Justin Timberlake has always captured the public’s attention ever since his days with the uber-popular boy band N*Sync, but his most recent publicity hasn’t been too flattering. Recent reports suggest the singer was arrested in a driving while intoxicated incident. Since being arrested, Timberlake has told reporters that he is hoping to put the experience […]
READ MOREPolice Captain Arrested for DUI
At around 12:50 A.M. on June 2nd, authorities discovered a vehicle stopped at a light with an unresponsive driver. Police walked up to the car, only to discover the commanding officer of a Brooklyn NYPD precinct asleep at the wheel. Even worse, there was clearly a half-empty bottle of vodka in the backseat of the […]
READ MORETrial Brings No Solace to Mother after Son’s Death
Brandon L Woodard was killed in broad daylight in Manhattan in 2012. The accused for the murder include Lloyd T. McKenzie and four other men. Lead prosecutor Christopher Prevost says that this was a brutal cold and calculated murder. The entire case relies on the testimony of Quran Pender, a former actor, who was also part of the smuggling ring and is now cooperating with law enforcement.
READ MOREYou Won’t Believe What is Considered Justified Grounds for a SWAT Raid on Your Home
The Fourth Amendment is supposed to ensure that law enforcement cannot conduct unjustified searches of a person or his home. Your house is particularly sacrosanct, as you have the ultimate expectation of privacy when you are in your own home. This is why it is so unbelievable that a federal judge recently ruled that a […]
READ MOREACLU’s Operation Meth Merchant Case Hits a Snag
Two of the witnesses who were supposed to testify about racial profiling in Georgia’s notorious Operation Meth Merchant sting campaign have decided instead to invoke their Fifth Amendment privilege to remain silent, leaving the ACLU without much evidence in its legal challenge to Meth Merchant arrests. A third witness who apparently also has knowledge of racial profiling […]
READ MORENinth Circuit on ‘Good Faith’ Exception When Warrant Clearly Unsupported By Probable Cause
The U.S. v. Leon rule allowing officers to rely in “good faith” on what turns out to be an inadequate warrant does not apply when it was not objectively reasonable in the first place for the officers to believe that the warrant was supported by probable cause, a Ninth Circuit panel held today in U.S. […]
READ MORECA 4th District on Traffic Stop of Vehicle Without License Plates
A police officer does not violate the Fourth Amendment by conducting a traffic stop of a car that has no license plates, even if that car has valid temporary registration papers properly displayed, if the officer does not see those registration papers before conducting the stop. That’s the holding of the California Fourth District Court […]
READ MOREUS Justice Department Tracking American Motorists
According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, the US Justice Department has been gathering and storing records of hundreds of American motorists. The report claims that this database can track the movements of vehicles across the country. The news has been confirmed through government documents as well as by former and current […]
READ MOREBear Stearns Hedge Fund Managers’ Trial Begins Today
The trial of former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin begins today in Brooklyn, as reported by Bloomberg. A jury will be selected today. Cioffi and Tannin are charged with allegedly causing losses of $1.4 billion to investors by misleading investors regarding the health of two Bear Stearns hedge funds, the […]
READ MORECelebrities and DUI
Driving under the Influence (DUI) is one the most serious and potentially life-threatening offence. Different terms are in place for DUI in different jurisdictions. These include Driving While Intoxicated (DWI), Operating While Intoxicated (OWOI) and Operating a Motor Vehicle Intoxicated (OMVI). In the eyes of the law, they are all one and the same thing […]
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