Drug Charges in Utah | Salt Lake City Criminal Defense Lawyer
Arnold & Wadsworth has the criminal defense lawyers needed to help you win your drug related case. As you approach these serious charges you need to make sure you partner with a criminal defense...
View ArticleSlobogin on a Comparative Perspective on the Exclusionary Rule
Christopher Slobogin (Vanderbilt University - Law School) has posted A Comparative Perspective on the Exclusionary Rule in Search and Seizure Cases on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The modern United...
View ArticleHow long will the Court have jurisdiction if my deferred prosecution is revoked?
Typically, it will be 5 years from the date of revocation. Jurisdiction refers to how long the case will stay open and you will be subject to the Court's DUI conditions. If you violate those conditions...
View ArticleJefferson-Jones on Exchanging Inmate Organs for Liberty
Jamila Jefferson-Jones (Barry University School of Law) has posted The Exchange of Inmate Organs for Liberty: Diminishing the 'Yuck Factor' in the Bioethics Repugnance Debate on SSRN. Here is the...
View ArticleGallant on the Presumption Against Extraterritorial Effect of Statutes
Kenneth S. Gallant (University of Arkansas at Little Rock - William H. Bowen School of Law) has posted The Indeterminate International Law of Jurisdiction, the Presumption Against Extraterritorial...
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Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner
President Obama is about to take the stage at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Michelle looks great as usual. Big Media blew a lot of stories this year, especially in the early reporting days of...
View ArticleThe Next Step in Drug Treatment
NY TIMES By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The mandatory-sentencing craze that drove up the prison population tenfold, pushing state corrections costs to bankrupting levels, was rooted in New York’s infamous...
View ArticleFreispruch nach Betrugsvorwurf gegen Obdachlosenhilfe
Vor dem Amtsgericht Oberhausen wurde in einem Strafverfahren gegen eine Frau wegen Betrugs verhandelt. Die Angeklagte ist Vorsitzende einer Obdachlosenhilfe. In einem Internetinserat soll der Verein...
View ArticleBottoms Up?
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">Lawprof Bill Henderson was part of the ABA Task Force on the Future of Legal Education, charged with coming up with tough measures to deal with what...
View ArticleThe Easiest Practice of Law
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="arial">A few days ago, a reader sent me a link to a JD Underground thread and suggested that it would enlighten me as to how young lawyers were thinking. The...
View ArticleWA: Random LPN check justified stop
A random license plate check justified the stop of defendant’s car for failure to transfer tag. Defendant was a passenger. When the officer ran his name, a felony no-contact violation warrant came...
View ArticleCCJRC Weekly Legislative Update
CCJRC Weekly Legislative Update ********************************************** We are in the last days of the legislative session which ends on May 8th....
View ArticleTexas praised for response to DPS Houston crime lab scandal, compared to Yankees
If you've been following the DPS crime lab misconduct scandal out of Houston, first reported on this blog, that may endanger thousands of southeast Texas drug convictions, then you're probably aware,...
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Alabama Meth Lab Bust Leads to School Worker Arrest
A woman who worked as a special education aide in southern Alabama was one of two people arrested recently when authorities raided her home following a long investigation by the county sheriff's drug...
View ArticleBudget conferees gather with opposing mandates on prison closures, purchases
Earlier this month, Grits had reported, the Texas House approved a budget that rebuffed the Senate's decision to close two private prison units, deciding to keep them and purchase another, empty unit...
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Solitary at Devens' Segregated Housing Unit
John Collauti, the public relations spokesman for the Federal Medical Center at Devens, says Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is in segregation in a small cell with a steel door that allows food to be passed through...
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The School, Suicide and the Cell-phone
--> From 2005 to 2008, “G.C.” was enrolled as an out-of-district student in the Owensboro [Kentucky] Public School District. G.C. v. Owensboro Public Schools, 711 F.3d 623 (U.S. Court of Appeals for...
View ArticleS.D.N.Y.: Rule 41(g) return denied in lieu of suppression motion which is proper
Ancillary jurisdiction for return of property under Rule 41(g) is exercised with great restraint. Here, there is a remedy in the criminal case. United States v. Huggins, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 59773...
View ArticleFL5: When not detained, "you got any weapons or drugs on you" doesn't require...
A man near a food truck was “uttering threats,” and police were called. They found defendant sitting on the curb and they asked if he “had any weapons or drugs on him.” Defendant said he had “some...
View ArticleKY: Detention by school resource officer required Miranda
A school resource officer sheriff's deputy taking a student out of class to the principal's office to question him about drugs was enough to invoke Miranda. N.C. v. Commonwealth, 2013 Ky. LEXIS 95...
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