Cell phone ban to go into effect at 26th and California
Yesterday, Circuit Court of Cook County Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans announced that on Monday, April 15, no electronic communications and internet devices will be allowed at the felony courthouse at...
View ArticleCA1: Stop escalated without any reasonable suspicion defendant was a fugitive
Defendant’s stop escalated to full arrest without reasonable suspicion just because the officers couldn’t find him in a government database, wrongly concluding this made him a fugitive. On the...
View ArticleWhat Happens After A Grand Jury Indicts Me For A Felony?
Many times I receive calls from potential clients in the weeks leading up to an indictment. Some times people want to wait and see if they get indicted, they hold onto hope that if they wait that they...
View ArticleWhat Happens After A Grand Jury Indicts Me For A Felony?
Many times I receive calls from potential clients in the weeks leading up to an indictment. Some times people want to wait and see if they get indicted, they hold onto hope that if they wait that they...
View ArticleS.D.Ala.: Thumb drive hanging around defendant's neck within SW for computer...
Defense counsel was not ineffective for not moving to suppress a thumb drive taken off his person during execution of the search warrant in this case for computer media in the house since he was in the...
View ArticleThe Hill: IRS: We can read emails without warrant
The Hill: IRS: We can read emails without warrant by Brendan Sasso. The IRS believes that it can ignore United States v. Warshak outside the Sixth Circuit, even though every district court to consider...
View ArticleTwo discussions suggesting potential virtues of shame punishments
I have just noticed two notable punishment theory papers via SSRN discussing shame punishments. This broader piece by Luke Coyne is titled "Can Shame Be Therapeutic?" and here is its abstract: This...
View ArticleWhat Happens After You Are Indicted By A Grand Jury In Toledo?
Over my career, as both a former prosecutor and a defense lawyer, I have learned that many people make the mistake of waiting until after they have been indicted to try to hire an experienced defense...
View ArticleNews Roundup
I’ve been busy with New Prosecutors’ School this week. As always, it has been humbling and inspiring. But the world didn’t stop turning. Here are some of the week’s top stories: The General Assembly...
View ArticleSpeeding Tickets are Crimes in Georgia
View More Criminal Defense Articles Supreme Court Ruling: A recent United States Supreme Court ruling concluded that there is no [...]
View ArticleTerrific SCOTUSblog preview of Kebodeaux and SORNA
A helpful reader reminded me not only that the Supreme Court has a last few criminal justice cases slated for oral argument the next few weeks as its term winds down, but also that one sex offender...
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Novi School Principal Accused of DUI Placed on Immediate Paid Leave
Deerfield Elementary Principal Kim Warren was recently suspended after it was suspected that she was drinking alcohol on her lunch break. The Novi, Michigan elementary school principal was arrested for...
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Michigan Court of Appeals Determines Saginaw County Juror's Wikipedia...
In November of 2011, Julie M. Maliszewski was convicted of larceny from a person. The conviction stemmed from an incident in July of 2010 when Maliszewski was at a friend's home in Birch Run Township...
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Ten St. Johns County store clerks and restaurant servers caught in sting,...
Ten employees of St. Johns County businesses are facing misdemeanor charges for allegedly allowing minors to buy alcohol during an undercover operation by the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office. Police...
View ArticleArkansas Supreme Court Lifts Execution Stays
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruling in Jones v. Hobbs is at the link. "Court: Six death-row inmates no longer under stays of execution," is the Arkansas News Bureau report. The stays of execution...
View ArticlePuerto Rican Jury Rejects Another Federal Death Sentence
"Puerto Rican jury rejects death sentence in police killing," is the Reuters post, via the Chicago Tribune. A Jamaican man was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of an undercover policeman in...
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Bolingbrook Man Wants Neighbors to Know He's Not a Sex Offender
4-12-2013 Illinois: A Bolingbrook resident living in the former home of a registered child sex offender has received verbal insults and obscene gestures from passersby. When Fred Cook moved......
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On Trial for Fraud, Ponzi Scheme
Frail ex-Delray commissioner on trial for alleged Ponzi scheme says she never intended ‘not to pay back the money’Former Delray Beach City Commissioner Charlotte Durante took the stand in her own...
View ArticleFriedman & Lakier on Limiting the Commerce Power
Barry Friedman and Genevieve Lakier (New York University School of Law and University of Chicago Law School) has posted 'To Regulate,' Not 'To Prohibit': Limiting the Commerce Power on SSRN. Here is...
View ArticleYou Think Graduating Law School And Passing The Bar Will Guarantee You A Job?...
So you spend three years and pay over $100,000 in tuition to get through law school. You put your life on hold attending classes and studying for finals. Then, you go into hibernation for over 2 months...
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