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Civil asset forfeiture

Law Enforcement Took More Through Asset Forfeiture Than Burglars Took Last Year Over the course of 2014, more stuff was taken from citizens of the United States by law enforcement officers than by burglars. These takings occurred as part of civil.

Regulated Market vs. Criminal Justice: Fun With Charts & Graphs

I wrote a post not a free-for-all: it's regulation. It's regulation via the same powerful policy tools that we already use to control the manufacture and sale of prescription and over-the-counter drugs and recreational commodities like tobacco. One thing I had meant.

Ammar Harris Sentenced To Death for a Shooting Incident

A shooting and crash incident on the Las Vegas Strip resulted in the death of three people in 2013. Ammar Asim Faruq Harris, the 29 year old man convicted in relation to this crime was sentenced to death today, as the judge.

Will It Regulate? On Blenders, Lawrence Lessig and Drug Prohibition

You've probably seen those weirdly compelling commercials for the Blendtec blender -- the ones in which they apply the question "will it blend?" to all manner of household objects and usually conclude that, yes, the object will indeed blend inside these very.

rooms probably doesn't make sense unless such use actually is part of an established and fairly discrete religious tradition

The Scope Of O Centro

UCLA Public Policy Prof Mark Kleiman has a post up on his blog about a study describing the ability of psilocybin mushrooms to produce "mystical" experiences. My only concern with the post is the way Prof. Kleiman characterizes the law around this.

Federal Sentencing Guidelines Contributing to Mass Incarceration

Federal Sentencing Guidelines Contributing to Mass Incarceration Defendants who are charged with a federal crime will generally be facing much harsher penalties, with lengthier jail sentences, compared with a defendant who is facing similar criminal charges on the state level. One recent.

U.S. Supreme Court to Rule on Rights of DUI Defendants

Constitutional protections are supposed to ensure that no defendant is forced to submit to a search without a warrant, except in exigent circumstances. Unfortunately, drunk driving defendants nationwide are effectively being forced to submit to warrantless searches. The U.S. Supreme Court is.

Texting and Driving Statistics

Texting while driving is a growing trend, and a national epidemic, quickly becoming one of the country’s top killers. Drivers assume they can handle texting while driving and remain safe, but the numbers don’t lie. Texting While Driving Causes: 1. 1,600,000 accidents.

Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Executive Clemency

Can Presidential Pardons Subvert New York Law? When Trump pardoned Scooter Libby, was he sending a message to his friends that they should keep their mouths shut and the will be beneficiaries as well? Before Eric Schneiderman resigned, he dug into the.

SEC Settles Anti-Fraud Violations With Municipal Bond Issuer

Earlier this month the SEC, in the first case of its kind against a municipality, ordered the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to cease and desist from violating the anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws. While the circumstances surrounding this order are.