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Recent ACLU Report Claims Racial Disparity In Marijuana Arrests
Back in February, this blog discussed then-pending Maryland Senate Bill 297 ("SB 297"), that proposed to eliminate the potential for jail time as a punishment for possession of marijuana in favor of a...
View ArticleScam Targeted San Diego Seniors
Guilty pleas were entered by a couple from Las Vegas in a scheme involving the sale of phony home services to elderly residents in California, Texas, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington. The hardest hit...
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Ninth Circuit Declines Habeas Petition in Case of Computer Generated Child...
Computer-generated child pornography has an interesting legal history in the United States. A 1996 law made it illegal to possess or trade images that appear to be children engaged in sex, even though...
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The court decided in favor of the admissibility of the official police...
A case was filed against a 15 year old boy for allegedly handing another minor a glassine envelope which apparently contained heroin. Penal Law 220.03 and 220.39 under this court’s jurisdiction...
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Couple Charged with Having Sexual Relations on Las Vegas-Bound Flight
Last week a man and a women were charged with federal indecency crimes for allegedly having oral sex on an Allegient Air flight from Oregon to Las Vegas last month. The pair, both 33, were told to stop...
View Article10% of Petitions Collected - Legalization of Medical Marijuana on the Ballot...
The Campaign Manager, Ben Pollara, has announced that in just a few short weeks United for Care has collected over 10% of the petitions needed to get the legalization of medical marijuana on the...
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"Our last legal heroes?: Fighting to kill the death penalty," by Evan J. Mandery. This is the beginning of the excerpt from "A Wild Justice," via Salon. “In 1963 Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg...
View ArticleThe People consented to an adjournment not assuming prosecution of the matter i
On 8 February 1991, an altercation occurred between the defendant and her landlord at the latter’s house where both parties lived. On that date, defendant’s landlord was under arrest by the police and...
View ArticleThe court concludes that it is without authority to impose any sentence
A man stands convicted from criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, a class A-I felony. In that, he knowingly and unlawfully possessed one or more preparations, compounds,...
View ArticleThe error was compounded when the prosecutor was permitted to argue on...
The defendant contested that the admission of evidence of his prior drug activity was error. The defendant was arrested after he allegedly sold two packets of heroin to an undercover police officer in...
View ArticleSome sentencing-related highlights from AG Holder's remarks today to the ABA
I am back on line, and now able to link to and provide some extensive excerpts from Attorney General Eric Holder's high-profile remarks earlier today at the Annual Meeting of the American Bar...
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GA - Family Members of Registered Sex Offenders Organize, Exhibit at National...
Original Article 08/13/2013 By Shana Rowan ATLANTA - For the first time ever, five national advocacy groups fighting for sex offender registry reform have come together to exhibit at the National...
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Michigan Court of Appeals Upholds Man's Conviction in 1998 Covert Beating Death
In November of 2010, Ed Foster was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the 1998 death of Deborah Boothby in Covert Township. Boothby was beaten before being run over by two...
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South Haven Man Convicted in Counterfeiting Operation Sentenced to 51 Months...
50-year-old John William Wilson, a man who had just been released from prison, is reportedly headed back after being convicted of running a counterfeiting operation out of a South Haven hotel room....
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Tsarnaev Friends Plead Not Guilty at Arraignment
Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, the friends of Dzokhar Tsarnaev who took items from his dorm room a few days after the Boston Marathon bombing, appeared in court today and entered pleas of not...
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The plaintiff's decedent died of gunshot wounds
In this drug possession case, defendant appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, upon a jury...
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DNA Can't Prove Possession
In court, we have witnesses swear to tell the truth, yet scientific evidence seems to be the new god of the courtroom. For example, the urban myth of fingerprints would have juries believing that...
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Finding Sandra Coke
I never really thought about the victims. As a lawyer representing death row inmates for almost 25 years, I focused on the trial – whether the judge and jury acted properly, whether the prosecutor...
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NY - UNITED STATES v. BRUNNER, Docket No. 11–2115
Original Article Diigo Post Excerpt: In June 2002, Brunner was found guilty by a general court-martial of carnal knowledge and sodomy of a child under 16, in violation of Articles 120 and 125 of the...
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NY - Police charge 9-year-old with sex crimes
Original Article This is pure insanity! What's next? Charging a 2-year-old toddler with a sex crime because they touched someone? We wouldn't doubt it. 08/13/2013 An unnamed 9-year-old boy from...
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