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DUI Charge With Child in A Car
A Greenacres woman is facing DUI and child neglect charges today after police say her teenage daughter was in the vehicle with her as she drove impaired.Greenacres police arrested Martina Cecilia...
View ArticleBook by J. L. Hardee Sheds Light on Jury Deliberation Process
Justice or Injustice? What really Happens in a Court Jury Room is a book by J.L. Hardee that every American citizen should have to read. It tells the story of a young man thrown into the justice system...
View ArticleCA3: Police reliance on a prosecutor’s legal advice on PC to arrest is gives...
Police reliance on a prosecutor’s legal advice on probable cause to arrest is entitled to qualified immunity. Fiore v. City of Bethlehem, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 1459 (3d Cir. January 18, 2013).* In this...
View ArticleIf I have a warrant out for my arrest, should I have an attorney with me when...
Free legal answers from attorneys - I found out there is a warrant out for my arrest for assault and after a bar fight but no one was arrested that night.
View ArticleHarvard Law Meets an Innocent Man
By John J. Corrigan, Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School My seminar on criminal prosecution, for law students working essentially as Assistant District Attorneys in their third year, is a self-selected...
View ArticleWhat is the possibility of not getting jail time for my second DUI in 2 years?
Free legal answers from attorneys - Not much to add here Didn't get jail for my first offense, just wondering if I'll get jail for second offense.
View ArticleIf a store forgives me for stealing something can I still be arrested for it?
Free legal answers from attorneys - The security guard at the store caught me for stealing candy. I went into the back office with him and the manager and
View ArticleIN: Photographs of defendant's car didn't objectively support state's...
The court of appeals looks at the photographs of defendant’s car and concludes the window tint justification for the stop was objectively unreasonable, and the motion to suppress should have been...
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View ArticleCommentary From Arkansas
Today's Baxter Bulletin publishes Steve Barnes' column, "Will Beebe remarks spark capitol punishment action?" Gov. Beebe’s declaration, a few days ago, that he would sign a bill abolishing the death...
View ArticleBrockton Man Arrested, Charged With Home Invasion In Plymouth District Court
According to a report in the Brockton Enterprise Paul Perelli met up with defendant Eddy Monteiro, a Brockton, Massachusetts resident at Perelli's home in Marshfield. It is alleged that Monteiro owed...
View ArticleWoman Accused of Murdering Boyfriend with Breasts
Authorities are recommending second-degree murder charges be brought against a 50-year-old Washington woman who allegedly murdered her boyfriend by smothering him with her breasts.The post Woman...
View ArticleWoman Accused of Murdering Boyfriend with Breasts
Authorities are recommending second-degree murder charges be brought against a 50-year-old Washington woman who allegedly murdered her boyfriend by smothering him with her breasts.The post Woman...
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Ex-CIA Officer Sentenced to 30 Months for Torture Leak
A federal judge in Virginia has accepted the plea agreement of former CIA agent John Kiriakou and sentenced him to 30 months in prison for leaking the name of a CIA operative who participated in the......
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View ArticleTX: In a civil forfeiture, the defense apparently must prove a negative on...
On defense summary judgment in a forfeiture case, the defense has to prove a negative, that the officers did not have “a reasonable belief that the property had or would have a substantial connection...
View ArticleSacharoff on the Relational Nature of Privacy
Laurent Sacharoff (University of Arkansas - School of Law) has posted The Relational Nature of Privacy (Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 16, No. 4, p. 1249, 2012) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The...
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MN - Report: Hundreds of Sex Offenders Released Before Completing Treatment
Original Article01/24/2013By Steve Tellier Hundreds of convicted sex offenders are ordered to complete treatment while in prison but are released without doing so. And even the Minnesota Department of...
View ArticleKansas Death Penalty Conviction Overturned
TheKansas Supreme Court ruling in Kansas v. Cheatham is available in Adobe .pdf format. The Republic posts the AP filing, "Kansas Supreme Court orders new trial for man in 2003 murders, cites...
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What Will Make a California DUI a Felony Charge?
Under most circumstances, driving under the influence (DUI) in California will result in misdemeanor charges being filed against you. Most of the 200,000 people arrested for DUI will be charged with a...
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