• Canadians have a constitutional right to government-held info: SCC

    Updated: 2010-07-31 15:13:29
    According to a recent ruling of the SCC, right to access to government records is now a Charter rights. In a unanimous 7-0 ruling in Ontario (Public Safety and Security) v. Criminal Lawyer’s Association, [2010] S.C.J. No. 23, the SCC decided that if the information is needed to promote “meaningful public discussion on matters of [...]

  • Gun Charges For Framingham Man Issue In Middlesex Superior Court

    Updated: 2010-07-30 22:43:33
    Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Gun Charges For Framingham Man Issue In Middlesex Superior Court July 30, 2010 Posted In : Firearms By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on July 30, 2010 4:43 PM Permalink Kareem Taylor of Framingham , Massachusetts was charged in the Middlesex County Superior Court in Woburn with Carrying a Firearm , Possession of Ammunition and Possession of a Firearm This follows a September 2009 arrest . According to reports , police received some 911 calls concerning a man brandishing a firearm . The police arrived and learned that Taylor and the alleged victim had just left the scene . An officer saw Taylor and another in an

  • (Small) Victory for California's Parole System

    Updated: 2010-07-30 21:35:35
    HOME Main Small Victory for California's Parole System July 30, 2010 2:35 PM Posted by Christine Dowling 0 Comments No TrackBacks The California Supreme Court yesterday clarified a looming question regarding the appropriate next step for when an inmate is denied parole , appeals the denial , and wins . nbsp In the case In re Prather the court held that the appropriate remedy is a new hearing by the Board of Parole Hearings the Board not , as some appellate courts have held , an order that the Board release the inmate absent new evidence of the inmate's dangerousness emerging after the parole-suitability hearing . In 2008, the California Supreme Court in In re Lawrence held that for the Board to deny an eligible inmate parole , due process requires the Board to provide some evidence of the

  • News Scan

    Updated: 2010-07-30 18:07:57
    HOME Main Small Victory for California's Parole System News Scan July 30, 2010 11:07 AM Posted by Christine Dowling 0 Comments No TrackBacks Burglar Sues His Victim For Distress : nbsp A Florida inmate serving a 12-year sentence for burglary and cocaine possession has filed suit against his victim , reports the AP . nbsp Michael Dupree broke into the van of Anthony McKoy and stole a bicycle . nbsp McKoy managed to catch Dupree and retrieve his property . nbsp Dupree is now seeking 500,000 for , among other things , distress he suffered during the . struggle SoCal Man Sentenced to Death For Teen's Brutal Murder : The AP reports that Roman Aldana was sentenced to death today for killing 16-year-old Kayla Wood . nbsp Back in 2006, Aldana and two 15-year-old boys assaulted Wood with bottles ,

  • Friday Roundup

    Updated: 2010-07-30 15:32:59
    A quick roundup this week, as I am finishing my guest stint at TNC’s blog at TheAtlantic.com. Readers may be interested in this post, entitled “How to Learn About the Criminal Justice System in Three Easy Steps.” National and local reporting on the practice of shackling women inmates during childbirth. The Economist on “rough justice” [...]

  • One Hundred Million Facebook Users Account Exposed online ,Biggest Online Threat

    Updated: 2010-07-30 08:00:26
    It seems social networking is not safe all time and that too when personal information is at risk .Is facebook inviting cyber war ? And too from the online cyber criminals like hackers. Nearly every week or month world’s leading social networking site is in news some now or the other , [...]

  • Federal Judge Yanked from Case

    Updated: 2010-07-29 22:52:48
    HOME Main Federal Judge Yanked from Case July 29, 2010 3:52 PM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks What does it take to have a federal judge yanked off a criminal case The Seventh Circuit will tell us soon . Ameet Sachdev and Ray Gibson report for the : ChiTrib In an extraordinary maneuver , the federal appeals court in Chicago removed a judge from an ongoing criminal trial that has been marred by disagreements between the prosecutors and the . judge The 7th U.S . Circuit Court of Appeals provided no explanation in its Tuesday order dismissing U.S . District Judge James Holderman from the jury trial of a man facing drug charges . The court said an opinion would be . forthcoming The panel is Judges Posner , Rovner , and Sykes . No dissent is indicated . The defendant has

  • Law & Econ: Terrorism, Profiling, and Root Causes

    Updated: 2010-07-29 21:18:08
    : , , HOME Main Federal Judge Yanked from Case Law Econ : Terrorism , Profiling , and Root Causes July 29, 2010 2:18 PM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks The February issue of the Journal of Law Economics arrived in hard copy this week . Crime-related articles include terrorism and human rights , effect of antiprofiling policies , and out-of-wedlock births as a root cause . Abstracts are after the . jump Heaton , Understanding the Effects of Antiprofiling Policies Many police agencies have enacted measures designed to reduce racial profiling , yet little empirical evidence exists regarding the effects of such programs . This article uses the occurrence of a racial profiling scandal in New Jersey to quantify the effect of a move toward race‐neutral policing . The scandal

  • The Politics of Three Strikes and the California AG Race

    Updated: 2010-07-29 19:17:28
    The Economist has been on a roll lately with coverage of the American criminal justice system. Today the magazine published this article on California’s three strikes law (the appeal described was litigated by Emily Galvin, a student in Stanford Law School’s Criminal Defense Clinic). As the article highlights, this year’s California AG race is shaping [...]

  • News Scan

    Updated: 2010-07-29 18:43:11
    HOME Main Law Econ : Terrorism , Profiling , and Root Causes News Scan July 29, 2010 11:43 AM Posted by Christine Dowling 0 Comments No TrackBacks First US Execution of Woman in Five Years : nbsp As Kent noted earlier , a Virginia judge today set a September execution date for Teresa Lewis . nbsp Lewis pleaded guilty to capital murder and was sentenced to death , but later sought to invalidate her plea an attempt that was rejected by the Fourth Circuit . nbsp If executed , Lewis will be the first woman to be executed in the U.S . in five years , and the first woman in Virginia in nearly 100. Her defense team plans on appealing the case to the U.S . Supreme Court . nbsp AZ Appeals Federal Judge's Ruling : nbsp Not surprisingly , Arizona filed an appeal today in the Ninth Circuit ,

  • Execution Date for a "Black Widow"

    Updated: 2010-07-29 18:35:41
    HOME Main Execution Date for a Black Widow July 29, 2010 11:35 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks Dena Potter has this story for AP on the Sept . 23 execution date for one of the few women on death row , Teresa Lewis of Virginia . She had her husband and his son killed for the insurance money . So why are women such a small portion of death row , not only smaller than their portion of the general population , but also smaller than their proportion of murderers Women usually don't commit torture murders , they aren't serial killers and often don't have a history of other violent crimes compared with men who get sentenced to death , said Richard Dieter , executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center . They also typically kill someone they know . I think it's

  • Wash. S. C. Rejects Challenge to Lethal Injection

    Updated: 2010-07-29 16:42:56
    . . . HOME Main Execution Date for a Black Widow Wash . S . C . Rejects Challenge to Lethal Injection July 29, 2010 9:42 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks The Supreme Court of the State of Washington today decided Brown v . Vail No . 83474-1, the lethal injection challenge . The court unanimously rejected the challenges and lifted the stay in Brown's case . Stays in the cases of the other two plaintiffs had been entered by other courts and were not directly at . issue The case is procedurally unusual in that it began as a challenge to the traditional three-drug method , but the state changed to a one-drug method similar to Ohio's while the case was pending . appeal Briefly , the holdings : are 1. The claims are not barred by the statute of limitations , which begins

  • Lawsuit Challenges Texas Practice of Incarcerating Schoolkids Who Can’t Pay Fines for Misbehavior

    Updated: 2010-07-29 15:57:51
    The Texas Tribune reports on an ACLU class-action lawsuit challenging Hidalgo County’s practice of issuing tickets to schoolkids, then incarcerating them if they can’t pay: ACLU officials say they have heard anecdotal reports across Texas of young people jailed for failure to pay school-related fines — which in some school districts are issued by the [...]

  • Western Pennsylvania Woman Charged in fake Wedding Bridal Expo Scam

    Updated: 2010-07-29 07:15:31
    Every day at glance fraud itself is used to tell some scam story , which sometimes is very strange and even hard to believe . In terms of ground reality certainly crime has no limit and same it goes worst day by day and so are the fraudsters. So imagine what happens when [...]

  • Salem Man Pulls Knife After Losing Card Game, Gets Charged With Assault And Battery By Means Of A Dangerous Weapon

    Updated: 2010-07-28 23:51:20
    , Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Salem Man Pulls Knife After Losing Card Game , Gets Charged With Assault And Battery By Means Of A Dangerous Weapon July 28, 2010 Posted In : Violent Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on July 28, 2010 5:51 PM Permalink Nicholas Konstadt of Salem , Massachusetts was playing cards at his parent's home . Around 5:00 a.m . he and the other three card players played a high stakes hand . Konstadt had just cashed a paycheck worth about one thousand nine hundred dollars . Konstadt lost and another player picked up the money . They attempted to leave . Konstadt however pushed one of the men into a corner of the

  • Welcome New Readers

    Updated: 2010-07-28 19:31:17
    Some of you may have found this blog through my guest stint at Ta-Nehisi Coates’s blog on TheAtlantic.com — welcome! As you’ll see, what I do here tends to be a bit more “inside baseball” than the more general topics I’ve tackled over there; but the baseball in question — the incarceration of 1 in [...]

  • News Scan

    Updated: 2010-07-28 17:44:07
    HOME Main News Scan July 28, 2010 10:44 AM Posted by Christine Dowling 0 Comments No TrackBacks Federal Judge Enjoins Controversial Parts of AZ Law : nbsp The Washington Post reports U.S . District Judge Susan Bolten ruled this morning that several of the most contentious parts of Arizona's new immigration law will not take effect until the courts resolve the issues . nbsp Included is the section of the law requiring police to check a person's immigration status while the person is being detained for other reasons . nbsp According to Judge Bolton , this requirement burdens lawfully-present aliens because their liberty will be restricted while their status is checked . Death Penalty Still On the Table For CT Killer : nbsp A Connecticut Superior Court Judge today denied Steven J . Hayes's

  • BuckleySandler Lands More White-Collar Lawyers from Mayer Brown

    Updated: 2010-07-28 14:49:57
    BuckleySandler has rounded out its set of former Mayer Brown white-collar defense litigators with three more hires in Washington. The latest additions from Mayer Brown are James Parkinson, who joins as a partner; Adam Miller, who joins as counsel, and...

  • Lawyers Top Kilimanjaro

    Updated: 2010-07-28 10:25:39
    Here’s a follow-up from our podcast interview with Christopher Bredt of Borden, Ladner, Gervais LLP, who climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro with other lawyers from his firm for charity. Sean Weir, BLG’s National Managing Partner referred to the trek as, “one of the most difficult challenges he has faced”. The team of volunteer lawyers successfully climbed to [...]

  • House Approves a Blue-Ribbon Commission on Criminal Justice

    Updated: 2010-07-28 04:59:55
    Today the House of Representatives approved legislation to create a national commission to offer reform recommendations on incarceration rates, sentencing policy, crime prevention, substance abuse, reentry, and more. The bill now depends the Senate where it has been introduced by Jim Webb of Virginia. (H/t: the Sentencing Project) However, as Doug Berman points out, the [...]

  • Public Opinion is Shifting

    Updated: 2010-07-28 02:31:10
    The majority of Californians favor permanent imprisonment over the death penalty, including murder victim family members.

  • Orders List

    Updated: 2010-07-27 23:24:51
    The U.S. Supreme Court issued this orders list yesterday, mostly routine matters. Rehearing was denied in several cases, including Berghuis v. Thompkins, No. 08-1470, the 5-4 decision that trimmed back the Miranda rule, noted here.

  • National Conference of State Legislatures

    Updated: 2010-07-27 20:59:07
    Today, I participated in a panel discussion on Reexamining the Death Penalty at the National Conference of State Legislatures Legislative Summit in Louisville, Kentucky. The panel was 2-1, as is occurring with regularity. I think I held up my end nonetheless, but you will be able to judge for yourself. The event was video recorded, and they plan to put it on the web site.On the previous event in London, I'm told the video is finally in "the post." Hopefully, we will be able to make it accessible to the general public this week.

  • “They Come to Expect Sub-Human Treatment”

    Updated: 2010-07-27 20:13:24
    The ACLU of Southern California wrote an open letter to Lindsay Lohan, Los Angeles County’s most famous inmate, that’s been making its way around the blogosphere. Worth highlighting is the letter’s summary of the important work done by that particular ACLU branch as the court-appointed monitor for the L.A. County system: Based on the ACLU’s [...]

  • More Government Foot-Dragging on Prison Rape

    Updated: 2010-07-27 16:56:08
    The Department of Justice hired consultants from Booz Allen Hamilton to assess the costs and benefits of adopting national standards against prison rape. The Booz Allen crew reported back, as Amanda Hess notes, on only one half of the equation: their 414-page report “includes the costs of the PREA standards, not the benefits—like people not [...]

  • News Scan

    Updated: 2010-07-27 16:20:04
    HOME Main National Conference of State Legislatures News Scan July 27, 2010 9:20 AM Posted by Christine Dowling 1 Comment No TrackBacks Federal Fingerprint Initiative : nbsp Ivan Moreno of the AP reports on the controversial federal program that seeks to identify illegal immigrants using fingerprints taken during arrests a program that might end up having a much greater impact on illegal immigration than the new Arizona law . nbsp Part of the Secure Communities program , fingerprints of anyone arrested in a participating jurisdiction will be run against FBI and DHS immigration records to check the arrestee's immigration and prior arrest status . nbsp Although most jurisdictions are not currently participating , 35,000 people have already been identified as illegal immigrants previously

  • Welcome Christine Dowling

    Updated: 2010-07-27 14:12:03
    We welcome to the blog, and to CJLF, Christine Dowling, who is the recipient of our 2010-2011 Fellowship in Criminal Law. The competition for the fellowship was particularly strong this year, and we thank all those who applied. Christine will be blogging here at C&C as well as working on CJLF's amicus briefs in precedent-setting criminal cases.

  • Travesty in Cambodia, Again

    Updated: 2010-07-27 14:02:04
    , HOME Main Welcome Christine Dowling Travesty in Cambodia , Again July 27, 2010 7:02 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks Comrade Duch has been sentenced to a mere 19 years in prison for his role in the horrors of the Cambodian killing fields by a U.N . sponsored tribunal . nbsp Sopheng Cheang reports for : AP Survivors expressed anger and disbelief that a key player in the genocide that wiped out a quarter of Cambodia's population could one day walk free despite being convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity . I can't accept this , sobbed Saodi Ouch , 46, shaking so hard she could hardly talk . My family died my older sister , my older brother . I'm the only one left . It was bad enough that the impotent tribunal was unable from the start to impose the only

  • Supreme Judicial Court Reverses Murder Conviction After Judge Makes Unconstitutional Discovery Orders

    Updated: 2010-07-27 06:00:03
    Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Supreme Judicial Court Reverses Murder Conviction After Judge Makes Unconstitutional Discovery Orders July 27, 2010 Posted In : Search and Seizure Violent Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on July 27, 2010 12:00 PM Permalink In Commonwealth v . Sliech-Brodeur decided earlier this month the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reversed the first degree murder conviction of a woman who killed her husband . The Court recited the following : facts The victim and the defendant married in 1994. He was sixty . She was forty nine . They lived in West Springfield and Florida during the winter months . The couple

  • Guest-Blogging This Week at TheAtlantic.com

    Updated: 2010-07-26 20:30:25
    If you notice fewer posts here this week, it’s because I am guest-blogging for Ta-Nehisi Coates’s blog at TheAtlantic.com. I may range a bit afield from this blog’s more focused topic matter, but not too far afield. For instance, in one of my posts today, I mention Senator Jim Webb’s record on criminal justice reform.

  • Race-of-Victim Bias

    Updated: 2010-07-26 17:52:15
    HOME Main Race-of-Victim Bias July 26, 2010 10:52 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks My 2003 article on the race-of-victim bias claim is here A common theme throughout these studies is that an apparent racial disparity may appear in aggregrate , unadjusted data , but it disappears to a minor or even statistically insignificant factor when valid variables are . controlled And , yes , county of prosecution is a valid variable . In Maryland , for example , the people of downtown Baltimore City elected prosecutors who sought the death penalty more sparingly than the prosecutor elected by the people of the suburban ring Baltimore County . nbsp That geographic disparity is local democracy working as designed . That was their choice to make , although the result was fewer

  • News Scan

    Updated: 2010-07-26 17:51:11
    HOME Main Race-of-Victim Bias News Scan July 26, 2010 10:51 AM Posted by Christine Dowling 0 Comments No TrackBacks Ohio's Fragmented Probation System : nbsp A report to be released today finds the Ohio probation system fragmented into overlapping and disjointed agencies without any uniform standards , as reported by the Associated Press . Unlike many other states , Ohio's probation system is created and operated by individual counties . nbsp As a result , there is currently no centralized database from which to gather statewide information . nbsp The study also finds that the state's prison system cycles too many short-term offenders , due in part to Ohio's lower minimum sentence for low level felonies as compared to other states . nbsp LA Man Sentenced to Death for Second : Time The AP

  • Mexico’s Prisons Rife with Corruption, U.S. Prisons Step into the Breach

    Updated: 2010-07-26 16:20:40
    You’ll want to read this New York Times article for the salacious lede: MEXICO CITY — Prisoners in a northern Mexico jail were allowed out at night to carry out murder-for-hire jobs using jail guards’ weapons and vehicles, officials said Sunday, revealing a level of corruption that is stunning even in a country where prison [...]

  • "Happiness Studies and Legal Policy"

    Updated: 2010-07-26 07:40:00
    Recently posted to SSRN: "Happiness Studies and Legal Policy" Annual Review of Law & Social Science, Forthcoming PETER H. HUANG, Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law Social scientists have conducted numerous empirical and experimental studies of self-reported...

  • Wikileaks exposes ‘unseen war’

    Updated: 2010-07-26 00:45:19
    Via Channel 4 News: Secret Afghanistan files: revealed for the first time The extraordinary leak made public by whistleblowers’ website Wikileaks has lifted the lid on more than 90,000 US military documents involving classified information direct from the battlefield in Afghanistan. It is the US army’s secret war diary – 200,000 pages of it – [...]

  • Alternative medicines need regulation: Op-Ed

    Updated: 2010-07-24 23:47:34
    Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq recently had the opportunity to prevent the sale of potentially dangerous health products to unwitting consumers. Canadians should ask why she let it pass by. This June, the Harper government introduced Bill C-36 with respect to consumer product safety. When compared to legislation offered in 2008, the planned bill fails [...]

  • Legal Snake Oil: The Tax Protest Movement

    Updated: 2010-07-23 19:21:04
    : : Skip to content Law Blog Home Present Your Case to a Lawyer About Archives Get Rid of The California State Rock Pave the Way For Asbestos Lawsuits Legal Snake Oil : The Tax Protest Movement Published by Rusty Shackleford on July 23, 2010 in Criminal Law 0 Comments Tags : arguments court federal government income tax legal pay taxes tax tax protestors tax scam taxes wesley snipes A federal appeals court has just upheld a verdict also seen here against former actor Wesley Snipes , who was convicted a few years ago of 3 counts of deliberately failing to file a tax return . Nobody likes to pay taxes , but most of us recognize that they’re a necessary evil , and many of the government services we take for granted military and police protection , schools , fire departments , roads , etc .

  • Despite what you may have been told, judges and lawyers arent all saints and angels

    Updated: 2010-07-23 15:49:34
    Justice Delisle, a 1957 graduate of Laval University was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1958. He was appointed to the Quebec Superior Court in 1983 and promoted to the Court of Appeal in 1992. He retired last year. According to the Criminal Lawyer Jean-Pierre Rancourt, Delisle J. was a well-respected and competent judge. Renald [...]

  • Friday Roundup

    Updated: 2010-07-23 15:36:06
    This week, the World AIDS Conference met in Vienna. On the agenda: how bad criminal justice policy exacerbates the pandemic. Prisons have become a breeding ground for HIV, and the criminalization of drug addiction has fueled its spread. You can sign the Vienna Declaration, calling for “the incorporation of scientific evidence into illicit drug policies,” [...]

  • Motion for Certification on York Class Action

    Updated: 2010-07-21 23:57:15
    via CNW Group: Important notice regarding the Class Action against York University TORONTO, July 21 /CNW/ – Juroviesky and Ricci LLP would like to inform all those who are interested in and/or have registered for the York Class Action for the damages resulting from the 2008-2009 Strike/York’s Cancellation of Classes that the Motion for Certification [...]

  • Lawsuit of the day: airline CEO wants free flights on competitor’s planes

    Updated: 2010-07-21 19:37:43
    Robert Deluce, the CEO of Porter Airlines, is suing Air Canada for free travel passes which are allegedly owed to him and his spouse. Deluce’s family used to own Air Ontario and Air Austin, both of which offered mainly regional service throughout Ontario.  These companies were sold to Air Canada back in the 80′s (and [...]

  • Farewell Cool Cops, Hello Too Much Police Power

    Updated: 2010-07-21 18:33:32
    , , Skip to content Law Blog Home Present Your Case to a Lawyer About Archives Gun Control or lack thereof Around the World Farewell Cool Cops , Hello Too Much Police Power Published by Andrew Dat on July 21, 2010 in Criminal Law and Government 0 Comments Tags : asset forfeiture cops crime police police officer property recording speeding Now that the long awaited Johannes Mehserle verdict has been given , folks everywhere can go back to following more important news Seriously though , I don’t know how the Mehserle saga was playing out in the rest of the country , but here on the west coast it dominated local news reports for weeks . And , as is common with police brutality or should I say involuntary manslaughter cases , the aftermath culminated with a good ol’ fashion riot Naturally of

  • McGuireWoods LLP

    Updated: 2010-07-21 18:18:37
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  • Men From Waltham, Revere Charged With Trafficking Cocaine In Middlesex County

    Updated: 2010-07-21 06:54:52
    , Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Men From Waltham , Revere Charged With Trafficking Cocaine In Middlesex County July 21, 2010 Posted In : Bail Drug Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on July 21, 2010 12:54 PM Permalink Jorge Fernandez of Waltham and Antonio Rodriguez of Revere have both been charged with Cocaine Trafficking in the Middlesex County Superior Court in Woburn Bail has been set at forty thousand dollars and one hundred thousand dollars respectively . The charges stem from an incident in Waltham alleged to have occurred on March 8, 2010. It has been reported that on that day an officer heard a loud noise that he was

  • Beverly Man Charged With Open And Gross Lewdness After Taking A Break From His Run

    Updated: 2010-07-21 00:00:07
    Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Beverly Man Charged With Open And Gross Lewdness After Taking A Break From His Run July 20, 2010 Posted In : Sex Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on July 20, 2010 6:00 PM Permalink Anthony Freddura of Beverly , Massachusetts was charged with Open and Gross Lewdness in the Salem District Court According to reports Freddura was seen by police sitting on a bench in Danvers . His groin area was exposed . The police were in the area after receiving complaints about Freddura . Officers stated that the defendant's genitals were in full view . When they began to approach him Freddura tried to pull his pants up

  • The Canadian census debate—a background

    Updated: 2010-07-20 21:41:50
    On June 26, 2010, Canada Gazette published an Order in Council dated June 17, 2010. The order contained questions for the 2011 Canadian census. The short document that would normally be of interest only to statisticians caused a national debate—not because of what it contained, but because of what it lacked. 53 detailed questions sent [...]

  • Implications of Social Media in IP Law

    Updated: 2010-07-20 17:10:12
    Recent presentation by Blaine Bettinger of Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

  • What Law Schools Don’t Want you to Know

    Updated: 2010-07-20 11:57:03
    A reader wrote in to us about this post about 15 Facts Law Schools Don’t Want You to Know: 1. Books are incredibly expensive, and you might never use them again. 2. Your first year of law school will already be laid out for you. 3. Your grades will be curved. 4. Law school debts [...]

  • Today's Sign of the Apocalypse Baltimore Injury Lawyer Blog

    Updated: 2010-07-19 18:29:59
    Baltimore Injury Lawyer Blog Discussing auto accident , truck accident , medical malpractice and products' liability cases : published by lawyers at Miller Zois Home Website Practice Areas Contact Us Home Frivolous Lawsuits Judicial Selection Law- General Today's Sign of the Apocalypse Previous Home Posted On : July 19, 2010 by John Bratt Today's Sign of the Apocalypse Judge Judy is pulling down 15 million a year for a show that lasts 22 minutes a day , exclusive of . commericals I hate Judge Judy . People see her show and think it bears a resemblance to real court cases and real lawsuits , which it does not . And her behavior is flat-out unaceptable for a real . judge Posted by John Bratt Permalink Email This Post Comments 0 Posted In : Frivolous Lawsuits Judicial Selection Law- General

  • Massachusetts Appeals Court Holds That Judges Can Invoke Rape Shield Statute Even After Prosecutor Opens The Door Allowing Introduction Of Impermissible Evidence

    Updated: 2010-07-15 21:50:37
    Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Massachusetts Appeals Court Holds That Judges Can Invoke Rape Shield Statute Even After Prosecutor Opens The Door Allowing Introduction Of Impermissible Evidence July 15, 2010 Posted In : Sex Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on July 15, 2010 3:50 PM Permalink In Commonwealth v . Mendez Slip Op . July 15, 2010 the Massachusetts Appeals Court held that even if the prosecution permits the admission of otherwise excludable evidence it can later embrace the Rape Shield Statutes' protections . Similarly , a judge can sua sponte exclude evidence that falls within those statutory exceptions . In Mendez the

  • North Andover Woman Charged With Stabbing Boyfriend During Threesome Encounter

    Updated: 2010-07-14 17:44:48
    Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home North Andover Woman Charged With Stabbing Boyfriend During Threesome Encounter July 14, 2010 Posted In : Bail Violent Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on July 14, 2010 11:44 AM Permalink Kristen Shields of North Andover , Massachusetts was charged in the Lowell District Court with Assault and Battery By Means of a Dangerous Weapon and Assault With the Intent to Murder According to reports , Shields and her boyfriend were engaged in consensual sexual acts with a thirty nine New Hampshire woman . The New Hampshire woman told the police that the three were having sex and that Shields got out of bed and

  • Innocence Matters!

    Updated: 2010-07-13 23:28:03
    Check out my blog post about Damien Echols on Care2 today. Please add a comment and vote in the poll.

  • Two Men Charged With Trafficking Cocaine In Framingham

    Updated: 2010-07-13 17:46:44
    Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Two Men Charged With Trafficking Cocaine In Framingham July 13, 2010 Posted In : Drug Crimes Search and Seizure By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on July 13, 2010 11:46 AM Permalink Just recently police in Framingham , Massachusetts were involved in an investigation involving Rafael Lopez and a Connecticut man . They had information that Lopez was selling cocaine . Lopez had an apartment in Framingham from which police observed people enter and quickly leave . This they believed to be consistent with drug related activities . Police also engaged in controlled purchases of cocaine . This past Sunday the police

  • Lawrence Man, Santo "Macho" Suarez Charged With Distribution Of Cocaine, School Zone Violation

    Updated: 2010-07-10 16:57:48
    , , Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Lawrence Man , Santo Macho Suarez Charged With Distribution Of Cocaine , School Zone Violation July 10, 2010 Posted In : Drug Crimes Miscellaneous Crimes Theft Crimes Violent Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on July 10, 2010 10:57 AM Permalink This past Thursday Santo Macho Suarez of Lawrence , Massachusetts was arrested and charged with Breaking and Entering School Zone Violation and Distribution of a Class B Substance Crack Cocaine . He was also charged with Resisting Arrest and Disorderly Person According to reports Suarez sold Crack Cocaine to an undercover police officer . As officers attempted

  • Salem Man, 48 Charged With Possession, Distribution Of Child Pornography

    Updated: 2010-07-09 17:23:26
    , , Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Salem Man , 48 Charged With Possession , Distribution Of Child Pornography July 9, 2010 Posted In : Bail Child Pornography Kidnapping Sex Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on July 9, 2010 11:23 AM Permalink Mark McConnell of Osborne Street in Salem , Massachusetts has been charged with Possession of Child Pornography and Distribution or Dissemination of Child Pornography in the Salem District Court . It is alleged that McConnell had downloaded photos and videos of girls who according to the district attorney had been Raped and Kidnapped . The prosecution stated that McConnell used a file-sharing

  • Mehserle Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter

    Updated: 2010-07-09 01:37:17
    : The Rap Sheet : Nolo's Criminal Law Blog Published by Home Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Jul 08, 2010 Mehserle Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter As I predicted , an LA convicted former police officer Johannes Mehserle of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Oscar Grant on a train platform on New Year's Day 2009. Since Mehserle was charged with murder , I am sure that he and his attorneys are satisfied with the verdict . nbsp Merserle will probably have to serve some time in jail , but with involuntary manslaughter probation instead of jail is a possibility . nbsp This is a case where the jury seems to have gotten it right . nbsp Though the tragic shooting of a black victim by a white police officer understandably generated anger in Oakland , where the

  • Cocaine Trafficking Conviction Reversed

    Updated: 2010-07-08 06:10:48
    Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Cocaine Trafficking Conviction Reversed July 8, 2010 Posted In : Drug Crimes Search and Seizure By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on July 8, 2010 12:10 PM Permalink The defendant was indicted by a Massachusetts Grand Jury and charged with Trafficking Cocaine over 28 Grams He was also charged with a School Zone Violation A Motion to Suppress was filed and argued . It was initially allowed and then denied , an unusual set of circumstances to say the least . Certificates of analysis were admitted against the defendant as proof that the substance found by the police was in fact cocaine . The defendant objected to

  • Beverly Woman Indicted For Larceny By Scheme After Taking 200K From Hospital

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:28:37
    Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney Blog Published by Boston , Massachusetts Criminal Defense , Attorney Stephen Neyman , . P.C Home Firm Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Beverly Woman Indicted For Larceny By Scheme After Taking 200K From Hospital July 5, 2010 Posted In : Theft Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on July 5, 2010 2:28 PM Permalink The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office has indicted Diane Thistle , 63 of Beverly , Massachusetts alleging that the former hospital secretary stole over two hundred thousand dollars . The prosecution alleges that Thistle was taking cash from the hospital cafeteria . She would then use other funds intended to pay the cafeteria catering to replace the money she had taken . The hospital cancelled its contract with the catering

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