Randolph Rice, Jr. Lawyer in Baltimore, Criminal Defense Attorney MD : Super...
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DISBARRED: The Series Part 8 Scott Rothstein
The story of Scott Rothstein, disbarred Florida attorney and entrepreneur, reads like a movie script for actor Sean Penn. The plot begins simply: Jewish boy raised in poverty moves from New York to...
View ArticleAre DWI Courts Responsible for Avoiding Fiscal Cliff?
According to a national drunk driving organization, the number of courts dedicated to hearing only those cases involving drunk drivers has now risen above 600. The group, the National Center for DWI...
View ArticleAre DWI Courts Responsible for Avoiding Fiscal Cliff?
According to a national drunk driving organization, the number of courts dedicated to hearing only those cases involving drunk drivers has now risen above 600. The group, the National Center for DWI...
View ArticleFriday's criminal law/procedure cert grant
Issue summary is from ScotusBlog, which also links to papers: United States v. Davila: Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that any degree of judicial participation in plea negotiations, in...
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Consequences In San Bruno DUI Vehicular Manslaughter Case
News reports recently indicated that Mitnesh Reddy, 23, of San Bruno, entered a no contest plea in a San Mateo County DUI Vehicular Manslaughter case. The pleas were entered in November 2012 and he was...
View ArticleNext week's criminal law/procedure arguments
Issue summaries are from ScotusBlog, which links to papers: Monday, Jan. 7 Descamps v. U.S.: Whether, in a case under the Armed Career Criminal Act, when a state crime does not require an element of...
View Article"Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy on the Failure of the War on Drugs"
Ilya Somin at The Volokh Conspiracy excerpts this column from The Wall Street Journal.
View ArticleLock in your loan modification?
If you have obtained a loan modification, you may have heard that banks routinely do not honor them despite finalizing them with you. This is very common. You can lock-in the payment on your loan...
View Article"Rape by False Pretenses"
Kent Scheidegger has this post at Crime and Consequences summarizing and commenting on this past week's decision from the California Court of Appeal reversing a defendant's conviction for having sex by...
View ArticleSlobogin and Brinkley-Rubinstein on Empirical Desert
Christopher Slobogin (pictured) and Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein (Vanderbilt University - Law School and Vanderbilt University, Peabody College) have posted Putting Desert in Its Place (Stanford Law...
View ArticleD.Kan.: When officer saw a gun in car, he was justified in reaching in and...
Defendant was stopped for a traffic offense, and a gun was in plain view in the back seat. The officer was justified in reaching in and securing the keys to the car. United States v. Huff, 2013 U.S....
View ArticleN.D.Ohio: Affidavit as a whole showed fair probability drugs would be found;...
The affidavit for search warrant showed probable cause for a search and was not stale. The information included involved drug trafficking over a period of months from the house. That also shows nexus....
View ArticleOH7: SW for computer surveillance video did not violate the Fourth Amendment...
Dancers working at the GoGo Girls Cabaret in Austintown, OH were arrested for prostitution with patrons in a back room. There was no written motion to suppress, but there was an oral motion from some...
View ArticleKörperverletzung: Säure-Angriff auf junge Frau
Eine 20-jährige Frau aus Hilden kam mit schweren Gesichtsverletzungen in ein Krankenhaus. Die Frau soll ahnungslos die Haustür geöffnet haben, als ihr ein junger Mann Schwefelsäure ins Gesicht sprühte....
View ArticlePostbote vom Vorwurf Wurfsendung entsorgt zu haben freigesprochen
Einem Postboten wurde vorgeworfen, dass er unbequeme Postwurfsendungen statt zuzustellen einfach in den Papiermüll werfen würde. Eine neue Kollegin hatte den 53-Jährigen bei der Konzernleitung...
View ArticleBench Brief Burdens
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">At <a href="http://abovethelaw.com/2013/01/inside-straight-reforming-the-bench-memo-process/" target="">Above The Law</a>, fellow curmudgeon...
View ArticleNew Scholarship - Conflict Minerals Legislation
One of the hot topics for corporate counsel is the conflict minerals legislation. Karen E.Woody of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP has a new article that was recently published in 81 Fordham Law...
View ArticleTricks of the Trade, Part 1
<p><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="arial">The latest gimmick to make law school relevant is to recreate the third year curriculum so that students graduate with some basic skills in the...
View ArticleNYT Editorial: "Is the Driver Drunk?" McNeeley argument Wednesday
NYT Editorial: Is the Driver Drunk? by Lincoln Caplan: The Fourth Amendment prohibits the police from searching individuals without a warrant, but the Supreme Court allows exceptions to that rule for...
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