According to the Akron Beacon Journal, an Ohio man arrested for allegedly robbing a bank actually consumed the evidence while officers were cuffing him.
A “DashCam” video shows the man munching on a piece of paper while the officers are searching his pockets and handcuffing him on the hood of their police cruiser.
John H. Ford, 35, allegedly handed a note to a bank teller in Streetsboro, Ohio that demanded she hand over some cash.
Ford was pulled over and arrested in Twinsburg, Ohio, where officers searched his pockets and threw their findings on the hood of the car. Later, the note was nowhere to be found, and officers reviewed the footage from the “DashCam.”
In the video, officers said they saw Ford lean over to eat something off the hood of the police car. “He grabbed it in his mouth, just like Pacman,” said Twinsburg patrolman Daniel Biada.
Authorities said a .38-caliber pistol was found in Ford’s vehicle. Ford is also a suspect for bank robberies that took place in Stow and Akron, Ohio.
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Archive for November, 2009
As a Criminal Lawyer in Fort Lauderdale, I have found that a prosecutor's proving drug use in seeking a DUI conviction is far more difficult that straight alcohol cases. In Broward County, the case filer will always charge alternatively (i.e. alcohol/controlled substances).
In Fort Lauderdale, if a person is taking prescribed medication under the direction of a licensed physician, and the operation of a motor vehicle is not recommended, then a person should not lawfully drive if under the influence of same. Additionally, where there is no prescription, the substance is illegal, or a physician does not authorize driving, then a motorist can be prosecuted and convicted of DUI where it can be proven that that drivers faculties were impaired. Remember, this rule also applies to over-the-counter drugs.
Fort Lauderdale Criminal Lawyer's Legal Definition:
Although there is no case law defining the parameters of what constitutes a drug, the element of proof is whether the substance impaired driving abilities to any extent. If a motorist is buzzing from a caffeine high, the state could prosecute the person for drunk driving. In one ... Read more..
As I wrote about a year ago today, November 25th has been designated by the United Nations as “International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women” since 1999. The date was selected to “commemorate the lives of the Mirabal sisters,” who were assassinated on November 25, 1960 during the Trujillo dictatorship (as explained more fully in the General Assembly resolution to which I just linked).
Today Vice President Biden issued a statement marking the occasion:
Violence against women is found in every culture around the world. It is one of our most pervasive global problems, yet it is preventable. When gang rape is a weapon of war, when women are beaten behind closed doors, or when young girls are trafficked in brothels and fields – we all suffer. This violence robs women and girls of their full potential, causes untold human suffering, and has great social and economic costs….
Indeed, it is hard to overestimate the impact of pervasive violence against women in the lives of women, men, and children all over the earth. According to a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty report,
The UN Development ... Read more..
Lisa’s post on international law in legal education brought to mind an ongoing internet debate about the impact of the supposed demise of “Big Law” (large firms) on law schools. The argument is that, if large firms hire fewer lawyers, law schools won’t be able to command the same tuition or attract the same number of students and will have to become more like trade schools, emphasizing the practical and putting aside more theoretical and interdisciplinary course offerings. Law professors will need to become more “instructor” (in a narrow sense) than professor and scholar. (The point is not that Big Law wants more theoretical and interdisciplinary courses – there is a seperate debate about that - but that large starting salaries induce students to be willing to pay for them.)
Part of my reaction to debate like this is that it something that is largely irrelevant to the majority of American law schools who neither offer a steady stream of courses on Kantian Perspectives on Third Party Practice nor limit themselves to the graduation of superannuated paralegals. Nor does it seem that ... Read more..
In 1938, Jim Ghiardi transferred to Marquette University after his sophomore year at Northern State College (now Northern Michigan University) in Marquette, Michigan. A year later, Jim enrolled in the Marquette University Law School under a program that allowed Marquette students to count their first year of law school as the final year of their undergraduate education. Jim received his Ph.B. degree in 1940 and his law degree in 1942. The following is a description of the law school at the time of his initial enrollment in the fall of 1939.
The Law School
By 1939, Marquette University Law School had been training lawyers in Milwaukee for more than 45 years, and the school had been officially part of Marquette University since 1908. Since 1924, all law school classes had been taught at the Law School Building (now known as Sensenbrenner Hall) which replaced an earlier building on the same site.
In 1939, the law school boasted an enrollment of 248 students and a faculty of ten, plus four “special lecturers” and law librarian Agnes Kendergan. In addition, the Rev. Joseph A. Ormsby, ... Read more..
