Wolfe v Georgia Department of Driver Services – judgment from afar in time and space
Wolfe v. Georgia Department of Driver Services, A14A2286, January 26, 2015. In 1987 and again in 1989, Wolfe was convicted of a DUI-related offense in Illinois. Wolfe had never been a resident of Illinois and had never been issued a driver’s license by Illinois. In 1999, Wolfe moved to the State of Georgia and obtained […]
Read MoreUber.com and the free market beat police at DUI reduction
Entrepreneur.com reported on August 25th, 2015 that Uber has a bigger impact on DUI deaths than law enforcement. Imagine a world where market forces make the world safer than police, courts, and incarceration. According to researchers at Temple University, a study saw a 3.5 % to 5% reduction in one year in cities where Uber.com operated. […]
Read MoreThe U.S. Supreme Courts Massive Blind Spot
Radley Balko writes in the Washington Post on January 22, 2015, about the massive blind spot of experience on the U.S. Supreme Court on how criminal justice actually works on the street and in the courtroom. The reality is that most Judges have never worked as Defense Attorneys, stared into the desperate eyes of the […]
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 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 MoreDenstaedt v. State – not knowing what experts review is always admissible is not ineffective
Denstaedt v. State, A14A0858, Court of Appeals of Georgia, October 7, 2014. Matthew Denstaedt was convicted of DUI per se or driving over the legal limit as proven by an alcohol breath test in Gwinnett County State Court after an arrest by a Duluth Police Officer. He was acquitted of being a less safe driver […]
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 MoreCreative Loafing Expose: Murder in Georgia Prisons
Creative Loafing Expose on the Deteriorating Condition of Georgia Prisons. Georgia Prisons are underfunded, unsupervised, unsafe, run by street gangs, and riddled by violence. There have been over 33 prison deaths since 2010 which is almost 30% more than the decade spanning from 2000 to 2010. The reality of the prison system plagued by violence […]
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