Gunman’s stray bullet kills 24-year-old mother of three Sherri Williams
Birmingham Mother Shot and Killed While Holding Infant In Birmingham, Alabama, Sherri Williams, of Birmingham died on her sofa still holding her son. A stray bullet meant for someone else ricocheted and hit Williams as she watched from the doorway of her home, holding her ten-day old son. The April 2013 shooting still has neighbors […]
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Egelko on Kelly and the SB420 Debate: The Legal Haiku of Thresholds and Ceilings
This morning Bob Egelko has a pretty good writeup in the SF Chronicle about the grant of review in People v. Kelly, the medical marijuana quantity limits case, and also about the way the medical marijuana community has been split over whether the quantity limits established by SB420/the Medical Marijuana Program are a good or […]
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Prohibition Should Have Taught America That Morality Can’t Be Legislated
The ink was barely dry before American history took a change. Before the day was over, to people would be killed, lives upturned and persons would go to prison for something that was legal 24-hours before. Prohibition in America was a nationwide attempt to legislate morality through banning anything to do with alcoholic beverages. Production, […]
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The War on Drugs: The Band
It must be Friday, because I’m exhausted and I’ve spent the afternoon listening to music instead of doing anything remotely productive. Too bad I have to work tomorrow. At any rate, my afternoon of aimless music listening did manage to turn up one interesting thing: The War on Drugs, the band. There’s something Dylanish about these […]
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Gonzales v. Raich One Year Later: Federalism Only When It’s Convenient
(Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts related to the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Gonzales v. Raich, which takes place Tuesday. See the link at the end of the article for the prior pieces.) What Gonzales v. Raich was about, a year after it was decided, ultimately depends […]
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Friday Music July 11, 2008
Here’s a pretty interesting, great-sounding (and nearly 10-minute-long, be warned…) video of Earth, the band that was once upon a time a sludge/drone metal pioneer. They seem to be going in some wonderful directions and opening up the sound quite a bit, even though the tempos are still very, very, very slow. Their website also […]
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Neurologist indicted for illegally Prescribing Narcotics
A busy pain-management physician in the region may not be very busy for awhile. Federal prosecutors believe Eugene Gosy to be among the greediest. They backed up their claim by accusing the physician of running a criminal enterprise that gave out over 300,000 illicit prescripts over the last 48-months. The accusations against Gosy are just […]
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SpyEye Creator Gets Nine Years While Co-Conspirator is Handed a 15-year Sentence
The Russian creator of a computer program that American law enforcement claim drained bank accounts in a variety of countries was sent to federal prison for 9.5 years. Known online as “Gribodemon” and “Harderman,” Aleksandr Panin was sentenced in Atlanta after being accused of creating the malware program SpyEye. Panin sold the software through a […]
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The Ambien Angle in Heath Ledger’s Death
The foreign press is starting to jump on the idea that Ambien contributed somehow to the death of actor Heath Ledger. See, for example, this Sydney Morning Herald article suggesting that “hundreds have had bizarre and potentially dangerous reactions to the drug” in Australia. I have little to add to this, other than to note […]
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For Female Inmates Dignity is Elusive
People laughter when Piper Chapman came out of the showers during Orange is the New Black’s first season. She used maxi pads to created shoes. It was a scene based in reality. At New York’s Rikers Island, female inmates use tampons as scrubbing pads — not as sponges. Prison issued tampons are waterproof. Humiliating in […]
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