A California prison inmate who was the intended recipient of a postcard containing a small amount of heroin did not actually "possess" a controlled substance when the postcard was intercepted before he ever received it, the Fourth District Court of Appeal held.
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The IRS has nearly unlimited power over commercial tax return businesses and preparers. It shouldn’t. Suppose you own a business that prepares and files tax returns for others. In today’s internet world, you would be filing those returns electronically. In fact, you.
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Three weeks after receiving a Federal Grand Jury subpoena, and as part of its new campaign for openness, Penn State officials posted on the school website Friday, a brief blurb acknowledging receipt of the subpoena, a copy of the subpoena and the cover.
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In February 2015, Congress was prepared to look at sweeping changes to the federal government laws regarding civil forfeiture. An analysis of the policy change would affect just a small piece of seizures. In response to the findings, a pair of lawyers.
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WALLA WALLA -- A woman charged with stealing money from Banner Bank while employed as a loan servicing agent has been sentenced to a term on a work crew. Suzette A. Brock, 39, of 262 N.E. 11th Ave., Milton-Freewater, pleaded guilty Monday.
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In an Order issued Thursday, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has delayed the retrial of Dr. Cyril Wecht. By way of brief background, the jury in Wecht’s case (a case that I’ve previously stated needs to be canned by Main Justice) hung.
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Perhaps the wisest words in the recent Supreme Court decisions come from the dissenting opinion of Justice Antonin Scalia in Lafler v. Cooper: In many—perhaps most—countries of the world, American-style plea bargaining is forbidden in cases as serious as this one, even.
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As I watched the waves break over the 18th fairway at Pebble Beach this weekend, I noticed a familiar name playing in the last group yesterday with Charlie Wi: Frank Quattrone. Could that really be, I wondered, the Frank Quattrone who was.
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Life In A Bathroom: Experience Solitary Confinement A prisoner, we’ll call him Brandon, is locked up in Uinta 1. A Supermax in Utah, he is in solitary confinement, a space about the size of a typical American bathroom, a detail he uses.
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On Monday, Detroit Attorney Tim Attalla had charges that he helped the Highwaymen Motorcycle Club carry out a drug business thrown out by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan following a bench trial, as reported by an article.
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