Do As I Say
On May 14, 1970, Mitch Daniels, now the governor of Indiana and a GOP presidential hopeful in 2012 and 2016, then a student at Princeton University, was arrested, along with two roommates, for having enough marijuana in his dorm room…
Probable Cause or Reasonable Suspicion?
If you can figure out what Commonwealth v. Feczko, 10 A.3d 1285 (Pa. Super. 2010), means in terms of criminal defense practice, feel free to share. This opinion came out in December, and I had a chance to read it…
Tasers Kill
The Braidwood Inquiry report is a pretty damning document for Taser International. The inquiry began after Polish Immigrant Robert Dzienkanski died on October 14, 2007, at the age of 40, after being Tasered five times by four RCMP officers in…
Setting a Minimum Standard
Judges, cops, even a high school principal, are nice, reasonably educated folks who are given power over others and entrusted to use it with a modicum of intelligence, thought and discretion. They aren't expected to be perfect. Not even pretty…
Federal Government Increases Restrictions on Travel by Citizens
That's how I'm spinning the passport rate increases.
What is the value of an expungement?
A local attorney is pushing expungement in new directions. Along with what has become the standard language of an expungement order, he included provisions requiring the local newspaper and a student-run newspaper to remove articles that named his clients.
Mindfulness Meditation for Lawyers
Leonard Riskin says that mindfulness meditation helps one to be a better lawyer.
An Innocent Man
Under no interpretation of the law should anyone deemed to be "factually innocent" continue to be imprisoned. Seems like common sense to me. But not in the 9th Circuit.
When in the Course of human events
For as long as I can remember, I've read the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. It is the closest thing to a religious text a secular humanist like myself ever embraces