Conscientious Roadblock Objector stymies Police Road Block
Fairdui.org has created a firestorm of praise and scorn on media sites across the country. Chanting the Mantra: “I REMAIN SILENT, NO SEARCHES, I WANT MY LAWYER.” They have even utilized their Fairdui flyers to successfully negotiate Police Roadblocks and posted a video of the same on youtube.com. The video shows a driver utilizing a FairDUI flyer […]
Read MoreDUI arrests down 70 percent in Cherokee County over New Years Eve Holiday
Cherokeetribune.com reported on January 4th, 2014 that there was a 70% decrease in DUI arrest over the December 28 th through January 1st New Years’ Eve Holiday period. Last year there were 11 arrests as compared to this year with only 3 arrests. There were five fatalities reported during the holiday period one death in Cartersville reported […]
Read MoreHow License Plate Readers are doing more than checking your tag
Catherine Crump, Berkeley Law Professor who focuses on the legality of data and surveillance, explains in her TED talk the dirty little secret of police license plate readers (LPRs) that you see on police cars everywhere. Not only are these license plate readers checking for delinquent insurance, suspended registration, active warrants, expired tags, and suspended […]
Read MoreBlowing smoke just took on a new meaning
Bloomberg Politics reported on December 3rd, 2014 that Washington State University researchers are developing a handheld breath testing device to detect the impairing components of marijuana, THC, for use by police on the side of the road. Driving to the extent you are less safe from Marijuana consumption is illegal in Georgia and probably in all […]
Read MoreEven Lawyers need heroes and this one is mine
Lawyer Heroes Kimberly Motley is an American lawyer fighting for the rule of law in Afghanistan, of all places, and without a hijab, niqab, or burka. If you think you got bad it bad in your jurisdiction, court, or before your hypoglycemic judge just before lunch, you don’t even know adversity. We need lawyer heroes […]
Read MoreWhy innocent people plead guilty
In the November 20, 2014 issue of The New York Review of Books, Jed Rakoff, explores why innocent people plead guilty. Rakoff notes that before the Civil War, guilty pleas in the American Justice system were rare but in the present-day upwards of 97% of all cases are resolved in negotiated guilty pleas conducted in […]
Read MoreGSP Helicopter Marijuana Raid Yields a Heap of Okra
Time Magazine reported on October 7, 2014, that Georgia State Patrol Marijuana Eradication Team raids homeowners garden and seized a heap of Okra in Cartersville in Bartow County Georgia. Apparently, either the Officers had been at another location previously burning illegal Marijuana bushes which rendered them unable to distinguish between okra and marijuana leaves or […]
Read MoreIn the war on DUI where are the hearts and minds of the people
October 1, 2014. Espn.com reported that Micheal Phelps registered a .14 on his DUI breath test. That is not an interesting story. The interesting story is found in the comments to the story. Many of the commenters called DUI laws a joke and a scam. The comments ranged from the legal limit being too low […]
Read MoreGeorgia State Patrol to start DUI task force along Interstate I-20
New GSP Nighthawk Unit is formed to patrol I-20 East September 18, 2014. The Rockdale Citizen reported the Georgia State Patrol (hereinafter GSP) announced the formation of a new DUI task force of GSP Nighthawks to patrol Interstate I-20 from Conyers to Georgia State line in Augusta and the 21 counties in between. This new […]
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