California Anti-Bullying Laws California Anti-Bullying Laws . All of us have heard of the dangers of bullying. Bullying has been alleged to develop students into mass school-shooters. It has been cited as the cause of teenage or young adult suicides. Bullying is basically harassment, most often harassment by groups of people as opposed to one individual. Of course,…
Texas Justice, Part 2 Texas Justice, Part 2 . A 19 year old Texas man faces 5 years to life in prison for baking brownies. Instead of using marijuana to spice up the brownies, he used hash oil. Had he used marijuana in the brownies, he would have been guilty of a misdemeanor. However, hashish oil is a…
Texas prison inmate Jerry Hartfield was convicted of murder and put on death row in 1976. He has claimed innocence for many years and has an IQ or 51, about on par with the average first-grader’s ability to reason. Mr. Hartfield’s conviction was overturned in 1980 based upon misconduct in dismissing a juror who indicated he had issue…
Texting + Driving Can Lead to Criminal Charges in California Texting + Driving Can Lead to Criminal Charges in California . For those of you who feel it is just not as safe on the roads after the invention of texting, here is more fuel for the fire: The Huffington Post published this story on Wednesday,…
Domestic Violence and Equal Rights Domestic Violence and Equal Rights . It is a horrible thing to be a victim of domestic violence, involved in a relationship where a person is verbally and physically abused and made to feel powerless and hopeless. Until domestic violence was treated seriously by the courts and society, people often were heard…
The Conflict Between California and Federal Online Child Pornography Laws The Conflict Between California and Federal Online Child Pornography Laws . Two California Appellate court cases within the last 5 years have stated that California Penal Code Section 311.11 applies to files located computer’s “cache” are “knowingly possessed” within the meaning of the California child pornography statute.…
California State Senator Yee Indicted California State Senator Yee Indicted . On March 27, 2014, California State Senator and former candidate for mayor of San Francisco Leland Yee was criminally indicted by a federal grand jury for trafficking in firearms and corruption. Yee has been involved in local and state politics for many years and was running…
The Associated Press (AP) recently published an article stating the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has approved funding for a study on the effectiveness of medical marijuana treatments for military combat veterans returning from Afghanistan with symptoms of PTSD—anxiety, insomnia, nightmares, panic attacks, etc. Doctors have long believed that inhaling or smoking marijuana may calm…
Several news outlets recently published stories about Daniel Johnson, a 26 year old California man who filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office for excessive force. The complaint alleges that Johnson was inside his parents home, when someone knocked on the door and told him his father was receiving a ticket for…
The state of California has always allowed possession of firearms inside the home by law-abiding persons. However, the state does not allow carrying concealed firearms outside the home without a permit. These permits are issued by the various counties. In a surprise decision, the Federal 9th Circuit court, which covers California and other Western states, ruled that a county…