Kimel on DNA Profiles, Computer Searches and the Fourth Amendment
Catherine W. Kimel has published this article, based on her note at , 62 DUKE L.J. 933 (2013), at The Legal Workshop. In part: Courts have allowed the reasonableness and minimal invasiveness of DNA...
View ArticleAngela Miller Performs in Hollywood
If spiritual songs about Jesus upset you, don't watch it! This is a very powerful song about hardship and getting through it. WOW!!!!Video Description: Angela Miller knew performing her own song was a...
View ArticleUS Sentencing Commission website back in action with full Booker report and...
I am very pleased to have discovered tonight that the US Sentencing Commission, just less than a month after Anonymous hacked into its website (basic here), now has its website up and running again....
View ArticleKS: Public housing employee inspecting apartment was not "government actor"...
A public housing employee came to an apartment to check for damage from a sewer back up. She knocked, got no answer, and entered defendant’s apartment. Inside, she found two unconscious persons and...
View ArticleMA: Only men in vicinity of shooting call could be stopped
Two police officers were cruising the streets during a snow storm had not seen anybody all night, and they passed by two men with hoodies walking who looked away from him as he passed. Just then heard...
View Article5 Traffic Tickets that Raise Insurance Rates
By Justin Coquat | Traffic Ticket SAAll it takes is one accident, one parking violation or one speeding ticket to raise your insurance rates. Did you know that over 40 speed traps in Texas generated...
View ArticleInjury Crash US95 milepost 338.3
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View ArticleOscar Pistorious Bail Hearing: Day 4
Court has begun. The prosecutor is finishing his closing argument. He complains Oscar submitted an affidavit instead of testifying. Magistrate Desmond Nair asks: "Is he not permitted to bring the... [[...
View ArticleAmerikaner produzieren Waffenmagazine aus 3D-Drucker
3D-Drucker sind trotz der hohen Anschaffungskosten der neuste Trend. Die Geräte können aus Plastik so gut wie jedes 3D-Objekt innerhalb von wenigen Minuten herstellen. In den USA haben nun...
View ArticleNews Roundup
For the first time ever, the North Carolina Prosecutors’ Trial Manual is available to the general public for purchase from the School of Government bookstore. The brand-new Fifth Edition, completely...
View ArticleSupreme Court Addresses Whether Drug Dog Sniffs Are Up To Snuff
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in Florida v. Harris that prosecutors are not required to present evidence detailing the stellar records of police dogs before their results can be used in...
View ArticleClose, But No Privacy
<p><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="arial">A computer is more like:</font></font></p> <ol> <li><font...
View ArticleObamacare and Lower-Income Workers
David Gamage, Perverse Incentives Arising From the Tax Provisions of Healthcare Reform: Why Further Reforms Are Needed to Prevent Avoidable Costs to Low- and Moderate-Income Workers, 65 Tax L. Rev. 669...
View ArticleThe Wrong First Question to Ask an Attorney: How Much do You Charge?
I can’t even begin to tell you how many people contact my office about their case with this initial question: How much do you charge? Frankly, that’s simply the wrong first question to ask. Think about...
View ArticleMaryland legislature moves one step closer to repealing state's death penalty
As reported in this Baltimore Sun article, the Maryland "General Assembly took an important step toward repealing Maryland's death penalty Thursday night when a key committee, for the first time in...
View ArticleEdward Montour case: Was inmate a volunteer for the death penalty?
Westword by Alan Prendergast In an unusual court hearing unfolding in Castle Rock, attorneys for Edward Montour Jr. are seeking to withdraw his guilty plea for the murder of a correctional officer in...
View Article"Knock and Announce Rule" Requires Reasonable Wait in New Mexico
The New Mexico Court of Appeals was recently called upon to review the "knock and announce" rule in the case of State of New Mexico v. Jean-Paul. The gist of the opinion is that the not only is there a...
View ArticleWild Threesome Ends in Stabbing of Unlucky Participant
A threesome didn't quite go as planned for one unlucky participant when his request to switch sexual positions with another man resulted in him being chased and ultimately stabbed with a butcher knife....
View Article"Pot on the patio? Colorado's 'surreal' path to legalizing marijuana"
The title of this post is the headline of this lengthy and interesting new Christian Science Monitor article. Here are some extended excerpts: In the wake of the decision by voters in Colorado last...
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