ONLY $35 TO HANDLE MOST ST LOUIS SPEEDING TICKETS!! Yes, they will. Why? Because that is how municipalities in the St Louis area make their money. Instead of raising taxes or charging higher fees for services, the police hand out a great many St Louis traffic tickets. Once these tickets are finalized (either by you pleading guilty to it, or having an attorney handle it for you), the muni will end up assessing a fine of somewhere between $100-$300. I could probably end this blog with the above paragraph (because that describes in a nutshell how things work), but it is also worth mentioning how the whole process works. When you receive a St Louis speeding ticket, you will be given an opportunity to simply sign the back of the ticket and mail in the associated fine. But if you go that route, you are in essence pleading guilty to the ticket. If you plead guilty to the ticket, the state of Missouri will assess a number of points (usually two (2)) to your permanent driving record. …
St Louis Speeding Tickets: Will A Municipality Charge Me A Fine For My Traffic Ticket?
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Circuit Court to Review Montana Innocence Project Shaken-Baby Case
A Montana Innocence Project client’s homicide case will be reconsidered by a circuit court, according to a ruling Tuesday by the state Supreme Court. Robert J. Wilkes will get another chance to contest his 2009 homicide conviction in relation to the death of his 3-month-old son. According to Great Falls Tribune, Wilkes claims his trial lawyer provided ineffective counsel by failing to present any witnesses during the trial and neglecting to have the autopsy report reviewed by another medical examiner. Montana Innocence Project attorneys presented testimony from pathologists and pediatricians who claim the child had a hemorrhage caused by either a mildly traumatic birth or a rare liver disorder. Both conditions present effects similar to abusive head injuries, the lawyers said. State prosecutors argue that the head injury is consistent with shaken-baby syndrome. They claim the injury could only have occurred while Wilkes was watching his son. Wilkes is currently…
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ISP Looking For Possible Witness in Fatal Motorcycle Crash on Robinson Road Wednesday Morning
IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE Teresa Baker Public Information Officer Headquarters 700 S. Stratford Dr., Meridian 83642 (208) 884-7122 Fax (208) 884-7087 For Immediate Release: 8/20/15 at 2:25 p.m. MERIDIAN - Idaho State Police are asking for the driver of a pickup that may have been witness to events leading up to a crash early Wednesday morning on Robinson Road at Locust Lane that killed a motorcycle rider to contact them. The crash occurred at around 6:00 a.m. when Sharalyn Rose, 28, of Meridian, was eastbound on Locust Lane in a 2001 Chevrolet Lumina and Paul Mackrill, 44, of Nampa, was southbound on Robinson Road on a 2009 Yamaha WR450F motorcycle. Rose was stopped at stop sign on Locust Lane and then pulled into the intersection. It was then when Mackrill's Yamaha struck the Lumina on the driver's side. The driver of a cement truck who witnessed the crash told troopers that there was a silver 2006 to 2008 model year Dodge diesel pickup truck with an…
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Troopers Seeking Possible Witness to Fatal Crash on I-84 East of Boise Early Sunday Morning
IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE Teresa Baker Public Information Officer Headquarters 700 S. Stratford Dr., Meridian 83642 (208) 884-7122 Fax (208) 884-7087 For Immediate Release: 8/20/15 at 2:31 p.m. MERIDIAN - Idaho State Police is asking for anyone that witnessed the incidents leading up to a crash that claimed the life of a Garden City man on I-84 east of Boise early Sunday morning to contact them about what they may have witnessed. On Sunday, August 16th at 3:52 a.m., troopers responded to a fatal crash on eastbound I-84 at milepost 68, near the Port of Entry east of Boise. Winters Wareagle, 23, of Garden City was hit and killed when Patrick Musgrove, 28 of Meridian who was driving a 2003 Toyota Maxtrix ran over Wareagle who was lying on the pavement in the right lane of travel. Troopers investigating the crash would like to speak to anyone in the area at the time who may have witnessed the sequence of events leading up to the crash. If you, or anyone you know, was a…
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GOP Candidates: From Bad To Very Bad
Guest Blog Post by Tina DupuyI plead with all the writers, journalists, pundits, posters, commenters and tweeters of the nation: Please stop calling the Republican field a clown car. It was funny and image-provoking the first hundred times I read it. Now it’s the quip that won’t die.Also, in fairness, it’s an insult to clowns. While I’m not exactly a fan of oversized footwear and white face, clowns at least have a whimsical premise. The GOP’s presidential hopefuls are cruel, dismissive and—I’ll say it—mean. They’re bad. Bad on science, bad on basic civics, bad on foreign policy and bad on economics. And they’ve already managed this election cycle to be (yet again) bad on rape.How can one be on the wrong side of rape? Shocking, I know. Mike Huckabee thinks a 10-year-old rape victim should not be allowed to get an abortion. Why would anyone want more rapists having babies and more 10-year-olds being mothers? See? Just…
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Abrams & Garrett on Cumulative Constitutional Rights
Kerry Abrams and Brandon L. Garrett (University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law) have posted Cumulative Constitutional Rights on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Cumulative constitutional rights are ubiquitous. Plaintiffs litigate multiple constitutional violations,...
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ISP Conducting Enhanced Patrols at Rail Crossings
IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE Teresa Baker Public Information Officer Headquarters 700 S. Stratford Dr., Meridian 83642 (208) 884-7122 Fax (208) 884-7087 For Immediate Release: 8/20/15 at 3:30 p.m. JEROME - The Idaho State Police will continue to conduct "Adopt a Crossing" an enhanced traffic enforcement operation at railroad crossings in Twin Falls and Jerome counties. The increased patrols began in July and will continue through September 12, 2015. The operation was made possible with grant funding provided by the Idaho Department of Transportation?s Office of Highway Safety and Operation Lifesaver. "The goal of this special enforcement operation is to increase public awareness of the potential dangers that exist at highway railroad intersections and to eliminate driver actions that can have tragic consequences," said Idaho State Police Sgt. Mark Donahue. "It is our hope that by informing the public that we are focusing on enforcing the…
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Excavator slides down embankment I15 at milepost 92, near Blackfoot
IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE - generated by our News Release ListServer DO NOT REPLY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Idaho State Police District 5 5205 South 5th Ave. Pocatello, Idaho 83204-2299 (208) 236-6466 FAX: (208) 236-6068 For Immediate Release: 08/20/2015 3:33 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office On Thursday, August 20,2015, at approximately 12:47 p.m., the Idaho State Police investigated an incident northbound on I15 at milepost 92, near Blackfoot. Kelly Kofoed, 53, of Blackoot ,was attempting to load an excavator onto a trailer when the unit slid off and rolled down an embankment. Kofoed was transported by ground ambulance to Bingham Memorial Hospital in Blackfoot. <JH / KS> -------------
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Deferred Prosecutions and Guilty Pleas
Local procedures vary when it comes to deferred prosecutions. In general, there’s nothing wrong with that; the district attorney has broad discretion in the deferred prosecution realm. Lately, though, several people have asked me a particular question related to deferred prosecution procedure: Does the defendant actually plead guilty when the deferral is entered? At the risk of oversimplifying […]
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Wiping a Server
Following up on Bill's post, it really is too bad that C&C doesn't have its own server, because I would very much like to use one of these. We don't do ads on this blog, but I will tell you where to get this one.The statute Bill referred to is the one involved in the Supreme Court's "fish overboard" case of last term, Yates v. United States. See this post.Yates limited the reach of the statute regarding "tangible objects" to those which "record or preserve information," not including fish, but that won't help Mrs. Clinton. Emails and the servers that hold them are squarely within the statute as interpreted by Yates.Playing dumb about what it means to wipe a server is about as convincing as the immigrant who speaks fluent English until the questioning gets tough and then suddenly can't understand a word.
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Has Jared Fogle gotten a sweetheart plea deal and/or celebrity treatment for sex crimes?
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Attention former Prez Carter: "Marijuana Is a Wonder Drug When It Comes to the Horrors of Chemo"
The title of this post is drawn from the headline of this Newsweek piece from last month that I just came across. Though it seems from this new news article that former President Jimmy Carter may not be getting a chemotherapy-based cancer treatment, this Newsweek article seemed worth spotlighting on...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarijuanaLaw/~4/lZI2NzrhTy0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
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ARBITRAJE Y PREVARICATO
ARBITRAJE Y PREVARICATO El día de hoy, jueves 20 de agosto de 2015, en la página A-5 del Diario El Comercio, se consignan la opinión de cuatro profesionales, todas en contra del proyecto incorporando a los árbitros al Delito de Prevaricato. Como quiera que discrepo de las opiniones no citaré el nombre de los profesionales opinantes, los mismos que usted, amable lector, podrá encontrar en la página indicada. Uno afirma que el proyecto es un “mamarracho”, los árbitros no son funcionarios públicos, que la responsabilidad del árbitro es ante las partes no ante el Estado y ocasionará que los buenos árbitros no quieran arbitrar y sólo queden los delincuentes. Otro coincide con el anterior, el proyecto es una aberración mayor, los buenos se van a ir y los delincuentes se quedarán. Un tercero opina que el Estado no se meta que el arbitraje dura…
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Montgomery, Alabama Court Reversed on Child Support Calculation
This is an appeal from Montgomery County, Alabama regarding child support in the case of Farquhar. The parties were married and originally divorced in 2011. The father was ordered to pay child support in the amount of $1,050 per month to the mother. It does not appear that an Income Withholding Order was originally entered in the case. In 2012, the mother filed a petition of contempt and for an Income Withholding Order to be entered in the case. At a hearing of the matter, the father did not submit to the court a CS 41 Income Affidavit. The Court found the father in contempt for failure to pay child support and reduced the amount to $704.55 per month plus $94.45 in arrearage. The mother appealed the order and the Court of Civil Appeals reversed the trial court’s order. First, the father did not submit a CS 41 Income Affidavit. The appellate court held that it was impossible for the court to determine the child support without…
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On the Wonderfulness of Pot...
CJLF takes no position on marijuana legalization. At present, it is illegal everywhere in the United States. States that purport to legalize it can pass whatever laws they care to, but under the Supremacy Clause, federal law prevails over contrary state law. In the struggle for civil rights, this was considered a good thing, but that was then.Not that it matters a whole lot. Simply smoking a joint has been de facto legal for decades. Yes, if you do it on the police station steps, that might be a problem, but short of that....Still, we have the never-ending and much-fabled "national conversation" about pot. We are advised that we should base our views on facts, not emotion or prejudice.Sounds good to me. Here's today's fact, from the Associated Press, reporting out of Seattle: "Fatal crashes involving marijuana double in Washington."I guarantee you that this fact will make no difference. The push…
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Man Accused of Asking Preteen Girls for Sex Online
Clay County investigators arrested a 32-year-old Jacksonville man Friday that they claim made fake online profiles posing as a boy to lure preteen girls into having sex. The man is charged with using a computer to solicit a child for sex, transmission of material harmful to a minor and making harassing telephone calls. Deputies have accused him of contacting two female preteen victims and trying to persuade them into having sex. Investigators claim the man admitted to making several fake online profiles, pretending to be a boy, then used those profiles to solicit young girls for sex — both online and on the phone. According to the warrant against the man, one victim told investigators the man asked her for sex and for nude pictures of her via Facebook. She also alleges that he made a lewd phone call to her, according to the warrant. Investigators reported that they have another witness who claims to have received a similar obscene phone call from Meadows. The man was…
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Georgia police arrest man following domestic violence incident
Although domestic violence can have a profound impact on its victims, the effect on those accused of committing violent acts is often ignored, even if that individual has not been found guilty by a jury of his or peers. A Georgia man was recently arrested after allegedly becoming involved in a domestic violence dispute with his ex-girlfriend. When police arrived on the scene, they arrested the man on criminal trespassing and assault charges. It is not clear how long the two had been broken up when the 33-year-old man supposedly made threats of violence against his ex. The woman claims that he showed up at her home at around 10 p.m. after they had engaged in an argument over the phone. There were children residence at the time, and the woman told police that the man had been smoking and using vulgar language, so she told him that he was not a welcome guest at their home. However, the man was apparently in the living room at one point, and the supposed victim claims that he…
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Split Michigan appeals court finds juve has Sixth Amendment right to jury findings for LWOP sentence
Thanks to a few helpful readers, I learned about a very interesting split panel ruling today from the Michigan Court of Appeals in Michigan v. Skinner, No. 317892 (Mich. Ct. App. Aug. 21, 2015). Here is how this majority opinion starts in Skinner: This case presents a constitutional issue of first impression as to whether the Sixth Amendment mandates that a jury make the findings set forth by Miller v Alabama, 576 US ___; 132 S Ct 2455; 183 L Ed 2d 407 (2012) as codified in MCL 769.25(6), before sentencing a juvenile homicide offender to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. We find that the Sixth Amendment mandates that juveniles convicted of homicide who face the possibility of a sentence of life without the possibility of parole have a right to have their sentence determined by a jury. In so finding, we expressly reserve the issue of whether this defendant should receive the penalty of life in prison without the possibility of parole for a jury.…
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Focus
In a comment to Bill's post on marijuana, Oscar asks why CJLF does not take a position on marijuana legalization. I've explained this before on the blog, but readers come and go, so it won't hurt to explain it again. CJLF is a small, sparsely funded nonprofit organization. It depends heavily on donations and the volunteer efforts of our trustees. As such, it must operate on consensus.Narrow focus makes for broad support. People who may disagree strongly on some issues can come together on others. We stay focused primarily on the acts that all reasonable people agree should be crimes -- murder, rape, robbery, burglary, etc.We do occasionally venture into other areas that we believe have an effect on these basic crimes. Twenty years ago we made a foray into public order under the "broken windows" theory (which we still believe, notwithstanding the misrepresentations of it and the attacks on it).Some issues we…
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Sharrock denied shortened prison sentence
Mortgage Fraud Blog. A federal judge has rejected David R. Sharrock’s request to overturn or shorten his 135-month sentence for mortgage fraud, concealment of property and fraudulent transfer in a bankruptcy. U.S. District Court Judge Donald C. Nugent issued a ruling saying he believes testimony given during a July 28 hearing in Cleveland where Sharrock’s attorney, James McDonnell, […] The post Sharrock denied shortened prison sentence appeared first on Mortgage Fraud Blog.
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