Posted in castle doctrine, criminal law, education, property on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Because when you’re working with two other guys on a robbery, and your would-be victim shoots your friends, you’re gonna get charged with their murder:
Although Frank Castro, who turns 18 on Tuesday, did not shoot the teens, he still can be charged with their murders, officials say.
“If you are a member of the conspiracy, [...]
Posted in constitution, criminal law, ethics, free speech, media, oregon, politics, prejudice, private press, public domain, torture on November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
from the Register-Guard:
The order issued Monday afternoon came after The Register-Guard and the Eugene Weekly separately asked the District Attorney’s Office to overturn a city decision that asserted state laws pertaining to personnel records required the police reports to remain secret until the city completes a misconduct investigation into officer Judd Warden’s actions. [...]
Two [...]
Posted in criminal law, dissent, torts, torture on November 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The really choice fact missing from this article is: it was the same officer who tazered the protester last year.
A Chinese college student shocked by a Eugene police officer’s Taser stun gun a few hours after the student moved into his new apartment has contacted attorneys to represent him in the case.
The male [...]
Posted in constitution, criminal law, ethics, hypocrisy, impeachment, torture on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Really it’s the only honorable thing for Jay Bybee to do- he certainly shouldn’t wait for the Congress to remove him via impeachment. But this kind of half-assed “oh my bad, I had no idea they would take my memo that said torture is OK and then actually use it” non-apology press release bullshit [...]
Posted in castle doctrine, criminal law, education, politics, privilege, property, torts, tagged castle doctrine, map, update on January 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I realize the insanity of trusting Wikipedia for any kind of exhaustive legal analysis. But they’ve got a great list, and the list (for the most part) links to the relevant statutes. If I was really going to be serious about this I’d take the time to look up state murder law for all 50 [...]
Posted in castle doctrine, criminal law, privilege, property, torts on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This one has a Joe Horn mention. I guess the lesson is, if you want to gun down random people in Texas, you have to claim that you felt threatened. It’s probably not enough to say you did it because they were stealing someone else’s stuff.
A Kingsland man Wednesday was indicted on charges of criminally [...]
Posted in castle doctrine, criminal law, privilege, property, torts, tagged alabama, castle doctrine, Murder on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The unfortunate thing about bright-line rules is that sometimes they give you an answer that you’re not going to like.
In most other states, police would have taken Malik in to answer a few questions. Certainly that’s not an unreasonable request, especially if someone’s dead.
Not so in Alabama.
The legislature approved a strict version of the so-called [...]
