Sheldon Silver’s Sentencing Turns Spotlight on Hotly Debated Law

pr Sheldon Silver, one of New York's most powerful politicians, was sentenced on May 3, to 12 years in ison. The case symbolizes, for many, the state capital's culture of corruption. Silver's conviction was the capstone of Preet Bharara's crusade against corruption by.

At the start of  June, of pain medication. Today, weeks later, there's an article in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin raising the obvious follow up question:what about all the people he was treating? Authorities seized more than 3,000 patient files, according to the article..

Birdnesting" — Where the House Gets Custody of the ChildrenWhatever happened to the simple days of Kramer vs. Kramer? The 1979 movie reflected a social transformation which happened in the 70s. Views about parenthood were changing, and couples were going through a.

Violent crime in Las Vegas is becoming more common these days. Just last month, police officers found the body of a security guard at a southwest construction site. The guard had been reported missing by the employer. The victim had been shot.

HB 1275 was passed with a last minute amendment that allows a police officer to forcibly draw blood from a DUI suspect that has refused to take the state administered breath, blood or urine test.  The officer can either get the suspect’s consent or can get.

A new "marijuana church" has been created in the wake of the Supreme Court's February ruling in Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal (126 S.Ct. 1211, the pdf is here). In O Centro, the Court unanimously held that the.

Is sharing and uploading videos on YouTube something you enjoy? You would be one of many people, as YouTube happens to be the most frequently-used sharing site for online videos. The best part about YouTube may be its ability to let you.

Two types of drugs have been in the news in the last couple of days because of concerns about the side effects they can produce in small populations of users.  In both cases, the side effect is fairly rare, but in both.

Professor Doris Marie Provine of Arizona State University's School of Justice & Social Inquiry is the author of a really interesting and challenging new book called Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs. I keep coming back to this book.

Originally posted on Drug Law Blog by attorney Alex Coolman Part of this blog's proposal for making drugs boring -- that is, making them something we can trust to the judgment of individuals rather than the coercion of the police, courts and.