A 21-year-old Tennessee man released a video on YouTube that has gone viral (and has since been made private) showing him trying to navigate a DUI checkpoint. In the video one can see officers discussing how the man had done nothing wrong while they were searching his vehicle. CBS12 discusses the rights of citizens when confronted with…
Third Amendment violations are fortunately ones you don’t see every day. The lesser known of the first three amendments prohibits quartering soldiers in a private home. A Las Vegas family filed a lawsuit based on a July 2011 domestic violence call, unrelated to the family, where police wanted to use the complainant’s home for surveillance. When denied…
Brian Tannebaum, a criminal defense lawyer in Miami, on some of the comments seen surrounding the George Zimmerman trial. Law is a complex subject with intricacies that vary by region. Of course the media should do a better job of finding and quoting pundits and guests, and each person who do well to know more about…
In a case that defines why you should never talk to the police without council, Salinas, the petitioner was questioned when not in custody or Mirandized. After answering some of the officer’s questions about a murder, Genovevo Salinas stopped answering questions about whether ballistics testing would match his firearm. This silence was used at trial as…
Sennett Devermont is a SDSU grad who is known as “MrCheckpoint” for using Twitter to alert drivers to DUI checkpoints throughout Southern California. Using the social media tools of Twitter, Facebook, SMS messaging, and his own website, Devermont has warned tens of thousands of followers. Devermont is planning a smart phone app for the service…
Channel 12 News in Jacksonville Florida reports that hundreds of DUI cases may need to be reexamined after an internal investigation into Laura Barfied, an expert witness. The report found that Barfied used a state credit card for personal purchases including cruise ship tickets. Barfield was an expert who testified about breathalyzer results at DUI trials.
