This Is Why You Can't Afford Preppy Shirts
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">When a multinational corporation finds out that some of its tens of thousands of employees, agents and their nasty friends are up to no good under the...
View ArticleSam's Club at #Lawyernomics
<p><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="arial">Heads were exploding. It's always fun to watch heads explode. Carefully crafted business plans were dropping like flies, as desperate twits...
View ArticleNJ: Use of flash-bang in no-knock not objectively unreasonable
Officers had a no-knock warrant based on defendant’s firearms in the house. The use of a flash-bang device indoors was not objectively unreasonable on these facts. State v. Rockford, 2013 N.J. LEXIS...
View ArticleCriminal Defense Like A Game of Internet Hearts
Although I may not be a gamer like Ken White of Popehat, I have been playing some Hearts on the Internet recently. I love the game of Hearts. I have gotten pretty good at it over the years. And I can...
View ArticleDoes SEO Get Clients?
Apparently there’s a conference going on right now where lawyers are talking about using the internet to get clients. Some think that’s the most awesomest thing ever, some think it’s ill-advised. As...
View ArticleTalk Too Much
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">It's 9:08 a.m. on a Saturday, and I should be in the midst of a meeting with a fellow with whom I made an appointment to do some work on my home. A...
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Drug Distribution Suspect Proclaims Confidence in His Attorney
Drug distribution and drug possession charges were brought against two men in the West Roxbury Division of the Boston Municipal Court after the men were arrested in Roslindale on Wednesday. Dennis...
View ArticleCA9: Defendant not seized when he tossed his gun
Defendant ignored police commands and was walking away form them when he was told to put his hands up. Instead, he reached into his waistband and tossed the gun he had. Even if the prior search of his...
View ArticleS.D.Ohio: Broad added search request for supervised release denied where no...
The court rejects a broad search term on defendant’s supervised release because of his multiple arrests for driving on a suspended license. The search term doesn’t serve any governmental interest....
View ArticleWI: Railroad crossing changes highly regulated industry
A railroad and the City of Fond de Lac were engaged in negotiations to replace a crossing with an overpass. The Wisconsin DOT wanted a soil sample off the right of way as part of its due diligence to...
View ArticleD.S.D.: UA at jail on drug arrest valid as search incident; there was PC
Defendant was arrested for drug offenses, and a jailer told him “he needed ‘to submit to a UA.’ As Jennings was getting the cup for the urine sample out, and without any Miranda advisement, Brown said,...
View ArticleSentencing policy, cell-privacy: Good criminal justice bills waiting for...
A pair bills voted out of the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee recently would begin to adjust drug laws in deference to pragmatic reality:The committee approved Rep. Senfronia Thompson's HB 2914...
View ArticleGA: License plate reader alert justifies stop
An alert from Atlanta’s automatic license plate recognition (LPR) system that the owner of a car had an arrest warrant justifies a stop. Defendant was found to have consented thereafter. Rodriguez v....
View ArticleCA7: Mine safety records demand of miners' medical records was reasonable...
The Mine Safety & Health Review Commission sought personnel and medical records of mine workers. Mines are clearly regulated industries. The record demands were within the power of the agency...
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Off DUI Topic: Apple Ipad Court Presentation using Apple TV
Just finished a successful trial in Baltimore City using Ipad/wireless/projector/screen. Case went well- back up plan was very necessary and learned some VERY important lessons for everybody! Here they...
View ArticleMedical examiner issues dominate early criminal justice bills sent to Perry's...
Not too many criminal-justice related bills of significance have finally passed yet and gone to the governor but here are three senate bills that came through the House Criminal Jurisprudence...
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AUSTRALIA - West Australian police officers charged with criminal offences
Original Article04/27/2013By ASHLEE MULLANY WA police officers have been convicted of nearly 250 criminal offences over the past five years including sex crimes against children, serious assaults,...
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WI - Sturtevant Considering Sex Offender Ordinance
Original Article04/26/2013By Heather AsiyanbiNeighboring communities like Racine and Caledonia have ordinances governing where sex offenders can live. Sturtevant trustees are looking into having one as...
View ArticleIdaho Operation Lifesaver
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View Article"Passive Pedophiles: Are child porn viewers less dangerous than we...
The title of this post is the headline of this notable recent commentary by Emily Bazelon at Slate. Here are excerpts: Making child pornography is abuse. What about possessing it? As a group, these...
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