Colorado Public Opinion Polling
The Quinnipiac University Poll Release Detail is at the link. "Poll: Coloradans back death penalty, disapprove of Dunlap reprieve," is by Chuck Plunkett at the Denver Post. Coloradans said that the...
View ArticleCourt: Texas Inmate's Decades-Old Sentence Invalid
That's the title of an AP report by Michael Graczyk, via WBAY-TV. It's also available through Huffington Post as, "Jerry Hartfield, Texas Inmate, Has Life Sentence For Murder Deemed Invalid By Court of...
View ArticleSpencer & Petersilia on California Victims' Rights in a Post-Realignment...
Jessica Spencer and Joan Petersilia (Stanford Law School and Stanford University) have posted Voices from the Field: California Victims’ Rights in A Post-Realignment World (Federal Sentencing Reporter,...
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LA - I am not a sex offender
Original Article You will notice all the harassment, inability to get a job, housing, and other issues these people faced due to being on the registry, and yet it's okay for the over 750,000... [[ This...
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Debating Government Surveillance
Recently, we learned that our government is engaged in secret data mining, telephone metadata collection programs. News of these programs were provided by a former private government contractor to...
View ArticleDallas Morning News Editorial
"Getting it right on capital punishment," is the Morning News editorial published today. State lawmakers meant business in the high-crime 1990s, getting tough on so-called writ abuse by convicted...
View ArticleFrom Madrid: Fifth World Congress Against the Death Penalty
The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation posts, "Minister calls for ‘world without death penalty’." Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter has highlighted Switzerland’s commitment to the abolition of capital...
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Failure to Register: Are Violations Overblown?
Original Article 06/13/2013 “As a crime of omission, each failure to report ordinary life events is an opportunity for registrants to commit a new felony.” Over the last two decades,... [[ This is a...
View ArticleCourt of Appeals Reverses Conviction for False Personation
In a recent decision, the California Court of Appeals for the 1st District reversed the conviction of a defendant on the charge of felony false personation (California Penal Code § 529) because the...
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The Supreme Court's Holding in KING v. MARYLAND: Welcome to Gattaca?
As promised, I'd like to address the Supreme Court's controversial holding in King v. Maryland. Truth be told, the analysis is rather straightforward and ho-hum. Unlike the Court's holding in United...
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Florida DUI Lawyer:: Erin Brockovich Charged with Boating while Intoxicated
Movie namesake and environmental activist Erin Brockovich was arrested last week on suspicion of operating a boat under the influence of alcohol at Lake Mead in Las Vegas, Nevada. The district attorney...
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Shorstein & Lasnetski Attorney Harry Shorstein Recognized by Laws.com
Laws.com, which is a national website that provides an abundance of legal information and information about lawyers across the country, recently published an article recognizing Shorstein &...
View ArticleWhat happens at arraignment?
At your DUI Arraignment Court Hearing in Washington State the Judge or prosecutor will go over basic information about you (name/date of birth - want to make sure got right person) and your legal...
View ArticleMore than four out of five police agencies in the U.S. have no written...
WASHINGTON – More than four out of five police agencies in the U.S. have no written policies for handling eyewitness identifications despite long-standing federal guidelines, according to a report...
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Search warrant comes under suspicion
On July 7, 2010, the Judge of the New York City Criminal Law Court reviewed and approved a warrant authorizing the search of 105 West 128th Street, Apartment 4, New York, New York and seize cocaine and...
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Is There an International Attempt to Dodge Dodd-Frank?
The following blog was contributed by Qui Tam Attorney Tony Munter An article by Carter Dougherty of Bloomberg discusses what appears to be the latest efforts to roll back the financial regulations...
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Ohio man charged with DUI despite documents showing a BAC of 0.00
Jessie Thornton, a 64-year old retired firefighter from Ohio was arrested following a standard battery of field sobriety tests. Thornton was given a breathalyzer test at the station, showed a blood...
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Shady Drug Trials Could Be Even Shadier Than We Thought.
The following was provided by Whistleblower attorney Tony Munter A while back a few of the lawyers who value the False Claims Act were wondering if the major pharmaceutical companies had learned...
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N.S.A. Surveillance Underscores Need For a Revitalized Approach to Fourth...
"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided...
View ArticleMore litigation over heat in TX prisons now that 5th Circuit cleared way
More lawsuites vx. TDCJ related to heat-related deaths, just as summer begins to warm up. I couldn't go to the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) press conference on Thursday so here's how the report...
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