The week ahead in Texas criminal-justice related committtees
There's a full-plate of criminal justice related bills up in committee this week in a variety of committees and complete agendas for individual committees are hyperlinked under each panel's name, but...
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US Airstrike Kills 11 Afghani Children
A US airstrike in Afghanistan yesterday targeting a Taliban leader killed 11 children. Also yesterday, 6 Americans including a young female diplomat were killed in a suicide bombing: The battle...
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Drunk Driver Given Millions After Hellish 22-Month Incarceration
A man from New Mexico who was forced to spend nearly two years behind bars, much of which was in solitary confinement, was recently awarded $15.5 million in arbitration from the county responsible for...
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Case o' The Week: A Taxing Decision - Jennings and Sophisticated Means
With the Judiciary battered by reduced federal funding, on the eve of the April 15 filing deadline, in a case submitted without oral argument, will the government prevail when tax evaders appeal a...
View ArticleSamuel Leibowitz
Samuel Leibowitz August 14, 1893 – January 11, 1978 While reading an article in Thursday’s New York Times (4/4/13),I flashed back forty years deep into my public defender days. Alabama lawmakers voted...
View ArticleInvestors Sue "SEC APPROVED" Ponzi Schemers And County Bank For $5.1 Million
A group of investors that lost millions of dollars in what authorities alleged was a $60 million Ponzi scheme filed a lawsuit against the alleged Ponzi schemers and the community bank listed on their...
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A Cop's Opinion Gets a Case Overturned
Everybody is entitled to their opinion. But, not everybody is entitled to have that opinion heard by a jury. Judges limit testimony of witnesses based upon their expertise of a subject, or lack...
View ArticleMan Accused of Committing Mortgage and Tax Fraud
Jon C. Cooper, 64, Washington, D.C., was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he filed a false tax return concealing embezzled income, and committed mortgage fraud, among other alled crimes.
View ArticleMea Maxima Culpa
Last week I was in trial (my first bench trial in federal court; we came in second). I was also excited to be scheduled to speak to Professor Ray Moses’s “Opening and Closing” class at South Texas...
View ArticleFugitive Pleads Guilty to Making False Statements to Obtain Loan
James Gordon Fields, 47, whose last known address in unknown, a man who was a fugitive for more than a year, pled guilty in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in...
View ArticleSentenced Handed Down for Fraudulent Loan Scheme
Kenneth Koehler, 43, Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced to 18 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme...
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¿Es posible defenderse de una extradición?
La respuesta es si. Contrariamente a lo que se puede esperar, el proceso de extradición tiene por finalidad encausar la cooperación judicial pero sin lesionar los derechos del extraditable.Si bien los...
View ArticleCalifornia Man Pleads Guilty to $3 Million Ponzi Scheme; Could Be Released By...
Facing trial for thirty-eight counts of securities fraud, conspiracy, and grand theft, a California man agreed to plead guilty to running a $3 million Ponzi scheme that counted a former mayor as its...
View ArticleTop-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads
in criminal law and procedure ejournals are here. The usual disclaimers apply. RankDownloadsPaper Title 1 3086 The Dangers of Surveillance Neil M. Richards, Washington University in Saint Louis -...
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Arrested celebrating big events in Atlanta? You're not the only one.
Other than being an international city, Atlanta is certainly one of the United States' top five intercontinental cities. This past weekend was no exception. Between hosting the NCAA final four...
View ArticleFederal judge decides California still cannot run its prison without monitoring
As reported in this article, which is headlined "Judge refuses to end prison monitoring," the California prison system appears not to be getting out of federal court monitoring anytime soon. Here is...
View ArticleRoth on Stuntz on American Criminal Justice
Andrea L. Roth (UC Berkeley School of Law) has posted Book Review: William J. Stuntz, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice (Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 62, p. 377, 2012) on SSRN. Here is the...
View Article“Officer on a Train” Enforcement at Rail Intersections This Friday
MERIDIAN - On Friday, April 12, 2013, the Idaho State Police, in cooperation with city and county law enforcement officers, will be conducting an “Officer on a Train” and “Adopt a Crossing” enforcement...
View ArticleE.D.Cal.: Invalid parts of warrant severed
The search warrant here authorized seizure of things not remotely related to a completed crime, and they were suppressed and were severable from the whole warrant. Thus, the parts lawfully seized under...
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