Blog Posts in May, 2011
Posted on May 17, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Robert Frost wrote "Good fences make good neighbors," in his poem, The Mending Wall. A Houston man decided that steel bars make better ones, or at least with regard to Noe Gerardo Morin, ...
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Posted on May 16, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, denied bail in his pending sex crime cases because of Roman Polanski's four decade flight from justice? Even if the court ...
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Posted on May 13, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once paraphrased Mahatma Gandhi, saying "[t]he old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind." A punishment to be carried out in Iran at noon on Saturday ...
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Posted on May 13, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Sheila Carter was arrested by law enforcement in Conroe, Montgomery County, Texas, last week for her third DWI, a felony charge. Taking the old local news maxim "if it bleeds it leads" ...
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Posted on May 12, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
There is "jail bait;" there are "jail babes;" and now "jail babes" into "jail bait," or perhaps according to a photo filled post about women convicted of sex ...
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Posted on May 11, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Eyewitness testimony convicted Johnny Pinchback for Aggravated Sexual Assault in 1984. After twenty-six years in prison, almost his entire adult life, he has been exonerated by DNA evidence. Luckily ...
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Posted on May 4, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has long been criticized by conservatives as being activist and liberal. Monday, a three judge panel of the Court issued a 2-1 ruling in Nordyke, et ...
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Posted on May 3, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Business Insider has a slideshow about what law enforcement will get from Facebook about a user once they've complied with 18 USC 2701. To save you a click, its pretty much everything. ...
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Posted on May 3, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Many news and other outlets are now asking or opining about the legality of killing of Osama Bin Laden, including the, Council on Foreign Relations, Politico, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The New ...
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Posted on May 3, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
The Criminal Rules Advisory Committee recently voted against an ABA endorsed change to Rule 16 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that would have enshrined Brady and its progeny. Recent ...
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