MacMahon on Self-Service Search Warrants and International Terrorism
Paul MacMahon (Harvard Law School) has posted Self-Service Search Warrants and International Terrorism: Lessons from Damache v. DPP (Irish Law Journal, Vol. 1, p. 2, 2012) on SSRN. Here is the...
View ArticleGuilty Plea in $50 Million Real Estate Ponzi Scheme
A New Jersey man pled guilty to orchestrating a real estate Ponzi scheme that took in more than $50 million from over 200 victims. David Connolly, 51, agreed to plead guilty to one count of securities...
View ArticleCrash near American Falls injures two.
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Monday Night Open Thread
Anonymous hacked the Department of Energy last month, the agency confirmed. No classified info was taken, just personal data. There are also claims that Anonymous is responsible the release of 4,000......
View ArticleRay Lewis, Facebook, and the Justice System
Ray Lewis’s retirement has made for an interesting time to be a criminal defense lawyer. Many of us who defend people for a living lead two lives. In one, we are in and out of jails, explaining things...
View ArticleWill deferred prosecution fix a refusal?
No. A Deferred Prosecution will not cure or fix a refusal of the breath test at the police station. If you do not win the Department of Licensing (DOL) Hearing you will have at least a one (1) year...
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MT - Bill would require violent and sexual offenders to submit DNA
Original Article02/04/2013By John S. AdamsHELENA — Attorney General Tim Fox urged members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to move a bill aimed at cracking down on sexual and violent offenders who...
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FL - City Council seeks public input on sex offender laws
Original ArticleOnce again, they are putting all ex-sex offenders into one group, someone who harms children, which is a flat out lie and deceitful. If the law affected those who committed their crimes...
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GA - Lawmaker introduces bill to ban sex offenders from driving school buses
Original Article02/04/2013By Christopher KingATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) - A state lawmaker has introduced a bill that would ban anyone on the sex offender registry from getting a new license to drive a...
View ArticleFreispruch nach angeblicher Unterschlagung in Physiotherapie-Praxis
In einer Physiotherapie-Praxis sollen rund 3700 Euro in der Kasse gefehlt haben. Der Betreiber der Praxis beschuldigte eine ehemalige Angestellte, das Geld genommen zu haben. Vor dem Amtsgericht...
View ArticleThe President's Defense
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="arial">NBC has obtained a <a href="%3CBlogInfo:URL%20/%3E/files/66432-58232/020413_DOJ_White_Paper.pdf">white paper</a> explaining to some...
View ArticleJUSTICE UNDER CONTINUED ATTACK: CORRUPT POLICE, LYING WITNESSES, COMPLICIT...
Michael Cosme, Devon Ayers and Carlos Perez were freed from prison in the night hours of January 23, 2013. Eighteen years ago they had been sent to a New York state prison for a crime they did not...
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SOTO GIVES RODRIGIUEZ-CHOMAT THE FINGER
Penelope Soto (what Soto did you think we meant?) gave Judge Rodriguez-Chomat "the finger" during a tete-a-tete over a bond hearing after the Judge made inquiry over the value of the jewelry she was...
View ArticleThat Run Down Feeling in Wichita
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">Ever get that run down feeling? You know, the one where a police car going very fast without its lights or sirens on runs you down. It's...
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Tracing Meets Twombly: Ninth Circuit Sets Section 11 Pleading Standards For...
In a precedent setting decision, the Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a putative class action in In re Century Aluminum Co. Securities Litigation, significantly raising the pleading bar in Section...
View ArticleDOJ White Paper: Use of Lethal Force Against U.S. Citizens as Terrorists is...
DOJ White Paper: Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen Who is a Senior Leader of Al-Qa’ida or An Associated Force on NBC News website. The White Paper concludes on page 9...
View ArticleD.Mont.: A polygraph test is not a search
A polygraph test is not a search. United States v. Alvarez, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14813 (D. Mont. February 4, 2013).* A UPS supervisor was suspicious of several packages going to defendant’s address,...
View ArticleIn the News & Around the Blogopshere
David Oscar Markus, Southern District of Florida Blog, A Call to the Judiciary Sherri Qualters, National Law Jrl, law.com, Lawyer gets home confinement for failing to report boss's mortgage fraud Texas...
View ArticleKS: A stop cannot be continued on a mere hunch
A stop or continuation of a stop cannot be based on a mere hunch, and this one was. State v. Martinez, 2013 Kan. LEXIS 16 (February 1, 2013).* The officers’ testimony that they observed plaintiff...
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Federal District Court finds reasonable expectation of privacy in packages...
Confronted with an issue of first impression, a federal district court held that the sender of packages labeled with fictitious sender and recipient information retained a reasonable expectation of...
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