Judge: Force dangerous mental patients into treatment
A Manitoba judge has recommended the province consider strengthening its laws allowing potentially dangerous mental health patients to be forced into treatment facilities against their will. Manitoba...
View ArticlePolice use excessive force in DWI case, judge throws out charges
Last week, a Superior Court judge in Forsythe County threw out charges of driving while impaired that had been lodged against a 43-year-old North Carolina man. Police claimed the accused had been...
View ArticleJudge scolds NDP
A Manitoba judge has slammed the provincial government for showing “demonstrable bad faith” in recent dealings over salaries and benefits for provincial judges. Manitoba stories
View ArticleJudge notes Gladue report in manslaughter sentence
A God’s Lake Narrows man has been sentenced to four years in prison for bludgeoning and stabbing his girlfriend to death, a sentence that didn’t fit the crime, but in this case, fit the offender, a...
View ArticleJudge throws out North Carolina DWI charge on defense argument
Any criminal defendant has the right to defend against the charges in a court of law. Our system of criminal justice places burdens upon the government that are intended to protect the rights of the...
View ArticleNorth Carolina judge throws out DWI charges
A judge in Brunswick County, North Carolina has thrown out a number of DWI cases after prosecutors ran into scheduling conflicts and asked the judge to delay the cases. In legalese, attorneys ask for a...
View ArticleJudge Finds Breathalyzers Are Inaccurate, Throws Out DUI Case
Breathalyzer evidence is critical in any drunk driving case — and mandatory in a .08% charge. Yet, as I've written repeatedly in the past, these machines are neither accurate nor reliable. See, for...
View ArticleCFS agency wants judge removed from Jaylene Redhead inquest
A Manitoba Child and Family Services agency involved in an inquest into the brutal death of a toddler at a Winnipeg treatment centre for women wants the presiding judge punted from the case — a move...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Court of Appeals upholds judge ruling throwing out prior DWIs
The North Carolina Court of Appeals Tuesday upheld a Superior Court ruling throwing out three DWI convictions of a Fayetteville, North Carolina woman. The woman says that guilty pleas were entered on...
View ArticleJudge in Carteret County raises bond in DWI case
Any criminal charge can subject a person to potential consequences if a conviction is entered. But, in some circumstances a new criminal charge can create legal issues more immediately for a defendant....
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