By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com As the war of words heats up on the trend toward legalization of marijuana, two medical societies have issued their positions on the subject, particularly as it relates to the effect of the drug on teen agers. As reported earlier, some medical studies have shown negative neurological effects of regular marijuana…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com As the war of words heats up on the trend toward legalization of marijuana, two medical societies have issued their positions on…
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. His column first appeared in the New York Daily News. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com By moving to drop his civil lawsuits in federal court, Alex Rodriguez has waved the white flag and…
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. His column first appeared in the New York Daily News. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com By moving to drop his civil lawsuits in federal court, Alex Rodriguez has waved the white flag and accepted…
By The New York Times Editorial Board Last July, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. spoke eloquently of “the importance of the constitutionally protected news gathering process,” the essential role of a free press when it comes to “government accountability and an open society,” and the need to better protect journalists from federal leak investigations. At…
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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI Agent Edward Preciado-Nuno will still service an 8-to-20-year sentence for killing his son’s girlfriend in Las Vegas in 2008. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that the Nevada Supreme Court rejected his challenge, which argued that a juror wasn’t impartial. The court disagreed, saying the juror had “demonstrated the ability to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com More immigrants are successfully beating deportation before a judge, according to new data, the Christian Science Monitor reports. In fact, the success rate in court is higher than it has been for more than 20 years, according to the Transaction Records Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which collects and studies federal prosecution records….
