Probation forbidding defendant from seeking medical marijuana card was improperly added after sentencing. Reversed and remanded. State v. Jackson 299 Or App 518 (2019)
Marijuana Update
The Other Death Penalty
A group of advocates in Rhode Island are suing the state prison over a century-old law that declares inmates serving life sentences legally dead.
Mahalo
The Hawaii Supreme Court has held that providing falsified polygraph results to a suspect poses an unacceptable risk of influencing a suspect to confess regardless of guilt AND IS DEEMED PER SE COERCIVE. Read More
Defense Attorney Lullaby
From now on, all investigative activities, including investigative
inquiries, conducted by law enforcement during a traffic stop, must be reasonably related to the purpose of that stop or have an independent constitutional justification. Read More
Giving it 200%
BOTH the 200-percent rule AND the shift-to-I rule apply when a sentencing court imposes consecutive sentences on offenses that arise out of the “same criminal episode.” Read More