Month: March 2014

On December 29, 2013, the final episode of the critically acclaimed drama series, Treme, aired on HBO. Created by David Simon and Eric Overmeyer, the series premiered on April 11, 2010 and focused on life after Hurricane Katrina in a…

Border patrol agents, either through experience or training, develop expert, almost magical, observation skills about vehicle behavior that can create a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.
 
Andres Lopez-Cruz exhibited such behavior as he drove down Highway 80 near the…

With the Edward Snowden leaks, revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) covertly monitors the email and cell phone use of virtually every person in the world, and conflicting Federal court decisions about whether the NSA’s surveillance programs are constitutional,…

Most of the time mandatory minimums are discussed in the context of federal cases, the discussion involves drugs.  Over the past few years, Congress has passed various pieces of legislation that have reduced some of the more excessive punishments meted…