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Ricin arrest: Feds say they are confident the second time around

  • On April 29, 2013
As the above post title implies, federal investigators were less than certain regarding their initial suspicions that led them to the wrong man in the recent poisonous letters incident regarding the deadly powder ricin. They say they got it right the second time, with a Mississippi man currently under arrest for sending ricin-laced letters to […]
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U.S. Supreme Court: no deportation based on Georgia pot conviction

  • On April 25, 2013
Following is a story that manifestly reveals the stringent nature of Georgia’s drug laws and the potentially draconian outcome of a drug crimes case following conviction on a charge of possession with intent to distribute marijuana. In 2007, a Jamaican citizen and legal immigrant was arrested by police in Georgia after they discovered marijuana in […]
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List grows of states, municipalities changing marijuana laws

  • On April 23, 2013
As this blog has noted in prior posts, Georgia has comparatively harsh laws in place addressing drug crimes, even drug charges involving first-time non-violent offenders caught with small amounts of marijuana intended for personal use. According to the Georgia Campaign for Access, Reform and Education (CARE), state law enforcement officials arrested as many as 40,000 […]
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High-profile Americans petition president for prison reform

  • On April 18, 2013
Many Americans might fail this Jeopardy-type question: Which country incarcerates more people than any other nation on earth, both in terms of absolute numbers and inmates per capita? That answer, confirmed through multiple and diverse sources, is, sadly, the United States. Many of those prisoners, both in the federal prison system and incarcerated in the […]
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Opinion: Georgia drug law, similar enactments, unfair to poor

  • On April 15, 2013
Commentators from the American Civil Liberties Union have taken aim at what they call “insidious interests” underlying legislation that has arisen in many states — including, centrally, Georgia — targeting poor and needy families in a selective manner exempting other groups. What the ACLU and other advocacy groups view with disdain and growing concern are […]
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Computer hacker protests sentence; will appeal white collar charges

  • On April 11, 2013
A well-known computer hacker — portrayed by some in a chivalrous right, with others deeming his conduct flatly nefarious — has stated that he will appeal his conviction on computer-related white collar crime charges brought against him in a case involving AT&T. Andrew Auernheimer, AKA “the AT&T hacker, was taken to trial in New Jersey […]
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Suspect’s guilty pleas on drug charge tossed, given officer’s lies

  • On April 8, 2013
Baltimore prosecutors and officials from that city’s police department thought that an investigation was behind them after a suspect was sentenced to 10 years in prison on a crack cocaine and handgun charge. They were wrong, with a federal appellate court panel reminding them that it was egregious conduct committed by one of their employees […]
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Defense attorneys, ACLU seek to suppress evidence in fraud case

  • On April 4, 2013
In a nutshell, the following is what criminal defense attorneys and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) object most to in a case involving identity theft and bank fraud. Federal prosecutors sought a search warrant in 2008 in which they informed a magistrate that they were seeking to obtain information from the wireless carrier Verizon […]
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Supreme Court: Warrant needed for drug dog used on private property

  • On April 1, 2013
Police officers in Miami, Florida, got a tip in December 2006 that a person was likely engaged in a marijuana growing operation in his home. An officer and a trained police dog went up to the resident’s front door, where the dog assumed an alert position indicating the presence of pot. That action was used […]
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