Consumerist.com pointed to this article from the Chicago Sun-Times about how stoked the police get when they find an iPhone as evidence in a case over the weekend: “When you hit the delete button, it’s never really deleted,” [Detective] Fazio said. The devices can help police learn where you’ve been, what you were doing there […]
After that cranky rant, I feel I ought to mellow out a little bit. Here’s Matt Taibbi’s advice to professional athletes who plan to end up in the criminal justice system. An excerpt: If you get caught in any kind of drug/illegal-substance scandal, even if the drugs are on you, it doesn’t matter: They belonged […]
I came in to the office a couple of hours early today, since I had to drop my wife off at the jail, where she teaches theater to incarcerated women. I spent the next several hours researching more instances of what Radley Balko (who’s done a yeoman’s work on the subject) deems “puppycide” – watching […]
That picture up there, that’s my dog. His name is Dio. He’s a Siberian Husky, maybe mixed with something else – he’s smaller than most huskies (though still within breed guidelines) and exhibits standard husky behavior: He’s playful, especially with other dogs, likes to roughhouse at the dog park. He’s really affectionate, most of the […]
I can’t remember who it was, but someone, I think a law blogger, was talking about a hypothetical run for office. If elected, he’d require all lawmakers to spend a week in jail. Just so they’d know what the experience was like before creating circumstances in which other people would have to go through it. […]
Via Radley Balko’s The Agitator, we get word that a 20 year old woman (in a neck brace) named Melissa Greenfield has pled no contest to obstruction charges after refusing to put away her cell phone gun camera while a police officer questioned her boyfriend. Well, there are lots of blogs eager to make fun […]
Sarcasm is the drug of choice of the Internet, and it’s beloved by vaguely immature bloggers like myself. Usually, more grown-up bloggers like Scott Henson at Grits For Breakfast tend to eschew the stuff in favor of “facts” and “well-sourced opinions” and “probing questions”, however, and that’s cool, too. It’s a big Internet, and there’s […]
Since starting with Sumpter & Gonzalez almost two years ago, one of the things I’ve found so surprising is the contempt that defense attorneys have for MADD. I mean, we’re all opposed to drunk driving, right? We just want to see rights preserved and innocence presumed, while MADD wants to make sure that kids are […]
While it’s never come to a criminal case in this country (to the best of my knowledge), jailbreaking your iPhone and copying a DVD for personal use have long been stigmatized as illegal, under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. And typically, when something’s been illegal, it doesn’t become more legal later – especially when powerful […]
While I’ve been out of town this past week, I’ve had the opportunity to do two things I don’t often get to enjoy: Watch daytime television (hence the subject line) and talk to people from rural parts of Texas. I made a new friend, kind of – this 21 year old ex-Marine from East Texas […]