WaPo Fact Checker Glenn Kessler reviews this statement by Hillary Clinton: "It was fully above board. Everybody in the government with whom I emailed knew that I was using a personal email."Kessler focuses on whether the statement is true and whether it amount to evasion of record-keeping laws. He does not discuss what I consider to be the far more serious problem. (To be fair, that problem may not lie within his "fact-checking" mission.)Is it a good thing that "everybody knew"? If something is widely known within our government, then you can bet your bottom dollar it is known to the people who spy on our government. If Russian intelligence knows that the American Secretary of State's email is hosted on a "soft target" private server, is that a good thing? Is it good if Chinese intelligence knows? Is it good if Al-Qaeda knows? No, no, and no. Not just no, but hell no. Even…
Hillary Clinton's Widely Known Private Email
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Facing Criminal Charges for Homicide? Houston Homicide Lawyer Charles Johnson is the Right Lawyer for You
Are you currently in a situation where you are facing criminal charges for Murder? Houston Criminal Homicide Lawyer Charles Johnson represents clients charged with Homicide crimes throughout all of Texas. The Charles Johnson Law Firm can provide legal counsel at virtually any stage of your case, even if formal charges have not yet been filed against you. Currently, Texas has six types of Criminal Homicide charges: Capital Murder Murder Manslaughter Criminally Negligent Homicide Intoxication Manslaughter and Capital Sabotage Homicide is the act of killing another person, either intentionally or unintentionally. It is perhaps the most serious crime you could be accused of, and the potential penalties you could face if convicted are equally serious. Your lawyer must be well-versed in Texas and Federal Homicide laws to successfully represent you. If you or someone you love has been charged with any type of Criminal Homicide, you must take these charges very seriously and seek the…
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Dog Bites
If you have been injured by a dog bite, you may have a claim against the owner of the dog. In Colorado, you may be able to recover for your damages resulting from a dog bite if you are able …The post Dog Bites appeared first on Colorado Springs Accident Attorney | Quality Legal.
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Exonerees Describe Their First Days of Freedom in New York Magazine
New York Magazine published a long piece Monday featuring exonerees Jeffrey Deskovic, Barry Gibbs, Jonathan Fleming, Fernando Bermudez, Alan Newton, Gerard Richardson, Derrick Hamilton and David McCallum describing their first days on the outside after decades in prison for crimes they did not commit. Barry Gibbs, who was released in September of 2005, recounted how an encounter with Innocence Project Co-Founder Barry Scheck’s dog helped him ease out of his prison mindset. “They opened up the door, and I saw a dog on the other side of the room. I’m looking at this dog, and the dog’s looking at me. I just couldn’t move. I was in shock when they got me out, I was really in shock. I hadn’t seen a dog in 19 years, and as I started bending down, the dog started walking over. I stretched myself all the way down on the floor, and the dog came up to my face and gave me a kiss on my face, and that’s when I think I broke out of shock. I started…
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Multiple crashes cause traffic delays on I-15 north of Pocatello
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: 9/10/2015 3:06 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office The Idaho State Police are on scene of a single-vehicle crash southbound I-15 at milepost 71 and a two-vehicle crash northbound I-15 at milepost 73. All lanes are open at the southbound crash. The right lane is blocked at the northbound crash. It is expected that emergency crews will be on scene for an extended period of time, working to clear the crashes. Motorists are encouraged to use alternate routes of travel. More information will be released as it becomes available. KB / EH -------------
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Grandparents Jailed for Assisting in Children’s Abduction
Poor grandma and grandpa…thrown in jail for their misguided efforts to assist their daughter to flee England with her two children after the Court ordered a change in custody to their father. The children’s mother had custody of her son, age 7 and daughter, age 2 until a judge ordered the children to be transferred to their father’s custody, leaving mom with one hour a month of supervised access. The mother’s “issues”, what ever they be, were plainly reflected in the draconian limitation placed on her time with the children. And then a plan was hatched: Mother’s parents drove her and the children to a secret rendezvous spot under cover of night where mother, children, and six suitcases were loaded into a chauffeur driven Mercedes for the journey to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris where they hopped on a flight to Costa Rica. They had escaped, or so they thought. Police investigators naturally began their search for the missing…
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Prez Obama makes a new (and a renewed) nomination to the US Sentencing Commission
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***Update*** Multiple crashes cause traffic delays on I-15 north of Pocatello
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: 9/10/2015 3:06 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office ***Update***** The right lane of the crash southbound on I15 @71 is blocked at this time. **End of Update*** JH/SG The Idaho State Police are on scene of a single-vehicle crash southbound I-15 at milepost 71 and a two-vehicle crash northbound I-15 at milepost 73. All lanes are open at the southbound crash. The right lane is blocked at the northbound crash. It is expected that emergency crews will be on scene for an extended period of time, working to clear the crashes. Motorists are encouraged to use alternate routes of travel. More information will be released as it becomes available. KB / EH -------------
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Is Donald Trump's bluster hurting the cause of federal sentencing reform?
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Bowman on The Sentencing Commission's Economic Crime Project
Frank O. Bowman III (University of Missouri School of Law) has posted Damp Squib: The Disappointing Denouement of the Sentencing Commission's Economic Crime Project (And What They Should Do Now) (27 Federal Sentencing Reporter 270 (June 2015)) on SSRN. Here...
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What Happens To Truckers Who Are Convicted Of DUI In New Jersey?
When a commercial driver is facing DUI charges, one of the biggest unknowns they face is whether they’ll be able to continue working in their field. Read More
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Camera Catches Strange DUI Incident
Incidents of DUI in Los Angeles can result in drivers exhibiting some very unusual behaviors. But when someone who saw the event tries to describe what happened, other people may find their story hard to believe. Fortunately for police officers in Rowland Heights, California, they can produce video evidence to confirm that what they said happened to cause a crash actually did occur. The dash cam on the car following Jasmine Lacey’s 2010 Hyundai Sonata on Harbor Boulevard captured the whole incident. (The car’s owner posted it on YouTube, where almost two million people have viewed it.) In the video, you first can see Lacey’s car traveling in the left lane but swerving over the center line several times. All of a sudden the car comes to an abrupt halt and the 22-year-old Lacey hops out and runs to the median strip. (Fortunately the driver behind had maintained a safe driving distance and could stop his own vehicle in time.) But Lacey had neglected to do one…
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Humbach on A Nation of Ex-Cons
John A. Humbach (Pace University School of Law) has posted Is America Becoming a Nation of Ex-Cons? (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2015) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Mass incarceration rates are only part...
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Steinhoff on Self Defense
Uwe Steinhoff (The University of Hong Kong - Department of Politics and Public Administration has posted three pieces on Self Defense. The first is Self-Defense and Imminence. Here is the abstract: This paper argues that there is a significant moral...
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Florida Judge Recommends Permanent Disbarment for Lawyers Involved in DUI Setup
Last month, a Florida judge recommended permanent disbarment for three lawyers who set up their legal opponent to be arrested for a DUI. His findings will be sent to the Florida Supreme Court, which will decide the lawyers’ ultimate punishment. A month earlier, Judge W. Douglas Baird found the lawyers Stephen Diaco, Robert Adams, and Adam Filhaut guilty of arranging the 2013 DUI arrest of opposing attorney C. Phillip Campbell to gain an advantage in a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit. Diaco, Adams, and Filhaut represented the defendant, a radio personality who was being sued by his rival for slander. Judge Baird placed most of the blame with Diaco, finding him guilty of almost twice as many professional violations as his colleagues, including lying to a judge regarding his cell phone provider. Diaco’s attorneys asked Judge Baird for leniency, pointing to Diaco’s years of charitable giving and the fact that he apologized…
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Hiring a Bail Bonds Company Can Be a Waste of Time and Money
The post Hiring a Bail Bonds Company Can Be a Waste of Time and Money appeared first on Dallas Justice.
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New Blog on Forensics Launches this Week
A new blog by the name of Forensics Forum went live earlier this week. The brainchild of University of Virginia School of Law professor Brandon Garrett, Forensics Forum will cover forensic-centric news and current events, “including all forms of scientific evidence relevant in criminal cases, as well as new scientific research, policy developments, and legal developments in the area of forensic science,” says the site. Students at Virginia School of Law will be largely responsible for providing its content, while the overall blog will be managed by Garrett. According to the blog’s site, guest contributors will be featured in the future and comments and feedback from readers are welcome. The blog is funded in part by support from the National Institute of Standards and Technology Forensic Science Center of Excellence. To read recent posts and learn more about Forensics Forum, check out its website.
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What Can Europe Do to Welcome Refugees?
By Kristin Hulaas Sunde Now is the time to put pressure on Europe’s leaders to give refugees the welcome and support they’re entitled to. Here’s what Amnesty is asking for, and how you can help. Right now, EU leaders are gearing up for emergency talks about how to deal with Europe’s refugee crisis. They are responding to a global groundswell of protests and outpouring of compassion after three-year-old Aylan Kurdi’s little body was pictured so tragically on a Turkish beach. So far this year, more than 350,000 people – mostly refugees – have tried to reach safety in Europe. Almost 2,800 have died. Others have been beaten, abused, forced to walk for days in the searing heat, and given little or no help – even a bottle of water – if they do make it to the EU. For years, Europe has been building its walls ever higher, lining them with miles of barbed wire, and thousands of border guards. The EU’s budget for…
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Second Circuit Splits With Fifth Circuit Setting Up Possible Supreme Court Review: Are Internal Whistleblowers Protected Under Dodd-Frank?
On September 10, 2015, a divided panel of the Second Circuit issued an opinion in Berman v. Neo@Ogilvy LLC, No. 14-4626 (2nd Cir. Sept. 10, 2015), creating a split with the Fifth Circuit on an issue that has also divided lower federal courts: whether the anti-retaliation provisions in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act apply to tipsters who claim retaliation after reporting internally, or only to those retaliated against after reporting information to the SEC. The Second Circuit, granting Chevron deference to SEC interpretive guidance, held that Dodd-Frank protections apply to internal whistleblowers. This stands in contrast to the Fifth Circuit’s holding in Asadi v. G.E. Energy (USA), LLC, 720 F.3d 620 (5th Cir. 2013), where that court found that on their face, the Dodd-Frank anti-retaliation provisions unambiguously limited protection to whistleblowers reporting to the SEC, and that, therefore, the SEC’s contrary guidance was…
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DOJ files amicus brief in PA Supreme Court supporting prosepctive "constructive denial of counsel claims"
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