Case Citation: Maryland v. Pringle, 540 U.S. 366 (2003) Parties: State of Maryland, Petitioner / Appellant Joseph Jermaine Pringle, Defendant / Appellee Case Facts: On August 7th, 1999 a Maryland police officers legally stopped a car for speeding in the early morning hours. The car was occupied by three men, to include the Defendant/Appellee Joseph Jermaine Pringle. The Officer that initiated the stop saw a large roll of cash in the glovebox while the driver was retrieving his registration. All men were checked and cleared for outstanding warrants and a warning was issued to the vehicles driver. The officer requested and was granted permission to search the vehicle.…
SUMMARY: In October of 2017 Agents from the Merced Area Gang and Narcotic Enforcement Team (M.A.G.N.E.T) began an investigation into several Westside Norteno Gang members who operate in the Dos Palos and Los Banos area. While talking to a confidential informant (CI) it was determined that Pete GAONA is an active Norteno gang member operating a tattoo shop in Los Banos. As part of my investigation in this case I looked at GAONA’s Facebook account and saw that he had posted several photographs of what I believed to be firearms. In the comments of the photographs of the rifles GAONA talks about hunting small game and admits to using his rifle(s).…
NOW COMES the State of New Hampshire, by and through the Office of the Rockingham County Attorney, and states as follows: 1. The defendant is charged with one count of Possession of a Controlled Drug with Intent to Sell [Principle/Accomplice] and one count of Possession of a Controlled Drug. 2. On June 2, 2016 the State received the defendant’s Motion to Suppress. 3.…
Case Citation: United States v. Jones, 565 U.S. ¬¬___ (2012). Parties: United States, Plaintiff / Appellant Antoine Jones, Defendant / Appellee Facts: Antoine Jones was a nightclub owner in the District of Columbia that was arrested in 2005 for drug possession after the police attached a GPS tracker to his vehicle. The tracker was attached to the vehicle because Jones was under suspicion of narcotics trafficking. The GPS tracker was authorized for use on the vehicle belonging to Jones’ wife although Jones was the primary driver. However, the police failed to comply with the warrant’s deadline and installed the GPS tracker on the vehicle anyway.…
MILLERSBURG —Following a series of actions crafted to mimic the original intent of the court, a former Millersburg man on Tuesday was sentenced to time served, and released from prison, for admittedly making and possessing meth in the vicinity of a school and juveniles in 2010. For the second time in a month, Delane A. Goodwin, 43, who has been serving his sentence at Richland Correctional Institution, sat in Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Rinfret’s courtroom. First returned to the court in May for a judicial release hearing, Goodwin on Tuesday withdrew his initial guilty plea to felony charges of illegal assembly of chemicals to manufacture methamphetamine and child endangering. He immediately pleaded guilty to felony counts of assembly and possession of meth, as well as a reduced count of child endangering, and Rinfret adopted a joint…
On the evening of November 9th, 1989, while exiting an apartment building with a history of drug trafficking, Timothy Dickerson spotted police officers and turned to walk in the opposite direction. In response, the officers commanded Dickerson to stop and proceeded to frisk him. An officer discovered a lump in Dickerson’s pocket of his jacket, and, upon further investigation, the officer believed it to be cocaine wrapped in cellophane. The officer reached into Dickerson’s pocket and confirmed that the lump was a small bag of crack cocaine. Dickerson was charged with possession of a controlled substance.…
MILLERSBURG — For not only his own role in selling marijuana to a confidential informant, but that of his juvenile daughter, a Millersburg man was chastised Thursday when he pleaded guilty to related criminal charges. Donald McVay, 52, of 744 Critchfield St., Millersburg, pleaded guilty trafficking in marijuana and endangering children. In exchange for his guilty plea, a related charge of contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a minor was dismissed. He a period of incarceration of up to 1 ½ years for the charges, which stem from a July 1 alleged deal at his home, in which his 15-year-old daughter also is accused of playing a role.…
Assignment You have asked me to research the Padilla claim to determine whether our client, Piotr Budziszewski, had ineffective assistance of counsel because they failed to let him know that he would face deportation if plead guilty to one count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell. Legal Issue When counsel fails to notify their client of the immigration consequences that would come from pleading guilty, are they guilty of ineffective counsel thus violating the client’s rights guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment? Facts Piotr Budziszewski, a Polish man and lawful permanent resident of United States plead guilty to one count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, an aggravated felony. He was originally charged with two counts of selling narcotics by a person who is not drug-dependent in violation of General Statutes § 21a-278 (b), and two counts of possession of a narcotic substance with intent to sell in violation of General Statutes § 21a-279 (a).…
1.According to the reading, how did the war on drug in Tulia, Texas in 1999 ultimately lead to a charge against the “Officer of the Year” in the state of Texas, Thomas Coleman? Thomas Coleman was awarded “Officer of the Year” in 1999 for his persistent effort to fight against the war on drugs in Tulia. He was able to arrest people that were committing crimes such as selling cocaine near school zones and personally selling an undercover officer drugs. Thomas was viewed as a hero in the eyes of law enforcement and the Attorney General of Tulia. However, several allegations in the case exposed the true identity of Thomas Coleman.…
California v. Greenwood: Case Brief California v. Greenwood established that items set out in a public space and which are available for the public to inspect are not granted the Fourth Amendment right to require a search warrant before searching or seizing that property. Facts Police Officers in Laguna Beach were conducting a drug trafficking investigation. The target of the investigation was Billy Greenwood. During this investigation the Laguna Beach Police Department asked the trash collector of Mr. Greenwood's trash to place it separately from the other trash they normally picked up.…
Our criminal system has numerous felony cases depending on the crime that are committed. Mississippi has a law that allows property to be seized, and possibly forfeited, if it is assumed to have connection with a violation of controlled substances laws. To validate a forfeiture,” the State must essentially prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that an item of property was “used” or “intended to be used” in violation of the law. Some items of property subject to forfeiture are intuitive – drugs, drug containers, paraphernalia and items used to manufacture drugs are all routinely forfeited”. Under Mississippi’s civil forfeiture laws the government has to connect property to a crime by a multitude of evidence in order to forfeit it.…
Drug Paraphernalia Florida Statute 893.145 The Fort Lauderdale Defense Lawyer Bradford Cohen has experience in criminal cases of Drug Paraphernalia. You can be criminally charged with possessing syringes, rolling papers, pipes, bongs, straws, or anything else used to ingest or assist in ingesting illegal narcotics. There is a wide use of discretion when it comes to getting charged with this crime. Usually it is charged along with a criminal charge of possession of drugs or narcotics, but it does not have to be charged in such a manner.…
Reagan ranted and raved about the War on Drugs, started the ridiculously ineffective “Just Say No” campaign, and significantly increased the budgets of many federal law enforcement agencies; it was pure hypocrisy (73). The populations of jails and prisons increased exponentially all across the country, becoming incredibly overcrowded. The War on Drugs makes it nearly impossible for people like Susan Burton and the many women she has helped to break the cycle. A profoundly flawed criminal justice system, systemic racism, redlining, education policy, and poverty are surely all to blame (8). It is a system that survives on a culture of power, a system that runs on the “idea that punishment was always the answer and was always deserved, that getting tough would solve everything” (123).…
Case Study Prompt: J.W. is a 40-year-old man who presents to his doctor's office for a checkup. J.W. is 5'11" tall and weighs 305 lbs. His blood pressure is 140/90 mm Hg. He complains of frequent fatigue and headaches. 1.…
In the Charles Cullen case, I do feel all hospitals should be liable. It is their duty to screen their medical staff, ensure proper training as well as maintain compliance with state regulatory mandates. In most cases human error and death are part of a hospital environment, but Cullen was under suspicion from his first nursing job. St. Barnabas suspected him, they could have stopped him early in his career taking his nursing license due to his indiscretions at their facility, but the did not. Throughout the book we see Cullen had no problem getting a position once he was let go from a previous.…