Blog Posts in July, 2011
Posted on Jul 28, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
In a pre-trial hearing this morning, former Houston Police Department crime lab supervisor Amanda Culbertson testified that she and two others resigned because of problems with HPD's BAT Vans. ...
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Posted on Jul 27, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
A man, originally arrested for trespass, has remained in a Utah jail for more than three weeks, refusing to identify himself to authorities, according to AP reports. Setting aside whether holding a ...
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Posted on Jul 26, 2011 By Law Offices of Q. Tate Williams
An NBC affiliate reports from Roeland Park, Kansas, that, according to the FBI, a man dressed as a woman robbed a local bank. Unless the bank has adopted full body scanning technology from the TSA, ...
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Posted on Jul 25, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
It has long been accepted that generally, "ignorance of the law excuses no one," a concept dating from Roman law, expressed as ignorantia juris non excusat. However, one may wonder if the ...
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Posted on Jul 24, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
The following statistics are taken from statistics compiled annually by the state and published here. Theft and hot check cases aside, DWI and Assault cases are the most common category of misdemeanor ...
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Posted on Jul 20, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Whether the federal government or a federal Court can require the target of an investigation or a criminal defendant to decrypt an encrypted computer or computer file or punish them for not doing so ...
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Posted on Jul 19, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
By cheating, if what three court opinions have said her performance as a prosecutor are a guide: Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Benhman - "We conclude that the conduct of the ...
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