Source: The China Post (10 December 2015)https://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/other/2015/12/10/453141/Mongolia-praised.htmULAN BATOR, Mongolia -- The United Nations' top human rights official praised Mongolia Wednesday for abolishing the death penalty, after the sparsely populated Asian country approved a new criminal code eliminating executions.The measure was passed by the State Great Hural, Mongolia's parliament, last week, after extended debate.Justice Minister Khishigdemberel Temuujin told the official news agency Montsame that the law was "long anticipated," adding: "There is no significant increase of crimes where countries have no death penalty."Mongolia's President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is an abolitionist and halted executions after he came to power in 2010, using his presidential authority to commute condemned prisoners' sentences."This development is very encouraging and a clear example of positive progress in the fight…
Mongolia praised by UN for abolishing death penalty
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How to Reduce Boston DUI Crash Risks at Your Holiday Party
Throwing a holiday party at your home or for your office is a great way to celebrate the season and to show friends, family, and co-workers how important they are to you. If you have a party, however, you take on some liability risks. In Massachusetts, social host laws impose responsibility on those throwing parties. Social host laws mean if you host an event and serve alcohol, you could find yourself faced with a civil lawsuit against you based on the actions of your guests. Victims who are hurt by impaired drivers benefit greatly from social host laws, because these laws give them another potential defendant who they can pursue a claim for compensation against. How to Reduce Boston DUI Crash Risks at Holiday Parties Social host laws say that a homeowner, property owner, or renter who throws a party can be held civilly liable for drunk driving accidents caused by guests if: The host provided alcohol to the guest, but not within the context of a formal business relationship.…
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Gun Control: The Stark Reality for NY and NJ Residents
On December 9, 2015, Tatiana Duva-Rodriguez, who is licensed to carry a concealed weapon, discharged her sidearm at a shoplifters’ getaway car at a Home Depot parking lot in Detroit, Michigan. She saw a store security guard chasing a suspect who was pushing a cart filled with merchandise who then entered a getaway car and began to speed off. Duva-Rodriguez then fired her weapon at the car’s wheel thereby impeding the suspects escape. Duva-Rodriguez later pled no-contest to reckless discharge of firearm and received a probationary sentence mandating that her license to carry to a concealed weapon be revoked. This incidence raises the specter of gun control in the United States. Gun control laws vary widely state by state. For example, New York and New Jersey have some of the strictest gun control laws in the country. New Jersey enacted the “Graves Act” N.J.S.A. 2C:43-6(C) which imposes mandatory minimum state prison…
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"The Armed Career Criminal Act: Imprecise, Indeterminate, and Unconstitutional"
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Methamphetamine Trafficking Arrest Made in Jerome County
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: 12/12/2015 10:38 a.m. Please direct questions to the District Office On Friday, December 11, 2015, at approximately 8:35 p.m., the Idaho State Police stopped to assist a motorist, in a 2015 Nissan passenger car, westbound I-84 near milepost 170, in Jerome County. After interacting with the driver, Sergio Maldonado Farias, 38, of Monroe, WA, the trooper received consent to search the vehicle. Maldonado Farias was arrested and booked into the Jerome County Jail for felony drug trafficking. The Idaho State Police seized approximately 4.5 pounds of Methamphetamine. The drugs have an estimated street value of approximately $45,000 dollars. The investigation is ongoing at this…
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Help! Homeland Security Stole My Cash at the Airport
What happens if you bring cash to the airport for a domestic flight? As you go through the security checkpoint on the way to board your flight and the cash is discovered, agents with the Department of Homeland Security might seize the U.S. Currency.If they walk a drug K9 dog around the cash and the dog alerts (which it completely within their control), then they can allege that you are a drug dealer and the money must have come from illegal dealings in drugs.The federal agents and local police officers with the Tampa International Airport (TIAPD) will also allege that you made inconsistent statements about where the money came from. In these cases, theagents and police officers will also allege that you appeared to be nervous or acted suspiciously.The agents will then take you to a small room (away from the video surveillance cameras) and count your money. The agents will then issue you a “Custody Receipt for Seized Property and Evidence” from the Department of…
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Gerard & Pickering on Crimmigration
Alison Gerard and Sharon Pickering (Charles Sturt University and Monash University - Faculty of Law) have posted Crimmigration: Criminal Justice, Refugee Protection and the Securitisation of Migration (Bersot, H. & Arrigo, B. The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice...
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Why We Should Ban Any New “Christmas Carol” and Re-Tune Victorian Hymns
Not gluten-free. The BBC’s classical music site published this article about the Victorians and Christmas stories. The Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol is among them, but so too some more obscure (at least, obscure to me) work by George Eliot and others. Cool night-cap. As novelist John Irving noted in an introduction to A Christmas Carol, the work is essentially a Christian ghost story about human transformation: Scrooge is such a pillar of skepticism, he at first resists believing in Marley’s Ghost. “You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” Yet Scrooge is converted; beyond the seasonal lessons of Christian charity, A Christmas Carol teaches us that a man—even a man as hard as Ebenezer Scrooge—can change. What is heartening about the change in Scrooge is that he learns to…
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Saturday Open Thread
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Why You Need More Email
You don’t have mail, but you will. Actually, that’s not true. You don’t need more email; rather, you need better email. Other than a missive alerting you to a sale on gin at your local booze-provider, what constitutes “better” email”? “Better” email is email alerting you to new posts from White Collar Wire. It’s simple. Look left. Good? Enter your email address in the “Susbcribe” box on the left of the home page, and click the grey “Subscribe” button. Ad-free, too. An email alerting you to a new post will, helpfully, appear in your inbox. Do not miss out; help us to be relevant (or, at least, to so perceive ourselves); and re-post anything about gin sales.
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Political Incorrectness and Islamic Terrorism
A few years ago, California voters adopted the Louisiana system of elections, the one that gave us the famous campaign slogan of "Vote for the Crook. It's Important." (The alternative was a Klansman.) When we cast our ballots for U.S. Senate 11 months from now, the choice won't be quite that unpalatable, but Republicans may very well have to swallow hard and choose between two Democrats: Attorney General Kamala Harris and Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez. It seems Ms. Sanchez has raised some hackles with a Politically Incorrect statement. Christopher Cadelago reports for the SacBee:Sanchez, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, said that between 5 and 20 percent of Muslims want to form a caliphate to target Western norms."They are not content enough to have their way of looking at the world, they want to put their way on everybody in the world," Sanchez said on "PoliticKING with Larry King." "And again, I…
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Brainwashed and Alienated Teens Found on “Underground” Farm
In April 2015 I wrote about the deception and lies that Sandra Rucki engaged in when she divorced her husband David Rucki in 2013. It began with a fraudulent one-sided consent order that she alleged her husband had agreed to. Once the order was overturned by the Minnesota Court it escalated into despicable false allegations that father, David Rucki had sexually abused his two daughters, Gianni and Samantha, ages 13 and 14, and the spin-off of parental alienation. The Court ruled there was no credible evidence to support Ms. Rucki’s claims and the girls were removed from their mother’s custody. David Rucki received custody of them, but as the girls refused to see him, other family members would provide residential care. The Court’s order provided a measure of hope to Mr. Rucki that his daughters could be de-programmed once they were removed from their mother’s influence. Instead what happened is that the girls, with their mother’s…
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The ACLU, Protecting Your Rights.
Unless you happen to support Donald Trump, in which case you should get shot.And no, the ACLU itself did not make this statement, but a board member of its Colorado chapter did. He since resigned and, surprise of surprises, is unavailable for comment.Here is the story.
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Selbstleseverfahren, Band 140
Einen entspannten 3. Advent mit unserem strafrechtlichen Wochenrückblick. Foto: PlaceIt.net Eine Strafverhandlung ist keine Vorlesung Zschäpe begeht den „prozessualen Selbstmord“ Die Anwälte hinter Zschäpe Unsere digitalen Grundrechte Wie sich die Rolle von Gerichtsreportern verändert Verletzung des Willkürverbots bei Ermessensentscheidungen im Strafverfahren Der vollautomatische Steuerbescheid kommt 130.000 Euro im Fluss: Polizei sucht Eigentümer Fall Mollath: BGH verwirft Revision Hören Sie mich teilweise schweigen Diskussion unter Richtern --- Hinweis: Wir haben unsere Feed-Adresse aktualisiert: http://www.strafakte.de/feed/ Bitte aktualisieren Sie die Adresse demnächst in Ihrem Feed-Reader, um sicherzustellen, dass Sie auch weiterhin den Feed erhalten. © Strafakte.de: Twitter - Facebook - Google + | Impressum Der Eintrag Selbstleseverfahren, Band 140 erschien im Original: Strafakte.de
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United States Supreme Court may address reasonableness of scope of seizure in Nevada v. Torres
A Nevada case brings up an important question – is it acceptable for a police officer to stop someone on the street due to a suspicion of alcohol consumption? More importantly, is it right for an officer to make these judgements based on how the person is walking? Finally, is evidence acquired by this [seemingly] unwarranted stop and seizure admissible in a court of law? These questions are presented in The State of Nevada vs. Ralph Torres. The facts A young man was walking over a bridge in Nevada late one February night. Being a cold winter night, this man was walking with his sweatshirt pulled up over his head in an attempt to stay warm. An officer in the area noticed the man and felt that it was likely that he was intoxicated because of the way he was walking. He also noticed that the man was small, making the assumption that he was a child and was out past his curfew. After the officer approached the man (Torres) and asked for his I.D., he saw that the…
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Cop In A Kilt: Lessons From Cops Who Don’t Kill
Police in Scotland manage to do two things that American cops don’t. They go to work without a gun strapped to their waist and go home for dinner without having killed anyone that day. A program that seems remarkably obvious, yet hasn’t happened until now, brought American cops to Scotland to learn how this could possibly be. But a difference long curious to Americans stands out: Most British police officers are unarmed, a distinction particularly pronounced here in Scotland, where 98 percent of the country’s officers do not carry guns. For them, calming a situation through talk, rather than escalating it with weapons, is an essential policing tool, and one that brought a delegation of top American police officials to this town 30 miles northeast of Glasgow. That 98% of Scottish police are unarmed seems crazy, and begets the obvious question. “How many officers in Scotland have been killed in the last year or two years?” Chief Shortell added.…
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The Physics of Diversity
While screams of racism rang out following Nino Scalia’s ham-handed question during oral argument in Fisher v. University of Texas II, the more interesting, and far more difficult, question was posed by Chief Justice John Roberts. CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: What unique perspective does a minority student bring to a physics class? There was a quick and unhelpful retort that the nation’s foremost astrophysicist and all-around badass, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, happens to be black, but that doesn’t actually answer anything. A group of STEM academics reacted by writing an open letter to the Supreme Court. Justice Roberts asked, “what unique perspective does a minority student bring to physics class?” and “What [are] the benefits of diversity… in that situation?” Before addressing these questions directly, we note that [it] is important to call attention to questions that weren’t asked by the justices, such as, “What…
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How many TDCJ inmates were 'improperly charged'?
According to page 10 of TDCJ's latest Ombudsman's report from 2014, 379 inmates that year complained to the agency to say they were "improperly charged." Of those, 117 were "Investigated - no corrective action necessary." Only one was listed as "Request approved /Corrective action taken"; three more saw "Some corrective action." The rest resulted in variety of different, mostly inconclusive outcomes. It sure would be interesting to see an independent evaluation of TDCJ inmates' claims that they were improperly charged. One imagines TDCJ's review is fairly pro forma. Grits suspects there may be potential innocence claims among that group or other claims which could be successfully raised in habeas corpus writs - comparable, perhaps, to parolees improperly categorized as sex offenders - if those inmates had access to counsel.Gentle readers, if you had to guess, what do y'all suspect is going on in those cases?
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NFL 2015 FURTHER EVIDENCE OF THE DECLINE OF CIVILIZATION EDITION
Our colleague Roy Black often starts his Facebook posts bemoaning further evidence of the decline of Western Civilization. Usually it is a new idea from Donald Trump: banning cabbage (causes flatulence), registering people who download Timothy Leary books or Beowulf (weirdos) , outlawing Newark, New Jersey (have you been there? A wasteland). Today it was something different.Mr. Black was concerned that the obituary of a successful doctor, surgeon and medical researcher contained, at the end, a request that donations be made to a particular football scholarship at the University of Pittsburgh. Black found this troubling. We respond.First, people from Pittsburgh are different. They talk funny, "youins" and eat weird things (french fries smashed into sandwiches) and they have a fierce civic pride that is expressed in their support for their sport teams.Second, our admiration for sports figures knows neither bounds, nor is grounded in reason. Many sports…
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Senate hearing to consider alternative to driver surcharges
In January, the Senate Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on two topics: Evaluating the state vehicle inspection program and including an interim charge to "Evaluate the necessity of the Driver Responsibility Program and make recommendations for alternative methods of achieving the programs objectives."The "alternative methods" language is encouraging. Interim charges on the House side before last session contemplated only mild tweaks to the Driver Responsibility surcharge, when really what's needed are "alternative methods of achieving the programs objectives," to the extent anyone can define them beyond "mulcting drivers for excessive fees."
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