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Youth and Perception
Posted on February 26, 2009The older you get, the less frequency your ears can detect. That doesn't mean that those frequencies aren't out there; or that others can't perceive them.Here is an example. (Hat tip: N.D.) It produces a sound that most people over 25 years old shouldn't be able to hear...
Health Care Reform
Posted on February 26, 2009It's pretty simple, if you do the right thing - logically and morally. Eating healthy is expensive. If we truly care about the poor, we should empower them to make the most healthy eating choices.Thus: First, subsidize vegetables and tax corn. Make broccoli cheaper than Doritos...
Liberals, Conservatives, and Dogs
Posted on February 26, 2009Barack Obama got his dog. It's a spazzy breed for even a dedicated dog owner. In other words, he picked the wrong breed.His family's decision was the product of typical liberal/Yuppie/Stuff White People Like self-indulgence. The dog is so cute! That's not how you pick a dog...
Why I am a Eugenicist
Posted on February 26, 2009Can anyone explain to me why it's moral to allow children to be born into family environments like this? A trio of Louisiana nitwits agreed to swap two young children for a $1500 cockatoo and $175, police charge. The deranged exchange was hatched after Donna Greenwell, a 51-year-old trucker, learned that the bird was being offered for sale by Brandy...
Oil Change Myth
Posted on February 25, 2009From the Yet Another Lie We've Been Told Department: No, you don't need to change your oil every 3,000 miles. "Because everything I was ever told was a lie," indeed.
Hot-Dog Stealing Prosecutor Resigns
Posted on February 25, 2009At first I felt sorry for the guy. He got drunk, ate a hot dog, and then stumbled away without paying. Who hasn't done that? Then I saw this:When the officer caught up with Olson, the prosecutor said he didn?t know anything about a hot dog, though he had ketchup and mustard on his shirt, police said...
Midwestern Values?
Posted on February 25, 2009The FBI considers Ohio (yes, the Ohio in the United States) a "hotbed" of child sex slavery: COLUMBUS, Ohio?Teenage girls are being locked in the chains of sexual abuse and forced into prostitution?in Ohio. The FBI rescued 45 suspected teenage prostitutes on Monday?some as young as 13 years old?as part of a nationwide sweep, NBC 4?s Mikaela Hunt reported...
The Only Two Interesting Questions Left to Discuss
Posted on February 24, 2009How bad; and how fast?
Discovery and Metadata
Posted on February 23, 2009Good article in the Connecticut Law Tribune about a right to discover metadata. I've long argued (with no success) that metadata should be available in criminal cases, under Brady v. Maryland. Any document produced by police departments gets invariably more inculpatory, i...
Law Students Having Trouble Getting Bar Loans
Posted on February 23, 2009Bad news for law students. I wonder how this will affect bar passage rates? Law schools, obsessed with U.S. News rankings, cannot afford to have students failing the bar because those students can't afford to study properly for the bar. Hopefully more wanna-be law students will be denied law school loans...
Viewer of Child Pornography Required to Pay Restitution to Victim?
Posted on February 23, 2009This could be a very broad reaching ruling. If it holds up, expect civil actions against the defendants.
Alex Kozinski and Overcriminalization
Posted on February 22, 2009Timothy Lynch of the Cato Institute has outdone himself with the latest collection of essays he has compiled. In In the Name of Justice, "Leading judges and legal scholars explore the state of criminal law today and offer compelling examinations of key issues, including suicide terrorism, drug legalization, and the vast reach of federal criminal liability...
60 Minutes Special on Resveratrol
Posted on February 21, 2009The mainstream media was only two years behind the Life Extension movement on resveratrol:
Gary Condit and Chandra Levy: Undone by Randomness and Confirmation Bias
Posted on February 21, 2009Gary Condit was a Congressperson who had an affair with his 23-year-old intern. He was about to break off the affair. The intern was upset, and was considering going public with the affair. Later, Ms. Levy disappeared. Gary Condit must have done it, right? How could he have not? The narrative makes perfect sense...
The Blogosphere Reacts to the NAS's Report on Junk Science in the Courtroom
Posted on February 20, 2009Norm Pattis has posts here, here, and here. Scott Greenfield comments here. Radley Balko's contribution is here. Somewhat relatedly: Here is an August '08 post noting that so-called criminal profiling is junk science.Perhaps the next Blawg Review will have a section linking to various reactions to the NAS Report? Other reactions? Please leave a comment and I'll update this post.
Survivalism Non-Sequitur
Posted on February 20, 2009What is up with morbidly obese white guys stock piling guns and ammo? I understand having a small concealed-carry pistol, and shot gun, and a survival rifle. I know guys who are stock piling thousands of rounds of ammo. Why? Are things going to get so bad that you'll need an armory? If that's what you believe, fine...
The Social Psychology of Bottled Water
Posted on February 19, 2009I remember when I saw a person drinking bottled water on my college campus. It was called Dasini, and it could be purchased from the on-campus vending machine for $1.25. I thought to myself, "What a silly idea." I literally could not compute what I was seeing...
Update on Shady Class Action Lawyer
Posted on February 19, 2009My friend received a response to his inquiry: I tried to call you and left a message. The retainer agreement is the contract between attorney and client. The terms were negotiated before we started the case. The $1000 is the same for every client, and it is our expectation that the Court will accept these terms for the class...
Junk Science in the Courtroom
Posted on February 19, 2009We stop burning witches based on superstition. Instead, we send people to prison. We call that progress.
America is a Nation of Cowards?
Posted on February 19, 2009Attorney General Eric Holder, who is African American, called the American people a "nation of cowards," at least when discussions of race are concerned. I agree, and have been saying the same thing for years. Our society is full of double standards.Why, e...
More Class Bias at the New York Times
Posted on February 18, 2009The same editors who struggled to understand how a person can get by on $500,000 a year could of course not relate to small businesses and other poor people. Yet another reason to hate the Times.
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If I was detained by citizens unlawfully, and then the police showed up...is everything they charged me with in-admissable?
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Do parents have the right to NOT turn in a sexual offender?
No. The offender should be turned in regardless of any disability (1), or reason...
Can someone detained in a search w/ warrant, be charged with a crime related to the search if they were not arrested at the time of the search?
The police have fairly wide discretion on when they can make an arrest so long a...
I was a bookkeeper for a recreation center. The Center Director left and a new director took over. I went to work one day and some of my files were missing. I called our computer tech and her restored the files (I had ma
In order for a crime to be established you need to conclusively prove that the D...
If I was detained by citizens unlawfully, and then the police showed up...is everything they charged me with in-admissable?
Probably depends on the law of the state in which you live. Many states allow fo...
If I pay restitution, can I still be charged with a crime?
It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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