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24 Sep, 2005 12:54 pm
Harris sworn in as judge Judge Roger Harris, right, jokes with state Supreme Court Justice Roger Burdick after being sworn in as a magistrate judge for Twin Falls County. Harris, 43, has been an attorney for 15 years. He graduated from the University of
Idaho College of Law in 1989 and previously served as deputy prosecutor for the City of Twin
Falls and as a public defender for Twin Falls County.
9 Dec, 2007 3:42 am
... colleagues. From the Times-News: Homicides spike in '07 It's been a grim year for Twin Falls, with five homicides so far in 2007 - a
new record for the city... The surge ... unusual, but it places Twin Falls far ahead of other Idaho communities... The burden has fallen most heavily on Twin Falls County Prosecutor Grant Loebs ... Loebs' deputies quit this year, citing the heavy workload, among other reasons... The county's public defender also feels the strain. With an ever-changing cast of inexperienced ...
17 Nov, 2007 7:35 am
... / Treasure Valley Phone: (208) 344-3848 CHADD Twin Falls Phone: (208) 734-2854 Autism Idaho Asperger and Autistic Spectrum Disorders Support Group ... E-mail: info@lincidaho.org Web: http://www.lincidaho.org LINC Canyon County Satellite 2922 Cleveland Boulevard, Suite 800 Caldwell, ID 83605 Phone: ( ... ; Advocacy Agency OTHER DISABILITY ORGANIZATIONS Project for Children and
Youth who are Deaf-Blind Idaho Project for Children and Youth with Deaf-Blindness Center on Disabilities and Human Development ...
3 Nov 10:56 am
... is largely symbolic. Just one person in half a century has been executed in Idaho - double-murderer Keith Eugene Wells, who dropped all
appeals and demanded a ... - including one in a child-death case.... Recent experience has shown Ada County prosecutors how difficult it is to
persuade jurors to hand out a death sentence. In 2004, juries called ... , Jim Junior Nice avoided the death penalty after cutting a deal with Twin Falls County Prosecutor Grant Loebs to plead guilty to murdering his three young ...
4 Nov 8:15 am
... and Ada hasn't pursued it since being denied twice in 2005." For Elmore County prosecutor Kristina Schindele, the decision was simple: The
only way Mexico would extradite ... and sexual abuse. Today's Twin Falls Times-News carries the editorial, "Capital punishment may be
gone for good in Idaho." Is the death penalty a thing of the past ... pursued it since being denied twice in 2005. And: Polls have consistently
shown that Idaho is one of the most pro-death penalty states in the nation, but just one ...
1 Oct, 2007 7:27 pm
... and kidnapping for choking, beating and raping his estranged wife in her Twin Falls home in front of their five children. He was
sentenced to life in prison ... whether they should invoke it or not." An end result could be more costs for counties, Jorgensen said, as public defense lawyers begin ordering
their own pre ... sentencing sex offenders, can consider the risk that the offender poses to society. However, the Idaho Supreme Court ruled
that the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination allows ...
11 Jan, 2008 2:33 pm
... indictment - Paul: Grand jury procedure didn't protect client Twin Falls County Public
Defender Marilyn Paul wants a judge to toss out a grand ... not admissible in a trial. While Paul has made this argument without success in other cases, Idaho appellate courts have not ruled on how to interpret this opinion. Yet some ... "Crawford was a big shift in the law. How it's going to be applied is an
open question. If the (Idaho) courts decide that Crawford does apply to grand jury hearings, that would mean ...
21 Mar, 2007 6:31 am
Thanks to Janet Langjahr for her post on this interesting article: In the small town of Twin Falls, Idaho, two public elementary schools have a "divorce" counselor for their students. ... almost three years after the class began - the number of finalized
divorces in Twin Falls County fell to less than 400. "The courts decided that everyone filing
for divorce ... After that, we didn't see too much of an increase in divorces in Twin Falls County." But the trend didn't last for long. In the past four years ...
18 Dec, 2006 1:36 pm
... the bar, in good standing, from another state. Nevada Supreme Court Rule 49.9 allows for a Deputy Public Defender in a rural Nevada county
to be waived in to practice for up to 2 years pending passage of the Nevada bar exam. The starting salary is $50,000 to $60,000 ... m partial to Jarbidge and its surroundings. There's
the famous cowboy poetry slam. And Basque food... mmm, Basque food. Plus, it's 2 hours or less to that true meeting point of Northeastern Nevadans, the Costco in Twin Falls, Idaho.
8 Nov, 2006 1:50 pm
... Project Director Jacqueline McMurtrie and her students that took Bob Kaseweter's case this far, Rose Marie Kaseweter said. For the hearing, James Shirk was flown in with his wife
from Twin Falls, Idaho. He admitted he had implicated Bob Kaseweter to avoid a
25-year-sentence, according to ... prosecution has virtually no case left."I was thrilled to hear it," Rose Marie said. The judge in Clark County took the matter under advisement for 30 days. If the judge orders a new trial, her ...
10 Dec, 2007 8:29 pm
... read it last year, but I don't remember that part.) Closer to home, homicides are way up in Twin Falls, Idaho, putting a big strain on the public defenders there. With an ever-changing cast of inexperienced deputies, Public Defender Marilyn ... about the Public
Defender's office and the article that the staff may be furloughed. I think that it completely needs to be given back to the counties and the state needs to stay out of it. We
had a better system, at least in the Tifton circuit, before the ...
3 May, 2007 12:21 pm
... warning in this case." Grant and Roger were my friends in Twin, and are uncommonly decent men. Meanwhile, the City of Twin Falls would like to say, "hey, don't blame us!": One of the finest attributes of Southern Idaho is the
caring nature of the people who live here. ... our community. The deputy that issued the citation to the canoeists does not work for the City but rather the County of Twin Falls." Update: Editorial - County citations a harsh
reward for heroic actions
27 Dec, 2007 10:07 am
... recently wrote about Texas's corrosive reliance on snitching. He also noted this recent news about a snitch gone wrong, closer to my old home. From the Idaho Mountain Express: Twin Falls murder suspect was a Blaine County 'narc' - McElhiney cooperated with police in drug investigations A Hailey man ... County Narcotics
Enforcement Team. John Henry McElhiney, accused of killing an 18-year-old Twin Falls man and hiding the body in a barrel, assisted
police with drug investigations in Blaine ...
23 Mar, 2007 12:07 pm
From KPVI: Change of Venue Requested in Cassie Jo Stoddart Murder Trial Bannock County may be getting a Twin Falls jury for the Cassie Stoddart murder trial. Today, defense attorneys for Brian Draper moved ... the Bannock County jury pool... It's Defense Exhibit 100 - today's front page of the Idaho State Journal. Defense attorneys for
Brian Draper say it's this kind of ongoing publicity that's turning the county against their client. "We feel that for Mr. Draper to receive a
fair trial, that we do ...
31 Mar, 2008 2:35 pm
From the Times-News editorial board: The quality of justice isn't the same across Idaho If you're charged with a crime and can't afford a
lawyer, the county will pay one to defend you. Trouble is, Twin Falls County public defenders handle nine times more ... road in Hailey... We can all use more funding, but I'm not sure that propagating the line that "every day
in Idaho busy public defenders cut corners simply because they don't have time and resources to conduct a ...
27 Feb 6:00 am
... Years Jail for Auto Arson in Idaho, Insurance fraud expert witness Barry Zalma writes: On January 21, 2009, the Idaho Department of Insurance reported that Spencer Jay Maschek and Patrick Anthony Morrissey, 23 were convicted of arson to their ... Morrissey to set the
vehicle on fire. Department of Insurance Investigator Jan Heinz gathered information and assisted Twin Falls County Sheriff's Department and Farm Bureau Insurance in the investigation. Arson and Conspiracy to Commit Arson are felonies ...
15 Jun, 2008 7:56 pm
... provides a divine response to mass incarceraton Here are snippets: One look at the members of Twin Falls' Because of Jesus
Ministries makes its obvious these aren't your ... decisions on prosecution, sentencing and management of convicts. But Minidoka County
Prosecutor Nicole Cannon said Idaho's prison population has begun to factor into ... off a path to prison. Considering the most serious
conviction for nearly one quarter of Idaho's inmates is drug-related, that's good news not just for the state' ...
25 Nov, 2007 1:54 pm
I don't have much occasion to read up on Idaho caselaw since I, well, no longer practice in Idaho,
but I liked these recent opinions: State v Paul Lawrence Rogers, No. 33935 (October 22, 2007) (pdf ... found that raising one's voice a little is not sufficient to bring a youth within
the purview of the Juvenile Corrections Act. I'm pleased as punch to send congratulations to the lawyer who argued and won the appeal, Robin Weeks of the Twin Falls County Public Defenders Office - I hired her, you know.
23 Mar, 2008 5:25 am
From the Twin Falls Times-News: 'Lowest rung on the ladder' Michelle Mellinthin was no angel. Charged with grand theft, meth possession
and forging a bank card, her public defender in ... defense. And she won. Mellinthin's case was far from the first or only time a busy county
public defender blew a case, citing too little time and resources. A wide disparity exists between the time and resources some Idaho
county public defenders have compared with others. But until recently, the state wasn't ...
11 Feb 7:34 pm
... article here 02/11/2009 By REBECCA BOONE - Associated Press Writer BOISE - The Idaho Supreme Court has found that the state's method of
classifying violent sexual ... of _____, who was sent to prison for the 1998 rape of a 15-year-old girl in Twin Falls County and who admitted to raping three young boys. Before his release in ... adequate chance to fight the label. Writing for the majority, Justice Joel
Horton noted that Idaho's laws specifically prohibit offenders, their attorneys and even prosecutors ...
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