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Suspect in Break-in of Musician Kid Rock's Home Awaits His Day in Court
Recently, a 43-year-old Independence Township resident was arrested for attempting to break in to musician Kid Rock's home in Clarkston, according to a news article at Mlive.com. Sheriff's deputies...
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Colon Township Resident Faces Meth Charges After Report of Smoking Trash Bag
Recently, a resident of Colon Township was taken into custody and arrested for methamphetamine-related charges after the St. Joseph County Sheriff's Office received a report of "smoking" trash. When a...
View ArticleJohn Ferguson
The Supreme Court has refused to issue a stay of execution for John Ferguson. He is scheduled to be executed by Florida at 6:00 pm, tonight. Christopher Handman, Attorney for John Ferguson, has issued...
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Ann Arbor Defense Attorney and DDA Member Charged with Sexual Assault
Nader Nassif, a 29-year-old Ann Arbor defense attorney and member of the Downtown Development Authority, was arrested on Wednesday July 31 for alleged sexual assault. Nassif was formally charged on...
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Should Wrongful Conviction Compensation Be Shared With Ex-Wife?
In another wrongful conviction case out of Texas, Steven Phillips was imprisoned for 24 years for a series of sex crimes committed in 1982 and 1983. After enduring two trials he plead guilty to several...
View Article¿MUERTE CIVIL?
¿MUERTE CIVIL? Es interesante el tema, ¿Qué se pretende?, más o menos que el corrupto detectado -¡todos lo somos en potencia!, sino respondamos amable lector con honestidad, lindante con la...
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What are the Penalties of an Affirmative Finding of Family Violence?
By Bo Kalabus bo@kalabuslaw.com Office: 972-562-7549 Collin County 24-Hour Jail Release 214-402-4364www.kalabuslaw.comwww.rosenthalwadas.com An affirmative finding of family violence (AFV) on your...
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Florida DUI Evidence Thrown Out Where Police Did Not Read Implied Consent in...
In Florida, when a police officer makes a DUI arrest, he/she will normally ask the suspect to submit to a breathalyzer test to be taken after the arrest. If the suspect agrees to take the breathalyzer...
View Article"More Complaints Than Proposed Solutions at Trial Over Police...
From The New York Times: The judge overseeing the trial examining the constitutionality of theNew York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices had a novel idea for how to reduce illegal police...
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Distribution of Child Pornography
As an Aggressive Criminal Attorney and former prosecutor with 20 years of experience, I have been involved in the prosecution of hundreds of cases involving the possession and distribution of Child...
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Upon reviewing the record of this case, the court is satisfied that the...
Two similar cases are before the court for resolution. In the first case, the defendant appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered 2 August 1988, convicting him of the drug...
View ArticleThe defendant raised two constitutional challenges to the sentence statute
In this cocaine related case, defendant appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, convicting her of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree and criminal...
View ArticleAfrican American Sentenced to Death Because of Race
Duane Buck, an African American in Houston, Texas, was sentenced to death after a jury heard testimony that his race made him more likely to commit crimes in the future. The story all began in 1997,...
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The informant herein provided the information to the police
In March 1986, the police and agents of the United States Secret Service executed a search warrant at the premises of a specific location. The affidavits submitted in support of the application for...
View Article"Conservative group advocates sentencing reform"
From the Daily Caller: A major conservative policy organization has endorsed criminal justice reform, lending further bipartisan support to a bill in Congress that would lessen mandatory minimum...
View ArticleTakePart.com: Wikipedia Vows to Protect Readers From Government Snooping
TakePart.com: Wikipedia Vows to Protect Readers From Government Snooping || Responding to NSA controversy, site founder Jimmy Wales says privacy is a ‘human rights issue.’ by Matthew Fleischer [...]...
View ArticleSully v. Ayers, No. 08-99011 (8-6-13)(Thomas with Berzon and N. Smith). The 9th affirmed the denial of petitioner's habeas claims challenging six capital murders and sentences. The 9th concludes that...
View ArticleUS v. Underwood, No. 11-50213 (8-6-13)(Pregerson with Noonan and Paez). Plagiarism can get a student in trouble, an author ridiculed, and in the case of a police officer drafting an affidavit, the...
View ArticleShoemaker v. Taylor, No. 11-56476 (8-6-13)(Pregerson with Paez and Hurwitz).The defendant was convicted of possessing and duplicating child pornography in state court. On habeas appeal, he argued that...
View ArticleUS v. Gomez, No. 12-50018 (8-6-13)(Graber with Rawlinson; dissent by Watford). The Miranda rights were read when the drugs were found in the defendant's car at the POE, and the defendant said he...
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