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The San Antonio, Texas, police chief's decision to release a dozen undocumented immigrants discovered in a tractor trailer has spurred demands by the local police association that the chief be put on leave while his actions are investigated. At least one expert, however, says that though there are unusual aspects to the case, it doesn't appear Chief Bill McManus did anything inappropriate by releasing the immigrants to the local Catholic Charities last month.
San Diego-based criminal defense attorney Jose C. Rojo, of the Law Offices of Jose C. Rojo, marks twenty years as a legal professional. It has been, and continues to be, an enjoyable journey full of rewarding experiences helping the underdog and those in need of competent representation.
On Thursday, January 4th, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the rescission of prior guidance to US attorneys regarding the enforcement of federal marijuana laws. Chief among the rescinded guidance was the 2013 Cole Memo that instructed U.S. attorneys to exercise prosecutorial restraint in states that had legalized marijuana, if the states had sufficiently implemented strong regulatory and enforcement systems.
After foraging through the dumpster of discarded ideas, the Trump administration has dragged out another fetid reject as part of its campaign to roll back modernity, common sense and the will of the people.
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.
Whether to crack down on marijuana in states where it is legal is a decision that will now rest with those states' top federal prosecutors, many of whom are deeply rooted in their communities and may be reluctant to pursue cannabis businesses or their customers. When he rescinded the Justice Department's previous guidance on marijuana, Attorney General Jeff Sessions left the issue to a mix of prosecutors who were appointed by President Donald Trump's administration and others who are holdovers from the Barack Obama years.
Trump's legal threats represent an assault not just on Michael Wolff's book but on the basic premise of the US Constitution. President Donald Trump delivers a message during the daily briefing hosted by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on January 4, 2018.
Federal authorities are actively investigating allegations of corruption related to the Clinton Foundation, the charity of Bill and Hillary Clinton, according to a US official briefed on the matter. The FBI and federal prosecutors are looking into whether donors to the foundation were improperly promised policy favors or special access to Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state in exchange for donations to the charity's coffers, as well as whether tax-exempt funds were misused, the official said.
The buzz kill long dreaded in the marijuana industry came just days after California opened what is expected to be the world's largest legal pot market. The Trump administration announced Thursday that it was ending an Obama-era policy to tread lightly on enforcing U.S. marijuana laws.
By SADIE GURMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Trump administration threw the burgeoning movement to legalize marijuana into uncertainty Thursday as it lifted an Obama-era policy that kept federal authorities from cracking down on the pot trade in states where the drug is legal.
The Trump administration threw the burgeoning movement to legalize marijuana into uncertainty Thursday as it lifted an Obama-era leniency policy that kept federal authorities from cracking down on the pot trade in states where the drug is legal. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will now leave it up to federal prosecutors to decide what to do when state rules collide with federal drug law.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded an Obama-era policy that paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states across the country, creating new confusion about enforcement and use just three days after a new legalization law went into effect in California. President Donald Trump's top law enforcement official announced the change Thursday.
Taking a jab at Gov. Jerry Brown, President Trump's top immigration chief on Wednesday said he was preparing to "significantly increase" his agency's enforcement presence in California because of last year's passage of a landmark "sanctuary state" law. "California better hold on tight," Thomas Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said on Fox News.
North Dakota's entry into medical marijuana will require establishing a monitoring system that will enable officials to track the product from seed to final sale. It will have to account for medical marijuana that initially will be grown at up to two operations and distributed through up to eight dispensaries around the state to an estimated 1,900 patients, which expected to double to about 3,800 for the 2019-21 biennium.
Kevin Boyd was in his mid-20s when he first grasped what it meant to be serving life without parole. It happened when a couple of longtime inmates who'd mentored him died of old age in prison and he watched them carted off on gurneys.
Nearly two years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prison inmates who killed as teenagers are capable of change, the question remains unresolved: Which ones deserve a second chance? Now the ruling - in favor of a 71-year-old Louisiana inmate still awaiting a parole hearing - is being tested again in that state, where prosecutors have moved to keep 1 in 3 offenders imprisoned for crimes committed as juveniles locked up for good. "There is no possible way to square these numbers with the directive of the Supreme Court," said Jill Pasquarella, supervising attorney with the Louisiana Center for Children's Rights, which found that district attorneys are seeking to deny parole eligibility to 84 of 255 juvenile life inmates.
Alas, when a year passes, a mothballed prosecutor finds himself thinking about the statute of limitations. As 2018 beckons, it has me thinking about Paul Combetta - the Platte River Networks technician who used the "BleachBit" program to destroy thousands of Hillary Clinton's emails when they were under congressional subpoena and preservation orders.
The youngest son of Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., was sentenced to a year of probation and ordered to pay $236 in fines and fees for his role in disrupting a Minnesota rally in support of President Donald Trump. About 400 people attended the Trump rally March 4 at the Minnesota state Capitol in St. Paul, and about 75 to 125 counterprotesters arrived, according to criminal complaints.
Literally every other week, on average, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry's office issues a press release announcing the arrest of someone, or several people, on charges of child pornography, writes "No question, the ambitious AG is well-versed in the art of self promotion, and it clearly behooves his political interests to make the public aware of the work his office is doing to crack down on some of the most reprehensible criminals in our midst," Riegel writes. "But it's important to give credit where credit is due, and the people in Landry's office are truly fighting the good fight on the front lines of a battle that is growing bigger by the day-and becoming ever harder to win."