In a very strange twist of legal procedures, a stay of Charles Warner’s Oklahoma execution was not granted by the Supreme Court last week; however, his case has been accepted on certiorari to determine whether the lethal injection procedures used in Oklahoma constitute “cruel and unusual punishment.” According to Supreme Court procedures, a stay …
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A week ago today, Brad Knudson posted the YouTube video embedded below in response to a bullying incident where two twin boys in his Minnesota home town bullied his adopted, African-American daughter via a series of offensive and racist SnaptChat Videos. The bullies sent four videos, he saved on by videotaping it. The video, …
Continue reading Father of Snapchat Bullies Loses his JobHere is a great video. It gets really great right about 18 minutes in. Here’s the context. Mr. Baca was convicted of murder in a California state court in large part due to the “jailhouse snitch” testimony of a Mr. Melendez. Melendez was prosecuted earlier for a separate crime by Deputy District Attorney Robert …
Continue reading 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Rips Lying ProsecutorsIn the most aggressive criminal motion I have ever seen in my life, (and I’ve challenged the constitutionality of the move over law in traffic courts), a criminal defendant in California is challenging the constitutionality of the scheduling of marijuana as a schedule I narcotic. A hearing was held on the motion, which is …
Continue reading Hearing on Schedule Classification of MarijuanaThe patently ridiculous reality show that I do not watch, nor care to, has a funny legal twist: Dating Naked producer VH1 has been sued by a contestant for showing her naked, and not blurring out her “vagina and anus” in one shot that aired on national TV. A copy of the complaint is embedded …
Continue reading Dating Naked Contestant Sues For Being Shown NakedI came across this article and was blown away by the tenaciousness with which law enforcement wishes to violate basic constitutional rights. The problem for the cops? If they Mirandize you, and you understand what it means and actually invoke your right to silence (note: you have to say you are invoking your right …
Continue reading Law Enforcement Wants to Work Around your Miranda RightsWe broke this news on the David Dorer Show live last week, and the headline says it all. Texas Governor Rick Perry has been indicted for misappropriating $200,000.00 that was intended to go to the District Attorney of Austin’s office for purposes of investigating fraud in the State government. The two-count indictment is provided below. …
Continue reading Texas Governor Perry Has Been Indicted14-year-old Parkview High School Freshman Caleb Christian and Parkview High School senior, Ima Christian have developed an app where you can rate your local law enforcement agency and can report police misconduct. The advertisement YouTube video for the app is embedded below. This is precisely the kind of innovation that we need to help …
Continue reading Georgia Teens Develop App to Document Police AbuseIn the wake of ongoing protests in Ferguson, MO following the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed man whom was shot multiple times by Officer Wilson of the Ferguson Police Department, Senator Rand Paul has called for the nation’s local law enforcement agencies to “demilitarize.” I have expressed the sentiment many times on the …
Continue reading Rand Paul: Demilitarize Police ForcesThe Ferguson Police Department have now attacked peaceful demonstrators. Just add that to the long list of constitutional violations, including illegal arrests of journalists. Luckily, Federal Officers are taking over not only the investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown, but also are now handling crowd control for the protests which have precipitated as …
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