Navarette v California – serving up freedom destroying cocktails with a sliver of patent falsity
When people are stripped of their freedom it is generally done bit by bit until you realize that your freedom is lost. Pink Floyd sang it best in Goodbye Blue Sky, “Did you see the frightened ones? Did you hear the falling bombs? Did you ever wonder – Why we had to run for shelter […]
Read MoreFully Informed Jury Association – As a Juror do you know your rights and your power
Do you know what rights and powers you have as a juror? The Fully Informed Jury Association has a webpage and handbooks explaining the overriding power of jurors over courts, prosecutors, and the government. As Thomas Jefferson once said in a letter to Thomas Paine, ” The trial by jury is the only device yet imagined by […]
Read MoreWhy the LAPD are disabling their police video equipment – apparently you cant handle the truth
The LAPD does not think you can handle the truth. Well, at least the rank and file police officers don’t. In an article on arstechnica.com, an exposé chronicles how LAPD officers are “monkeywrenching” the video equipment in their police cars so it won’t record and transmit the footage to their police supervisors. The response was […]
Read MoreState v Gauthier-4th Amendment-Reaching for 1st Tier Encounters – Lesson – just ignore the police
In State v. Gauthier, A13A2430, (3/21/14), the Georgia Court of Appeals reversed a Gwinnett County trial court’s decision to suppress evidence in a DUI case based on lack of articulable reasonable suspicion. In this case, Defendant was alleged to have been seen by Gwinnett County police entering a parking lot after businesses were closed for the […]
Read MoreState v Holmes – driving down a road late at night not reason for a investigatory stop by Police
State v. Holmes, A13A2164, March 21, 2014. Travis Holmes was arrested for DUI and had his case thrown out after a motion to suppress the stop in the Cherokee County State Court in Canton, Georgia. Holmes was essentially stopped for driving on a road late at night after a report of vandalism at some local […]
Read MoreSullivan v. State – it does not take much evidence to uphold a DUI jury verdict
Sullivan v. State, A13A2037, March 21, 2014. Michael Sullivan was arrested for DUI less safe in Atlanta, Fulton County Georgia, after being observed by Trooper Osby, of the Georgia State Patrol Nighthawk unit, spinning out at an intersection going the opposite direction. Trooper Osby made a u-turn and pulled him over for doing 50 to 55 in a […]
Read MoreState v Mitchell – State can not argue if not drunk should have taken test in DUI
State v. Mitchell, A13A1829, March 20, 2014. A jury found Dantrell Mitchell guilty of DUI after the Prosecutor argued in closing that by refusing a DUI breath test the Defendant failed to take the opportunity to “prove his innocence.” The Georgia Court of Appeals held that a Prosecutor arguing that a refusal to take a […]
Read MoreCitizen Videos illegal Georgia Roadblock by GSP in Cherokee
On February 20th, 2014, A citizen with a video camera recorded an illegal Georgia Roadblock and posted it to copblock.com where Troopers asked if he had any drugs and ordered him to pull over for a “vehicle safety inspection.” Georgia law only allows Roadblocks for limited purposes and under limited conditions including license and insurance inspection, DUI, […]
Read MoreJones v State – DUI Similars – Goodbye Bent of Mind and Course of Conduct – Finally
Jones v. State, A13A1940, Court of Appeals of Georgia, March 28, 2014. In January 2013, a Cherokee County jury found Michael Jones guilty of DUI Per Se (Breath test DUI), DUI less safe (Impaired driving DUI), and speeding. Jones appealed arguing that the Court erred by admitting evidence of his prior DUI conviction under OCGA […]
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