• Memory Lapse

    Updated: 2011-02-28 19:41:49
    HOME Main Memory Lapse February 28, 2011 11:41 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 1 Comment No TrackBacks There are some events that everyone who is out of early childhood at the time remembers as long as they live , 9 11 being the most recent . nbsp June 4, 1968 is . another Well , almost everyone . nbsp Sirhan Sirhan claims not to remember the events of the latter date , Linda Deutsch reports for . AP Like the other once-death-sentenced murderers of the Class of 72, Sirhan is eligible to be considered for parole . nbsp California had no life without parole sentence at the time , so everyone taken off death row in the debacle of that year became eligible for . parole ABC-TV director William Weisel is a surviving victim of the crime . nbsp Having covered the White House through seven presidents

  • United Kingdom Legal Reform May Soon Put An End To Libel Tourism

    Updated: 2011-02-28 19:36:17
    Skip to content Law Blog Home Present Your Case to a Lawyer About Archives Top 5 Tips Real Estate Agents Should Know to Avoid Foreclosure and Short Sale Lawsuits United Kingdom Legal Reform May Soon Put An End To Libel Tourism Published by Andrew Dat on February 28, 2011 in laws and Personal Injury 0 Comments Tags : defamation false lawsuit libel publish statement sue tourism uk For all the injustices and seemingly endless unfairness that can permeate everyday life , it’s nice to know that the same life can sometimes eventually deal the everyman or woman a fair(er hand Yep , that’s right folks the United Kingdom may soon be putting an end to libel tourism the awful and infuriating practice reserved only for the richest of the rich . And I have to say that it’s about damn time . That type

  • No New SCOTUS Cases

    Updated: 2011-02-28 15:45:42
    The US Supreme Court's orders list today does not include any new cases taken up for full briefing and argument. No action on the Maples case.Update: Ala. AG tells us Maples is relisted for Friday's conference.Maples' supplemental brief is here.

  • Confrontation and "Testimonial" Hearsay

    Updated: 2011-02-28 15:11:54
    HOME Main No New SCOTUS Cases Confrontation and Testimonial Hearsay February 28, 2011 7:11 AM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks Seven years ago , the Supreme Court revamped the jurisprudence of the Confrontation Clause in Crawford v . Washington 541 U.S . 36 2004 No longer would the admissibility of a hearsay statement of an unavailable witness depend on its reliability . nbsp Instead , the statement would be excluded if it was testimonial in nature . nbsp If not , its admissibility is a matter for the jurisdiction's hearsay rule . nbsp What the heck does testimonial mean They would work that out . later Today in Michigan v . Bryant the high court addressed whether on-the-scene statements from a wounded and dying shooting victim are testimonial . The answer is it depends

  • Where's Your Compassion? A Lockerbie Update.

    Updated: 2011-02-28 06:38:14
    . HOME Main Where's Your Compassion A Lockerbie . Update February 27, 2011 10:38 PM Posted by Bill Otis 0 Comments No TrackBacks Kent and I wrote a number of times about the compassionate release of the Lockerbie bomber mass murderer , nbsp Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi , by Scotish authorities . nbsp Al-Megrahi had only a few weeks to live , so we were told . nbsp As Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill huffed in the characteristically superior style of European Higher Wisdom , Our justice system demands that judgment be imposed but compassion be available . Our beliefs dictate that justice be served but mercy be shown . This sounded like a bunch of baloney at the time , and I said so I must now confess error . nbsp It was not so much baloney as a pack of outright lies ,

  • North Shore Drug Arrest Ends Up In Conspiracy, Drug Trafficking Charges For Two Local Men

    Updated: 2011-02-26 18:23:37
    , 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 North Shore Drug Arrest Ends Up In Conspiracy , Drug Trafficking Charges For Two Local Men February 26, 2011 Posted In : Drug Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on February 26, 2011 1:23 PM Permalink Acting on a tip police officers from Beverly Danvers and Ipswich Massachusetts looked into some suspected drug activity in Rowley , a small Boston suburb . The information they had directed them to a particular vehicle on Leslie Road . As the investigation progressed officers noticed another vehicle driving past Leslie Road on multiple occasions slowly . Officers then observed that the inspection sticker on

  • Lynn Man Charged With Being A Felon In Possession Of A Firearm In Salem Superior Court

    Updated: 2011-02-25 23:53:30
    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 Man Charged With Being A Felon In Possession Of A Firearm In Salem Superior Court February 25, 2011 Posted In : Drug Crimes Firearms Violent Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on February 25, 2011 6:53 PM Permalink On October 18, 2010 Lynn Police officers responded to a report that someone was Selling Heroin at an apartment . They arrived to find a strong odor of marijuana and Modesto Cruz in the hallway of an apartment on Broad Street . Cruz saw the police and fled . He was caught . During a brief struggle police found a loaded Firearm , a knife and Marijuana . Cruz supposedly admitted that he had

  • Top 5 Tips Real Estate Agents Should Know to Avoid Foreclosure and Short Sale Lawsuits

    Updated: 2011-02-25 18:36:36
    Skip to content Law Blog Home Present Your Case to a Lawyer About Archives Winning Over Job Interviewer Pro Tip : Don’t Be A Jerk Top 5 Tips Real Estate Agents Should Know to Avoid Foreclosure and Short Sale Lawsuits Published by admin on February 25, 2011 in Real Estate 0 Comments Tags : agent attorney foreclosure liability Real Estate short sale short sales Real estate agents who take on listings for a short sale or foreclosure should remember several points to protect themselves against potential legal action . Below are the top 5 : tips When taking on a short sale listing , the homeowner is known to be in financial distress . At this point , your primary responsibility is to the homeowner , even at the expense of your commission . To proceed with any other intention breaches your 

  • Friday Roundup

    Updated: 2011-02-25 17:27:20
    More great Texas jail reporting from Brandi Grissom of the Texas Tribune: a piece on mental illness in county jails, and a video featuring “Voices of the Mentally Ill.” A round-up of banned books in the Texas prison system, also from the Texas Tribune (I’m thinking every state needs one of these!). The Colorado Legislature [...]

  • News Scan

    Updated: 2011-02-25 17:09:24
    HOME Main News Scan February 25, 2011 9:09 AM Posted by CJLF Staff 0 Comments No TrackBacks Convicted Killer Denied Parole : nbsp A story by Paul Srubas of the Green Bay Press Gazette reports that murderer Rey Moore , 64, has been denied parole for his part in the 1992 killing of a co-worker . nbsp Moore was one five employees at the James River Paper Mill in Green Bay , convicted of participating in the murder of mill worker Tom Monfils by tying a weight around his neck and throwing him in pulp vat . nbsp Monfils was killed after the group learned that he had told police that one of them planed to steal an extension cord from the Mill . nbsp Like Moore , the other accomplices received life sentences . NY Lifer Gets Another Sentence for Cold Case Killing : nbsp Joe Arena of WIVB in Buffalo

  • What Became of Catching Crooks?

    Updated: 2011-02-25 07:31:35
    HOME Main What Became of Catching Crooks February 24, 2011 11:31 PM Posted by Bill Otis 0 Comments No TrackBacks I've blogged before about opaque phrases like smart on crime phrases that have no very obvious definition , but that inevitably turn out to mean a bunch of proposals to empty the prisons or not put anyone in them to start with . nbsp A first cousin of smart on crime is smart policing . I have been largely unable to tell what that means , but being a suspicious man , I've had an inkling it means something bad . nbsp Today I think I got a clue , courtesy of this story It seems that a police captain is suing the deputy chief for directing him to order his officers to attend a not-entirely-conventional event at the local : mosque A Tulsa police captain has filed a federal lawsuit

  • Spotting those fraud Online Pharma Offers : Just Avoid Mistakes

    Updated: 2011-02-25 07:20:48
    Just make a through Google search and you will come to know that there are millions of online pharmacy websites that offer drugs without a prescription, with attractive prices,friendly customer support convenient payment and even fast and reliable shipping. But are these companies really legit and moreover with offers they are coming up their products [...]

  • At Least Someone Gets It

    Updated: 2011-02-25 00:29:32
    HOME Main What Became of Catching Crooks At Least Someone Gets It February 24, 2011 4:29 PM Posted by Bill Otis 0 Comments No TrackBacks A fellow in Washington state serving LWOP for his third rape made up his mind to kill a prison guard and did so , with calculation and a good deal of force . nbsp He has concluded that he deserves the death penalty and explains why , as related in this article His reasoning seems apt . nbsp A system that refuses , ever , to give the jury the option of imposing the DP for murder effectively gives its LWOP inmates a license to kill . nbsp What's to lose This fellow killed because he felt like it , and is honest enough to say so . nbsp Abolitionists demand that we furnish him , and others as bad or worse , not merely a license to kill , but an unlimited

  • Simple Truths

    Updated: 2011-02-25 00:28:27
    HOME Main At Least Someone Gets It Simple Truths February 24, 2011 4:28 PM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks Sometimes simple people grasp simple truths that more sophisticated minds find convoluted ways to rationalize away . nbsp Sometimes people who have committed very evil acts have a better sense of what is just than some gentle souls who never hurt . anyone Life prisoner Byron Scherf understands that justice requires that he die for the murder of Washington correctional officer Jayme Biendl , Jennifer Sullivan reports for the Seattle . Times I took her life and I think I should forfeit mine , Byron Scherf allegedly told Monroe police investigators earlier this month . If I get a life sentence and she's dead then there's no punishment attached to it because I already

  • News Scan

    Updated: 2011-02-24 17:26:06
    HOME Martin Really Main News Scan February 24, 2011 9:26 AM Posted by CJLF Staff 0 Comments No TrackBacks DNA Links Man to Seven Murders AP writer Dinesh Ramda reports that DNA evidence has resulted in the conviction and LWOP sentence of a Milwaukee man who murdered seven women between 1986 and 2007. Habitual criminal Walter Ellis was arrested in 2009 after his name surfaced in connection with a string of unsolved murders . nbsp His DNA matched semen samples from six of the victims and blood evidence at the scene linked him to the seventh . nbsp Authorities believe that if a correct sample of Ellis' DNA had taken during an earlier prison term , the last victim might have been spared . nbsp At the time , Ellis had a fellow inmate submit a sample under his name . nbsp Feds Conduct Major

  • Two Framingham Men Arrested And Charged With Drug Crimes After Domestic Assault Investigation

    Updated: 2011-02-24 00:46:53
    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 Two Framingham Men Arrested And Charged With Drug Crimes After Domestic Assault Investigation February 23, 2011 Posted In : Domestic Violence Drug Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on February 23, 2011 7:46 PM Permalink Framingham Police were called just before 5:00 a.m . about a fight on Essex Street . They arrived to find a woman bleeding from her head . After offering an excuse for her condition the woman changed her story . She accused Michael Young , her boyfriend of assaulting her after finding her out with another man . Young was located at his home . He was arrested at which time police found

  • Maples on Conference List, Again

    Updated: 2011-02-24 00:24:37
    In this post in January, we noted the connection between the Alabama murder case of Maples v. Allen and the then-pending case of Walker v. Martin. With Martin decided, Maples is back on the US Supreme Court's conference list for this Friday. The result should be a simple denial of certiorari. We will find out Monday.

  • The Briefcase Veto

    Updated: 2011-02-23 23:23:29
    HOME Main Maples on Conference List , Again The Briefcase Veto February 23, 2011 3:23 PM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks In a post earlier today , Bill Otis describes the Clinton Administration's attempt to subvert the Act of Congress that sought to abrogate the Miranda rule . nbsp A more subtle but equally wrong ploy was their attempt to subvert the Prison Litigation Reform Act by arguing that in order to uphold it the Court had to construe it in such a watered-down manner as to defeat its . purpose CJLF filed briefs in both Dickerson v . United States and Miller v . French We batted 500. Sometimes you're the windshield Sometimes you're the bug When the President sits on a bill and Congress adjourns in the 10-day window , that is called a pocket veto . We need a term

  • Too much ado about Justice Thomas' silence

    Updated: 2011-02-23 21:47:51
    HOME Main Too much ado about Justice Thomas' silence February 23, 2011 1:47 PM Posted by Kent Scheidegger 0 Comments No TrackBacks The title of this post is the title of a commentary in NLJ's Supreme Court Insider . nbsp Unfortunately , it's behind the paywall . nbsp The title is certainly . correct David Savage in the LA Times notes the reason Justice Thomas rarely participates in the verbal banter . nbsp In his view , cases are decided on the briefs , and oral argument is mostly for show . nbsp Savage reports , On occasion , the other justices say , the answers they hear persuade them to change their decision . Perhaps , but I think that is very . rare In any case , on a nine-member court very little , if anything , is lost by one member not peppering the lawyers with questions . nbsp

  • Windy City Mayor

    Updated: 2011-02-23 19:35:05
    As expected, Rahm Emanuel won the Chicago mayoral election handily yesterday, Deanna Bellandi and Don Babwin report for AP. In an encouraging sign, his initial statement concerned public safety. "We have not won anything until a kid can go to school thinking of their studies and not their safety."That's a good start.Now, Mr. Mayor, your next step should be to add your voice to those of your predecessor and the Attorney General and ask Gov. Quinn to veto the death penalty repeal bill.

  • Programming Note

    Updated: 2011-02-23 17:56:47
    So I’ve added a Twitter feed to the righthand column of the blog. It doesn’t look very pretty right now, so I’ll have to fool around with whether there’s a better way to do this or maybe a different WordPress template I should be using. In the meantime though, here it is. Basically, I think [...]

  • Georgia Prison Guards to Face Criminal Charges for Alleged Assault of an Inmate

    Updated: 2011-02-23 17:10:00
    Reuters has the report: Seven Georgia prison guards were arrested on criminal charges stemming from an alleged assault of an inmate during a prison strike in December, officials said. The seven guards at Macon State Prison are charged with aggravated battery and violation of their oath of office, according to a Georgia Department of Corrections [...]

  • Are You Considering Law School? Here are Some Helpful Online Resources

    Updated: 2011-02-20 23:17:17
    Thinking about becoming a lawyer? Then did you know it’s illegal in Victoria, British Columbia for street musicians to give balloon animals to children? Did you know that Canada’s criminal code states that anyone “offending a public place with a bad smell” is liable to two years in jail? Standing up for malodorous individuals has [...]

  • You’re not the boss of me

    Updated: 2011-02-19 15:55:23
    Audrey Macklin and Lorne Waldman explain the concept of judicial independence to Jason Kenney: “In a speech to the University of Western Ontario’s law faculty last week, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney launched an attack on Federal Court judges for rendering decisions he didn’t agree with. He suggested the judges were preventing him from properly administering [...]

  • Intervenors for Insite

    Updated: 2011-02-19 07:40:16
    IHRA joins International Coalition Intervening to save Vancouver Safe-Injection Site: An international coalition of harm reduction experts — comprised of the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA), the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, and CACTUS Montréal — has today been granted intervener status to appear before the Supreme Court of Canada to support Insite, Vancouver’s supervised injection [...]

  • SCC on Funding Orders

    Updated: 2011-02-18 20:55:03
    Funding orders must be exceptional, says the Supreme Court: ‘For the first time the Supreme Court has ruled that superior courts are empowered to order governments to fund public interest litigation before statutory courts and tribunals. [...] Brodsky suggested that “if governments don’t want the courts to attempt to deal with the problems that have [...]

  • Saving The Dying American Legal Industry From Outsourcing

    Updated: 2011-02-18 18:35:31
    Skip to content Law Blog Home Present Your Case to a Lawyer About Archives With New Scientific Evidence , Some Shaken Baby Convictions Questioned Saving The Dying American Legal Industry From Outsourcing Published by Andrew Dat on February 18, 2011 in Lawyers 0 Comments Tags : attorneys counsel industry law Lawyers legal outsource outsourcing schools Have any of you out there ever experienced one of those moments where you wondered whether life really is a sentient being with a morbid sense of humor A little strange and obtuse of a question , I know . The reason I ask is because , like the slowly dying and once great mammoth that is the printed press industry , the future of the American legal industry may soon be facing the same doomed fate for ironically the same reason cheaper and more

  • DEA Raid Results In Drug Trafficking Charges, Gun Charges For Lawrence Man

    Updated: 2011-02-18 15:40:59
    , 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 DEA Raid Results In Drug Trafficking Charges , Gun Charges For Lawrence Man February 18, 2011 Posted In : Drug Crimes Firearms Search and Seizure By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on February 18, 2011 10:40 AM Permalink DEA agents along with Lawrence , Massachusetts police officers raided Richard Cruz's home yesterday after obtaining a Search Warrant . The home located at 2 Inman Street was searched while Cruz was present . In a bedroom in the apartment officers located about twenty grams of heroin , a loaded Firearm and assorted Drug Paraphernalia . Cruz was found in possession of nearly one thousand dollars

  • Friday Roundup

    Updated: 2011-02-18 14:40:56
    In a welcome development, prisons have been a hot topic in the political blogosphere lately: Two must-reads: At Balkinization, UChicago professor Bernard Harcourt on dismantling mass incarceration, and a response from Rortybomb. At opposite ends of the spectrum, the libertarians at Hit & Run and the liberal wonks at ThinkProgress both have useful round-ups of [...]

  • With New Scientific Evidence, Some Shaken Baby Convictions Questioned

    Updated: 2011-02-17 19:14:20
    , , Skip to content Law Blog Home Present Your Case to a Lawyer About Archives Breaking News : Nutella is Not Health Food With New Scientific Evidence , Some Shaken Baby Convictions Questioned Published by John Richards on February 17, 2011 in Criminal Law 0 Comments Tags : child abuse convicted crime criminal defendant evidence expert shaken baby witnesses Back in the 1990s , we learned a lot about the serious physical harm that can result if a baby is shaken . While it was probably intuitively obvious to everyone , forever , that violently shaking an infant puts them at great risk of serious injury a few high-profile cases brought the issue to the forefront . There’s absolutely no doubt that shaking a small child can easily cause serious , sometimes even fatal , . injuries Now , however

  • Massachusetts State Police Catch Man Wanted For Failing To Register As A Sex Offender

    Updated: 2011-02-17 05:10:45
    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 State Police Catch Man Wanted For Failing To Register As A Sex Offender February 17, 2011 Posted In : Sex Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on February 17, 2011 12:10 PM Permalink Samuel Harper was arrested in Long Branch , New Jersey yesterday on warrants for Failing to Register as a Sex Offender in Massachusetts Today the forty six year old will be arraigned in the Lawrence District Court According to reports in the Lawrence Eagle Tribune police raided three different locations while searching for Harper . The charges stem from a 1993 case wherein Harper was convicted for Rape of a Child

  • The Path Not Taken in Oklahoma Sentencing Reform

    Updated: 2011-02-16 18:31:39
    Jim Campbell had a fascinating story in the Tulsa World this week about a set of bipartisan legislative proposals in the 1990s that could have brought Oklahoma’s prison system back from the “tough-on-crime” brink — only to meet with resistance: Richard Kirby, [Gov. Frank] Keating’s legal adviser and delegate to the legislative panel, said the [...]

  • L.A. Arts Group Dramatizes California Prison Crowding Litigation

    Updated: 2011-02-16 15:09:28
    The judges who wrote the 184-page court order in Coleman/Plata may have hoped they were writing history, but it turns out they were contributing to art, too! The Los Angeles Poverty Department, an arts and activism collective made up largely of homeless people, recently completed an innovative project combining public education, performance art, film, and [...]

  • Archbishop of Canterbury on “The Prisoner as Citizen”

    Updated: 2011-02-16 14:59:18
    Rowan Williams weighs in on Britain’s debate about inmate voting rights: If we lose sight of the notion of the prisoner as citizen, any number of things follow from that, and indeed are following from that. … Thus issues around restoration, around responsibility, around developing concepts of empathy and mutuality are all part of what [...]

  • Victims Fund Shortfall Highlights Absurdity of California's Death Penalty

    Updated: 2011-02-16 08:00:00
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  • Why the Miley Cyrus Video Will Cause Salvia Criminalization

    Updated: 2011-02-15 18:19:59
    Skip to content Law Blog Home Present Your Case to a Lawyer About Archives Airport Security Update : You Can Record the TSA Why the Miley Cyrus Video Will Cause Salvia Criminalization Published by Andrew Dat on February 15, 2011 in Criminal Law 0 Comments Tags : backlash crime drug illegal marijuana miley cyrus salvia smoke video So it looks like Miley Cyrus is shaping up nicely to become the next Lindsay Lohan . Right now she’s following that celebrity crazy pattern to the T . First up are the lighter drug screw-ups and obligatory apologies Next is the dying career , followed immediately by becoming a tabloid star and or going to drug rehab not necessarily in that order There must be some sort of mandatory self-destruct-and-throw-away-entire-career clause that child stars have to sign or

  • Framingham Woman Arrested On Gun Possession, Prostitution Charges

    Updated: 2011-02-14 19:44:51
    , 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 Woman Arrested On Gun Possession , Prostitution Charges February 14, 2011 Posted In : Firearms Prostitution Sex Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on February 14, 2011 2:44 PM Permalink Leandra Patterson of Framingham was arrested last Wednesday night after police , acting in an undercover capacity learned that she had been offering Sex For a Fee According to a report in the Metrowest Daily News , a Framingham Police Detective called a number listed on an internet website , backpage.com . The ad described a woman who assured satisfaction . The woman agreed to meet the undercover officer at an

  • Airport Security Update: You Can Record the TSA

    Updated: 2011-02-14 19:26:18
    : : Skip to content Law Blog Home Present Your Case to a Lawyer About Archives Housing Discrimination Can Happen to Celebrities and also to Antonio Banderas Why the Miley Cyrus Video Will Cause Salvia Criminalization Airport Security Update : You Can Record the TSA Published by John Richards on February 14, 2011 in Criminal Law 0 Comments Tags : airport body scan law law enforcement record security tsa videotape A jury has just acquitted also reported here a man who was accused of crimes that boiled down to annoying the TSA . More specifically , he refused to show his identification to a TSA Transportation Security Administration agent , and videotaped the entire incident . He was charged with crimes such as disobeying a lawful order , trespassing , and disorderly conduct , and a jury

  • Green Lantern?

    Updated: 2011-02-14 04:29:45
    This is a link to the latest post at my website.  Here is the London Free Press story I think this is very important for people to know… especially in Ontario.  Read this, and you can save a life. If you do not want to read the post, just know this. In Ontario, please pull [...]

  • Clients Don’t Care Where you Went to Law School

    Updated: 2011-02-13 21:15:45
    Via Matt Homann at the [non] billable hour:

  • Madinat al-Autocrat the Ultimate Destination for Dicatators

    Updated: 2011-02-12 14:16:49
    Via the Pan-Arabian Enquirer: JEDDAH: Saudi officials yesterday unveiled plans for a dedicated residential resort set to house deposed dictators, and rolled out the carpet for more of the world’s despots who might be forced to consider unexpected retirement… Speaking at the announcement, project manager Sidney Hammour laid out some of the features that former [...]

  • Saugus Man Arraigned On Drug Charges In Lynn After Arrest For Selling Drugs From His Home

    Updated: 2011-02-12 00:38:36
    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 Arraigned On Drug Charges In Lynn After Arrest For Selling Drugs From His Home February 11, 2011 Posted In : Bail Drug Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on February 11, 2011 7:38 PM Permalink Saugus police officers and other law enforcement officials received a tip from an informant complaining that a man was selling Percocets from his home on Perullo Lane . Following up on the tip the police arranged for a controlled buy utilizing the informant . Last Friday this person went to the home of Christopher Albert Troisi , the defendant . At that time he purchased several pills . Five days later a

  • The Expensive, Arbitrary and Inefficient State of the Death Penalty in California

    Updated: 2011-02-11 08:00:00
    For even the most ardent supporters of capital punishment, the issue of wrongful convictions presents a challenge which demands serious attention. While the growing innocence movement has used many different strategies, one tool which receives inadequate attention is posthumous exoneration. These exonerations can give advocates the hard to come by evidence about why and how wrongful convictions occur, and can provide us with insights necessary to institute the reforms to prevent them in the future.

  • Peabody Man Arrested In Danvers After Reports Of Attempting To Kill His Girlfriend

    Updated: 2011-02-09 23:14:03
    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 Peabody Man Arrested In Danvers After Reports Of Attempting To Kill His Girlfriend February 9, 2011 Posted In : Domestic Violence Violent Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on February 9, 2011 6:14 PM Permalink Stephen Goudreau of Peabody was arrested yesterday in Danvers after the police receiving a call from Goudreau's girlfriend complaining that she had been Assaulted . Apparently the two were arguing about a car when Goudreau supposedly put his hands to her throat and tried to strangle her . The woman called the police . Emergency medical personnel arrived as well . The woman treatment and was not

  • Access Copyright: Outrageous and Unnecessary

    Updated: 2011-02-09 00:35:14
    As a UWO student (and at many other Canadian universities,) you automatically pay an annual fee to an organization called Access Copyright. An item is included in your student activity fee, and it used to be $3.38 per student per year, plus an amount based on the number of photocopies made at library photocopy machines. [...]

  • Lynn Man Facing Sentencing For Cocaine Trafficking Case Arrested For Motor Vehicle Charges Gets Bail Revoked

    Updated: 2011-02-07 20:56:12
    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 Man Facing Sentencing For Cocaine Trafficking Case Arrested For Motor Vehicle Charges Gets Bail Revoked February 7, 2011 Posted In : Bail Drug Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on February 7, 2011 3:56 PM Permalink Duane Collins of Lynn , Massachusetts was arrested and convicted for Cocaine Trafficking in 2008. He was sentenced to five and one half to seven years . His conviction was reversed in 2009 following a landmark United States Supreme Court case that requires the district attorney to call chemists to prove that a substance is in fact a controlled substance . Prior to that case the

  • Six Lawrence Men Arrested On Drug Trafficking Charges, Bail Set At $500,000

    Updated: 2011-02-04 22:19:36
    , 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 Six Lawrence Men Arrested On Drug Trafficking Charges , Bail Set At 500,000 February 4, 2011 Posted In : Bail Drug Crimes Search and Seizure By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on February 4, 2011 5:19 PM Permalink According to reports in the Lawrence Eagle Tribune DEA agents working our of New Bedford had been investigating a Heroin Trafficking ring involving individuals from Lawrence . One of the members was arrested with eighty five grams of heroin . As a result a Search Warrant issued for an apartment on Union Street in Lawrence An informant told the police that he had purchased at that apartment . This

  • Couple From Tewksbury Charged With Receiving Stolen Motor Vehicle After Car Found In Driveway

    Updated: 2011-02-02 15:15:05
    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 Tewksbury Charged With Receiving Stolen Motor Vehicle After Car Found In Driveway February 2, 2011 Posted In : Theft Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on February 2, 2011 10:15 AM Permalink Jeffrey Lavin and Janet Baxendale , both of Tewksbury , Massachusetts have been charged with Receiving a Stolen Motor Vehicle According to reports in the Lowell Sun , just at the end of last year a car was reported stolen from Crystal News . Later , police from Littleton , Massachusetts reported that that same car was used as a getaway car after a Shoplifting incident . That car was subsequently used to

  • Pill Turns Man Into Gay Gambler

    Updated: 2011-02-02 03:11:28
    In perhaps one of the most bizzare products liaiblity cases we’ll see in some time, Didier Jambart of France is suing GlaxoSmithKline over the company’s Parkinson’s drug, Requip (ropinirole), The 51-year-old’s lawyers say their client’s behaviour changed radically after he was first administered the drug in 2003 for the illness, which causes tremors, slows movement [...]

  • Brockton Man Charged With Trafficking Cocaine After Neighbors Complain To Cops

    Updated: 2011-02-01 20:36:47
    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 Brockton Man Charged With Trafficking Cocaine After Neighbors Complain To Cops February 1, 2011 Posted In : Drug Crimes By Stephen Neyman , . P.C on February 1, 2011 3:36 PM Permalink Armando Rodriguez of Brockton , Massachusetts lives on Hermon Street in a single family home . Last Friday night , armed with a Search Warrant several police officers stormed his home . They found him in a second floor bedroom . Police obtained the warrant after neighbors complained about high volume foot traffic in the home at all hours of the day and night . Following up on the tip law enforcement officials conducted

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