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12 Dec 2018, 3:44 am by Patrick J. Murphy, Esq.
The court explained that “a check by a police officer on the status of a vehicle and its occupants falls within the scope of the community-caretaking function when its purpose is to protect the well-being of the vehicle’s occupants and the public. [read post]
” The names of the officers under investigation were provided to the DA’s Office in 2021 by public defenders and advocacy groups. [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 5:07 am
Search incident was based on defendant's arrest for public intox that led to his shouting obscenities, which reinforced the officer's conclusion. [read post]
29 Aug 2024, 12:09 pm by Kevin LaCroix
The two individuals sought advancement from Unisys in order to defend themselves in the Pennsylvania action. [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 3:42 am
Section 30.1(e) of the Public Officers Law, in pertinent part, provides that a public officer shall be removed from office upon “… his [or her] conviction of a felony, or a crime involving a violation of his [or her] oath of office…. [read post]
16 Jan 2008, 1:35 pm
  Why do prosecutors think they know what's best for defendants? [read post]
15 Jul 2022, 9:22 am by Benjamin Herbst
The Blog will continue to follow cases involving public corruption and misconduct in office, and we will post articles as news becomes available. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 5:50 am
Ray levied the punishment Tuesday when the lawyers for accused murderer Donald Steve Sanders refused to proceed with motions because of an alleged conflict of interest with the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council and its Capital Defender Office. [read post]
16 Mar 2007, 5:26 am
It's an important initial step for the man who replaced John Moosbrugger, giving that office a new chief public defender for the first time in 16 years. [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 10:03 pm
Public Defender Dude on “Larry Craig and Police Officer Opinion Testimony”:One of the areas that has held public fascination in the Larry Craig situation is the vagueness of the charges and allegations against him. [read post]
27 Jun 2020, 2:15 pm by Rebecca Salamacha
They have led riots in the streets, burned police vehicles, killed and assaulted government officers as well as business owners defending their property, and even seized an area within one city where law and order gave way to anarchy. [read post]
28 Sep 2012, 3:00 pm
Many states, including my own state of Florida, make it a crime to flee from police at high speeds, reasoning that this puts the officer and the public in danger. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 7:49 am by Steve Hall
" More than a dozen states have similar operations, but Texas was the largest without a public office to address death penalty appeals. [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 9:24 am by Steve Hall
"Senator attacks pace to create defender office," is the title of Chris Moran's report in the Houston Chronicle.The state senator who authored the law allowing Texas counties to establish public defender offices said he is “embarrassed” Harris County still does not have one nine years later. [read post]
10 May 2024, 1:09 pm by Ezra Rosser
These leaders represent different types of indigent defense organizations: Still She Rises Tulsa (SSRT), a privately funded nonprofit that offers indigent defense and related services to women who are mothers in North Tulsa; the Nashville Metropolitan Public Defender’s Office (Nashville Defenders), a publicly funded government agency that provides defense services to indigent people in Davidson County, Tennessee; the Black Public Defender… [read post]
11 Sep 2015, 6:58 am by Alexandra Farone
The defendants' main argument was that they could not receive a fair and impartial jury trial in Baltimore due to the heavy media coverage of Gray's death and the public officials who had definitively spoken out against the officers. [read post]
11 Sep 2014, 10:47 am by David Kravets
The decision to keep the video under wraps by Chief Judge Ted Stewart comes amid a growing chorus of people across the nation calling for more video footage of police activity.In the wake of the August 9 shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Missouri, politicians and the public want to outfit police forces with pager-sized surveillance cams on officers' vests that record everything the officers are seeing. [read post]