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: 03/13/2015 3:30pm Please direct questions to the District Office Idaho State Police is on scene of a semi truck that is on fire eastbound on I84 at mile marker 64, Blacks Creek exit. At this time the both eastbound lanes are blocked. Motorists should avoid the area if possible. ln/is -------------
Semi Truck Fire Blocks Traffic EB I84 At Blacks Creek
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English Translation of al Adnani's Latest Message
Yesterday, ISIS supporters on Twitter were all excited waiting for a new speech by chief spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani. It was released mid-afternoon, but without English translation. In it, he accepted the "bayah" of Boko Haram in Nigeria, to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Joh & Joo on Third-Party Harms in Undercover Operations
Elizabeth E. Joh and Thomas Wuil Joo (U.C. Davis School of Law and University of California - Davis Law School) have posted Sting Victims: Third-Party Harms in Undercover Police Operations (__ S. Cal. L. Rev. __ (2015, Forthcoming)) on SSRN....
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*Update*Semi Truck Fire EB I84 At Black's Creek
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: 03/13/2015 4:20 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office ****Update**** Eastbound I84 at Black's Creek is now partially open. Driver's are advised to use caution. HG/DO ************************************************* Idaho State Police is on scene of a semi truck that is on fire eastbound on I84 at mile marker 64, Blacks Creek exit. At this time the both eastbound lanes are blocked. Motorists should avoid the area if possible. ln/is -------------
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Mayhem, a Serious Charge in Las Vegas
What Does It Mean to Be Charged with Mayhem? Everyone is familiar with the word “mayhem,” but fewer people are aware of the concept of mayhem as an illegal act. According to NRS 200.280, mayhem is defined as “unlawfully depriving a human being of a member of his or her body, or disfiguring or rendering it useless.” Thus, charges of mayhem in Nevada can cover many injuries. A person who gouges out someone’s eye, disables a person’s tongue or bites off a portion of someone else’s nose may be guilty of mayhem. However, they must commit the act with malice. This requirement doesn’t necessarily cover the intention to maim another person in Las Vegas. If the defendant behaves in a way that makes disfigurement a natural consequence, then the court simply presumes that malice was present. In addition to malice, mayhem charges in Las Vegas must cause a permanent injury. NRS 200.300 states that when an injury is only temporary and is likely…
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NYPD Lab Technician Suspended
NY Post: NYPD Lab Technician Suspended for Potential Improper Testing of Drugs in NY Criminal Cases Under New York law, the substances that are "controlled" are listed in New York Public Health Law Article 33. So if a substance is on that list, it is a "controlled substance." All of the drugs that are commonly known as being illegal, like heroin, cocaine, LSD, etc, are on this list. Public Health Law 33 also delineates that some "controlled substances" are considered "narcotics." To put it very basically, under New York law, a "narcotic" is defined as either cocaine or heroin or a chemical derivative of either. Whether a controlled substance is classified as a narcotic is significant because the particular sanctions can be greater for possessing or selling a narcotic in certain contexts. For example, if a person sells LSD to someone else, he is guilty of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Fifth Degree, whereas if he…
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Gun Charges Dropped Against NFL Free Agent Chris Johnson
Prosecutors decided to drop charges against NFL free agent Chris Johnson this week for a January gun arrest in Orlando, according to court records. The Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office stated that, “this case is not suitable for prosecution.” The 29-year-old athlete was stopped on the night of Jan. 9 for running a stop sign while driving with a friend, when an Orlando police officer noticed a pistol on the floor between Johnson’s feet, according to reports. The weapon was apparently a 20-shot Belgian pistol that fires a high-velocity 5.7 mm bullet that can pass through tactical vests worn by police officers. These handguns are legal to own, but police claim that Johnson also had a 9mm Glock pistol in a backpack next to his feet. Orlando police charged him with open carry of a firearm, but Johnson said he had a valid concealed weapon permit. Johnson played most recently for the New York Jets and was dropped last season. Most individuals who are…
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Bennett on Mass Incarceration and the War on Drugs
Mark W. Bennett has posted A Slow Motion Lynching? The War on Drugs, Mass Incarceration, Doing Kimbrough Justice, and a Response to Two Third Circuit Judges (Rutgers Law Review, Vol. 873, 2014) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: A federal...
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Traffic Dismissals in Williamsburg, Accomack, Chesapeake, Newport News, Portsmouth
Despite having 24 traffic cases in February continued due to weather-related court closures, we managed to squeak in dismissals in Williamsburg, Accomack, Chesapeake, Newport News, Portsmouth. Most of the dismissals were for reckless driving charges. DISCLAIMER – EACH CASE IS UNIQUE AND CASE RESULTS DEPEND ON YOUR INDIVIDUAL SITUATION. CASE RESULTS DO NOT GUARANTEE OR PREDICT A SIMILAR RESULT IN ANY FUTURE CASE UNDERTAKEN BY THE LAWYER. February 2, 2015 – Williamsburg General District Court, Charge: Reckless driving by speed for 82/70. Outcome: Dismissed. No court costs or fines! February 4, 2015 – Accomack General District Court, Charge: Reckless driving by speed for 85/50. Outcome: Dismissed. No court costs or fines! February 10, 2015 – Chesapeake General District Court, Charge: Reckless driving for driving two abreast in one lane. Outcome: Dismissed. No court costs…
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Moving Together to End Police Brutality
South African police block a march by protesting miners in Rustenburg after a security crackdown in the restive platinum belt where officers shot dead 34 strikers (Photo Credit: Alexander Joe/AFP/GettyImages). I spend my evenings reading Twitter these days. Scroll, refresh. Scroll, refresh. I’m looking for news, yes, but I’m really looking to see if the people that I know who are protesting are still safe. Last night, I clicked on a video of protestors gathered in front of the Ferguson police department chanting, “Why you wearing riot gear? We don’t see no riot here!” In the echo of that chant runs an anxiety based on experience: that the tension in each new moment could explode in a canister of teargas or pepper spray, in the blast of a sound cannon, in the firing of rubber bullets. It’s a cycle perpetuated and perpetrated at every turn by a policing system obligated to uphold the rights and dignity of all people. And yet each new…
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Oscar Pistorius: Eligible for Release Within Months
Oscar Pistorius may be eligible for release from prison by August. He would finish his sentence on home detention. The timing is significant because it is unlikely the appeals court will have heard the state's appeal by then. The National... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Jansen on Alternate Jurors' Participation in Deliberations
Per D. Jansen has posted Alternate Routes: Circumventing Rule 606(B) When Alternate Jurors Improperly Participate in Deliberations (Forthcoming, Criminal Law Bulletin (volume 52, March 2016)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Since the Supreme Court’s landmark plain-error decision in Olano...
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Bambauer on Big Data Policing
Jane R. Bambauer (University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law) has posted The Lost Nuance of Big Data Policing (94 Texas Law Review ___ (2015 Forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The third party doctrine permits...
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Domestic Violence in Florida
An eighteen year old Jupiter man, Daniel Leneve, was arrested last week after a naked, drug-fueled rampage through a house, shouting that everyone in the house was going to die. Leneve and his seventeen year old girlfriend of six months had both taken LSD. According to a witness, he tossed his girlfriend around in the backyard, then went inside, took his clothes off, and started smashing things. Sheriff’s deputies were called to the house, and when they tried to handcuff him, he struggled. During the struggle, Leneve’s girlfriend stuck her finger in his face, and he bit it. Leneve was charged with domestic battery, resisting an officer with violence, criminal mischief of $200 or less, and child abuse without great bodily harm. He was released from the Palm Beach County jail on bond. Domestic Violence Under Florida law, the crime of domestic violence is committed when a person injures, kills, or commits a violent offense against a family or…
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Notable criminal justice commentary from Slate
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Andrew Skier Quoted in Wall Street Journal Article About Identity Theft
I was recently contacted by a reporter from the Wall Street Journal who was working on a story about inmates in state prisons having their identities stolen while they are incarcerated. I was quoted in his article and there is a brief discussion of United States v. Bryant Thompson, a case I tried in the Federal Court for the Middle District of Alabama a little over a year ago. Identity theft causes problems for the inmates because it adds one more obstacle to overcome in making their transition to the free world. My main point during the trial and in the article is that the Alabama Department of Corrections is negligent in the way they protect the PII (Personal Identifying Information) of the prisoners they are supposed to be caring for. At Skier & Associates we are experienced in helping people who have had their identities stolen as well as representing those accused of Identity Theft in both State and Federal courts.
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Botched? Hardly.
Reporters seem to be infatuated with the word "botched" when it comes to executions. This word choice has an unwarranted and detrimental effect. Cameron McWhirter has this article in the WSJ, referring to the postponed execution of Kelly Gissendaner in Georgia as "a botched attempt."McWhirter has it completely backwards. When the execution drug was found to be cloudy, Georgia officials prudently postponed the execution precisely so that there would not be a "botched" execution.Let's get it straight, folks. There has only been one "botched" execution in recent times, that of Clayton Lockett. Other executions, where an unconscious inmate's body struggles for breath, have been uncomfortable for observers to watch, but the inmate still died a less painful death than most of us are going to have.
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NYPD editing Bell, Garner, Diallo Wikipedia pages
Courtesy of en.wikipedia.comApparently the NYPD is tasking employees with editing Wikipedia pages concerning the killing of Sean Bell, Eric Garner, and Amadou Diallo. According to an article by Capital, edits to these pages have been traced back to computers operating on the NYPD's network at One Police Plaza in NYC. The NYPD is supposedly looking into it, although, if the info concerning the network domain is accurate, then it's pretty cut and dried.I am assuming that the allegations are true. Not so I can wag my finger and shake my head in consternation. At least not this time. There's nothing particularly shocking about a city agency trying to control the public narrative. Manipulating Wikipedia pages -- which readers ought to know often offer questionably accurate factual information -- is old hat. There's really no qualitative difference between massaging the adjectives and phrasing in Wiki entries for critical events in the NYPD's past, and the…
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Banish them to Franklin
3-14-15 New Hampshire: Tilton voters have a chance Saturday to repeal their housing code that bars registered sex offenders from living near places where kids congregate. Citizens should vote yes in their own interest on article 5 to strike down a zoning rule that paradoxically endangers the public. It is also unconstitutional. There is a risk of expensive litigation if the warrant item fails.
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***FINAL Update*** Semi Truck Fire EB I84 At Black's Creek
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: 03/14/2015 10:58 A.M. Please direct questions to the District Office ****FINAL Update**** On March 13, 2015, at approximately 3:14 P.M., Idaho State Police responded to a commercial vehicle fire, eastbound on Interstate 84 at milepost 64, near Black's Creek Road, in Ada County. Willy O. Benjamin, 55, of Gordon, GA, was driving a Kenworth tractor pulling a Reitnouer trailer when the cab caught on fire. Benjamin drove the vehicle onto the right shoulder of the roadway. The eastbound lanes of travel were closed for approximately 45 minutes. This incident is under investigation by Boise City Fire Department. JC/DO ****End Of Update**** All lanes of traffic are open. …
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