While a DUI or DWI conviction is a matter that everyone should take seriously, it carries potentially unforeseen consequences for a college student. Penalties and punishments for DWI can include large fines, loss of driving privileges, and even serving time behind bars. Sadly, younger people who are either in college or are applying to colleges often are not aware that such information has lifelong consequences, as they will become part of their permanent record. It can be challenging enough to get admitted into the college of your choice. Apart from … [Read more...] The post How Can a DWI Affect College Students? appeared first on Minneapolis DWI Lawyer Douglas T. Kans.
How Can a DWI Affect College Students?
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Report: Juvie deincarceraton in Texas coincided with large crime declines
A brief note from AP previewed a report on the Texas juvenile justice system coming out today:A new study concludes that the Texas juvenile justice system's shift away from housing youths in state-run detention facilities has coincided with a sharp drop in crime committed by young people.The report commissioned by Texas and compiled by the Justice Center at the nonpartisan Council of State Governments is being unveiled Thursday in Austin. It tracked 1.3 million case records between 2007 and 2011.In 2008, lawmakers overhauled the system after pervasive reports of physical and sexual abuse. That helped the number of youths confined to state facilities fall by 65 percent between 2007 and 2012. Many were shifted to community-based, county programs.But the study found that, over the same period, crimes committed by youths declined 33 percent. It also says smaller state-facility populations saved Texas $150 million.The report's already available on the Council of…
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Intriguing review of early impact of California's Prop 47 reducing offense seriousness
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„Schuld“ nach Ferdinand von Schirach
Jeder kann zum Täter werden, es hängt nur von den Umständen ab. Der Bestseller „SCHULD“ von Ferdinand von Schirach enthält wie der Band „Verbrechen“ kurze Erzählungen von Fällen aus dem vermeintlichen „Alltag“ eines Rechtsanwalts und Strafverteidigers. Das ZDF zeigt nun eine durch das Buch inspirierte Verfilmung als Fortsetzung der Serie „Verbrechen“. Foto: ZDF / Gordon Muehle Wie im Buch veranschaulicht Ferdinand von Schirach in der Serie das Leben, das einer Tat vorausging. Die Serie legt nahe, dass abhängig von den Umständen praktisch jeder zum Mörder werden kann. Sie fesselt, weil sie besondere Kriminalfälle in einer neuen Erzählweise zeigt. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Rechtsanwalt und Strafverteidiger Friedrich Kronberg, dem es immer wieder mehr oder weniger spektakulär gelingt, sich – nach Maßgabe des Rechts – mit Erfolg für einen…
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How to Get a Marriage Annulment in New Jersey
If you get a legal separation in New Jersey, you and your spouse remain married. If you want to end the marriage, there are two options to choose from: divorce, and annulment. While divorce is more common, there are still valid reasons why an annulment might be better for your marriage. What are the differences,…
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AG nominee Loretta Lynch says she does not support marijuana legalization
This NPR report provides details on the brief discussion of federal marijuana law and policy during her first day of confirmation hearings for Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch: [S]he was asked about marijuana, and whether she supports legalizing it. "Senator, I do not," Lynch told Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., when...<img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarijuanaLaw/~4/4WLZ31kDa9E" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
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How to Post Bail at the Salt Lake County Jail
Many criminal suspects in the SLC area are sent to the Salt Lake County Jail, also called the Adult Detention Center (ADC). Instead of housing convicted criminals who are serving long-term sentences, the jail acts as a temporary holding center for people who are still awaiting trial. If your loved one is incarcerated at the facility, you may be able to bail them out. Salt Lake City criminal defense attorney Darwin Overson explains the process. What is Bail? In simple terms, bail is money you pay to get an inmate out of jail. Bail acts like collateral that guarantees the defendant will show up at future court dates instead of fleeing the state or evading law enforcement. When the defendant comes to court as promised, they get their money back. If a defendant “skips bail” and does not come back to court, they forfeit the money, and the court will issue a bench warrant for their arrest. To make matters worse, the defendant will…
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It's a Civil Right to Live Peacefully
Richard Brawn of Petaluma, California has a Letter to the Editor in today's WSJ, with the above caption, that I will simply copy in its entirety:Regarding the article "Texas Housing Case Tests Civil-Rights Doctrine" (page one, Jan. 21), the mischief maker in this case is the same one that perpetuates misery in public housing: Congress. I spent 13 years working in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The two issues perpetually facing HUD were how to get the beneficiaries of public housing to accept personal and community responsibility, and how to convince the apologists and facilitators to stop putting their dogma ahead of getting the needy housed. While I was at HUD, a South African low-income-housing management firm presented to the San Francisco office how it had eliminated crime and misery in its buildings: Management strictly enforced rules and used video in the hallways and fingerprint security locks on building front doors, and required…
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"DeWine: Marijuana legalization a 'stupid idea'"
The title of this post is the headline of this local article from Ohio. Here are excerpts: Ohio's top cop was blunt about his opinion on legalizing marijuana in Ohio: "I think it's a stupid idea." Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine told a group at the Newark Rotary Club on...<img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarijuanaLaw/~4/xZy_iXHr8oA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
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Hits keep on coming for TX civil commitment program
Between a new state audit generating unfavorable stories like these:Houston Chronicle: Scathing audit paints sex offender agency in disarrayAustin Statesman: Audit finds oversight problems in sex-offender agencyand the fact that the judge hearing all the state's civil commitment cases, Judge Michael Seiler, appears irreparably biased, perhaps it's time for the state to abandon the civil commitment program altogether or at least reinstate control over the cases to local judges, perhaps managed through local probation offices. Clearly what's happening now is not working.The program's been a hot mess since I first became aware of it and, while the former executive director Allison Taylor was recently scapegoated out the door, IMO the Lege created most of the problems by crafting an unworkable system then handing control over it to a judge whose personal biases make him unsuited to preside over the cases. (I say his "biases" are the problem but,…
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Suspect Who Injured Police Officer During Traffic Stop Facing Criminal Charges
On Friday January 23, a 55-year-old man allegedly shot a Flint Township police officer after he was stopped for a traffic violation. That man, who has not been named pending his arraignment, is now facing charges of resisting and obstructing a police officer and carrying a concealed weapon, according to a news report at Mlive.com. The incident occurred at approximately 10:30 p.m. at the Hometown Inn in the 3200 block of Miller Road. According to reports, the officer attempted to take the man into custody on multiple misdemeanor warrants, when the two became involved in a scuffle that resulted in the suspect pulling a gun before firing on the officer. The bullet struck the officer, who then called for backup. The injured officer was continuing to recover three days later, according to Flint Township Lt. James Baldwin. The suspect was also injured by return gunfire of the officer and backup officers who responded to the scene. The officer who was injured and hospitalized works…
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"Medical or Recreational Marijuana and Drugged Driving"
The title of this post is the title of this notable and timely new article by Paul Larkin now available via SSRN. Here is the abstract: Beginning in the 1920s and lasting for seventy years, state and federal law treated marijuana as a dangerous drug and as contraband, forbidding its...<img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarijuanaLaw/~4/-vekCWk9Khs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
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Some end-of-month highlights from Marijuana Law, Policy and Reform
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Getting Real on the AG Nomination
Bill linked yesterday to the live-blogging at Powerline on the nomination hearings for Loretta Lynch as Attorney General. To watch video yourself, cruise on over to C-SPAN. At the WSJ, Andrew Grossman and Devlin Barrett have this article on the "relatively tame" hearing. Also at Powerline, John Hinderaker has this apoplectic post titled Loretta Lynch Must Not Be Confirmed, focusing on immigration.A note to my fellow conservatives: Get a grip and get real.Elections have consequences. We live in a country where a majority of the voters chose Barack Obama over Mitt Romney. We may consider that choice profoundly stupid, but that's democracy -- the worst form of government except for all the others.If Loretta Lynch is not Attorney General, who do you think will be? Somebody better? Get real. We want the best AG we can get, and as long as Barack Obama is President, "best" means the best from among the…
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Deadline Passes Again, No Prisoner Swap
The new deadline for Jordan to turn over prisoner was sunset, Mosul time -- an hour or so ago. It looks like negotiations failed, because ISIS was only willing to release Japanese hostage Kenji Goto, in exchange for the Jordanian prisoner, Sajida... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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"The Eternal Criminal Record"
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More parole agent caseloads exceed limits under new sex offender rules
1-29-2015 California: Since two sex offenders were charged with killing four women while under state and federal watch, California has changed how it supervises such parolees, increasing scrutiny of some and relaxing the monitoring of others. A Times analysis of state data shows that the number of parole agents with caseloads exceeding state limits has increased under the new system, further
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Whistleblower lab worker punished for Houston officer's mistake
Following up on the story of errors at the Houston crime lab that led to dismissal of felony DWI charges, Houston Chronicle columnist Lisa Falkenberg concluded an article this week (Jan. 28) summarizing the case's significance:in the grand scheme of things, these lapses aren't earth-shattering. Nobody's life was dangling in the balance on death row. And if this episode had occurred a few years earlier, we might never have heard about it.But it just so happened that these mistakes happened right before a newly created local government corporation, called the Houston Forensic Science Center, took over crime lab operations from HPD. City leaders created the corporation in a bid to rebuild public trust in a lab that had been mired in scandal, suspended temporarily in 2002 and overwhelmed by a decades-old backlog of untested rape kits.The new leaders promised transparency. They thoroughly investigated the mistakes made by the second lab analyst who handled…
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USEPA Databases Searchable by the Public
Often times, people want more information and do not know where to go to on-line to find it. Below is a handy list of some of the searchable databases maintained by the government that are environmentally oriented. Envirofacts: http://www.epa.gov/enviro/ USEPA Facility Registration System: www.epa.gov/enviro/html/fii/fii_query_java.html Superfund Site Information: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/cursites/ National Response Center: http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/apex/f?p=109:1:2933437983605458 USEPA Records Schedule: www.epa.gov/records/policy/schedule/index.htm Toxic Release Inventory (TRI): www.epa.gov/tri/tridata/preliminarydataset/index.html TRI Facility Data: www.epa.gov/tri/tridata/ Enforcement and Compliance History Online: www.epa-echo.gov/echo/index.html ECHO Compliance Report: www.epa-echo.gov/echo/compliance_report.html Superfund Information System: http://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/srchsites.cfm National Environmental Policy Act:…
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"Oklahoma executions put off"
Lyle Denniston has this report at ScotusBlog. In part: Without a noted dissent, the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon delayed the scheduled execution of three Oklahoma death-row inmates, whose case the Justices will hear in late April. The executions were...
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