• Race and the Death Penalty

    Updated: 2010-11-30 19:58:12
    Charles Lane at The American Interest has an interesting article addressing the issue of race and the death penalty. As he notes: In fact, much of the statistical evidence cited by death-penalty critics to show that blacks and whites fare differently in capital cases does not necessarily prove racism at all. To the contrary, it could well reflect racial progress. 

  • Initial Reports on Plata Argument

    Updated: 2010-11-30 18:46:34
    HOME Main Race and the Death Penalty Initial Reports on Plata Argument November 30, 2010 10:46 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks Still waiting for the transcript of the argument in the California prisoner release case , Schwarzenegger v . Plata . The AP reports The Supreme Court appears ready to endorse an order calling on California to move thousands of inmates out of its overcrowded prisons so that those who remain get adequate health care . However , Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog has a quite different take Both the Court and the two lawyers who argued were so locked into a review of the details of the actual release order issued by a three-judge District Court in the case that no one spent even a second of the lengthy hearing discussing procedural complications that

  • The ABAJ Blawg 100

    Updated: 2010-11-29 22:59:07
    The ABA Journal's annual Blawg 100 is available here. We actually have another prosecution-oriented blog in the criminal justice section, much to our surprise.An email from ABAJ says, "Urge your readers to vote for your blog here."

  • News Scan

    Updated: 2010-11-29 22:35:42
    HOME Main The ABAJ Blawg 100 News Scan November 29, 2010 2:35 PM Posted by Christine Dowling 1 Comment No TrackBacks Last Minute Appeals in Scheduled Tennessee : Execution Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Stephen Michael West are seeking a stay for tomorrow's scheduled execution , attacking the state's three-drug protocol as unconstitutional . nbsp In response to a state chancellor's ruling last week , Tennessee added additional precautions to ensure the inmate is unconscious after the first drug is administered , requiring the warden to brush a hand over the inmate's eyelashes and gently shake the inmate . nbsp Though the Tennessee Supreme Court approved the modified plans , West's attorneys today appealed to both the U.S . Supreme Court and the Sixth Circuit , arguing d efendants

  • Procedural Default

    Updated: 2010-11-29 22:16:07
    HOME Main News Scan Procedural Default November 29, 2010 2:16 PM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 1 Comment No TrackBacks Today the US Supreme Court heard argument in Walker v . Martin on whether a federal court can hear a claim that state courts refused to hear because the petitioner presented it way too late . nbsp See prior post here CJLF brief here Argument transcript here The rule applied by the Ninth Circuit is that the state procedural ground is inadequate , and the federal court can disregard it , unless the state establishes that the rule is regularly followed . A number of points in the argument are encouraging . nbsp Several justices seemed to understand that if a court denies relief on the merits rather than invoking a procedural default rule , that is not a failure to invoke the

  • Dealing with TSA Airport Security Pat Down Search Procedures

    Updated: 2010-11-29 19:36:58
    Skip to content Law Blog Home Present Your Case to a Lawyer About Archives So You Want To Become A Lawyer Dealing with TSA Airport Security Pat Down Search Procedures Published by Jay Rivera on November 29, 2010 in Criminal Law and Personal Injury 0 Comments Tags : airline airport complaint opt-out passengers pat scan search security tips tsa I’m sure you’ve heard of the new , tougher airport security measures that have been instituted at several major airports . You’ve probably heard how selected passengers must submit to a scan that generates peoples’ images that have been described as bluish-gray and half-naked imagine a character from Avatar It’s either that or the now-notorious TSA pat downs that involve exhaustive bodily . contact So travelers have a choice of feeling somewhat

  • Tomorrow: SCOTUS to Hear Oral Argument in California Prison Overcrowding Case

    Updated: 2010-11-29 18:11:04
    Tomorrow’s the day when the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in Schwarzenegger v. Plata, the class-action lawsuit over California’s prison overcrowding crisis. The Wall Street Journal has an overview here, and the Los Angeles Times explains why this case will have ramifications beyond the Golden State: Lawyers for 18 other states, including [...]

  • How Prison-based Gerrymandering Dilutes Native American Political Power

    Updated: 2010-11-29 17:46:15
    While Prison Law Blog was enjoying last week’s Thanksgiving break, I noticed several reports from our friends at the Prison Policy Initiative on how prison-based gerrymandering can dilute Native American political power in states where natives are disproportionately incarcerated. That’s basically every state with a significant native population: here are charts showing how Native Americans [...]

  • Supreme Court Orders List

    Updated: 2010-11-29 16:35:28
    HOME Main Procedural Default Supreme Court Orders List November 29, 2010 8:35 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks The U.S . Supreme Court decided to review three civil cases today . nbsp The orders list is here Lyle Denniston describes the cases at SCOTUSblog . nbsp No criminal cases were granted other than vacated , and the case is remanded to for further consideration in light of orders . nbsp Among the criminal cases on SCOTUSblog's petitions to watch list the relisted cases are all missing and presumed relisted again , and the first-time cases were all . denied In Gamache v . California No . 10-5196, a capital case , the Court decided without dissent not to review the decision of the California Supreme Court , 48 Cal . 4th 347. However , Justice Sotomayor wrote a

  • "Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology and the Criminal Justice System"

    Updated: 2010-11-29 08:15:00
    Deborah Denno (Fordham, Law) has posted Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, and the Criminal Justice System: Introduction (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 8, pp. 1-6, 2010) to SSRN. Here's the abstract: This introduction discusses a symposium on the linking of...

  • Emotion and Capital Sentencing

    Updated: 2010-11-28 02:58:17
    HOME Main Emotion and Capital Sentencing November 27, 2010 6:58 PM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks AP reports from : Connecticut HARTFORD , Conn . A Connecticut judge has decided that a jury was fair in deciding that Steven Hayes should be executed for a home invasion that left a woman and her two daughters . dead Lawyers for Hayes had argued that the jury was swayed by emotion after hearing and seeing gruesome testimony . Jurors condemned Hayes to death on Nov . 8. New Haven Superior Court Judge Jon Blue on Friday denied defense lawyers' motion seeking a new trial , new penalty phase hearing or a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of . parole The judge says the jury wasn't driven by passion and prejudice . Public defender Thomas Ullmann says he believes

  • Ryan Venables – Case Comment: UFCW Local 401 v. Old Dutch Foods [2009] ALRBD No. 56.

    Updated: 2010-11-27 10:34:54
    Follow the case comment link to the full case comment done by Ryan Venables

  • Stacy Bonds Beaten, Stripped by Ottawa Police

    Updated: 2010-11-26 22:16:43
    James Morton gives the backdrop in The Ottawa Citizen: The facts of Bonds’s treatment bear repeating. She was walking on Rideau Street in downtown Ottawa. She was neither drunk nor behaving inappropriately. The police stopped her and asked her name; she provided it. After checking her name and finding nothing, the police told her she [...]

  • So You Want To Become A Lawyer?

    Updated: 2010-11-26 14:57:26
    Skip to content Law Blog Home Present Your Case to a Lawyer About Archives Should We Allow Life Sentences Without Parole for Juveniles who Commit Murder So You Want To Become A Lawyer Published by Andrew Dat on November 26, 2010 in Lawyers 0 Comments Tags : attorney attorneys job law school law students lawyer Lawyers legal tuition Being the legal dynamo that I am insert sarcastic laugh I like to stay on top of the latest studies and trends in the legal world . From changes in law school curriculum standards to new Supreme Court precedents and everything in between , in all honesty there’s a lot of interesting changes that occur in the legal industry . And this recent report released by Kaplan detailing the reasons why students decide to go to law school seems to be particularly

  • Should We Allow Life Sentences Without Parole for Juveniles who Commit Murder?

    Updated: 2010-11-25 16:11:26
    Skip to content Law Blog Home Present Your Case to a Lawyer About Archives Protecting Free Speech : Why Convicting a White Supremacist Could Hurt Us All Should We Allow Life Sentences Without Parole for Juveniles who Commit Murder Published by Donna Mia on November 25, 2010 in Criminal Law 0 Comments Tags : committed crimes juvenile juveniles murder parole rehabilitation supreme court This May , the Supreme Court in Graham v . Florida wrestled with the idea of sentencing juveniles who commit crimes short of murder , to life without parole . They ultimately decided that it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the 8 th amendment , and is therefore unconstitutional . This ruling is not the first in this subject area either . Back in 2005, the Supreme Court held that capital

  • Military Commissions

    Updated: 2010-11-25 14:37:53
    HOME Main Military Commissions November 25, 2010 6:37 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks Marc Thiessen has this column in the WaPo on military commission trials in the wake of the Ghailani debacle . nbsp He cites former AG Michael Mukasey for the proposition that the key evidence excluded by the trial judge would likely have been admissible in a military commission . trial Media Matters makes the predictable response However , as Media Matters has noted , numerous legal experts including the federal judge presiding over Ghailani's case have argued that a military commission would have also likely excluded this testimony . Likely is an overstatement as to the judge's opinion . nbsp He discussed the issue in a footnote but did not purport to resolve . it Thiessen responds

  • Closing the Curtain on Election 2010

    Updated: 2010-11-25 13:52:52
    HOME Main Military Commissions Closing the Curtain on Election 2010 November 25, 2010 5:52 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks The last ballots are finally dribbling in to decide the election races with razor-thin margins . Two races we have followed on the Left Coast have turned out not to be close enough for a . recount In Washington , State Supreme Court Justice Richard The Heckler Sanders has lost by 0.68 not close enough for a recount , Peter Callaghan reports for the News . Tribune In California , L.A . DA Steve Cooley has conceded the race to S.F . DA Kamala . Harris Nationwide , this election has produced significant gains for the advocates of the law-abiding public and significant losses for the friends of criminals . nbsp California , however , is looking

  • Undisclosed Serial Killers

    Updated: 2010-11-25 13:42:22
    HOME Main Closing the Curtain on Election 2010 Undisclosed Serial Killers November 25, 2010 5:42 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks Thomas Hargrove has this report for Scripps-Howard News : Service Authorities in Indiana and Ohio have launched investigations into suspected serial killings after a study of FBI computer files found clusters of unsolved homicides of women across the . nation Also , police in Nevada are hunting a likely serial killer who has targeted up to seven women , mostly prostitutes , and has scattered their partial remains across three . states Many of the suspected serial killings detected in the study have never before been disclosed to the . public All told , authorities in seven cities have confirmed that a statistical analysis of federal crime

  • Murder, Clearance, and Gangs

    Updated: 2010-11-25 13:24:05
    , , HOME Main Undisclosed Serial Killers Murder , Clearance , and Gangs November 25, 2010 5:24 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks Douglas Quan reports in the National : Post British Columbia and Quebec trail other parts of the country in solving murders , according to a new study , which reports a general decline in homicide clearance rates across Canada over the last few . decades The study suggests that higher levels of organized crime and gang violence could be behind why fewer slayings are being solved in those two . provinces The extent of organized crime is an important variable to consider whenever crime statistics are compared . nbsp Whether the independent variable is locality , race , or anything else that might correlate with gang activity , failure to

  • A Message From Transport Canada

    Updated: 2010-11-25 13:01:37

  • Constitutionalizing Polygamy

    Updated: 2010-11-24 21:24:57
    Polygamy is a crime in British Columbia, as it is in the United States. Yet the Supreme Court of that province is seriously considering an argument that the prohibition violates Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Wendy Stueck has this report in the Globe and Mail.

  • News Scan

    Updated: 2010-11-24 18:44:14
    HOME Main Constitutionalizing Polygamy News Scan November 24, 2010 10:44 AM Posted by Christine Dowling 0 Comments No TrackBacks Challenge to Connecticut Death : Sentence Connecticut Judge John Blue heard arguments today from the defense team of Steven Hayes , recently sentenced to death for murdering three members of the Petit family . nbsp Hayes's attorneys are seeking a new trial , a new penalty phase hearing , and or a reduction in sentence , claiming the jury's decisions were the product of passion and prejudice and impermissible emotional factors . Judge Blue delayed ruling on the motion . nbsp Randall Beach of the New Haven Register has this story and relevant court pleadings Death Sentence in South Carolina Murder Case : nbsp A Georgia man was sentenced to death yesterday for the

  • Greg Coleman Dies in Plane Crash

    Updated: 2010-11-24 18:35:24
    We received some very sad news this day before Thanksgiving. Gregory Coleman, former Solicitor General of Texas, died in a plane crash in Florida. This local report covers the crash.I have known Greg since we worked together in Texas v. Cobb in 2001. He was an accomplished Supreme Court advocate, appearing most recently in Skinner v. Switzer. He will be missed.

  • Opt-Out Day Fizzling?

    Updated: 2010-11-24 17:51:24
    Reports I have seen so far indicate that few are participating in National Opt-Out Day, so the long lines and missed flights I had been concerned about may not happen. Erin Ailworth has this report for the Boston Globe.

  • Protecting Free Speech: Why Convicting a White Supremacist Could Hurt Us All

    Updated: 2010-11-24 15:37:13
    : : Skip to content Law Blog Home Present Your Case to a Lawyer About Archives Porn Industry Suing File Sharers Does this Raise Privacy Issues Protecting Free Speech : Why Convicting a White Supremacist Could Hurt Us All Published by Andrew Dat on November 24, 2010 in Criminal Law 0 Comments Tags : court crime first amendment free speech hate speech new york white supremacist Though Nazi Germany has long since fallen , our country seems to still be privy to Hitler’s wonderful influence Human nature can be quite bewildering sometimes . It’s amazing how time and time again , no matter how insane a person is , how evil their plans are , and or how illogical , idiotic , or impractical their ideology is , somehow , some way , there are always people who end up following said crazy person and or

  • Political Prisoner in Iran – A letter to the supreme leader

    Updated: 2010-11-23 21:20:04
    How are immigrants from countries with great Human Rights abuses affected by the defaming actions of the political structures in their countries of birth?

  • Bringing Animal Rights to the Forefront of Correctional Services Reform

    Updated: 2010-11-23 21:13:26
    Why Animal Rights matter when there are so many legal issues concerning the well being of human beings? Are prisons really about correcting people?

  • Porn Industry Suing File Sharers – Does this Raise Privacy Issues?

    Updated: 2010-11-23 19:25:19
    Skip to content Law Blog Home Present Your Case to a Lawyer About Archives Shouldn’t a Mazda Seatbelt Lawsuit be Allowed to go Forward Porn Industry Suing File Sharers Does this Raise Privacy Issues Published by Rusty Shackleford on November 23, 2010 in Criminal Law and Intellectual Property 0 Comments Tags : copyright file sharing infringement isp lawsuit porn privacy sue File-sharing has been around for years , allowing the transfer of music , movies , software , and just about anything else that can be digitized , to and from all corners of the Internet , for free . The fact that downloading copyrighted material from any source , without the copyright owner’s permission , is completely illegal seems to be of little concern , as millions of people around the world download and share

  • Ashland Massachusetts Man Arrested On Drug Charges After Cops Find Him Near Car With Drugs In Plain View

    Updated: 2010-11-23 15:52:59
    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 Ashland Massachusetts Man Arrested On Drug Charges After Cops Find Him Near Car With Drugs In Plain View November 23, 2010 Posted In : Drug Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on November 23, 2010 10:52 AM Permalink Edwin Pagan is from Ashland , Massachusetts . Around 3:30 in the morning yesterday someone reported seeing a man acting suspiciously near the Happy Swallow . The police responded and found Pagan lurking in the area . The officers also learned that Pagan had been in a car parked nearby . They went to investigate . They looked into the car and in plain view found what they believed to be cocaine

  • Take-Back Laws…

    Updated: 2010-11-23 05:36:16
    Are you aware of “Take-Back Laws”? Well, view the video below, and then you’ll understand why we need them!

  • Traffic Stop In Brockton Leads To Heroin Trafficking And School Zone Charges

    Updated: 2010-11-22 18:59:34
    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 Traffic Stop In Brockton Leads To Heroin Trafficking And School Zone Charges November 22, 2010 Posted In : Drug Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on November 22, 2010 1:59 PM Permalink According to a report in the Brockton Enterprise , police yesterday arrested Ivon Almeida and charged him with Trafficking Heroin in Excess of Twenty Eight Grams and a School Zone Violation Police claim that Almeida was the passenger a car driven by Steven Mendes that committed certain traffic violations . After the stop police found an open container of alcohol . They then frisked both the driver and Almeida . A plastic

  • Do The New, Tougher Airport Security Measures Violate Any Laws?

    Updated: 2010-11-19 19:18:21
    , , Skip to content Law Blog Home Present Your Case to a Lawyer About Archives Analyzing Negligent Liability Through E . Coli laced Cheese Do The New , Tougher Airport Security Measures Violate Any Laws Published by Donna Mia on November 19, 2010 in Criminal Law Immigration and laws 0 Comments Tags : agressive airplane airport full body machine searches security tsa x-ray If you’ve been reading the news this past week , you’ve probably stumbled across the news that the Transportation Security Administration TSA has started implementing more aggressive airport screening measures If you hadn’t heard about this news yet well , you know now then you’re probably likely to encounter them sometime during your holiday travels as . well Basically , in an effort to tighten airplane security , the

  • Friday Roundup

    Updated: 2010-11-19 14:53:36
    “Between the Bars“: A new blog platform for prisoners, from MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media. UK settles with disabled prisoner for £20,000, and with Guantanamo detainees for a lot more. Canada’s prison watchdog warns of overcrowding. A report card on mothers behind bars. State-by-State Alabama: The nation’s most overcrowded, least funded prison system (as [...]

  • Free Speech 101

    Updated: 2010-11-19 03:19:52

  • Analyzing Negligent Liability Through E. Coli laced Cheese

    Updated: 2010-11-18 20:34:21
    . . Skip to content Law Blog Home Present Your Case to a Lawyer About Archives Straight Couple Suing for Right to Enter Civil Unions Analyzing Negligent Liability Through E . Coli laced Cheese Published by Andrew Dat on November 18, 2010 in Personal Injury 0 Comments Tags : bravo farms cheese costco e . coli lawsuit liability negligent product Chief among my many , many odd pastimes is trolling the FDA’s website for product recall announcements . I don’t do this for any pecuniary reason , rather I just like to read and get outraged over how companies can continue to try and cut corners simply to make a few extra bucks . And then revel over the irony that the subsequent recall is probably costing them a lot more money in lawsuits and lost product sales . Also , I’m friends with a number of

  • Lawsuit Alleges “Barbaric Conditions” at Mississippi’s Privately-run Youth Prison

    Updated: 2010-11-18 13:57:06
    The private prison company GEO Group will face a lawsuit over conditions at Mississippi’s Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility, with the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ACLU, and Mississippi lawyer Robert McDuff representing the plaintiffs. Walnut Grove was already under investigation by the federal Department of Justice. The Clarion-Ledger reports: Some prison staff exploit youth [...]

  • Marion Jones’s Case for Criminal Justice Reform

    Updated: 2010-11-17 23:56:28
    I don’t watch fake news, so I missed this, but apparently Marion Jones talked prison reform in her recent interview with Jon Stewart: It’s interesting, cause you never know where life is going to take you. Ten years ago, I would have never thought that I’d be an advocate for prison reform… If you don’t [...]

  • Washington State Will Save Money with Monthly Prison Lockdowns

    Updated: 2010-11-17 16:22:02
    Thanks to a law school classmate who alerted me to this press release (PDF) from the Washington Department of Corrections: There will be a scheduled one-day lockdown each month between now and the end of the budget cycle, which ends June 30, 2011. The lockdowns will allow the Department of Corrections to expand the number [...]

  • Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Affirms Trial Judge's Suppression Of Evidence Unlawfully Seized

    Updated: 2010-11-17 16:13:34
    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 Supreme Judicial Court Affirms Trial Judge's Suppression Of Evidence Unlawfully Seized November 17, 2010 Posted In : Drug Crimes Search and Seizure By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on November 17, 2010 11:13 AM Permalink Earlier today the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued its opinion in Commonwealth v . Carr.pdf affirming the trial judge's suppression of evidence seized unlawfully . The facts of the case are as follows . On Valentine's Day , 2007 a Boston College police sergeant received a call from a residential director RD of a dormitory who had information from students that a dorm

  • CSIS tapped phone despite order

    Updated: 2010-11-17 08:20:07
    Can you blame people if their response to this kind of news is cynicism? CSIS tapped phone despite order Agents violated solicitor-client privilege, recorded 171 calls involving accused terrorist By Andrew Duffy, The Ottawa Citizen November 16, 2010 Federal security agents recorded 171 phone calls between suspected terrorist Mahmoud Jaballah and his lawyers after they [...]

  • Waltham Taxicab Driver Charged With Kidnapping In Quincy

    Updated: 2010-11-16 21:21:18
    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 Waltham Taxicab Driver Charged With Kidnapping In Quincy November 16, 2010 Posted In : Kidnapping Motor Vehicle Homicide By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on November 16, 2010 4:21 PM Permalink Osei Kwame of Waltham , Massachusetts has been charged with Kidnapping in the Quincy District Court According to reports Kwame picked up a couple in Boston just before 2:00 a.m . The pair wanted to go to Billings Street in Quincy . They ended up on Billings Road instead . One of the passengers asked the defendant to take him to the correct address . The male later got out to pay and Kwame took off with the female in the

  • Lawyers and "The Social Network"

    Updated: 2010-11-15 21:23:36
    : The Rap Sheet : Nolo's Criminal Law Blog Published by Home Website Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home Nov 15, 2010 Lawyers and The Social Network The Social Network has been rightfully acclaimed as one of the best films of 2010. What I want to focus on is the film's positive portrayal of lawyers . nbsp In a film whose subtitle might have been College Kids Go Wild , the film's lawyers are refreshing models of . reason The Social Network depicts the dramatic events leading to the creation and development of Facebook . nbsp Depositions in two civil damages lawsuits against Mark Zuckerberg , Facebook's creator , are the backdrop for the story . During the depositions scenes , nbsp lawyers question and defend Zuckerberg and interact with each other . nbsp Amazingly for a Hollywood movie

  • Noah’s Ark Today

    Updated: 2010-11-15 18:53:18
    In the year 2010,  the Lord came unto Noah, who was now living in Canada and said, “Once again, the earth has become wicked and overpopulated and I see the end of all flesh before me. Build another Ark and save two of every living thing along with a few good humans.” He gave Noah [...]

  • Ontario Legal News Update

    Updated: 2010-11-15 17:30:30

  • Lynn Woman Charged With Marijuana Possession, Ammunition Possession

    Updated: 2010-11-15 12:53:14
    , 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 Lynn Woman Charged With Marijuana Possession , Ammunition Possession November 15, 2010 Posted In : Drug Crimes Firearms By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on November 15, 2010 7:53 AM Permalink Around 7:00 p.m . last Thursday night Lynn , Massachusetts Police responded to a call reporting shots on Landers Street . The officers were directed to a man who was bleeding from his shoulder and had apparently been shot . While investigating the incident the officers noticed bullet holes at 7 Lander Street . The officers went into the home to look for shooting victims . No one was home . The officers continued to

  • Lawrence, Methuen Men Charged With Trafficking Cocaine In Worcester

    Updated: 2010-11-09 16:53:08
    , 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 , Methuen Men Charged With Trafficking Cocaine In Worcester November 9, 2010 Posted In : Drug Crimes Search and Seizure By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on November 9, 2010 11:53 AM Permalink This past Saturday a Massachusetts State Trooper pulled a car over for speeding shortly after 4:00 in the afternoon . Smelling what appeared to be an abundance of air fresheners the officer became suspicious . The two occupants of the vehicle then gave the officer a story that did not check out . A canine unit was called . The dog alerted officers to the dashboard and the passenger side airbag . Officers then

  • Connecticut Lawmaker Calls for Ban on Violent Books in Prison Libraries

    Updated: 2010-11-09 14:44:24
    American Libraries reports: “It is important that we do our homework and establish a policy that not only keeps books like In Cold Blood out of the hands of violent criminals like Steven Hayes, but also a policy that will stand up to any legal challenges that are thrown its way,” Sen. [John] Kissel stated [...]

  • Did Oakland Police Illegally Jail Demonstrators Protesting Mehserle Sentencing?

    Updated: 2010-11-08 19:00:47
    That’s the allegation from the San Francisco chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (full message here): Hundreds of heavily armed police from at least seven different Bay Area law enforcement agencies swarmed through downtown Oakland and the Eastlake neighborhood Friday night. “The police surrounded the demonstrators, trapping and arresting numerous people who were doing nothing [...]

  • The Case of the Inmate and the Extra Pancakes

    Updated: 2010-11-07 17:13:22
    From the Cincinnati Enquirer: While serving a jail term for stealing money from a concession stand, Heriberto Rodriquez took a job dishing out food in the Hamilton County jail kitchen so he could get out early. He was fired from that job – which gave him three days credit for each day in jail – [...]

  • Couple From Miami Arrested And Charged With Trafficking Oxycodone In Massachusetts

    Updated: 2010-11-06 19:45:39
    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 Couple From Miami Arrested And Charged With Trafficking Oxycodone In Massachusetts November 6, 2010 Posted In : Drug Crimes Trafficking OxyContins By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on November 6, 2010 2:45 PM Permalink This past Thursday Stoughton , Massachusetts police detectives received a tip . They learned , probably through an informant that a package containing Oxycodone was going to delivered by mail to someone in Stoughton . An undercover detective pretending to be a postal worker contacted the recipient and arranged to meet with her . A short time later detectives met with Jessica Prato and Chad Graham

  • Billerica Woman Arrested, Charged With Trying To Kill Stepdaughter

    Updated: 2010-11-04 22:20:21
    , 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 Billerica Woman Arrested , Charged With Trying To Kill Stepdaughter November 4, 2010 Posted In : Bail Violent Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on November 4, 2010 5:20 PM Permalink Marylou Quinones Fry-Trifone of Billerica , Massachusetts was served with divorce papers a few days ago . Less than twenty four hours later she was arrested for trying to kill her fourteen year old stepdaughter . According to the Lowell Sun the victim woke up around 4:30 a.m . and found the defendant at the front of her bed holding a large knife . The defendant yelled that she was going to kill the girl . She then swung the

  • Saugus Man Faces Domestic Violence Charges After Beating Wife

    Updated: 2010-11-03 15:58:53
    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 Saugus Man Faces Domestic Violence Charges After Beating Wife November 3, 2010 Posted In : Domestic Violence Violent Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on November 3, 2010 10:58 AM Permalink This past weekend Thomas Frechette of Saugus , Massachusetts was found outside of his home by police officers responding to his wife's emergency call . Reports claim that Frechette''s wife was found locked in the upstairs bathroom of her home . She told police that she and Frechette had argued after which he pushed her , grabbed her and kicked her . Frechette had been drinking and admitted to police that he and his

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