 297 - to improve eyewitness identification procedures and to prevent false confessions.Dennis Maher, who was wrongly convicted of rape in 1984 based on eyewitness misidentification, testified before the Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday in favor of the proposed reforms. Maher spent 19 years in prison before he was exonerated through DNA evidence in 2003. Maher told Vermont Public Radio on Thursday, "The female officer, Nancy Taylor, had 10 photos, and she brought them and showed them to the victim. Now the victim said, 'None of these match.' And then Nancy Taylor [said], 'Well, you [had] a reaction when you looked at this one,' which was my photo. And the victim said: 'Well, it had to be him then.' " Mistaken eyewitness identifications contributed to approximately 73 percent of the 312 wrongful convictions in the United States that were overturned by post-conviction DNA evidence. SB 184 would implement "blind" lineup procedures, a best practice in which the administrator is unaware of who the suspect is. Blind lineups help to prevent influencing eyewitnesses. Rebecca Brown, the Innocence Project's director of State Policy Reform, told Vermont Public Radio that a wrongful conviction doesn't just affect the person sitting behind bars, and that passing both bills will strengthen the justice system. "Misidentifications harm everyone. It's not just the innocent and their loved ones who are subjected to the horror of wrongful conviction," Brown said. "For the police, misidentifications impede or destroy investigations by focusing on the wrong person." SB 297 would require the electronic recording of interrogations for violent crimes in order to protect against false confessions. In approximately 25 percent of the wrongful convictions overturned through DNA evidence, defendants made false confessions or admissions to law enforcement officials. The electronic recording of interrogations, from the reading of Miranda rights onward, is the single best reform available to stem the tide of false confessions. Both bills are sponsored by Senator Richard Sears (D-Bennington), the Senate Judiciary Chair, as well as Senators Timothy Ashe (D-Chittenden) and Joseph Benning (R-Caledonia). Read the full article. Learn more about eyewitness identification.Learn more about false confessions and mandatory recording of interrogations.
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News Coverage of the New Hampshire House Committee Hearing
"N.H. death penalty opponents push repeal effort," is the AP report by Lynne Tuohy, via SeaCoast Online. At a Thursday hearing on ramped up efforts to abolish capital punishment, family and friends of murder victims fell down on opposite sides...
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Texas parole board can't handle the truth if it's "I am innocent"
Check out Dallas exoneree Cornelius Dupree's account in Guideposts of what it was like to be denied parole because he wouldn't admit to a crime he did not commit as part of a sex-offender treatment program. The entire piece is compelling and well-written so I won't excerpt it, just go read the whole thing. The article is titled "Nothing but the truth," but it's hard to read it without recalling Jack Nicholson's line from A Few Good Men:
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