See articles from the liberal Texas Observer and the conservative Breitbart News covering a new report issued last week by Texas Appleseed which included the finding touted in the headline. Nice to see bipartisan support as the Lege prepares to consider the issue: The newly created House Juvenile Justice and Family Issues Committee will hear several truancy related bills at their meeting on Wednesday.
'Texas prosecutes more truancy cases than all other states combined"
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Veterans Treatment Court in Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL
The most recent changes to Veterans Treatment Court in Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL, were announced in an administrative order (S-2015-012) dated on February 5, 2015.In order to implement provisions of the “T. Patt Maney Veterans’ Treatment Intervention Act” (sections 6-20 of Chapter 2012-159, Laws of Florida) changes were recently made to help a greater number of veterans and service members who enter the criminal justice system and voluntarily agree to enter Veterans Treatment Court in Tampa.Now both misdemeanor and felony cases will be funneled into one division - Circuit Criminal Division “V”. Any cases currently pending in County Criminal Division “V” will be transferred to Circuit Criminal Division “V.”The Honorable Gregory P. Holder has been assigned to this division. Judge Holder is particularly suited to the position because of his experience as a former Colonel of the United States Air Force Reserve (Retired),…
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Michigan Driver's License Restoration: A Cerebral Analysis of the Decision and Requirement to not Drink
In my various writings about driver's license appeals in Michigan, I must always reiterate the preliminary importance of sobriety as a necessary perquisite to winning. The driver's license restoration process is all about making sure that someone whose license was taken away for 2 or more drunk driving convictions doesn't get back on the road until there is no doubt that he or she is forever done with alcohol. Anyone contemplating a license appeal after having his or her driver's license revoked for multiple DUI's is going to have to prove that not only doesn't he or she drink anymore, but that he or she doesn't hang around with drinkers, and has, instead, adopted what can be described (and must be proven) as a "sober lifestyle." This is never a problem for anyone who is truly "sober," but plenty of people - none within a million miles of actually being sober - don't quite get this, and mistake the meaning of…
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*** Final Update *** Injury Crash on SH72
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: 03/08/2015 4:15 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office *** Final Update *** On Sunday, March 8, 2015, at approximately 7:13 a.m., Idaho State Police investigated a two vehicle fatality crash at the junction of State Highway 72 and US30, south of New Plymouth, ID. Phillip L. Vanderpool, 81, of Wilder, ID, was driving northbound on US30 in a 1999 GMC Suburban. Fernando Monjares Jr., 31, of Morse, TX, was driving southbound in a 2011 Ford pickup, rounding a curve on US30. Vanderpool failed to yield at a stop sign on US30 and collided with Monjares. Vanderpool and his passenger, Velma R. Vanderpool, 76, of Wilder, ID, succumbed to their injuries at the crash…
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Manhattan Medicaid & Welfare Fraud...cont
The pervasiveness of insurance fraud drives up costs for all consumers and costs the insurance industry billions of dollars each year. One authority estimates that the annual value of insurance fraud approaches $80 billion. Detecting insurance fraud is difficult because of the surreptitious nature by which the criminal perpetrates the fraud. Depending on the specific issues involved, an alleged wrongful act may be handled as an administrative action or law enforcement may handle it as a criminal matter. Generally, securities fraud occurs when someone makes a false statement about a company or the value of its stock, and others makes financial decisions based on the false information. Although the crime itself isn’t complicated, securities fraud can be particularly difficult to grasp if you lack an understanding of securities regulation. Below, you’ll find information on common forms of securities fraud and how to protect your assets. If there is any easy way to…
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Iran's Battle for Iraq
The recent battles in Tikrit in Iraq have received a lot of press this week. In an interview yesterday, U.S. General Martin Dempsey said the reasons the Iraqi forces and Shiite militias have been doing so well is because the militias are armed and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Clay County Sex Offender Jailed on New Charges
A Clay County man who is already a registered sex offender is now back behind bars after authorities allege he attempted to sexually assault a minor. The 58-year-old man has been jailed after allegedly attempting to contact the child through his cellphone and trying to entice the victim into sex acts, according to police. Police said they obtained permission from the alleged victim to contact the man pretending to be the child. The Sheriff’s Office also claims that at one point, the man met with the minor and tried to force his hands down his pants and touch him sexually. The man was arrested for soliciting a child for unlawful sexual conduct using computer services or devices and attempted sexual battery and is being held on a $300,009 bond. Currently, every state in the U.S. has a sex offender registration law on its books. While sex offender registration laws differ from state to state, every state requires that identifying information about a person convicted of…
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Xenia DUI Attorney: How To Dress For The Xenia Municipal Court
If you plan on visiting the Xenia Municipal Court, make sure that you are dressed appropriately. Here are the rules for courtroom attire and conduct that the court lists on its website. Courtroom Attire & Conduct: To maintain respect for, and the dignity of, courtroom proceedings, the following guidelines apply: Proper dress is required for all court appearances. While no list can cover every situation, examples of improper clothing would include: short shorts; short skirts; tank tops; halter tops; clothing where undergarments are showing; sleeveless shirts; t-shirts with graphics or messages depicting drugs, alcohol, sex or disrespect for the law or the Court; and ripped or excessively dirty or greasy clothes. Shoes must be worn. Hats and sunglasses are to be removed before entering the courtroom. Use of cell phones, pagers, tablets or any other electronic device is prohibited. All electronic devices are to be turned off before entering the courtroom.…
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Case o' The Week: If Brevity Be the Soul of Wit, a Witty Opinion indeed - Mendez-Sosa and Defining "Conviction" for Taylor analysis
Bad facts make bad law. No facts make short opinions.United States v. Mendez-Sosa, 2015 WL 868560 (9thCir. Mar. 2, 2015), decision available here.Players: Per curiam decision joined by Judges Wallace, M. Smith, and Friedland. Facts: Mendez-Soza plead guilty to illegal reentry, in violation of 8 USC § 1326(a). Id. at *1. He had been previously convicted of Criminal Sexual Contact under New Jersey law. Id. At sentencing, the district court concluded that the offense was a “crime of violence” under USSG § 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii) and hit the defendant with the sixteen-level enhancement. Id. Issue(s): “On appeal, Mendez-Sosa argues the 16-level enhancement was improper for two reasons. First, he argues that he was never ‘convicted’ of the prior offense as that term is defined by either New Jersey law or the Immigration and Nationality Act. Second, he argues that even if he had been convicted of the prior offense, it was not a…
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Staihar on Proportionality and Punishment
Jim Staihar (University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business) has posted Proportionality and Punishment (Iowa Law Review, Vol. 100, No. 3, 2015) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In the literature on the justification of punishment, unfair...
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Kuwaiti Lawyer Announces No Longer Representing Emwazi, Sr.
Salem al-Hashash, the Kuwaiti lawyer for Jassem Emwazi, who is the father of Mohammed Emwazi, aka "Jihadi John" held a short press conference today announcing he is withdrawing from Emwazi's case "for personal reasons." He also said he filed... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Testimony to Continue this Week in Two High-Profile Massachusetts Criminal Trials
Two high-profile Massachusetts criminal trials are now underway and testimony is expected to continue this week in both. In Fall River Superior Court, former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is on trial for first-degree murder, charged with shooting to death his one-time friend Odin Lloyd. Last week’s testimony dealt largely with DNA probabilities. An employee from the state police crime laboratory testified that biological material found on a spent shell casing that police contend came from the gun that shot Lloyd matched Hernandez’s DNA profile. The state lab analyst also testified that a marijuana joint found in the industrial park where Lloyd’s bullet-riddled body was discovered contained the DNA of both Hernandez and Lloyd. The shell casing was found in a dumpster outside of a car rental business where the prosecution claims Hernandez rented the car that drove Lloyd to his death. When the police found the casing, it was…
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"Questions raised about the death penalty in Ohio"
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Dayton DUI Is Back!
Did you miss us? DaytonDUI.com has a new look and some great new features. I am proud of the new look and hope that you feel the same way. Gone are the familiar green bottles and in their place we have new splash graphics and cleaner, sleeker look. It is less wordy and more user-friendly. We were also able to fully integrate the Dayton DUI Blog and have more functionality. The social stream is still available and we have made the site better for your mobile devices. I am sure there will be some things that will be quirky, so if you see something that needs attention, please let me know. I would really like to thank Mary Johnson at websitehelper.com for all of her hard work and patience in making this happen. Now, bring on all the St. Patrick Day DUI calls!
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NYPD Quotas and the Blue Wall of Silence
Last week, P.O. Craig Matthews' case against the NYPD alleging retaliation for his complaining about the quota system (which the NYPD won't admit to), was reinstated by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Now, according to the NY Post in two different articles (here and here), a dozen plaintiffs have come forward in a lawsuit against the NYPD alleging that the department is enforcing a quota system for arrests and criminal summonses. These plaintiffs are black and Latino officers who are alleging that the policy is racially driven as the targeted communities are predominantly black and Latino, and these officers are treated more harshly than their white colleagues when they don't meet their quotas.The safe thing to say is that these are still merely allegations, yada yada yada. But they follow multiple lawsuits throughout filed by officers throughout the City of New York that all generally allege that officers are told there are…
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The State of Legal Scholarship
Prof. Dorothy Brown of Emory has this op-ed in the WaPo, headlined "Law schools are in a death spiral. Maybe now they'll finally change." The article includes this passage:While law firms can fire lawyers, law schools cannot cut their largest expense: faculty. Most faculty have tenure, which equals lifetime job protection -- as long as the school remains open. While faculty could be part of the solution to legal education's woes, we are actually the problem.Legal scholarship is in a terrible state, with counter-intuitive incentives for faculty. Status comes with publishing, but more publishing means less teaching and interacting with fewer students. In the legal academy, second- and third-year law students select which law professors' articles to publish; while my second and third years are brilliant, they cannot select for quality the same way experts would. But even if you think the student-run system is fine, the value of legal scholarship,…
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Lanes Blocked US 26 Near Richfield
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: 3-9-2015 3:08pm Please direct questions to the District Office At this time the Idaho State Police is investigating a one vehicle rollover on US 26 at 176, just west of Richfield. Lanes are completely blocked in both directions. Please avoid traveling in this area if possible. sm / sc -------------
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Bipartisan federal medical marijuana bill to be introduced Tuesday
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Bipartisan <em>federal</em> medical marijuana bill to be introduced Tuesday
As reported in this new Washington Post entry, headlined "In a first, senators plan to introduce federal medical marijuana bill," a trio of notable Senators have interesting plans for mid-day Tuesday: In what advocates describe as an historic first, a trio of senators plan to unveil a federal medical marijuana...<img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarijuanaLaw/~4/_CFfLHenHsQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
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Our Unique Guarantee to You!
Quality Legal is launching a new guarantee for our clients that no other attorney in town will match. We guarantee that you will not end up with less money in your pocket at the end of your case than the …The post Our Unique Guarantee to You! appeared first on Personal Injury Attorney CO | Colorado Springs Lawyers.
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