tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295702402024-09-02T01:06:18.048-07:00Various musings on social and political changes in America.Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.comBlogger907125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-36549447389336337622010-08-24T15:56:00.000-07:002010-08-24T16:18:30.369-07:00

Is there anything left to criminalize?CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It would be a stretch to say that Big Brother will hang out in Clevelanders' trash cans, but the city plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure residents are recycling -- and fine them $100 if they don't.The move is part of a high-tech collection system the city will roll out next year with new trash and recycling carts embedded

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-32113143180953221762010-05-06T22:23:00.000-07:002010-05-06T22:26:17.233-07:00

From a blog about women's issues in crime.They're not knights in shining armor. Their fervor isn't building because they love and want to protect you. I don't care if you met them in a bar, in church or on a college campus. The first time he lifts a fist toward you, when he issues his first threat, or his behavior verges on stalking, get help. Don't explain it away. Don't think you can change him

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-74486322005418805672010-03-15T06:20:00.000-07:002010-03-15T06:22:25.036-07:00

When did we hear that one before?

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I was spending a week in Corpus Christi with my girlfriend and we took a day trip down to Brownsville the other day. We parked near the bridge and walked over the bridge into Matamoros without incident. We bought a few souvenirs that we brought back with no problems, including a bottle of Tequila that Texas collected their tax on at the Texas part of the border crossing. You pass through 3

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I had a beef with Wal-Mart last week, to the point I took the time to complain via their web-site.I had two complaints. The first was they were out of my favorite coffee, (Cafe Bustelo) which is the main reason I go to Wal-Mart in the first place. I went there 2 times in one week, and they were out both times. My second complaint was their self-check out registers, as well as their lines at the

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-42337959804176816732010-02-15T00:58:00.000-08:002010-02-15T01:00:19.988-08:00

The smashwords edition, available in all ebook formats, is availableMemoir on being in the Navy and on the On the Naval Gun Line in the DMZ of Vietnam during 1968. A collection of personal stories of war and the people who wage war.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-22564473319736926512010-01-30T07:30:00.000-08:002010-01-30T07:32:01.049-08:00

What kind of criminal defense attorney touts his support of victims rights? I don't think a competent one would. But Murray Newman does.

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D. A. Confidential has a post about a bookThis week's selection is a book that will make you glad to be you, and glad to be wherever the hell you are right now. It's called The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom, by Slavomir Rawicz. It's a true story, and here it is in a nutshell:A Polish Army officer, the author Rawicz, is captured and then tortured in the Soviet prison system and

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-28360388316696763802009-12-24T07:29:00.000-08:002009-12-24T07:41:52.212-08:00

Every state bar has a continuing education requirment for lawyers. It's a good idea to require lawyers to keep up with new developments in the law, but as Scott Greenfield of Simple Justice points out, it's not always so clearly of professional value.In talking about a mailer for a CLE course he recently got, the asksThere's no mention of who will be the instructor, and clearly this isn't a law

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-61154751866611236612009-12-21T09:04:00.000-08:002009-12-21T09:10:40.764-08:00

I don't check my sitemeter stats nearly as often as I should if I want to be a serious blogger but I did look at them this morning. Mostly I looked at where my referrals have been coming from.I rank second on google for the search phrase "8th grade texas history book" because of this post about a book that included what Larry L. King thought about the effect of 8th grade Texas History on LBJ and

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-48075986597153679252009-12-20T08:32:00.000-08:002009-12-20T08:36:39.921-08:00

26 attorneys general submitted a friend of the court brief to the US Supreme Court which basically argues that government convenience in fighting the war on drugs trumps the Bill of Rights. It's not reasonable for us to expect the government to follow the Rule of Law if it's too much trouble.

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When there's a large snowstorm pretty much anywhere people often tend to take to the streets and play -- which involves things like throwing snowballs.In DC the requirement to show deference to police, even when you don't know they're police, takes precedence over any normal sense of human frivolity.UPDATE:The idiot law school teacher Althouse thinks the Reason description is inaccurate because

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-26822194588687641482009-12-06T13:27:00.000-08:002009-12-06T13:34:05.444-08:00

Having the jury sitting in judgement of a young American woman suspected of loose morals (and murder) as they stare at a fresco of the Virgin Mary tells us pretty much all we need to know about Italian justice.

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When I was a kid I knew a guy who was arrested for having a screwdriver in his back pocket. He was actually arrested for Failure to Display Proper Respect to an ego deprived cop but the reason given was Possession of Burglary Tools -- a screwdriver.These days it would probably be a weapons charge, but back then it wasn't illegal to carry a knife.Now we have courts referring to cell phones as "

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-64219625836032324562009-10-02T14:26:00.000-07:002009-10-02T14:28:58.692-07:00

I have serious doubts about the competence of a criminal attorney (whether he's a defense attorney or a prosecutor) who doesn't know how unreliable eyewitness identification is.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-31896635273373394422009-09-29T06:08:00.000-07:002009-09-29T06:11:39.640-07:00

At the G20 meeting last week when announcing the new nucluar weapons program in Iran, Gordon Brown, PM of GB, said the international community must draw a line in the sand over this.That phrase comes from a scence in John Wayne movie about the Alamo, when a the Texas defenders basically made a suicide pact.Is that what Gordon Brown has in mind? A suicide pact?

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-16593067944650539872009-09-28T18:44:00.000-07:002009-09-28T18:45:35.349-07:00

I didn't think that was really a surprise though. I am surprised that an economics degree ranks as high as it does on this list.

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then he starts shooting.In Austin a cop pulls up behind a car parked in an apartment complex with his gun pulled and ends up shooting (and killing) a sleeping passenger.

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Kill an inmate, get demoted.

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I have no idea why, but babies born to unwed teenage mothers tend to be conceived in April while babies born to married adult women tend to be conceived in August.

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It makes her delusional and somewhat paranoid. In a post about the dead census workerCan we speculate about what happened here? If I had to guess, I'd say that Sparkman, doing his census work, encountered a criminal enterprise — perhaps a drug lab — out where people thought no one would — or should — be coming around.Because there's so much census work that takes place in remote areas of

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The local paper in Wichita, Kansas has a series entitled "To The Stars; The Story of Kansas". So much of the history of the Wild West has been romanticized, it's nice to see something spelling out the stark realities of the times.This was how one of the articles begins:Town marshal had law-breaking past There was plenty about Henry Brown's past that could be considered unsavory:He had ridden

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-51280781111357155932009-09-16T09:10:00.000-07:002009-09-16T09:13:51.366-07:00

They're going to have a new District Attorney, one who had actually been endorsed by the Innocence Project rather than the Police Union.They might actually start getting some justice from the prosecutors office in Manhattan.

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This guy clearly did something to piss off the cop.An Indiana man has filed a lawsuit claiming that police forcibly withdrew urine from his body during a drunken driving arrest.According to the suit, police pulled over Jamie Lockard, 53, on suspicion of drunk driving in March. Police said he had driven through two stop signs.A Breathalyzer test showed Lockard was under the legal limit, but

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-29595861145923808152009-09-08T13:35:00.000-07:002009-09-08T13:36:18.215-07:00

Wow.

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