Next week's criminal law/procedure arguments
Issue summaries are from ScotusBlog, which also links to papers: Monday Boyer v. Louisiana: Whether a state’s failure to fund counsel for an indigent defendant for five years as a direct result of the...
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Saturday Open Thread
Don't forget to disable Java (not javascript) from your browsers. Here's how. I also uninstalled the program from my computers. Here's why. Here's the Government alert. A federal... [[ This is a...
View ArticleSUPREME COURT PUNTS ON “ACTUAL INNOCENCE” ISSUE, AGAIN
What does “actual innocence” actually mean? It means quite simply that an innocent person has been wrongfully convicted for a crime that he/she did not commit. It is a subject-matter we have devoted...
View ArticleThe Final Hack
Recently a young man, by all accounts a brilliant hacker, took his own life. One of the young man’s friends wrote a beautiful eulogy. He addressed what I would call the ethics of the suicide: Because...
View ArticleDUI Under 21 in Washington State: Spokane Lawyer’s Perspective
In Washington State, the laws surrounding DUI allegations can be confusing if the defendant is under 21 years of age. It is commonly thought that the “legal limit” for DUI for an underage driver is...
View ArticleWhat to do with the rest of one's life?
By Fairfax County/Northern Virginia/Maryland/Beltway criminal defense lawyer Jon Katz. Defending DWI/ DUI/ Drunk Driving, drugs, marijuana/medical marijuana/cultivation, sex cases, felonies and...
View ArticleSpokane Prostitution Bust: TV News Releases Names of Possible Customers
Last July, various police agencies in Spokane County raided several areas spas as part of an investigation into an alleged prostitution ring in the area. One of the spas was Joe Jean’s Health Spa on...
View ArticleStalin's Right. Weller's Wrong.
Rodney Alcala entered guilty pleas last month."Yes," he said (or perhaps his lawyer did in his name, and I have no idea what words were actually used, this was New York, I wasn't there, and I don't...
View ArticleStrafbefehl: Datenbankdiebstahl zwischen Lieferservice-Startups
Der Kampf zwischen den Lieferservice-Anbietern im Internet wird mit harten Bandagen ausgetragen. Die drei großen deutschen Startups Lieferheld, pizza.de und Lieferando beschuldigen sich schon seit...
View ArticleHaftlockerung für Beate Zschäpe
Der Generalbundesanwalt klagt Beate Zschäpe unter anderem wegen Beteiligung an Mordes in zehn Fällen an. Sie soll sich als Mittäterin in der Terror-Organisation „Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund“...
View ArticleAaron Swartz Post-Mortem: So Now You Know
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="arial">It would be outrageously presumptuous for me to suggest anything about why Hacktivist Aaron Swartz too his life, but <a...
View ArticleSonia Sotomayor On Being A Lawyer
Q: Would you describe yourself as being tough on the bench? A: Demanding. Q: You’re demanding. A: Tough, yes, in the sense that I want lawyers to be prepared. I think that being a lawyer is one of...
View ArticleNew Law Review Article: "Power Down: Tasers, The Fourth Amendment, and Police...
Power Down: Tasers, The Fourth Amendment, and Police Accountability in the Fourth Circuit by Ian A. Mance, 91 N.C. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2013): This Comment focuses its attention on the phenomenon of...
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Public Defender Pleads to Lesser Crime in Shoplifting Case
A public defense attorney in nearby Loudoun, VA has taken a plea deal that will allow her to avoid any serious sanctions following her conviction for shoplifting an energy drink from a local store....
View ArticleD.Minn.: Second search under same warrant hours later was valid
Defendant’s house was searched under a state search warrant starting at 9:05 pm. Officers came back and searched again early the next morning. In these circumstances, the second search was a...
View ArticleBecause The Victim Deserves
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">In an op-ed in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/opinion/sunday/a-cold-case-of-cold-blooded-murder.html?hp&_r=0"...
View ArticleHarrison v. U.S.: Reasonable Doubt Through Too Many “Interconnected Inferences”
Yes, they record your personal phone calls from prison. Yes, they have someone listen to those tapes. And, yes, they sometimes use something they find in those tapes against you. There is usually a...
View ArticlePA: Suspicion drug deal was about to occur didn't add to RS
Defendant stopped and talked to a couple that police saw pacing on a parking lot. Police stopped him, and he was nervous. It was not reasonable suspicion that a drug deal was going to go down....
View ArticleRoundup: Big Brother online, little brother on your cell phone
A number of recent items related to electronic privacy, or the lack thereof, merit Grits readers' attention: What cops get from Facebook Wanna know what information Facebook will give up about you if...
View ArticleOR: Consent after illegal police conduct and purging the taint explained
Oregon explains consent after illegal police conduct and purging the taint. State v. Hemenway, 2013 Ore. LEXIS 3 (January 10, 2013) Properly considered, then, a voluntary consent to search that is...
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