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(another attorney here) Tweets aren't under oath or anything, but it opens up Carmack to lots of questions and possibly affects his credibility. Often times cases come down to "he …

It doesn't depend on anonymous tips, but encourages them. PJ is basically saying she wants to prevent folks from sending her honest questions about things they have done or are inv…

I said rooted in officer safety, not solely because, ;-). Even if the search happens AFTER the arrest (assuming it's lawful, without that there is no internal link to a legal searc…

Sweet. I had to jump off last night, but I did some criminal appointments in both federal and state court to get some courtroom experience while fresh out of law school. Certainly …

Attorney here. DannyBee is absolutely correct. To my knowledge, data on a computer would be handled like an offender's diary, and that is certainly admissible in court, assuming au…

Sort of, unfortunately. Drugs laws, and the Court's interpretation of handling drug crimes gives officers a lot of latitude. I forget the name of the Court case that allows officer…

Attorney here. The search incident to lawful arrest doctrine is rooted in officer safety. Specifically, the Court says officers should have the ability to look for guns and contrab…

Greenwald's response... "Reuters is the absolute worst at tearing comments out of context for sensationalizing headlines. The paraphrase: Q: Will the UK's detention of your partner…

I've been trying to grok the data coming out of the NSA yesterday and could use everyone's thoughts. I am by no means sold on my approach, but I've definitely put thought into it. …

Edited. Nm, I missed a demical point in a different spot. #fml, you are right. 97M.

Did some quick back of the napkin math. Daily internet traffic (from the NSA white paper) is 1,826 Petabytes. 1.6% (* .016) is 29 Petabytes that the NSA "touches." If the average e…

This is a game of semantics. They only "monitor" communications that they are "lawfully authorized" to monitor. Every government official has been playing this game for 2 months no…

Bury it on a Friday afternoon. I do a lot of media / pr work, this is intentional. It gives the administration the ability to have it in the headlines that "Obama is curbing NSA fe…

Short version... "MLB filed a lawsuit in March against Biogenesis of America, Bosch and others, complaining they interfered with the contracts between MLB and the union. The suit w…

Attorney here. What's perhaps scarier is that the prosecutor wouldn't even know when / if possible exculpatory evidence exist or whether their evidence is fruit of the poisonous tr…

Great data, thanks for sharing. I think one of the "problems" is that innovation is actually picking up speed dramatically. So even if the politicians aren't older, they are more l…

That's why I used the quotes. I was more or less trying to draw the distinction that in some fields, sports, entertainment, and at least some technology enterprises youth wins out.…

Put another way, people like Zuckerberg, Chesky, Houston, etc. are having an amazing impact in business, but there isn't anyone close in the political world. Sadly, even if "vetera…

Much of this has to do with the systemic aging of our elected officials. Look at the federal level, where the average age of a Rep is 59 and Sen is 63. These are folks who not only…