ToaKraka
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In the trial court, he pleaded guilty to the three felonies. The state supreme court now has reversed those convictions and remanded the case back to the trial court. The prosecutors technically are allowed to try prosecuting the three felony charges again, but there wouldn't be much point in doing so with all the evidence of those crimes suppressed, so they probably will just drop the charges. (I assume that, four years after the event, it's too late for the prosecutors to charge him with the misdemeanor of driving while intoxicated, which they previously didn't bother to charge him with.)
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You'd think we would at least have a discussion as to whether this should be legal or not
Fun fact: In New Jersey, cloning a human is in the same category (first-degree crime) as murder.
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A person accused of harassment drives to the police station in order to give a statement. The investigating officer (1) watches from the lobby as the suspect stumbles out of his car after parking, and (2) observes a fresh injection mark on the suspect's arm while taking the statement. The officer tests the subject for intoxication, and arrests the subject after the suspect fails two of three tests. Five officers immediately search the suspect's car, without impounding it* or getting a warrant for the search. They find, not just a second intoxicated person in the passenger seat, but also illegal drugs and a gun with an illegal "large-capacity magazine" (capable of holding more than ten rounds). The suspect is charged with three felonies. (The prosecutors don't bother to charge him with the misdemeanor of driving while intoxicated.)
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The defendant moves for suppression of the evidence, but the trial judge denies the motion, and the appeals panel affirms. The federal supreme court has ruled that, if there is probable cause that a person has driven while intoxicated, then the "automobile exception" applies—there is no need to get a warrant before searching the vehicle, because vehicles are both readily moved outside the current jurisdiction and so pervasively regulated that their users have a reduced expectation of privacy in them. It is true that the state supreme court chose to significantly narrow the automobile exception, ruling that it does not apply when the vehicle already is at police headquarters and therefore is not at risk of disappearing before a warrant can be obtained. However, when the state supreme court said "headquarters", it meant a secure impound lot at a police station, not an unsecured ordinary parking lot at a police station.
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The state supreme court reverses. "Headquarters" includes an unsecured ordinary parking lot at a police station, especially when the vehicle is parked close enough to the building that the officers can keep an eye on it from inside. After the second intoxicated person was removed from the car, it was securely under the control of the police, and there was no exigency justifying a warrantless search.
*Under state law, if a person is arrested for driving while intoxicated, the vehicle that he was driving must be impounded for twelve hours.
Books should be structured as expandable trees. One-paragraph summary of each chapter, expandable into summaries of component points/stories, expandable into the full text. Can read the whole book in five minutes or five hours.
It was always unlikely that the best format for long-form information in the pre-hyperlink world (books) would continue to be the best format in the post-hyperlink world. Authors should experiment more with different ways of structuring complex and interlinking sets of ideas.
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3d ago
I forget where the github repo is at
It's linked in the menu at the upper right corner of the page (under your profile image).
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5d ago
Click on the link that looks like a speech bubble near the upper right corner of the page.
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5d ago
The "firehose" view makes getting an overview of all the active discussions easy. But reading everything seems unnecessary.
>be me
>interested in reading cases where US citizens (not aliens) are prosecuted for marriage fraud
>PACER's search function is useless
>GovInfo and RECAP's search functions return mostly false positives
>a Westlaw subscription would cost 100 $/mo
>try to hire four different "legal researchers" (who I assume are paralegals) on Fiverr for up to 30 $ with a simple query: "I would like the docket numbers for the last twenty convictions of citizens (not aliens) for 8 USC 1325(c) (marriage fraud). I assume that such information is available through legal subscription services."
>they all flake out without explanation (and without asking for more money)
Can the lawyer denizens of this website explain to me why this is so difficult? Am I underestimating the billable hours that would be required for this seemingly simple search even with the fancy tools of Westlaw/Lexis/whatever? Am I really obligated to hire a lawyer at 200 or 400 $/h for the privilege of knowing which files I should download from PACER?
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6d ago
I personally draw plan and elevation views, on the basis of the IRC, the IPMC, and ICC A117.1.
(1) 17 miles (27 km)
(2) I'm not sure what a "bespoke suit shop" is.
(3) I'm not sure how I would search for that. Also, it's my understanding that most farms near me are "preserved" (heavily subsidized by the state government), so the question may not even be meaningful for me in the first place.
(4) 4 miles (6 km)
(5) 6 miles (10 km)
(6) 43 miles (69 km)
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8d ago
If you're in Thailand, you might as well take advantage of the legality of marijuana!
It was recriminalized a month ago.
Late on Tuesday, Thailand's health ministry issued an order prohibiting the sale of cannabis for recreational use and making it mandatory for any retail purchase to require a doctor's prescription.
The new rules will come into effect once they are published in the Royal Gazette, which could happen within days.
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8d ago
That doesn't and hasn't really happened in the US
Operation Choke Point? Kiwi Farms?
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9d ago
I don't have a creative bone in my body, but I can read the codes well enough to put together crushingly boring designs in infinite variety. Presumably a person capable of reading the DSM would fare no worse.
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9d ago
However you want. Let the voters decide which style is best. (As long as compliance with codes is determinable.)
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9d ago
Despite having already signed a contract to have a custom house built, I remain obsessed with designing houses. On Monday, I managed to get my coworkers to participate in a house-design contest by offering prizes for the winners (a one-ounce silver coin for first place, half-ounce for second, and quarter-ounce for third). Is anybody interested in having a contest on this website as well?
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9d ago
According to both English Wikipedia and Japanese Wikipedia, light novels may have some manga-style illustrations but are not full manga.
I'm not well acquainted with light novels, but Durarara was adapted from its original light-novel format to a manga as well as to an anime, so maybe you saw an image of the manga.
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9d ago
can anyone explain to me the difference between manga and light novels? They seem the same, as they are both comics
I'm a bit confused on where to get into Gundam
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Of the three core Universal Century series: The original Mobile Suit Gundam has intolerably bad animation; Zeta Gundam is peak; and Gundam ZZ insults the viewer by failing to become good until almost literally the halfway point (episode 23 of 47). But starting with Zeta Gundam while having zero knowledge of the background provided in MSG probably would be a bad idea. I dunno, maybe watch the MSG compilation movies, or play the MSG campaign in an emulated Dynasty Warriors Gundam game (which is how I got into the franchise, sans emulation).
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Gundam X is pretty good.
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G Gundam and Build Fighters aren't really the same genre as the rest of the franchise, but still are quite fun. (The other Build Fighters and Build Divers series are not nearly as fun, IMO.)
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It's been a while since I tried watching Gundam Wing, Turn A Gundam ,Gundam SEED, and Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans, but IIRC I didn't like them much.
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9d ago
That visibility seems pretty good to me. Remember that you're looking out only for cars that suddenly start moving after being stopped at the stop line, not for fast-moving cars. Also, note that the 55-mi/h road is NJ 54, while Jackson Road, at which you're looking, has a posted speed of 45 mi/h.
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9d ago
There does not appear to be vision-blocking vegetation at this particular intersection.
A search for all instances of "fifty stalins" prior to year 2014 shows the Slate Star Codex article (archive) as the only result.
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