• Age of Entering School and ADHD

    Updated: 2012-05-31 00:46:49
    HOME Main Age of Entering School and ADHD May 31, 2012 5:46 AM Posted by Steve Erickson 0 Comments The always informative blogger Neuroskeptic has an interesting post on several studies examining the immaturity hypothesis that posits that the birth month of a child is associated with the likelihood of receiving a diagnosis of ADHD The post begins : Earlier this year a major study of almost one million Canadian children found that rates of diagnosed ADHD as well as use of ADHD medications like Ritalin were higher in kids born later in the year . nbsp This is strong support for the immaturity hypothesis the idea that some children get a diagnosis of ADHD because they're younger than their classmates at school , and their relative immaturity is wrongly ascribed to an illness . Categories

  • Romney and Judicial Nominations

    Updated: 2012-05-30 22:52:13
    HOME Main Romney and Judicial Nominations May 30, 2012 3:52 PM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments Jerry Markon and Alice Crites have this article in the WaPo on Mitt Romney's record on judicial appointments as Governor of Massachusetts . nbsp Romney came into office believing that an independent judicial screening commission was the way to clean up the appointment process , but he later changed his . mind In my view , that is a case of learning the hard way that proposed reforms are not always all they are cracked up to be . nbsp In fact , they rarely are . nbsp Independent nominating commissions are a failed model . nbsp They typically result in a transfer of nominating power from elected officials to whoever chooses the commission , which all too often means bar organizations . nbsp

  • Forty Year Old Malden Massachusetts Woman Arrested For Distribution of Heroin in Somerville

    Updated: 2012-05-30 19:11:58
    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 Forty Year Old Malden Massachusetts Woman Arrested For Distribution of Heroin in Somerville May 30, 2012 Posted In : Drug Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on May 30, 2012 1:11 PM Permalink The Somerville Patch reports that police officers who witnessed at least three drug deals in two days have arrested a Malden , Massachusetts woman , charging her with Possession of Heroin and Distribution of Heroin Here is a look at what transpired . Last Friday around 3:30 p.m . the woman was seen meeting up with another woman . The two walked towards a man at which point a drug transaction occurred . The buyer , a

  • News Scan

    Updated: 2012-05-30 17:47:18
    HOME Main Romney and Judicial Nominations News Scan May 30, 2012 10:47 AM Posted by CJLF Staff 0 Comments CA Administrative Office of the Courts Criticized in New : Report Howard Mintz of San Jose Mercury News reports a 298-page report by an 11-judge committee released over the weekend criticizes California's Administrative Office of the Courts , and says the dysfunctional statewide court bureaucracy headquarters should be relocated to a less expensive , smaller offices in Sacramento . The committee took particular interest in the size of the AOC staff and the number of employees earning more than 100,000 a year . Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye had appointed the committee in March 2011 to examine the agency's operation and costs in response to increasing criticism of the AOC recently .

  • Roy McLeese to DC Court of Appeals

    Updated: 2012-05-29 21:54:23
    HOME Main Roy McLeese to DC Circuit May 29, 2012 2:54 PM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments The Senate has unanimously confirmed Roy McLeese to the DC Circuit . nbsp Todd Ruger has this post at . BLT A former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia , McLeese was an assistant to the solicitor general from 1997 to 1999, arguing four cases before the U.S . Supreme Court . More recently , he temporarily served as the acting deputy solicitor general filling in for Michael Dreeben while Dreeben taught at Duke Law . School We at CJLF had the pleasure of working with Roy during his ASG stint , and we congratulate him on his . confirmation Categories Federal Courts Judicial Selection Leave a comment Name Email Address URL Remember personal info Comments You may use HTML tags for style Search

  • Text Messages and Facebook Posts Becoming More Common in Massachusetts Criminal Prosecutions

    Updated: 2012-05-29 21:51:48
    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 Text Messages and Facebook Posts Becoming More Common in Massachusetts Criminal Prosecutions May 29, 2012 Posted In : Search and Seizure Violent Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on May 29, 2012 3:51 PM Permalink In Broward County Florida a criminal charge issued in large part due to texting between defendants and Facebook posts that detailed their plan . The text messages discussed what to do with the victim's body . The Facebook posts were more detailed and accompanied by photos and entries that offered law enforcement a nice timeline of the defendants' activities . If this was not enough one of the

  • News Scan

    Updated: 2012-05-29 20:47:22
    HOME Main Roy McLeese to DC Circuit News Scan May 29, 2012 1:47 PM Posted by CJLF Staff 0 Comments Brothers Condemned in Different States : Kristi Eaton of the Associated Press has this piece about brothers Roger and Rodney Berget , sentenced to death in different states for crimes separated by more than 25 years . The siblings' journey from the poverty of their South Dakota childhood to stormy , crime-ridden adult lives shows the far-reaching effects of a damaged upbringing and the years of havoc wrought by two men who developed what the courts called a wanton disregard for human life , Eaton writes . In 1985, Roger and a friend carjacked a man at gunpoint in Oklahoma City and put him in the trunk of the car . They drove the car to a deserted spot and shot the victim in the back of the

  • Sufficiency of the Evidence

    Updated: 2012-05-29 14:29:35
    HOME Main Sufficiency of the Evidence May 29, 2012 7:29 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments Once again , the U.S . Supreme Court has unanimously and summarily reversed a grant of habeas corpus by a circuit divisible by three , a grant that followed denial of the claim by every court to consider it . nbsp Once again , the case involves the sufficiency-of-the-evidence rule of Jackson v . Virginia In Harrisburg , Pennsylvania , Taraja Walker was murdered by Corey Williams . nbsp The jury found , beyond a reasonable doubt , that Lorenzo Johnson was an accomplice . nbsp Was the evidence sufficient to sustain that verdict The trial judge thought so . nbsp The Pennsylvania intermediate appellate court thought so . nbsp The Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied review . nbsp The federal district

  • Rehearing Denied in Cook v. Schriro

    Updated: 2012-05-29 14:13:02
    . HOME Main Sufficiency of the Evidence Rehearing Denied in Cook v . Schriro May 29, 2012 7:13 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 1 Comment In 1996, Congress cracked down hard on successive habeas petitions , i.e . filing a new habeas petition to attack and conviction and sentence after a prior petition was denied . nbsp This was the one immediately successful reform of the habeas chapter of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, and the increase in executions in the years that followed was partly due to this . nbsp The other important reforms have taken longer , and one remains unimplemented . The capital defense bar has been trying to evade this restriction ever since . nbsp Instead of filing successive petitions , they now routine file motions to reopen the old petition

  • The Last Full Measure

    Updated: 2012-05-28 15:27:02
    HOME Main The Last Full Measure May 28, 2012 8:27 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day 2008. Photo credit : Wikipedia This Memorial Day , let us all take a moment to remember those who gave their lives in defense of our freedom , the last full measure of devotion . Categories General Leave a comment Name Email Address URL Remember personal info Comments You may use HTML tags for style Search Subscribe to this blog's feed Subscribe to FULL feed Recent Entries The Last Full Measure One Way to Reduce Crime Is to Define It Out of Existence Jean Valjean , Call Your Office Large and Small Misbehavior Calif . defies order to turn over execution drug FDA Appealing Thiopental Ruling Will Someone Please Put Me on Enhanced Probation Order to Show Cause

  • One Way to "Reduce" Crime Is to Define It Out of Existence

    Updated: 2012-05-28 01:09:33
    HOME Main One Way to Reduce Crime Is to Define It Out of Existence May 27, 2012 6:09 PM Posted by Bill Otis 1 Comment unfortunately , however , the victims of the defined-away crime do not go out of existence . Instead , their numbers . increase This is the lesson as if it should need to be a lesson of this appalling story from : Florida Florida's incidences of children who died from child neglect dropped 30 percent in 2010 over the previous year . So what changed The definition of child neglect . Florida news outlets are reacting in shock and anger at the recent reveal that Florida's Department of Children and Families limited what dying by neglect included . Before , drowning in a swimming pool , being smothered while sharing a bed with a sleeping parent , or being tended by parents too

  • Jean Valjean, Call Your Office

    Updated: 2012-05-26 21:56:42
    , HOME Main Jean Valjean , Call Your Office May 26, 2012 2:56 PM Posted by Bill Otis 0 Comments Jean Valjean is the saintly hero of Victor Hugo's immortal novel , Les Miserables . He stole a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving family , and was sentenced in pre-Revolutionary France to sadistic imprisonment . His soul was rescued from a lifetime of bitterness by the loving act of a bishop , who , after Valjean's release , had given him a night's shelter , only to have Valjean sneak away before dawn with the bishop's silverware . The ensuing story of the bishop's candlesticks is the most poignant and moving passage of fiction I have ever read . nbsp The defense bar routinely tries to portray each rapacious , thieving client as Jean Valjean . But even the defense would have some

  • Large and Small Misbehavior

    Updated: 2012-05-26 15:13:43
    HOME Main Large and Small Misbehavior May 26, 2012 8:13 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments Professor Dan Ariely of Duke U . has an article in the WSJ titled Why We Lie It's fascinating stuff . nbsp For the participants in Ariely's experiments , the cost-benefit analysis of reward of cheating versus prospect of getting caught is irrelevant . nbsp Lots of people cheat just a little , up to the point where it would threaten their self-image . Except for a few outliers at the top and bottom , the behavior of almost everyone is driven by two opposing motivations . On the one hand , we want to benefit from cheating and get as much money and glory as possible on the other hand , we want to view ourselves as honest , honorable people . Manipulations that increase the conscience consequences

  • Calif. defies order to turn over execution drug

    Updated: 2012-05-26 00:32:40
    . HOME Main Calif . defies order to turn over execution drug May 25, 2012 5:32 PM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments Paul Elias has this story for Associated : Press California on Friday joined other states in defying a federal government order to turn over a key execution . drug At issue is the drug sodium thiopental , one of three drugs California and dozens of other states use in lethal injections . It puts the inmate to sleep before fatal doses of two other drugs are delivered . California and others have been purchasing the drug oversees since the United States' sole manufacturer ceased production of the anesthetic in 2011. U.S . District Judge Richard Leon in March ruled that the Food and Drug Administration erred in allowing the prisons to import the foreign-made drug . The judge

  • FDA Appealing Thiopental Ruling

    Updated: 2012-05-25 22:56:41
    Tom Schoenberg reports for Bloomberg:The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is appealing a federal judge's order that banned the importation of sodium thiopental and its use in executions.The FDA, which filed a notice of appeal today in the federal court in Washington, is seeking to overturn a ruling in March favoring 21 death row inmates who challenged the agency's use of sodium thiopental, an imported drug given as anesthesia before a lethal injection is administered.

  • Will Someone Please Put Me on "Enhanced Probation?"

    Updated: 2012-05-25 22:09:14
    HOME Main FDA Appealing Thiopental Ruling Will Someone Please Put Me on Enhanced Probation May 25, 2012 3:09 PM Posted by Bill Otis 0 Comments Desmond Hatchett , who recently made news by asking the taxpayers to help him out with court-ordered child support for his 30 that's THIRTY kids , did not have a record likely to inspire confidence in his sense of responsibility . Indeed , according to one , report he has a very long and serious criminal history that includes multiple assaults , multiple thefts , aggravated assault , multiple evading arrests , and several driving assaults , according to a probation violation report He has also been collared on narcotics charges and has shown contempt for the rules of probation and of the court . In fact , his rap sheet runs 14 . pages But not to

  • Pay Your Student Loan Off – In Cash

    Updated: 2012-05-25 17:03:21
    Do law school student loans have you feeling down? Well here’s a story to make you smile, of the UofT law graduate who paid off his student loans in cash. Alysha Hasham of the Toronto Star reports: There is only one way to pay off a $114,460.30 student loan in one go: in style. For [...]

  • Serial Killers Wiki

    Updated: 2012-05-25 00:55:58

  • Massachusetts Nanny Faces Felony Larceny Charges In Haverhill Court

    Updated: 2012-05-24 01:59:31
    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 Nanny Faces Felony Larceny Charges In Haverhill Court May 23, 2012 Posted In : Theft Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on May 23, 2012 7:59 PM Permalink Jessica Senter , a twenty four year old nanny working for a Groveland , Massachusetts family has been charged with Larceny Over 250 in the Haverhill District Court Also charged was her boyfriend , Jukub Councilman . In November of 2010 Senter started work for for the victims in Groveland . She started in a part-time capacity and was awarded a full time job just a couple of months ago . As part of her compensation Senter received a new car

  • Man Charged in Boston Massachusetts for Alleged Indecent Assault and Battery on T Nearly Eight Years Ago

    Updated: 2012-05-22 21:26:55
    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 Man Charged in Boston Massachusetts for Alleged Indecent Assault and Battery on T Nearly Eight Years Ago May 22, 2012 Posted In : Sex Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on May 22, 2012 3:26 PM Permalink On June 22, 2004 a woman in Boston , Massachusetts boarded a Green Line Trolley . The train was crowded that day as the Red Sox had a home game . The defendant , Timothy Day got on the same train at the Copley Station . While on the train Day allegedly touched the woman and himself in an inappropriate manner . The woman exited the train and detected a stain on her clothing and something on her purse . She

  • Music Break – Garbage

    Updated: 2012-05-22 17:54:49
    It took a good long while but it was worth the wait. The new Garbage album – Not Your Kind of People –  is finally out and it’s great. And here is the video of the single Blood for Poppies:

  • Haverhill Massachusetts Man Charged With Domestic Assault and Battery, Other Violent Crimes After Argument Spills Out Into Street

    Updated: 2012-05-21 21:25:49
    , 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 Haverhill Massachusetts Man Charged With Domestic Assault and Battery , Other Violent Crimes After Argument Spills Out Into Street May 21, 2012 Posted In : Domestic Violence Violent Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on May 21, 2012 3:25 PM Permalink Roberto Jordan of Haverhill , Massachusetts was arrested last night and charged with Assault and Battery by Means of a Dangerous Weapon Domestic Assault and Battery Assault and Battery on a Police Officer and other related crimes . The crimes are both felonies and misdemeanors in Massachusetts . The incident started around midnight . According to reports

  • Perspective

    Updated: 2012-05-18 16:58:42
    Would this have changed the George Zimmerman case?

  • Charest’s Bill 78 Riot Guide

    Updated: 2012-05-18 16:38:42

  • Must-read: “Louisiana Incarcerated: How we built the world’s prison capital”

    Updated: 2012-05-18 16:08:48
    The New Orleans Times-Picayune has an excellent series on how Louisiana became the world’s leading jailer. The eight-part series begins with these sobering stats: Louisiana is the world’s prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana’s incarceration [...]

  • Lawrence Massachusetts Cops Witness Hand to Hand Drug Deal, Arrest Two

    Updated: 2012-05-17 17:47:16
    , 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 Massachusetts Cops Witness Hand to Hand Drug Deal , Arrest Two May 17, 2012 Posted In : Drug Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on May 17, 2012 11:47 AM Permalink People living in an area of Tower Hill in Lawrence , Massachusetts were becoming concerned about what they believed to be drug deals occurring in cars in their neighborhood . In response they called the police . Two nights ago , following up on the complaints , an unmarked cruiser was patrolling the area . They observed a Toyota Camry parked in the troubled area . The Camry left the area . The cops followed it . The car then stopped a

  • Juror on Roger Clemens Perjury Trial Dismissed For Sleeping During Testimony

    Updated: 2012-05-16 20:46:21
    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 Juror on Roger Clemens Perjury Trial Dismissed For Sleeping During Testimony May 16, 2012 Posted In : Celebrities Miscellaneous Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on May 16, 2012 2:46 PM Permalink During the jury selection process a prospective juror told the prosecution , judge and defense that he would rather stay home in bed than be a juror on the Roger Clemens Perjury trial case . The twenty seven year old unemployed juror will now get his wish . After repeatedly sleeping during the trial testimony and showing up late , the judge dismissed the juror . This comes on the heels of the judge warning the

  • 9/11 Terrorist Defense Attorney Wears Islamic Hijab in Court to Respect Clients

    Updated: 2012-05-16 18:34:48
    Attorney Bormann appeared at a hearing last week wearing a traditional Islamic hijab, clothing which conceals all parts of her, with the exception of her face, despite the fact that she isn’t a Muslim.

  • Stand Your Ground Law

    Updated: 2012-05-16 17:44:28

  • Two From Massachusetts Face Charges of Possession, Distribution of Heroin After Cops Witness Drug Deal

    Updated: 2012-05-16 03:37:23
    , 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 From Massachusetts Face Charges of Possession , Distribution of Heroin After Cops Witness Drug Deal May 15, 2012 Posted In : Drug Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on May 15, 2012 9:37 PM Permalink The Brockton Enterprise reports that police in Rockland , Massachusetts acted after receiving nearly twenty civilian complaints of suspected Massachusetts Drug Dealing starting this past April . People specifically reported extensive automobile and foot traffic at a specific location . In response , officers set up surveillance of a home on Liberty Street to verify the complaints . While doing so they

  • And Thank FSM for That…

    Updated: 2012-05-15 05:45:17
    From Manuel Castells’s Communication Power, discussing the regulatory framework of the digital communication system: “The impromptu evolution of Internet regulation and management parallels the serendipitous maturation of the Internet as the communication commons of the network society (Abbate, 1999; Castells, 2001; Movius, forthcoming). When first deployed in 1969, ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet, was [...]

  • The Visual Du Jour – Visualizing Decline

    Updated: 2012-05-14 22:49:29
    Through higher education: As the article notes: “In the 1970s and 1980s, the US led the world on college enrollment. In fact, since the passing of the GI bill in 1944, America had been forging a path. That bill led to 2.2 million American infantrymen attending university in the 12 years in was in effect. [...]

  • 13 Charged in Deadly Hazing Incident

    Updated: 2012-05-14 19:22:30
    A drum major in a marching band at a Florida university died during a hazing gone awry. 13 of his former band-mates are now being charged in his death, with crimes including both felony and misdemeanor hazing.

  • 10 Reasons to Ban Gay Marriage

    Updated: 2012-05-11 17:59:44

  • Framingham Man Arraigned on Drug Trafficking Charges After Raid Nets Meth, Marijuana, Cash

    Updated: 2012-05-10 03:11:33
    , , 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 Framingham Man Arraigned on Drug Trafficking Charges After Raid Nets Meth , Marijuana , Cash May 9, 2012 Posted In : Drug Crimes Search and Seizure By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on May 9, 2012 9:11 PM Permalink This past weekend police in Framingham , Massachusetts raided the home of Dylan Laird , a twenty one year old man living on Day Hill Road . The Metrowest Daily News reports that early Sunday night Laird was seen selling marijuana to a female not far from his home . Police stopped the woman . She surrendered the drugs and the police applied for and obtained a Search Warrant for Laird's home .

  • Somebody Better Tell Obama…

    Updated: 2012-05-09 20:38:09
    video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player As a side note, check out these comparisons:

  • Border Patrol Sued Over Traffic Stops

    Updated: 2012-05-09 18:36:47
    While anti-immigrant forces may not have noticed that the Obama administration is being more aggressive against illegal immigration than any other president in decades, people who advocate for the rights of immigrants, particularly the basic civil liberties of undocumented immigrants, certainly have noticed this trend, and, as one might imagine, are not happy about it.

  • Reasonable Person Test

    Updated: 2012-05-09 14:19:17

  • The Murdochization of the Media

    Updated: 2012-05-08 05:41:40
    This is my first attempt at diagrammatically capturing a concept using iDesk for iPad. I started simple but this is an important concept, seems to me. It is mentioned in Castells’s Communication Power (89), borrowed from Thussu (1998):

  • Judge Reduces Penalty for Death Row Inmate With Racial Justice Act

    Updated: 2012-05-07 18:54:25
    The Racial Justice Act permits a defendant to overturn his or her death sentence by arguing that race was a determining factor in the trial if the defendant can prove at least one of three factors.

  • Sunday Reading, and a Programming Note

    Updated: 2012-05-06 17:27:52
    Here’s a roundup of some recent scholarship and online commentary about prison-related issues: “Prisons, Privatization, and the Elusive Employee-Contractor Decision,” by Alexander Volokh in the Emory Law Review “Forms of Deference in Prison Law,” by Sharon Dolovich in the Federal Sentencing Reporter “Slavery Revisited in Penal Plantation Labor,” by Andrea Armstrong in the Seattle University [...]

  • Salem Men Arrested, Charged With Trafficking Cocaine After Car Stopped For Traffic Violations

    Updated: 2012-05-05 02:23:48
    , 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 Salem Men Arrested , Charged With Trafficking Cocaine After Car Stopped For Traffic Violations May 4, 2012 Posted In : Drug Crimes Search and Seizure By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on May 4, 2012 8:23 PM Permalink A Salem , Massachusetts police officer became suspicious the other day when he saw a car with dark tinted windows . He then followed the car . He observed the car failing to stop for people in a crosswalk . The officer pulled the car over and quickly learned that the driver , Julio Cruz of Salem , Massachusetts was Operating With a Suspended License . Cruz , who was known to the officer claimed

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