…an effort to identify previously unknown terrorists. In particular, Fort Meade intercepted both metadata and content from phone calls and internet communications. “Metadata” is “information that describes who is communicating”…
…to try to do as a judge, whether you’re on Charter (of Rights and Freedoms) issues or any other issue, is, by an act of the imagination, put yourself in…
…that any medical examiner expected a criminal investigation to result from it.” “There is no indication in Brijmohan’s testimony or elsewhere in the record that a criminal investigation was contemplated…
…a Bronze Star with a Combat “V” for heroism in combat. He was medically discharged in 1969. While recuperating in the Veteran’s Hospital in Minnesota, Mike hung out in the…
Published September 2012 I consider myself most fortunate to have started my legal career in 1972 in federal district court in New Mexico. I was an assistant United States attorney…
…genocide by sheltering them in the hotel he managed. Living in exile in the United States and active in the opposition party in Rwanda, he was tricked into boarding a…
…participants falsely remembered seeing news film clips of United Flight 93 crashing in a field in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001. No such film clips exist. In one interesting study,…
…equivalent approaches. (1) A criminal statute is ambiguous if it is susceptible of two reasonable interpretations. If it’s ambiguous, the rule of lenity applies. (2) The rule of lenity applies…
…may in fact be one of the most important ingredients to resilience because it creates a behavioral tendency to engage in acts that promote happiness while stabilizing a positive attitude….
…it was inappropriate and unethical for whatever reason it was said. There may be some in the legal profession who believe the profession is just fine as it is. There…
