Ten families who lost relatives in Washington State following a mudslide have filed a lawsuit against against a private landowner and the county where the mudslide happened. The lawsuit alleges that the private landowner and the county extensively studied the …The post Mudslide Lawsuit appeared first on Personal Injury Attorney CO | Colorado Springs Lawyers.
Mudslide Lawsuit
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Bono's Candid Account of His Injuries
U2's Bono writes he may never play guitar again, due to the severity of his injuries from a bike accident in Central Park last November. "Recovery has been more difficult than I thought. As I write this, it is not clear that I will ever play... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Saturday Open Thread
A new Jeep for the New Year. My last three Jeeps have been black, charcoal and granite. Time for a change. I'll probably spend the rest of the weekend learning all its new features. V-8 engines are getting scarcer, and despite the promotions,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Appeals Court Rejects Tsarnaev Request for Trial Delay
Jury selection will begin Monday as scheduled in the trial of Dzhokhar (Jahar) Tsarnaev. The First Circuit Court of Appeals today denied his Petition for a Writ of Mandamus which sought a change of venue, or an order compelling the trial judge to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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The War on the Police
To read the NYT, Eric Holder's latest musings, or practically any libertarian blog (Radley Balko's coming first to mind, although most anything in Reason magazine will do), one would think that there is no "war on the police," but only concerned citizens mindful of America's stained, racist past and yearning for less thuggish law enforcement and fairer treatment for minorities, particularly young black men.Only there is a war on police. It doesn't look like Obama's "Ferguson meeting" at the White House. An article in the Alaska Dispatch News shows what it looks like, as pictured on the next page. Man who shot Anchorage officer gets 22 years in prison Jason Barnum is arraigned at the Anchorage Jail for attempted murder and other charges on Friday, September 14, 2012. Marc Lester / ADNA man who pleaded guilty to shooting at Anchorage police officers investigating a string of burglaries in fall…
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Child Abuse Charges in Las Vegas
Child Abuse Affects Everyone involved for Life NRS 432 George Marshall Collins, Jr. is being held in prison today facing 40 charges of sexual abuse on children. Originally, he admitted to photographing and abusing two teenage girls, but recent charges reveal at least 40 girls are involved with 22 counts of possessing child pornography, eight counts of capital sexual battery, three counts of lewd exhibition and four counts of lewd and lascivious molestation. The first two teens told law enforcement that he began touching them inappropriately, and then the sexual abuse escalated around age 13 for one and nine for the other girl. Think Before You Act with any Crime Without a good lawyer, sex crimes will follow the defendant for the rest of their life. Here is another real life example with a man who is behind bars for sexually abusing girls in Stafford County, about 25 miles from D.C.. He lived there 15 years ago; he had been a teacher and chairman of the school board. Thomas…
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Attempted Tampering with Physical Evidence
Deponent is further informed by informant that while informant was placing criminal defendant under arrest for the above described offenses, defendant did (I) refuse to place defendant's hands behind defendant's back; (ii) defendant did flail defendant's arms; and (iii) defendant did strike informant about informant's legs with defendant's feet. Deponent is further informed that after informant place handcuffs on defendant, defendant did refuse to walk to or enter the police vehicle, thereby requiring informant and other police officers to carry defendant to said police vehicle. In order for an accusatory instrument to be sufficient on its face, it must allege facts of an evidentiary character supporting or tending to support the criminal charges (C.P.L. § 100.15(3)), provide reasonable cause to believe that the defendant committed the offense charged (C.P.L. § 100.40(1)(b)), and contain non-hearsay allegations which establish, if true, every…
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Medwed on Innocence Controversies
Daniel S. Medwed (Northeastern University - School of Law) has posted The Age of Innocence at Maturity (Reviewing Sarah Lucy Cooper, Ed., Innocence Controversies in America (2014)) (Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books (Nov. 2014)) on SSRN. Here is the...
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DWI and the Mouth Alcohol Defense
Have you been arrested for DWI because you failed the breath test? The good news is that there are potential defenses for a DWI, regardless of your breath test results. Your blood alcohol content or BAC reading may have been over the legal limit, but that does not necessarily mean that the numbers were accurate. It should be known that breath tests do not actually measure the amount of alcohol present in a person’s blood. What it does is make an approximation of your BAC by measuring the amount of … [Read more...] The post DWI and the Mouth Alcohol Defense appeared first on Minneapolis DWI Lawyer Douglas T. Kans.
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Salem Woman Sentenced to Lengthy Prison Term for Attempting to Murder Her Children
A 27-year-old Salem woman was sentenced yesterday to serve 20-25 years in state prison after pleading guilty to attempting to murder her children. According to the Boston Herald, Tanicia Goodwin pleaded guilty to seven criminal offenses yesterday in Salem superior court including armed assault with intent to murder, arson, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a child, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury. On March 18, 2012, the defendant’s eight-year-old son, Jamaal, was sitting on his bedroom floor watching a movie and eating cereal for dinner. The defendant approached him, said, “I’m sorry, Jamaal, but you’ve lived too long,” and slit his throat with a kitchen knife. According to the Boston Globe, Jamaal’s trachea was almost severed and a muscle over the carotid artery was cut. The defendant told Jamaal that he could say goodbye to his three-year-old sister and led…
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2015.5: The Press and Professors
When the media need an opinion on some legal issue, often they will go to the nearest law school. The reasoning—which is sound in theory—is that if a professor lists, say, “immigration law” as one of her subjects, then she will be an expert in the subject.Most law professors, who live lives of quiet desperation writing academic articles that few will ever read, are happy to opine on any subject. Unfortunately, while they sometimes have deep knowledge of narrow areas of law, in other areas—even areas that they teach—they are swimming in the shallow end of the pool.A case in point: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals tossed out part of the “improper photography and visual recording” statute. Some reports make it sound like the Court has given the green light to “pervs” taking video or pictures up a woman’s dress. University of Houston law professor Peter Linzer says that’s not so. “Notice this…
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Selbstleseverfahren, Band 91
Strafmaß: Verhandlungssache „Wie in der Notaufnahme“: Die Last-Minute-Reue Düstere Aussichten: Großkanzleiszene vor dem Umbruch 200-Euro-Geschenk – 4.000 Euro Strafe Jurist verzweifelt am Rechtsstaat Rechtsprechungsüberblick in Strafsachen (Dezember 2014) Neues vom „Rebellensenat“: Aufgeräumt werden soll auch im Zivilrecht Hohe Hürden für den Traumberuf als Richter Ein Tag mit … einem Anwalt Spendenaufruf beim BILDblog: „Nehmen sicher kein Geld von ‘Bild’ oder Springer-Verlag“ Der STERN und Udo Jürgens – wie mit PC Auflage gemacht werden soll Fingerabdruck-Biometrie endgültig nur noch Sicherheitsplacebo Die lange Suche nach der Wahrheit — Hinweis: Wir haben unsere Feed-Adresse aktualisiert: http://www.strafakte.de/feed/ Bitte aktualisieren Sie die Adresse demnächst in Ihrem Feed-Reader, um sicherzustellen, dass Sie auch weiterhin den Feed…
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The Case Against Pettiness
Following on the issue raised by the death spiral of Robert Earl Lawrence, itself an offshoot in a way of Yale lawprof Stephen Carter’s critical admonition that we should make “no law you aren’t willing to enforce by death,” Paul Gowder at PrawfsBlawg offers an excellent (and far more comprehensible) perspective on trivial law and its impact on society. To be clear, the concern is with laws that penalize ordinary behavior—behavior that many or most people do at least sometimes, either because that behavior is consistent with social norms (smoking a joint, not coming to a complete stop before turning right on red), or because it is easy to accidentally do the behavior (violate a complicated parking sign). And the worry is that such laws, when pervasively enforced, break the connection between genuine wrongdoing (in the sense of the violation of social norms, also in the sense of doing anything actually morally wrong) and negative…
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Amherst, Massachusetts
A Poem by Emma Brush Z – Here lies my grandfather, whom (this is important) you have never met. He once called a boy “unnaturally tall,” and I’m sure he would have said the same about you. But then again, I have sat at his desks – they are a many – and he has assured me of everything. How fitting, the rest of us said, for the end to come in autumn, the rainbow to attend the poet’s funeral. –EB
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Greenwich, New Canaan & Darien Juvenile Arrests On Rise for Instagram / Facebook Bullying & Threatening
I’ve seen a number of recent arrests of New Canaan, Westport and Darien High School students, as well as arrests of Stamford and Greenwich High School students, for social media and online bullying and Threatening in the Second Degree under CGS 53a-62. New Canaan, Darien and Greenwich High Schools are taking a strong stance against online bullying and threatening of students on Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat. So do you really need a top Greenwich, Darien or New Canaan school discipline juvenile criminal lawyer to fight your charges and get your child’s school discipline record cleaned up? Absolutely. Here’s why… Why New Canaan, Darien & Greenwich Police Are Getting Involved in High School Online Bullying Cases If your child is arrested in New Canaan, Darien, or Fairfield juvenile court for Threatening or Bullying, you need to consider both the criminal and school discipline (or even expulsion) consequences of these juvenile…
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Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads
in criminal law and procedure ejournals are here. The usual disclaimers apply. RankDownloadsPaper Title 1 194 Debating Rape Myths Helen Reece London School of Economics - Law Department Date posted to database: 9 Dec 2014 2 188 Why Crime Rates...
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The Volokh Question: Why Did You Stop?
One of the foremost law blogs on the interwebz, the Volokh Conspiracy, is now behind the Washington Post paywall. We knew it was coming, so it’s not quite a surprise, but now that it’s happened, a pall is over the blawgosphere. If that’s not bad enough, Radley Balko, one time Agitator who went legit, will be paywalled as well, but that’s another story. Sure, the paywall is filled with holes, and VC posts are still available by RSS feed, but that kinda misses the point. The Volokh Conspiracy was once a blog that offered some brilliant content, followed up by the mother lode of thoughtful commentary. The commentariot there has taken a huge nose-dive into the toilet, and the content has devolved to posts by the principles of embarrassingly limited depth or flagrant advocacy from the likes of Stewart Baker and Paul Cassell. On twitter, Orin Kerr asked a question, and since I like Orin very much, and appreciate all I’ve…
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WHY THIS BLOG?
Why we blog:On November 9, 2011 we did a blog post on the passing in May, 2011, of REGJB Legend Judge Phil Knight here. Early Saturday morning, more than four years later, we received this comment:CHESSMAN said...I was once a neighbor of the honorable Judge Knight back in 1991-1993. He was a remarkable man. His wife, Mrs. Knight was a sweetheart. He obviously left an impression on me as a youngster since I randomly decided to google him and found this blog. Rest in peace Judge Knight. Peace and blessings to your surviving love ones.Saturday, January 03, 2015 3:31:00 AM This is why we blog.The law, for better or worse, has now been our occupation, vocation, and avocation for half our life (plus or minus a year or two). And we have practiced law mostly in the REGJB (plus or minus a trip to Broweird or the federal courts around the country- one of our favourite cases being a three week trial in DC several years ago.)The REGJB has been a building that has held…
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Children, Naked, Because Rules
Anywhere else, a requirement that would allow grownups to force innocent children to remove their clothing would be cause for a swift prosecution and, likely, a long prison sentence followed by a living under a bridge. Anywhere but a prison visiting room. Via the Chronicle of Social Change: For the more than 2.7 million children in the United States with an incarcerated parent, the holiday season brings a poignant mixture of torment and joy. On the one hand, it may mean a rare opportunity to visit a parent behind bars—for some, the only visit of the year. But the love and connection a visit can bring are tempered by the fear of driving past razor wire, passing through metal detectors, and being subjected to the scrutiny of uniformed guards. This holiday season, some children may face an even more disturbing intrusion. Under new regulations recently proposed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), visitors will be subjected to canine…
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US DoJ Seeking Death Penalty in LAX Shooting
Kate Mather and Richard Winton report in the LA Times:Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty against the man charged in the deadly 2013 shooting at Los Angeles International Airport, according to court documents filed Friday.Paul Anthony Ciancia, 24, was charged with 11 federal counts in connection with the Nov. 1, 2013, attack that killed one Transportation Security Administration officer and wounded three other people. Authorities allege Ciancia walked into the airport's busy Terminal 3 and opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle.The decision is obviously correct, and this is one of the few homicides that really should be prosecuted as a federal offense. The homicide victim was a federal officer targeted specifically because of his federal duties, as are two of the wounded victims.The current Administration has been reasonable in seeking the death penalty in federal cases where it is warranted, but it is derelict in carrying it out. Federal…
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