MO - Locked away, but not in prison
Jay Nixon's PR campaign Original Article In the photo to the left, Gov. Jay Nixon takes the podium in front of a civil commitment facility. Well, HB-301 has nothing to do with civil commitment, but...
View Articlejuvenile Delinquent is on probation
In the first case, a juvenile delinquency proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 3, the appeal is from an order of disposition of the Family Court, Kings County, which, upon a fact-finding...
View ArticleChicago Sexual Assault Crime News – Students Allege Sexual Assault via Hazing...
By now most of you have heard of these Chicago sexual assault charge allegations regarding Maine West High School in Des Plaines, Illinois. According to reports, during a September 2010 campus run for...
View ArticleThe issue in this case is whether the judgment of conviction was obtained in...
A Kings Grand Larceny Lawyer said that, The defendant has made a motion pursuant to CPL 440.10(1)(b), (f) and (h) for an order vacating the judgment of conviction on the grounds that the judgment was...
View ArticleSTATE v. LANCASTER MAY CHANGE INTERPRETATION OF OHIO BREATH TESTING LAW
Intoxilyzer 8000 Declared Unreliable In Ohio DUI/OVI Case This blog has discussed Intoxilyzer 8000 litigation in many previous posts. One of those posts (November 18, 2012) mentioned the case of State...
View ArticleFatal Near Glenns Ferry Claims One
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View ArticleMO: Asking for consent while warrant check was still pending was unreasonable
Defendant was stopped for a dirty license plate, and she was asked for consent while the warrant check was being run. This was unreasonable because she was not free to go. (And, for what it's worth,...
View ArticleKY: Nervousness, questioning why officers asked about passengers, and refusal...
Defendant was stopped for littering and not using a turn signal. When he was stopped, he was nervous and his hands were shaking. One officer asked who was in the car with him, and he asked “Does it...
View ArticleAssessing Texas' legislative session on criminal-justice reform
A Dallas Morning News editorial in yesterday's paper titled "Transforming Texas' criminal justice landscape," opened with this promising assessment:Texas’ law-and-order reputation is well-deserved,...
View ArticleFederal Prosecutor Withheld Favorable Evidence in State Death Penalty Case
In a recent post about prosecutorial misconduct, we opened with this question: Why do some prosecutors engage in misconduct? The Answer: Because they can. Why? Prosecutors have little, if any,… read...
View ArticleIs Texas' 'improper photography' statute unconstitutional?
Somewhere, Mark Bennett must be smiling after the Fourth Court of Appeals declared Texas' "improper photography" law unconstitutional. Now the Court of Criminal Appeals will be asked to resolve...
View ArticleME - Lawyers seek sentencing range in Maine child porn case against former...
James Cameron Original Article 08/30/2013 By BETTY ADAMS James Cameron's defense and prosecution say the court must give guidelines before they can argue. Attorneys continue to wrangle over how a new...
View ArticleTX - Former West Columbia Police Chief Michael Parker facing sex charges
Michael Parker Original Article 08/30/2013 WEST COLUMBIA - A big development in case we've been following. You may recall when the former West Columbia police chief disappeared. Now more than a month...
View ArticleNSA T-Shirts for Sale
You may have seen this: The NSA seal is protected by Public Law 86–36, which states that it is not permitted for “…any person to use the initials ‘NSA,’ the words ‘National Security Agency’ and the NSA...
View ArticleAssembling reactions of those most critical of AG Holder's announcement on...
In these comments to a post about the recent announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder concerning federal marijuana policy, former federal prosecutor Bill Otis asserted that "what the AG is actually...
View ArticleUK - Making friends with a paedophile: 'We can't kill him, so we help him not...
Original Article Just because someone wears the "child molester" label, that doesn't mean they are a pedophile. 09/01/2013 By EMILY DUGAN Could it help to cut reoffending rates? Emily Dugan gets...
View ArticleSunday Link Roundup- Improper Photography, 600 new laws, and Intoxilzyer Junk...
Improper Photography Law Found Unconstitutional Grits for Breakfast has a story on a 4th Circuit decision finding our State's "improper photography" statute unconstitutional. The Defendant in the case...
View ArticleOdom's DUI Arrest in Los Angeles Raises Interesting Issues
Lamar Odom was arrested two days ago for DUI. It's already old news so why am I writing about it now? The reason is because his arrest poses some interesting issues that frequently come up in DUI...
View ArticleSan Jose Psychiatrist Arrested For and Charged With Prescribing Controlled...
The Medical Board of California has a Prescription Drug Strike Force. Recently, they conducted an investigation into a San Jose physician after receiving a complaint alleging that this doctor, Duke D....
View ArticleTexas Western, Southern Districts lead way in prosecuting immigration violators
While routine immigration violations are generally a civil offense, there is a category of federal prosecutions - for "illegal reentry" - that are explicitly criminal charges. The US Sentencing...
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