Month: March 2015

California Court’s Stance on Sex Offenders In 2006, 70 percent of California voters approved The Sexual Predator Punishment and Control Acts, also known as Jessica’s Law. In fact, 5,926,800 of California’s approximately 8 million voters approved the legislation. The law was authored by Republican Senator George Runner and Republican State Assemblywoman Sharon Runner, husband and […]

Pennsylvania’s New Packaging It has been an eventful start to 2015 for officials at Pennsylvania’s Liquor Control Board. Recently the LCB was involved in a bit of a debate over the meaning of an antiquated packaging law. A Pennsylvania statute written during the post-Prohibition era placed some interesting restrictions on beer distributors. The statute permitted […]

Linda Carty Appeal in Texas In 2001 a British national was convicted for the murder of Johanna Rodriguez and the abduction of her four-day-old son. A man named Christopher Robinson, a star witness for the prosecution, testified that he saw the murder take place and identified a British woman as the murdered. The woman, Linda […]

Rodney Reed Gets A Stay of Execution in Texas Death Penalty Case Rodney Reed has been a Texas death row inmate since his trial for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites. Stites was the 19-year-old fiancée of Officer Jimmy Fennell. During his trial, the state argued that Reed had raped and murdered the 19-year-old, and […]

It is a day on the weekend.  You, having worked a forty hour workweek have several errands to run in order to prepare for the upcoming week.  Picking up the dry cleaning, grocery shopping, taking the kids to their extracurricular activities are a few items on the list.  As you get finished with the items […]