May 2012
26 posts
Virginia: End knife control →
weaponsystems:
Virginia’s General Assembly has finally purged the remnants of gun control from its books. The meaningless one-gun-a-month purchase restriction was repealed last session, and two years ago, Gov. Bob McDonnell signed a law granting concealed-carry permit holders permission to eat in restaurants that serve alcohol. Now it’s time for lawmakers to fix the state’s knife laws that are...
Firearms Purchases Booming →
weaponsystems:
Nationally, calls for firearms purchases using the FBI’s instant criminal background check system totaled nearly 1.2 million in March, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a firearms industry trade group. The number is up 20 percent over a year ago and marks the 22nd straight month-over-month increase, NSSF said.
Blind Rockaway Township gun collector will have... →
weaponsystems:
A blind gun collector can keep his gun permit and will have the weapons previously seized from his house by police returned to him, following a judge’s order handed down Friday in Superior Court in Morristown.
Corrupt Watchmen
DA Running for Congress Is Indicted; Feds Say He Ran His Office as a Criminal RICO Enterprise
By Martha Neil
May 7, 2012, 05:15 pm CDT
A sitting district attorney in South Texas has been federally indicted, accused of working with his former law partner and others to operate the local justice system as a criminal racketeering enterprise.
Cameron County District Attorney Armando R....
He's Lucky The Feds Didn't Pick This Up
A man dubbed the “Snowboarder Bandit” was charged today with committing robberies in 10 Orange County banks. Michael Brandon Franks, 29, Riverside County, is charged with 10 felony counts of second degree robbery and two felony counts of attempted robbery. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in state prison. He is being held on $250,000 bail and is scheduled for a...
Weaponsystems: Nevada to Recognize South... →
weaponsystems:
Reported by NRA: As of July 2012, South Carolina will be added to the list of states for which Nevada recognizes concealed carry weapons permits (CCW), bringing their new total to sixteen states.
At their last meeting, the Nevada Sheriffs’ and Chiefs’ Association (NSCA) voted to add South…
Car impoundment
TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL State of California
OPINION of
KAMALA D. HARRIS Attorney General
_________________________
:
THE HONORABLE KEVIN DE LEÓN, MEMBER OF THE STATE SENATE, has requested an opinion on the following question:
Does a police department have discretion to establish guidelines that would allow an impounded vehicle to be released...
California Assembly passes carry restriction →
weaponsystems:
Carrying unloaded rifles in public would be prohibited under hotly contested legislation that passed the Assembly on Thursday. Assembly Bill 1527 cleared the lower house, 44-28, with no Republican support.
We'll Fight for You →
weaponsystems:
“I Hunt, but the N.R.A. Isn’t for Me,” by Lily Raff McCaulou (Op Ed, April 25), is another desperate, but predictable, election year stunt to try to marginalize National Rifle Association members. The N.R.A. not only represents four million N.R.A. members, but polls also indicate that tens of millions more support us, and a healthy percentage of the population takes our positions...
Fair or unfair?
Sabrina,
We spoke and I think your company should honor the advertised price. Look at this email string. If consumers saw it (I.e., I posted on Yelp or other sites), would they think that the bike was fairly advertised or not? Your company’s choice.
Keith J. Bruno
Trial Lawyer
K. BRUNO, APC
LA | OC
4425 Jamboree Rd., Ste. 265
Newport Beach, CA 92660
P: (949) 748-6990
F: (949)...
Gay Juror Dismissed
So why didnt the newspaper identify the prosecutor who committed this shocking act?
Calif. Judge Responds to Prosecution’s ‘Shocking’ Challenge of Gay Juror by Dismissing Entire Panel
By Martha Neil
May 2, 2012, 02:40 pm CDT
Calling the conduct of the San Diego City Attorney’s office “shocking,” a California judge dismissed an entire jury panel Tuesday after finding...
Dealing with the cops on a hit and run
Orange County Sheriff’s Office
11 Journey
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
Fax: (949) 425-1822
RE:DR# Unknown; Traffic Investigation 8/8/11; Black Honda #
Dear Officer Davis,
I represent ———, the registered owner of the above-referenced vehicle. I am writing in response to the inquiry of Deputy Phillips, concerning an accident that occurred on 8/8/11. Mr. ——-...
Mac in trial
From another lawyer:
I used an iPad with an AppleTV for a trial I had last Thursday. My first time. It worked great. I talked my partner into using the iPad for his trial today. He had about 75 photos to introduce in evidence. He used my iPad, with my AppleTV and my Airport Express to create a wireless network. He said that it worked so well, he only used one actual hard copy photo with a...
Occupational Hazards
Six defendants will be arraigned today on charges of murder and conspiracy to sell and distribute methamphetamine. Juan Carlos Carranza, 24, and Alma Lopez Trinidad, 25, both of Anaheim, are charged (Case #12CF1290) with one felony count each of murder, first degree residential burglary, and conspiracy to commit a crime. Carranza is additionally charged with sentencing enhancements for the...
Confidential Informant Discovery, Part 3
Due process can only be protected in the “Federal Cooperation Scheme” by open disclosure of CIs directly involved in the criminal acts for which others are charged. Without disclosure, CIs who engage in “case shopping,” similar to the one at issue here, use the cloak of anonymity to make an accusation, often unconstrained by oath and any sense of conscience. In that way, their “cooperation” is...
Germany starting gun registry →
weaponsystems:
Germany is building its own gun registry, complying with a future database rule that will cover the entire European Union.
Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, is reporting that the decision in the Bundestag, the lower house of Parliament, was made on the 10th anniversary of a school massacre.
April 2012
17 posts
Open Carry is Already Legal Under the Constitution →
weaponsystems:
The debate over how some may carry a firearm for protection can only be discussed when the foundation for the carry provisions has been fairly set. Most conceal and carry laws restrict a right that is guaranteed by the Constitution. To say that you may only carry a firearm if you have paid a certain amount of money to the government for a licensing fee and then submit to...
Confidential Informant Motion Part 2
As stated supra, Mr. Gonzalez’s defense is that he was entrapped into committing the charged crimes by an unscrupulous rogue informant who zealously acted outside of the control of his government handlers. The Defense expects to establish that the CI repeatedly harangued Mr. Gonzales into consummating the first “small” sale of handguns to a government agent for a trivial amount of money. From...
Best email a client can get
You’re good name is restored. The case was dismissed. As it was dismissed “for all purposes”, it does not prevent or deny any future diversion.
You are a free man.
Confidential Informant Disclosure, Part 1
A district court has discretion to order the government to disclose, prior to trial, the identities of its witnesses. (United States v. W.R. Grace, 526 F.3d 499, 513 (9th Cir. 2008) [court’s inherent authority to manage its docket, combined with FRCrP 2 and 16, allows it to require the government to disclose pretrial a list of witnesses and to enforce such orders by excluding testimony of...
From ABA Blog
Review Found FBI Hair Analysis Flaws in 250 Cases, But DOJ Didn’t Inform Defendants and Public
By Debra Cassens Weiss
3 hours, 16 minutes ago
An inspector general’s nine-year review of misconduct at the FBI crime lab found forensic flaws in hair analysis, but the results of the probe that ended in 2004 were revealed only to prosecutors.
The Justice Department did not separately inform...
Speedy trial win
MOTION
Ms. Burch hereby moves the Court for an order dismissing the complaint in the above-entitled matter on the ground that her right to a speedy trial has been violated pursuant to the Sixth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 15, of the California Constitution. (Serna v. Superior Court (1985) 40 Cal.3d 239.)
This motion is based on these moving...
Enthusiasms: Advanced Nostradamics →
dailymeh:
It’s astonishing how little history tells us about the future. At first glance, this might seem like an obvious fact. History is the study of the past. But every science is a study of the past: in physics, chemistry, biology, linguistics, climate science, one looks at what has happened in order to…
A Valiant But Futile Attempt To Exclude Damning...
3. Exclude the playing of the two pre-text phone calls pursuant to Penal Code Section 1054.5, California Case law, and the 6th and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution.
The instant Limine motion is made pursuant to Pen. Code Section 1054.5 which reads, in pertinent part, “upon a showing that the moving party complied with the informal discovery procedure provided in this...
America only makes up 5% of the world's population
sapper-mike:
but makes up 25% of the world’s jailed prisoners.
Felon firearm ban is upheld →
weaponsystems:
Wisconsin’s ban on felons possessing firearms is constitutional and extends to all felons, including nonviolent ones, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday in a case involving a deer hunter convicted two decades ago of felony forgery.
Why I am a gun owner and you should be too. →
weaponsystems:
Now the three types of guns you should own are; a .22 Long Rifle caliber weapon for simple and cheap marksmanship practice, a home and/or self defense weapon(s), and a militia duty weapon (aka a homeland security rifle).
New Jersey- making felons out of law abiding... →
weaponsystems:
There has been much debate in recent weeks about the travel laws here in New Jersey involving firearms.
We are all aware of what the statutes say and how they have been twisted to be not in firearm owners’ favor.
In this article I am going to try to explore and exploit the errors in the laws and also to gain opinions of my readers. This should make for some intelligent debate...
New Trial--right?!?
Defendant submits the following points and authorities in support of the motion for a new trial:
. THE TRIAL COURT MAY GRANT A MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL ON THE GROUND THAT THE JURY DID NOT RECEIVE ADMITTED EVIDENCE.
Pen C §1181 provides in part:
When a verdict has been rendered or a finding made against the defendant, the court may, upon his application, grant a new trial, in the following cases...
March 2012
2 posts
Ex-Glock exec found guilty on racketeering charges... →
weaponsystems:
A former executive for Glock Inc. was convicted Friday of stealing a pistol from the gun manufacturing giant and stealing millions of dollars from his employer with the help of a colleague.
February 2012
5 posts
Mexico lectures U.S. on crime →
weaponsystems:
In an attempt to shift blame for drug war-fueled violence, Mexican President Felipe Calderon recently unveiled a 3-ton “No More Weapons!” billboard along Mexico’s border with the U.S. Reports do not indicate whether a similar sign will be placed at Mexico’s border with Guatemala, which some have estimated 90 percent of the drug cartels’ “heavy armament” passes through.
Weaponsystems: Senate Passes Three Pro-Gun Bills,... →
weaponsystems:
Reported by NRA:
Today, the Virginia Senate took action on four pro-gun bills previously passed by the House of Delegates. Of particular note, was the Senate passage of House Bill 48 by a 24 to 16 vote. This bill was amended by the Senate Courts of Justice Committee to address concerns that HB…
