A blood test in a DUI–death case could be performed with probable cause, even if defendant were unconscious. Here, the suppression hearing never established whether there was PC for the blood draw, and the case is remanded for reconsideration. The fact of a death is not enough. Helton v. Commonweal ...

Richard A. Leo (University of San Francisco - School of Law) and Steven A. Drizin (pictured right) (Northwestern University - School of Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic) have posted The Three Errors: Pathways to False Confession and Wrongful Conviction on SSRN....

I looked at the legal 'ghostblogging" debate yesterday, which carries on in full force today at Social Media Tyro and elsewhere. Say what you will on this issue, but at least when it comes to ghostwritten pieces for lawyers and law firms, they haven't been accused of contributing to “lasting injury ...

You might feel you have heard this all before, and you would be correct. Unfortunately, that does not lessen the safety issues still surrounding folding strollers and that precipitated the Maclaren and Graco recalls. The same dangers to children's fingers have caused the CPSC and Regal Lager Inc., o ...

A.'s mother grew up on Buffalo's East Side, and A. and her sister started out there too. They all went to Corpus Christi, and still feel a connection to the parish, one of the many Polish churches in that neighborhood. The East Side has become pretty significantly depopulated over the course of th ...

Richard A. Leo (University of San Francisco - School of Law), Mark Costanzo (Claremont McKenna College) and Netta Shaked-Schroer (Claremont Graduate University) have posted Psychological and Cultural Aspects of Interrogations and False Confessions: Using Research to Inform Legal Decision-Making (PSY ...

Summary of Decision issued January 28, 2010Summaries are prepared by Law Librarians and are not official statements of the Wyoming Supreme Court.Case Name: JLW v. CABCitation: 2010 WY 9Docket Number: S-09-0097Appeal from the District Court of Carbon County, the Honorable Wade E. Waldrip, Judge.Re ...

Four of the current Supreme Court justices can reasonably be characterized as displaying neoconservative tendencies (Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, and Alito). These justices joined with Kennedy to form the five-justice majority in Citizens United, which held that governmental limits on corporate (and un ...

Steve Benen neatly encapsules the blinders of the Village Dems and bloggers regarding the the political toxicity of the excise tax contained in the Senate health bill: [I]s there anything Dems can do to get the winds to blow back in the other direction? [. . . we talked earlier about David Plouff ...

Graco Children's Products of Atlanta, Georgia, has recalled approximately 1.5 million baby strollers which may cause finger amputations in small children. The company is offering a repair kit to eliminate the hazard caused by the defective product. The defective strollers were sold throughout Massac ...