Does God care who wins when federal judges impose sentences?
The silly question in the title of this post is prompted in part by last month's Sports Illustrated cover which asked "Does God Care Who Wins the SuperBowl?" Whatever your answer to that important...
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Certain human trafficking convictions to require sex offender registration in...
3-5-2013 North Carolina: RALEIGH, North Carolina — People convicted in North Carolina of human trafficking would have to register with local sheriffs as registered sex offenders in legislation......
View ArticleSUPREME COURT DENIES STANDING TO CHALLENGE FISA AMENDMENTS ACT
In Clapper v. Amnesty International, decided by the Supreme Court, last week, Amnesty International and a number of co-defendants challenged Section 50 U. S. C. 1881a of the Foreign Intelligence...
View ArticleStep Away From the Wrong: Fight Over Everything!
A court reporter asked me today, “Why do you have to fight over everything, Mr. Horowitz?” I didn’t answer her. She picked up her computer, and walked away. I didn’t answer her because the only...
View ArticleFreispruch und Entschädigung nach Schlägerei am Alexanderplatz
Die Staatsanwaltschaft Berlin warf dem 23-jährigen Angeklagten vor, dass er im Mai letzten Jahres einer 35-jährigen Frau im S-Bahnhof Alexanderplatz in Berlin mehrfach ins Gesicht getreten haben soll....
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Mistrial declared in Antoine Jones' third trial
Antoine Jones, the defendant in the high-profile Supreme Court case on GPS tracking United States v. Jones, had his third trial declared a mistrial yesterday. Since his arrest in 2005, the feds have...
View ArticleIf There's No Penalty, It's Not Wrong
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">A question by my pal, Fritz, was raised by this <a href=...
View ArticleIn The Money
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="arial">This video has gone viral, so it's likely you've seen it already. But just in case you haven't, it's worth a few minutes of your time.<br>...
View ArticleVideo, resources from location tracking conference
Here's the full 9+ hour video from the conference I attended on Sunday at the Yale Law School on location tracking and biometrics. The meat of it gets started around the 40 minute mark with Christopher...
View ArticleSpotsylvania Reckless Driving by Speed Defense
If you’re facing a Spotsylvania reckless driving by speed ticket, there’s a lot of things you need to know in order to mount your defense. The first thing to do I recommend is to request a copy of my...
View ArticlePre-Jones GPS and standing in the vehicle of another
Defendant had no standing to contest the stop based on pre-Jones GPS on a vehicle he wasn’t driving at the time. He had possession when it was installed, but it wasn’t his car and he wasn’t driving...
View ArticleOH9: Granting motion to suppress on a ground not litigated is error
Trial court erred in granting motion to suppress on an issue not even raised by defendant that the state did not get to address. State v. Duke, 2013 Ohio 743, 2013 Ohio App. LEXIS 655 (9th Dist. March...
View ArticleFatality crash Potlatch Idaho
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View ArticleW.D.Mo.: Reasonable suspicion and knife clipped in pocket justified frisk for...
A knife in defendant’s pocket, once reasonable suspicion developed, justified a frisk. United States v. Brown, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 28752 (W.D. Mo. January 28, 2013).* There was probable cause to...
View ArticleID: Search of the cell phone in the pocket of a rape suspect was fairly...
A woman was raped, and her assailant took a picture or video of her before he left with his cell phone. Officers quickly focused on defendant who had a rape history, and they got a search warrant for...
View ArticleCA8: Drug dog scan of belongings left in school room not Fourth Amendment...
Requiring students to leave their belongings in a room for a drug dog to scan them did not violate the student’s Fourth Amendment rights under T.L.O. and Acton. The court distinguishes Doe v. Little...
View ArticleAlleged Drug Dealer at Center of Supreme Court GPS Case Wins Mistrial
The alleged drug dealer who was at the center of the Supreme Court’s landmark GPS tracking case had a mistrial declared Monday in his retrial after District of Columbia jurors said they were hopelessly...
View ArticleTCDLA’s Position on Reciprocal Discovery
Letter from Bobby Mims of Tyler, President of the Texas Criminal-Defense Lawyers Association, to the sponsor of Texas Senate Bill 91 and his Chief of Staff: Senator Rodney Ellis & Mr. Brandon...
View ArticleToday in the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
The Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee meets today and several bills are on the agenda that may interest Grits readers.First, a number of exonerees are coming into town to testify for Rep....
View Article'The case for independent oversight of Texas' prison system'
The Texas Criminal Justice Coalition issued a press release today in support of three bills establishing independent oversight and accountability for TDCJ's facilities and treatment of prisoners. They...
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