Man spends five years in jail and prison before the car rental company finally located a receipt showing he was nowhere near the scene of the 2011 killing in Michigan. Link to the article is here
Put More Than 20 Years Of Courtroom Experience To Work For You
Month: March 2021
Do you have a right to sunlight?
Maybe. Maybe not. "A federal judge wrongly ordered two San Francisco county jails to provide an hour of access to outdoor sunlight per week to pre-trial inmates locked up for more than four years, an attorney for the city argued before three Ninth Circuit judges...
Video Number Four: The Right To Remain Silent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GKBscNJ_0c&t=71s
California Considers Eliminating Peremptory Challenges In Jury Selection
For those that don't know how a jury is selected in a criminal case in Montana (and in general terms in federal and state courts around the county) I will describe the process. First there is a group of people selected out of the driver's license and voter rolls of...
Connecticut Governor Signs CROWN Act
It prohibits discrimination on the basis of hairstyle. California passed it last year and Connecticut is now the second state to follow their lead. You can find the article here.
Oregon Considers Compensating The Wrongfully Convicted (They Currently Don’t)
They were also the last state requiring a jury to be unanimous in order to convict someone of a crime. The article can be found here.
Something You Would Expect Had Been Illegal Before This: House Passes Bill Making It Illegal For Federal Officers To Engage In Sex Acts With Detainees
You can find the article here. Troubling this wasn't the law before.
Google Collection of User Data Lawsuit
They deny it, but pretty much everyone believes they do so. You can read more about the lawsuit here.
Felony Murder
Felony Murder, which is different than homicide, mitigated homicide or negligent homicide in that you can be held accountable for a homicide that someone else causes if its in the course of a commission of a felony offense by you and one or more other individuals. ...