Your Rights in a Vehicle Stop: Contrasting Situations Your Rights in a Vehicle Stop: Contrasting Situations. On July 18, 2013, a Texas officer stopped a young woman named Sandra Bland for failing to signal a lane change. The officer’s dash-cam activated, capturing most of the audio and video during the incident. Ms. Bland complied by pulling…
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…
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…
Creative Criminal Defense – The Affluenza Argument Creative Criminal Defense – The Affluenza Argument . A strange story out of Fort Worth Texas. Ethan Couch, a 16-year old-boy who was speeding and Driving Under the Influence—with a BAC that was THREE times the legal limit for Texas juveniles—struck and killed 4 people. Rather than charging him…