Russo on Schwarzenegger and Prop. 36

Over at the California Policy Report, Frank Russo notes a tension between California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger'sstated position on "the will of the voters" as expressed through initiatives and his approach to Prop. 36, the California initiative that allows first- and second-time nonviolent.

As reported by Chris Herring over at the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, the trial of former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Matthew Tannin and Ralph Cioffi is scheduled to commence next Monday. And now the government has obtained Tannin’s e-mails from his private Google.

  The jumping off point is a long article published in the LA Times today (4/1/07) on Prop. 36, the 2000 California initiative that allows first- and second-time nonviolent drug offenders to be  sentenced to drug treatment rather than incarceration. The article.

Jared Forgle: How People Get Arrested For Child Porn Crimes In August, the former spokesperson for the Subway sandwich chain, Jared Fogle, was arrested on federal charges. Fogle was accused of paying money to engage in explicit sexual acts with children. He.

When Joe Lanier pulled his work truck over to check on customer orders, he didn't think he wouldn't be driving the vehicle away. Lanier, 24, of Detroit and an exterminator was approached by a teenager who put a gun up to the.

The statute of limitations bars prosecutors from pursuing criminal charges against defendants for very old crimes. A statute of limitations is necessary for many reasons.  People should not be forced to spend their lives worried about being accused of wrongful behavior from.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat It doesn't take a mathematician to figure out if there are no guns, there won't be any deaths from firearms. It's common sense. Taking it a step further, it's easy to see the states with the most gun laws.

The focus of many white-collar criminal offenses is fraud. However, fraud itself is not a crime, it is simply a “concept” that is an integral aspect of several criminal statutes. Fraud is at the core of a variety of federal criminal statutes:.

Despite the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' seeming to take district courts to task in other decisions for failure to consider factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) which tend to favor the government pursuant to Booker, Section 3553(a) mitigating factors which tend to.

Not much is scarier than knowing you can be arrested at any moment. When the federal, state or local law enforcement has an arrest warrant with your name on it, you can be picked up immediately if you meet the police. Regardless.