Medical Doctor in Florida Can Be Charged With Drug Trafficking for Improperly...
When most people think of drug trafficking charges in Florida, they think of people selling large quantities of marijuana, cocaine or other illegal drugs in traditional drug deals. However, with...
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J. K. Rowling, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, said, Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. Recently, The New York Times had an...
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in criminal law and procedure ejournals are here. The usual disclaimers apply. RankDownloadsPaper Title 1 909 Privacy Protests: Surveillance Evasion and Fourth Amendment Suspicion Elizabeth E. Joh,...
View ArticleThe said victim is deaf and illiterate, but able to read lips
This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered March 16, 1967, convicting him of attempted grand larceny in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and...
View ArticleThe grade of the offense would have been that of petit larceny; with the...
A Kings Criminal Lawyer said that, the People move for an order amending the indictment pursuant to the provisions of Section 200.70 of the Criminal Procedure Law. The indictment contains three counts....
View ArticleTX7: Pre-Jones GPS placement with only RS on court order held valid
Texas statute permitted placement of a GPS device on reasonable suspicion prior to Jones, when this was one placed on defendant’s car. No court had ever held, prior to now, that the reasonable...
View ArticleNurse Practitioner Bill Suffers A Setback in California
Nurse practitioners in California suffered a setback in their ability to practice independently of physicians if they are part of a medical team such a clinic or group practice. On August 30, 2013,...
View ArticleCharged with a New Jersey DWI-DUI? A Valid Traffic Stop is Just One Aspect
Quite often when speaking to potential clients, I and the trial attorneys on my legal team are asked how a motorist could possibly fight a drunk driving charge when the police have evidence, such as a...
View ArticleBody-worn IMSI catcher takes covert phone snooping to next level
IMSI catchers, known more commonly by the biggest selling trade name, "Stingray" devices," are fake cell-phone towers that police use to capture nearby cell traffic and fool it into running calls...
View ArticleA Ponzi of A Different Color
High profile schemes perpetrated by Bernie Madoff, Allen Stanford, Nevin Shapiro, and others have brought, or at least reinforced, a general understanding of the term “Ponzi scheme” into the public...
View Article"Restoration, Retribution, or Revenge? Time Shifting Victim Impact...
The title of this post is the title of this intriguing looking new paper by Tracy Hresko Pearl now available via SSRN. Here is the abstract: Courts currently permit victims to offer victim impact...
View ArticleMichigan Driver's License Restoration Lawyer - Clinical and Legal Training -...
In the Michigan driver's license restoration section of my website, and within the more than 200 driver's license restoration articles on my blog, I analyze and examine virtually every facet of what it...
View ArticleCase o' The Week: Ninth Shuts District Court Gate(keeping) - Evans, FRE 104...
“[T]he prosecution has independent evidence that the defense evidence is as phony as a $3 bill.” United States v. Evans, 2013 WL 4516754, *11 (9thCir. Aug. 27, 2013) (Gould, J., dissenting). Maybe...
View ArticleDefendant T's motion to dismiss indictment 589/97 is granted only as to...
This is a proceeding involving two unrelated cases wherein the issue is whether, under constitutional and state statutory double jeopardy principles, a criminal prosecution in the Supreme Court is...
View ArticleFear Debt Collectors or Fight Back
When talking about debt and debt collectors, most people will talk about the law, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Today I want to talk to you about the emotional impacts of debt. If you are one...
View ArticleGarrett on Eyewitness Identifications and Police Practices
Brandon L. Garrett (University of Virginia School of Law) has posted Eyewitness Identifications and Police Practices: A Virginia Case Study (Forthcoming, 3 Virginia Journal of Criminal Law (2014)) on...
View ArticleSecond Circuit Rules 10(b) Does Not Apply Extraterritorially
In United States v. Vilar, the Second Circuit examined a post-Morrison decision with an issue of whether Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 applies to extraterritorial criminal...
View ArticleINDIA - Woman (Chanchal Rathore) sentenced to four years' jail for levelling...
Original Article 09/02/2013 A woman was awarded a sentence of four years and a fine of Rs 11,000 for levelling false rape charges against her landlord, after a dispute over the payment of rent due to...
View ArticleLabor Day Open Thread
Happy Labor Day. (Version with Axl Rose here.) Lets drink to the hard working people Lets drink to the lowly of birth Raise your glass to the good and the evil Lets drink to the salt of the earth...
View ArticleBiber on the Cultural Afterlife of Criminal Evidence
Katherine Biber (University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Law) has posted In Crime's Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Criminal Evidence (British Journal of Criminology, (advance access) August 13,...
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