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IN - Sex offenders will have to pay $50 (extortion fee) in order to register
Original ArticleIt's extortion, plain and simple!02/22/2013By Megan ReustFORT WAYNE (WANE) - Starting April 1, sex offenders in Allen County will be required to pay a fee to register and change their...
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PA - USA Fair - From a fellow advocate in Pennsylvania
Original Facebook Post Hi everyone, I wanted to let the group know about the conversation I just had with my contact at the Defender Assoc. of Phila. She told me they are going to file petitions...
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Cop Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Pornography and Sexual Assault
A veteran police officer was arrested more than nine months ago on charges that included possession of child pornography and soliciting explicit photographs from a minor. A further investigation into...
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Conrad Black Must Wait in Court Line Like Everyone Else
Conrad Black’s battle to retain his Order of Canada designation will not be resolved quickly, much to his dismay. Upon receiving notice that the Governor-General’s Advisory Council was reviewing his...
View ArticleSlobogin on the Essential Fourth Amendment
Christopher Slobogin (Vanderbilt University - Law School) has posted What is the Essential Fourth Amendment? (Texas Law Review, Vol. 91, No. 2, 2012) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In More Essential...
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Marijuana Patient Will Not Be Prosecuted for Giving Another Patient Marijuana...
On January 30, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that a marijuana patient who had given another registered patient marijuana cannot be prosecuted. The issue came about when Tony Allen Green gave...
View ArticleUtah State Trooper Accused Of Making Bogus DUI Arrests
A police officer in Utah has found herself in serious hot water after a series of lawsuits revealed she may have built her reputation as a tough cop on a foundation of fake DUI arrests. The Utah...
View ArticleUtah State Trooper Accused Of Making Bogus DUI Arrests
A police officer in Utah has found herself in serious hot water after a series of lawsuits revealed she may have built her reputation as a tough cop on a foundation of fake DUI arrests. The Utah...
View Article7th Circuit Court of Appeals Denies Re-hearing in Moore v. Madigan
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Denies Motion for Re-hearing on Moore v. Madigan – Illinois Ban on Concealed Weapons Remains Unconstitutional By R Tamara de Silva February 22, 2013 Earlier today, the...
View ArticleOH4: Entry into defendant's house was objectively reasonable where his father...
Entry into defendant’s house under the emergency aid exception was objectively justified because of a murder of his father in the house next door and he couldn’t be found. State v. Markins, 2013 Ohio...
View ArticleOH12: Storekeeper was citizen informant entitled to reliability
Storekeeper who observed defendant’s intoxicated conduct was a citizen informant when he called the police report her condition. State v. Schmidbauer, 2013 Ohio 530, 2013 Ohio App. LEXIS 465 (12th...
View ArticleE.D.Mo.: Officer's pressing face against tinted living room window to see in...
Officer’s pressing face against defendant’s front window to see through heavily tinted glass did not violate defendant’s curtilage. Defendant testified to his expectation of privacy, which wasn't...
View ArticleSUPREME COURT DENIES SECOND TRIAL FOR DOUBLE JEOPARDY CASE
After the prosecution rested its case in Lamar Evans’ arson of “other real property” trial the court granted his attorney’s motion for a directed verdict on the basis that the state failed to prove an...
View ArticleProzess: Tod beim SM-Sex
Eine bayrische Studentin wurde im Oktober tot in Schweden aufgefunden. Zuvor soll es mit einem Schweden zu SM-Spielen gekommen sein. Im Prozess geht es nun um schwere Körperverletzung und fahrlässige...
View ArticleWho You Gonna Believe?
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">At <a href="http://www.popehat.com/2013/02/19/blogging-compared-to-what/" target="">Popehat,</a> Ken wrote a post addressing the...
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Lessons from the 2013 AAFS convention
I just finished attending my third American Academy of Forensic Sciences convention. As usual, there were too many presentations to attend, and most of the presentations are far too short. Unlike most...
View ArticleAre Suspects Just Too Tough?
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="arial">No clue what happened or why this individual became the focus of police attention, but the visuals are pretty clear. It raises a question, however. Are...
View Article10th Anniversary Note: § 2.1. Understanding Fourth Amendment realities
Today is the Tenth Anniversary of this blog. What follows are 13 “realities” of Fourth Amendment adjudication that I see from having read so many Fourth Amendment cases for so long. This is § 2.1 of...
View ArticleMotive, Intent, Identity, and Absence of Mistake Under Drew
One of the disadvantages to practicing law in D.C. is that the courts here do not use the Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE). You can’t just consult the text of a particular rule and then the case law...
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ATTORNEY. SAMS TAKE ON QUESTIONS OF IMMUNITY IN BOSTON'S MULTIPLE MURDER MATTER
In my last posting, I indicated that I would answer some questions regarding the James Whitey Bulger multi murder matter currently pending in federal court. Of course, there are many questions that we...
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