The U.S. reports it has killed a long-sought AQ terrorist from "The Khorasan Group", Muhsin al-Fadhli, in a drone strike. He was believed to have been killed in September, 2014, in the U.S. raid on Nusra and its members from Khorasan that killed... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
U.S. Kills Prominent AQ Operative in Drone Strike
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TX DPS Releases Video of Sandra Bland Traffic Stop
Here's the video of the Sandra Bland traffic stop released today on You Tube by the TX Dept of Public Safety. CNN was all Sandra Bland all day in the car. I don't have anything to add, but I'm posting it for those who are interested. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Crash in Twin Falls Injures One, Blocks Intersection.
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: 07/21/15 7:48 PM Please direct questions to the District Office At this time, the Idaho State Police is investigating an injury crash on US93 at the intersection of N. 2700 E. Rd. in Twin Falls. The crash is in the intersection and blocking all lanes of travel. Motorists are advised to avoid the area if possible. EH / KS -------------
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Eighth Circuit rejects "safe sex" special condition of supervised release
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"Why all Americans should support Obama on prison reform"
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UPDATE: Crash on US-93 and 2700 E in Twin Falls
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: 07/21/15 7:48 PM Please direct questions to the District Office *****BEGINNING OF UPDATE***** All lanes of 2700 E are open at this time. One westbound lane and one eastbound lane have been re-opened on the US-93 business loop. More information will be released as it becomes available. KB / HG *****END OF UPDATE***** At this time, the Idaho State Police is investigating an injury crash on US93 at the intersection of N. 2700 E. Rd. in Twin Falls. The crash is in the intersection and blocking all lanes of travel. Motorists are advised to avoid the area if possible. EH / KS -------------
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UPDATE: Crash on US-93 and 2700 E in Twin Falls
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: 07/21/15 8:52 PM Please direct questions to the District Office *****BEGINNING OF UPDATE***** All lanes of travel are now open. KB / HG *****END OF UPDATE***** *****BEGINNING OF UPDATE***** All lanes of 2700 E are open at this time. One westbound lane and one eastbound lane have been re-opened on the US-93 business loop. More information will be released as it becomes available. KB / HG *****END OF UPDATE***** At this time, the Idaho State Police is investigating an injury crash on US93 at the intersection of N. 2700 E. Rd. in Twin Falls. The crash is in the intersection and blocking all lanes of travel. Motorists are advised to avoid the area if possible. EH / KS…
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Counter-theories on El Chapo's Escape and Past Non-Accountability
Veteran journalist Ginger Thompson has an article in Pro Publica about the theories floating around that the Mexican Government had a deal with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and the escape through the tunnel story doesn't ring true. She... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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BCS Helps Out Harmony Day
Hi everyone,On July 21, BCS participated in the annual Harmony Day Picnic, a success event by NYPD at Van Cortland Park. The goal of Harmony Day is to provide a place for police officers and the community to come together to enjoy a warm day with food, drinks and a lot of games for all ages. This year, Bronx Community Solutions assisted by providing community service staff and clients who helped by building tents, cleaning the area and setting up barriers around the premises, working alongside participants from the NYPD Explorers program.Enjoy the pictures!- Moises Reyes, Coordinator of Community Service and Initiatives
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Intriguing comments on prisons from GOP candidate Ben Carson
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Oklahoma Adoption Laws
Adopting a child can be a rewarding and joyful event. A celebration is often in order at the end of what can be a grueling and overwhelming process. There are myriad laws that must be followed which are actually designed to be sure that when the final order is issued, and your name is on your child’s birth certificate as the legal parent or parents, all of your lives will proceed as though the child has always biologically belonged to you. Who is eligible to be an adoptive parent under Oklahoma law? Under Oklahoma law, an adoptive parent must be at least 21 years old and fit in one of the following categories: A husband and wife jointly adopting. A husband or wife adopting a stepchild. A married person who is legally separated. An unmarried person. The statute seems to be written so that only one spouse in a gay or lesbian marriage would be allowed to adopt a child. Exceptions are made and, in January 2015, for the first time in Oklahoma, a married lesbian couple was…
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Heroin Moves Through Dallas: Drug Cartel Distribution Routes
This week, there was a lot of news coverage over a big FBI sting where 46 federal indictments were issued across the country, charging people with smuggling drugs like heroin and cocaine on planes. Some got charged with other things, too, like money laundering — but the big deal here in Dallas was that most of the people who were arrested were from here. That’s right: people who lived here in the Dallas – Fort Worth metroplex, who worked at the airlines here, were skipping around TSA security (Transportation Security Administration) with their official airline I.D. tags to get heroin and other drugs onboard and moved to markets across the country. Law enforcement calls this illegal drug trafficking. Those in the business call it a distribution route where the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was used to move product from Texas to places like Chicago, Newark, Phoenix, Wichita, San Francisco, and Vegas. Read the FBI Indictment here. Is this bust going to…
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Michelle Bland Video Highlights Inconsistencies Between Police Reports and Reality- Analysis by San Diego Criminal Defense Attorney
After a nice win yesterday it's sickening to see the Michelle Bland video this morning. The illogical People's position in my case were going to be the cornerstone for crossing the officer and attacking his credibility. Perhaps without realizing it, but by not wanting to dismiss a bad arrest, the San Diego District Attorney's Office and Sheriff's Crime Laboratory were put into a position to suspend reality to uphold a conviction. But a video, or other hard facts that contradict an officer's position, can show an objective party (judge, jury, social media audience) that everything written by a cop is not true- that the emperor wears no clothes. Here, the dashboard cam shows the difference between facts and what officers report. In the Texas Department of State Safety official video, you can hear the officer report his version of events after Ms. Bland is in custody in another police car. The video opens with Officer Brian Encinia giving a student a…
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Robert Walker Sentenced to 33 Months for Modification Fraud
Mortgage Fraud Blog. The post Robert Walker Sentenced to 33 Months for Modification Fraud appeared first on Mortgage Fraud Blog.
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The U.S. Has 1 Day Left to Answer for This Man’s American Torture Story — in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
By Kimie Matsuo Time is running out on another opportunity for the United States to do the right thing by Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, who is allegedly languishing in solitary confinement at Guantánamo after suffering torture and ill-treatment in CIA secret detention. Today is the deadline for the U.S. to respond to a request from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to take action on Mustafa al-Hawsawi’s case. His lawyers report that at Guantánamo, he is without adequate medical care for his chronic health issues–some of which are likely a consequence of his earlier ill-treatment. On July 7, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights passed a resolution adopting “precautionary measures,” specifically calling upon the United States to provide Mustafa al-Hawsawi with adequate medical care, to ensure his conditions of detention meet international standards, and to investigate his allegations of torture and other ill-treatment. You…
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News Scan
Thousands of Violent Felons to be Released in November: As a result of the U.S. Sentencing Commission's decision to lower federal sentencing for all drug trafficking and distribution crimes, thousands of dangerous felons will be released from federal prison this November. Kerry Picket of the Daily Caller reports that among the potential released are inmates with violent backgrounds that committed crimes ranging from assault to murder. In early 2014, the Sentencing Commission made a two-level reduction in the base offense levels for all drug trafficking and distribution offenses that could impose mandatory minimum sentences. The result "will be to reward drug traffickers and distributors who possessed a firearm, committed a crime of violence or had prior convictions," says House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley. Charleston Shooter to Face Hate Crime Charge: The man accused of…
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Sherrin on Earwitness Evidence
Christopher Sherrin (University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law) has posted Earwitness Evidence: The Reliability of Voice Identifications (Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 52(3), 2015, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article discusses the reliability of non-expert voice...
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Judge Kozinski, Habeas Corpus, and the Elephant in the Living Room
Judge Alex Kozinski has a preface to the current issue of Georgetown Law Review that has been the subject of much discussion. Eugene Volokh has reproduced it, minus the footnotes, in a series of posts at the Volokh Conspiracy. The first one is here. Volokh describes Kozinski as a "conservative" in the title of the initial post and a "libertarianish conservative" in the text, but lately he has been more libertarian than conservative, at least in criminal law.Reading the brief segment on habeas corpus, and specifically on the "deference" standard of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (in this post on VC), I thought of our old friend the elephant in the living room. That is the huge problem that everyone knows about and no one wants to talk about, so they talk about other things.Here is the Volokh version (sans footnotes) in the indented block quotes with interlaced comments by your humble blogger. AEDPA refers to the Antiterrorism…
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Eyewitness Recants Identification of Andre Bryant, Putting His Conviction into Question
The Innocence Project of Florida has filed an updated motion based on newly discovered evidence, requesting that the court vacate Andre Bryant’s conviction and 30-year sentence for a 2006 armed robbery in Manatee County, Florida, reports the Herald-Tribune. The new motion highlights an eyewitness in the case who has recanted her identification of Bryant, which challenges the credibility of pivotal evidence in this case. The Herald-Tribune writes that in 2006, Lori Cline was with her two children and her daughter’s friend, “T.R.,” at a Walgreens drive-thru when a man held a gun to her son’s head and demanded money from them. Bryant was arrested after he was spotted driving near the scene of the crime and sped away from police as they approached him, since he had an outstanding warrant on an unrelated case. The victims later identified Bryant as the perpetrator in a photo lineup and in court, even though he did not match many details in the initial…
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Marijuana Found in Newport Beach Apartment Deemed Legal by Police
After being alerted to a fire inside an apartment on the 1900 block of Sherrington Place, police discovered roughly 25 marijuana plants. The plants were part of a cultivation project, however, one that police determined to be legal. The Newport Beach Fire Department determined that a faulty electrical cord that may have been part of the growing operation was the source of the blaze. The Newport Beach Police were notified by firefighters after they had extinguished the fire and discovered the plants. It’s rather surprising that NBPD did not pursue charges related to the cultivation. Newport Beach, known for its politically conservative city council, charged over 550 drug abuse violations in 2014 – second only to DUI charges.
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