San Diego Criminal Lawyer on Rape and other Sex Crime Charges
Rape - General Crime: In California, being accused of and/or charged with rape is very serious, and the Police, Sheriffs, and Prosecutors vigorously pursue and punish those accused of rape. Rape is an...
View ArticleAlexander on a Theory of Self-Defense
Larry Alexander (University of San Diego School of Law) has posted Recipe for a Theory of Self-Defense: The Ingredients, and Some Cooking Suggestions (The Ethics of Self-Defense (OUP); C. Loons and M....
View ArticleFatal ATV Crash Bannock County
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View ArticleFingerprint Experts Shouldn't Make Claims They Can't Support
So, last year, I wrote an article entitled "Fingerprint Evidence Not Always Accurate", and the article discussed a few issues regarding the scientific reliability of fingerprint evidence. Basically,...
View ArticleAppeals Court Rules Madoff Trustee Can't Pursue Banks for $30 Billion in Claims
"No doubt, there are advantages to the course Picard wants to follow. But equity has its limits." A federal appeals court dealt a significant setback to the quest to recover funds for victims of...
View ArticleDrug dealer charged with rape
Sometime between the days of 6 November 2002 to 6 March 2003, defendant allegedly sold, on nine separate occasions, quantities of cocaine and marijuana to an undercover police officer at various...
View ArticleSex offender signs draw mixed reactions
6-20-2013 Florida: Bradford County sheriff receives praise, DISAPPROVAL It has been two months since the sheriff of rural Bradford County in northeast Florida erected signs in front of the... [[This,an...
View ArticleFunk on Deadly Drones, Due Process, and the Fourth Amendment
William Funk (Lewis & Clark Law School) has posted Deadly Drones, Due Process, and the Fourth Amendment (William & Mary Bill of Rights, Vol. 22) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The use of drones...
View ArticleFive who were accused are convicted
The police in Brooklyn suspected that a drug repacking business was carried out in an apartment building by the members of one family. They wrote down all the facts they have so far gathered about the...
View ArticleNorwood Massachusetts Police Arrest Suspected Drug Dealer, Two Others on...
Over two weeks ago police in Norwood, Massachusetts executed a Search Warrant at an apartment complex. This followed an investigation into alleged Drug Dealing activities by Henry Samuels, a...
View ArticleEarlier Hopes of Madoff Victims for Some New Jersey State Tax Relief Are...
Michael Kline writes: Installments 63 and 81 of this blog series reported on two separate opinions of the New Jersey Tax Court (the “Tax Court”) regarding the Madoff Ponzi scheme, one an unpublished...
View ArticleThursday Night Open Thread
I have been glued to the George Zimmerman jury selection for the past 10 hours and have to take a break from the computer. Our "recent comments" section has now been fixed thanks to our webmaster...
View Article"Jury Selection Reaches Final Stages in Trayvon Martin Murder Case"
From the New York Times. In part: The woman who believed “the more guns the better” was out. So was the bearded guitarist who claimed to have no opinion on the case — until the judge confronted him for...
View ArticleFoster homes are now protected from sex offenders living near-by
6-20-2013 Alabama: The Decatur Police Department is wanting foster families to know that they are now protected in the Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act. The Sex Offender... [[This,an...
View Article"North Carolina Racial [In]Justice Act Goes Down"
The post is at Crime & Consequences. In part: The Associated Press misreports the event thusly: Gov. Pat McCrory has signed into law a repeal of a landmark act that allowed convicted murderers in...
View ArticleU.S. v. Edward J. Snowden – Federal Criminal Complaint
As Mr. McNabb predicted, the U.S. has charged Mr. Snowden in a Federal Criminal Complaint. He was charged on June 14, 2013 with the following federal criminal violations: 18 USC 641 – Theft of...
View ArticleWho really benefits from the Interlock requirements after a DUI arrest?
There are six categories of Driving Under the Influence (DUI) in Illinois. 625 ILCS 5/11-501 These include driving under the influence of legally prescribed drugs, driving under the influence of any...
View ArticleFatal crash SH8 @ 7 Latah County
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View ArticleMD - Sex offender removed from Md. registry; could be first of many
Original Article 06/21/2013 By Aaron C. Davis Maryland officials in recent weeks quietly removed the mug shot of convicted child molester [name withheld] from the state’s sex-offender... [[ This is a...
View ArticleCANADA - Community freaks out because an ex-sex offender is released
Original Article (Video available) 06/21/2013 Saint John residents are concerned over news that another convicted sex offender is moving into the area. [name withheld] was released from the... [[ This...
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