US Plans Missile Attack on Syria
Here are some details of the planned military strike on Syria. The UK is expected to assist the U.S. Tomahawk missiles are likely. The blitz may last 48 hours. The missiles would be unleashed to...
View ArticleWaPo: Here's how phone metadata can reveal your affairs, abortions, and other...
WaPo: Here's how phone metadata can reveal your affairs, abortions, and other secrets by Anthony Lee
View ArticleSFGate: S.F. cops will wear cameras to record searches
SFGate: S.F. cops will wear cameras to record searches by Jaxon Van Derbeken: [...] Read more!
View ArticleThe Hill: US requested data on at least 20,000 Facebook users
The Hill: US requested data on at least 20,000 Facebook users by Brendan Sasso: [...] Read more!
View ArticleCivil Service Commission
In two separate CPLR article 78 proceedings petitioners seek to compel civil service reclassification of the positions of criminal investigators in the Nassau County and Orange County District...
View ArticleLege committee looking to tweak Drivers Responsibility Program; incentive...
The Texas House Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee plans to draft legislation during the interim to reform, but likely not eliminate, the Driver Responsibility Surcharge - at least unless...
View ArticleWants to withdraw guilty plea
The defendant moves by way of coramnobis to vacate and set aside a judgment dated February 3rd, 1958, convicting him, on his own plea of guilty, of the crime of grand larceny in the second degree, and...
View ArticleJoh on Policing and Genetic Privacy
Elizabeth E. Joh (U.C. Davis School of Law) has posted Maryland v. King: Policing and Genetic Privacy (__ Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law __ (2013, Forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: With...
View ArticleFrom Nevada
Today's Las Vegas Sun reports, "Defense attorney uses mandated legislative study in bid to toss capital charges against four clients," by Bethany Barnes and Jackie Valley. Here's the beginning of this...
View ArticleUPCOMING CHANGES IN MAINE OUI SUSPENSIONS AND IGNITION INTERLOCK REINSTATEMENT
This past legislative session, the Maine Legislature enacted new provisions regarding OUI suspensions and early reinstatement with an ignition interlock device. The new provisions do not all take...
View ArticleGuardian Commentary
"Capital punishment is murder – especially for the wrongfully accused," is Lindsey Bever's post at the Guardian's comment is free. So far this year, 23 death row inmates have been executed in the US....
View ArticleMilitary Jury Sentences Nadal Hasan to Death in Fort Hood Trial
"Soldier sentenced to death for Fort Hood shooting," is the AP report by Michael Graczyk and Nomaan Merchant. A military court on Wednesday sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting...
View ArticleIllinois Expands Recording of Interrogations
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill Monday that expands current legislation mandating the recording of homicide interrogations to include people suspected in any of eight violent felonies, including...
View ArticleTexas Stop and Frisk: The New York City Stop and Frisk Law Just Held...
There’s a lot of chatter this month about “stop and frisk laws” and the recent ruling by U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin who presides over a federal trial court up in the heart of New York City....
View ArticleCriminal Statutes to be Read With Common Sense - Ice and Water Insufficient...
Law enforcement and prosecutors often try to stretch the definitional boundaries of criminal law statutes. On occasion, these attempts defy reason and logic. That was the case addressed recently by the...
View ArticleInvestment Manager Pleads Guilty to Federal Wire Fraud in Utah
Recently a Houston investment manager, Robert Andres, plead guilty to wire fraud in federal court in Salt Lake City. The facts surrounding Mr. Andres’s case are all too familiar in Utah. Allegedly...
View ArticleKaufman County DPS Racial Profiling Statistics
As part of the my ongoing open records work I requested the racial profiling data for our local DPS office. I received a breakdown of stops, citations, and searches by race/ethnicity for all stops in...
View ArticleThe 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
By Attorney General Eric Holder This past Saturday, I had the tremendous honor of joining civil rights leaders, Members of Congress, and tens of thousands of ordinary citizens at the Lincoln Memorial...
View ArticleLogan & Wright on Mercenary Criminal Justice
Wayne A. Logan and Ronald F. Wright (Florida State University - College of Law and Wake Forest University - School of Law) have posted Mercenary Criminal Justice (University of Illinois Law Review,...
View ArticleWaPo: Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the offensive
WaPo: Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the offensive by Ruth Marcus
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