FEDERAL ATF AGENTS ARE RAMPING UP GRAND JURY INDICTMENTS OF ONLINE FIREARMS...
Your Tampa Bay federal criminal lawyer has been seeing a significant uptick in federal investigations of internet sales of weapons and other firearms in the Middle District of Florida. Most Federal...
View ArticleNH - Paying off his debt to society, inside prison and out
Original Article 07/07/2013 By RAY DUCKLER [name withheld] knows people think he’s a monster. He’s heard it in the violent shaking of his apartment walls. He’s read it in the letters he receives in the...
View ArticleAssault, Felony Assault, and "Dangerous Offense" Laws and Sentencing
A person will face "Dangerous Offense" Aggravated Assault charges if a deadly weapon is displayed or used in a crime. An assault charge may be brought as a Misdemeanor or Felony (Aggravated). A person...
View ArticleMegan's Law is invoked
A Nassau Sex Crime Lawyer said that, this is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County, rendered April 1, 1996, convicting him of attempted rape in the first degree...
View ArticleDrunk driving will not be tolerated
Defendant was charged with criminal felony drunk driving. Defendant then moved to vacate his 2003 misdemeanor conviction of Operating a Motor Vehicle under the Influence of Alcohol which was entered...
View Article"In Opposition to the Mandatory Registration of Juvenile Sexual...
The title of this post is the title of this short paper by David Katner, which is now available via SSRN. Here is the abstract: The mandatory registration of juvenile sex offenders incorrectly assumes...
View ArticleNew Sentencing Phase Trial in California Case
"California convict gets another chance to escape death row," is by Michael Doyle for the McClatchy Washington Bureau. Richard L. Phillips has learned a lot about the law in the decades since a Madera...
View ArticleYellow Cab driver accused of drunk driving in Denver
Sometimes when a person is arrested and charged with a crime, they might face problems with their employer. If the charge that they face, or a conviction that they receive from a trial somehow impedes...
View ArticleBlackfoot Man Sentenced for Distributing Meth
POCATELLO – Ernesto Guerrero, 35, of Blackfoot, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 60 months in prison for distribution of five grams or more of actual methamphetamine, U.S....
View ArticleSeveral DUI Arrests Made on July 4th in Northern Nevada
The Nevada Highway Patrol arrested five people in and around Reno and Sparks for violating Nevada DUI law on July Fourth. Four of the drivers were under the influence of alcohol while the fifth driver...
View ArticleSSRN - In Opposition to the Mandatory Registration of Juvenile Sexual Offenders
Original Article Diigo Post Excerpt: The mandatory registration of juvenile sex offenders incorrectly assumes that the same dynamics of adult sex offenders apply to juveniles. In doing so, this group...
View ArticleJudgement is upheld
This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered June 6, 1992, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (four counts)...
View ArticleSentence that was imposed was illegal
The criminal defendant was indicted by a Kings County Grand Jury and charged with grand larceny in the second degree and 28 counts of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree....
View Article"14 days video surveillance of defendant’s back yard by a pole camera...
FourthAmendment.com excerpts this interesting case from the Eastern District of Tennessee. In part: Although the precise length of reasonable warrantless video surveillance has not been established,...
View ArticleSixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Rules in Favor of Jury Trial for Sturgis...
Last month, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals determined that a jury should decide if two Sturgis police officers, Damon Knapp and Mark Stoneburner, used excessive force against a young man and...
View ArticleMurphy on Forensic DNA Phenotyping
Erin Murphy (New York University School of Law) has posted Legal and Ethical Issues in Forensic DNA Phenotyping on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In the recent Supreme Court case of Maryland v. King,...
View ArticleTavares man arrested on charge of attacking accused child molester
7-9-2013 Florida: A 34-year-old Tavares man was arrested on a charge of battery and aggravated stalking over the weekend after he allegedly attacked a man accused of sexually molesting a... [[This,an...
View ArticleAmber Alert No Hindrance to Child Abductor Crossing the Border
A recent child abduction by a father in Colorado, who fled with his three-year-old son to Manitoba, reminded me of the angst and heartbreak these cases bring with them. Monte Turner, of Colorado, was...
View Article“FactCheck: are Interpol red notices often wrong?”
The Conversation on July 7, 2013 released the following: “”The Australian Federal Police takes [red notices] very seriously but knows it must examine the veracity or otherwise of those claims because...
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