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News for the Week Ending July 22, 2007

July 29, 2007 John 7-18-2, Bar Exam, California, Courts, Homosexual Marriage, Juveniles, Lawyers. Litigation, Long Beach, Massachusetts, mother, Murder

This post summarizes various smaller news items of interest that I found during the week of July 23, 2007.

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Vitter Has Double Standard-Big Suprise There, He’s a Senator

July 17, 2007July 17, 2007 John Bill Clinton, David Vitter, family values, Prostitution, sex, U.S. Senate, Victim

Senator David Vitter is the United States Senator who was on the phone records for the D.C. Madame. He went into exclusion for a while, then came to give a brief statement, have his wife pimp for him, and then duck out the back door as if nothing had happened. It was a pretty shameful display.

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News for The Week of July 15, 2007

July 13, 2007 John 711, Bob Allen, Brevard County, Desecration, Flag, florida, Police, Titusville

This is a wrap up of some of the more interesting news items for the week ending Sunday, July 15, 2007.

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Passengers Have Rights Too

June 19, 2007June 23, 2007 John Fourth Amendment, Justice David Souter, supreme court, Yuba City

Bruce Brendlin was arrested in 2001 for drug possession after a car in which he was a passenger was stopped by Yuba City police. The State had conceded there was no basis for the original vehicle stop, so Brendlin had argued that the drug evidence should be suppressed. The Associated Press is reporting that the Supreme Court has ruled that passengers in automobiles have the same Constitutional protections from illegal searches.

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Durham DA-May Have Announced Resignation

June 15, 2007 John Duke, Durham County, Lacrosse, Mike Nifong, North Carolina, Rape, sexual assault, State Bar Association

I only caught the tail end of the report, but it appears, based on what I was hearing on WRAL that in a statement in his State Bar hearing, Durham DA Nifong announced that he was going to step down as DA. According to the WRAL reporter, he was “nearly in tears.”