June 25, 2018

Blood Draw Issues in Driving While Intoxicated Arrests Part 3 Hospitals have more viruses, more bacteria! In fact people pick up infections, more easily in a hospital environment then they would at home! That’s why hospitals show act to try to get people healthy and get people out of the hospital because they acquire more […]

Blood Draw Issues in Driving While Intoxicated Arrests Part 4 So let’s get started with the collection. This is an article I found that was on Google. I found it years ago, and I think it’s been updated! I don’t think the 5th edition is the most current but the procedure for the collection blood’s

Blood Draw Issues in Driving While Intoxicated Arrests Part 5 But you’re talking about this blood, and blood contains glucose in it, and you’ve got sugars and when you combine sugars and bacteria and yeast! What are you going to have? You’re going to have fermentation with in that vial that can erroneously inflate the

Unlawful Carrying of a Weapon Possession Part 1 These cases depend on the nature of accusation. Take Ridlehuber! Ridlehuber is sitting at home minding, innocently minding his own business; all of my stories are going to start with that preference. Ridlehuber was innocently in home minding his own business when the police bust down his

Unlawful Possession of a Weapon Part 2 Here we got another case; Anarchist cook book again! And here they, the bomb goes off and they think that Walter is responsible. So they go to Walter’s house, bust down his door and inside his house they find the ‘anarchist cook book’ which has instructions on how

Unlawful Possession of a Weapon Part 3 Now, so we’ve talked about whether or not something is intrinsic or extrinsic. That was the first of the four elements. The second one is ‘relevance’. Now listen to this, ok? We know that they can’t put in propensity evidence. This is from Beechum. The extrinsic offense is

Unlawful Possession of a Weapon Part 4 Back to Beechum, back to the mailman. Here we’re talking about probative value. Now, the interesting thing about probative value! Probative value is what you weigh against the undue prejudice. Probative value increases as the strength of the government’s case decreases. What? Did I hear you correctly? The

Unlawful Possession of a Weapon Part 5 Then, we get the last nail in the coffin; Huddleston! Now, if you’re litigating an issue, 404(B) issue in federal court, I have no doubt that the response that you’re going to get from the government is going to have Huddleston on the front page. Because Huddleston was

Unlawful Possession of a Weapon Part 6 Ok, so we talked about a lot of bad cases let me talk about a couple of good cases. Sumlin, U.S. v. Sumlin, good case! It’s got language on a lot of different areas that you can use to defend your clients. Sumlin was minding his own business,

Unlawful Possession of a Weapon Part 7 Now we want to talk about the doctrine of chances. This is my favorite part. The doctrine of chances, basically says, tells us that,” highly unusual events are unlikely to repeat themselves inadvertently or by happenstance.” It says that,” we have an instinctive recognition of this that just