Thanks to a Sport-Coated Stranger
Somewhere between where I parked my car at the courthouse and the courtroom today, I dropped my wallet with all my credit cards. Since I keep my ID in a separate card folder, I had no idea it was...
View Article"Fourth Amendment Civil Suit for Deleting a Picture from the Plaintiff’s...
Orin Kerr has this post at The Volokh Conspiracy, excerpting a recent case in part as follows: Deleting the photograph from plaintiff’s camera amounted to no more than a de minimis violation. The...
View ArticleDoron & Love on Aging Prisoners
Israel Issi Doron and Helene Love (University of Haifa - Department of Gerontology and University of BC) have posted Aging Prisoners: A Brief Report of Key Legal and Policy Dilemmas (International...
View ArticleMason & Berch on the "Primary Purpose" Test and Multifunction...
Caleb E. Mason and Jessica J. Berch (Miller Barondess, LLP and Southwestern Law School) have posted The Confrontation Clause and the Border Patrol: Applying the 'Primary Purpose' Test to Multifunction...
View ArticlePenney on Irresistible Impulse
Steven Penney (University of Alberta - Faculty of Law) has posted Irresistible Impulse and the Mental Disorder Defence: The Criminal Code, the Charter, and the Neuroscience of Control (Criminal Law...
View Article2 Vehicle crash on US93
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View ArticleSelbstleseverfahren, Band 21
Auch heute erscheint wieder unser Selbstleseverfahren mit einigen lesenswerten Nachrichten der letzten Woche. Richtungsweisend war in dieser Woche das Urteil gegen Heidi K. wegen der Freiheitsberaubung...
View ArticleDeutlich mehr Gewalttaten an Hamburger Schulen
Die statistische Erhebung der Hamburger Schulbehörde ist sehr erschreckend: Im vergangenen Schuljahr wurden insgesamt 1.103 Schüler und Lehrer in der Hansestadt verprügelt, bedroht, beleidigt,...
View ArticlePA: Search of unconscious accident victim's purse for ID was valid
Defendant was found unconscious after an accident, and first responders searched her purse for identification and any medical alert information. Drugs were found. That search was valid, as was an...
View ArticleFatal Crash NB US95 MP411
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View ArticleN.D.W.Va.: Officer had RS of hunting from car for stop
The officer was patrolling in an area known for hunting from vehicles. Defendant was validly stopped because the inspection certificate appeared expired. It turned out that it wasn’t but the officer...
View ArticleMD: Rear deck taillight out supports stop
The officer watched defendant walking and get into the passenger seat of a car. As the car drove off, he noticed the rear deck brake light was out. That justified a stop, and marijuana was smelled, and...
View ArticleMO: No standing in a stolen RV being lived in
Defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in a stolen RV he was living in, that apparently he stole. This is a form of Rakas “wrongful presence.” State v. Woodrome, 2013 Mo. App. LEXIS 1040...
View ArticleCA9: Consent to search a cell phone doesn't include answering it and...
Consent to “look in” or “search” a cell phone does not include permission for the officer to answer the phone and pass himself off as the defendant. “An individual who gives consent to the search of...
View ArticleFL - Delray commissioners consider shrinking areas where sexual offenders and...
Original Article 09/13/2013 By Marisa Gottesman The Sun Sentinel investigation that uncovered the failures of Florida's Jimmy Ryce Act (Wikipedia), which was intended to keep people safe from sexual...
View ArticleImproper juror contact unravels domestic violence case
In criminal cases involving jury trials, there are a number of rules in place to protect the integrity of the criminal process. One of those rules is that jurors and those connected with the...
View ArticleVT - Legislative Response to Brooke Bennett’s Slaying Is Both Encouraging,...
Original Article 09/15/2013 By Mark Davis Randolph - With his guilty plea last month, Randolph sex offender _____ is about to spend the rest of his life in prison for the 2008 rape and murder of his...
View Article2000 Pounds of Pot Seized in Boat off Santa Barbara
18 people were arrested and 2,000 pounds of marijuana were seized after a boat landed on a quiet Santa Barbara Beach Friday. Law enforcement officials said the boat was first spotted by a group of...
View ArticleNFL WEEK TWO 2013
If you took a peek in the comments early Thursday evening we posted a comment that we liked the J...E...T....S and while they didn't win, the cheaters didn't cover and if you took Gang Green +10, you...
View ArticleForbes: E-ZPasses Get Read All Over New York (Not Just At Toll Booths)
Forbes: E-ZPasses Get Read All Over New York (Not Just At Toll Booths) by Kashmir Hill: [...] Read more!
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