In the wake of Padilla v. Kentucky, the DOJ's Office of Immigration Litigation has prepared a monograph on immigration consequences of criminal convictions. Download it here.

A Google Mobile search for turns up my post on Texas's non-sex sex-offender-registration offenses as the second result. This may make perfect sense to you, buy I am, quite frankly, baffled. I mean, sure, but ?On the topic of non-sex sex-offender-registration offenses, Texas has a stupid rule, but Wisconsin is the state that I know of that has been stupid enough to actually make someone register as

I’ve mentioned Scared White Republican Voters a few times here. The idea is that Republican politicians play on fear to get people to comply with their plans in a way that politicians of other parties do not. I didn’t mean to say that all, or even most, Republicans are scared, but it turns out that there is science correlating traditional “conservative” Republican rightist attitudes with fearfulness:

Here, they have a party for the assistant District Attorney …. They have cake and cookies and speeches, lots of clapping and back slapping, and then, a gold coin is given to that prosecutor to memorialize their “Queen for a Day” status. The prosecutor is given a gold coin to hang on their wall and everyone is made to recognize the happy occasion. (Montgomery County, Texas criminal

Did you know that US Government-Paid mercenaries at DynCorp are in the business of procuring young boys to be raped by Pashtun warlords? (John Nova Lomax, Houston Press, H/T Ravings of a Feral Genius.) DynCorp officially denies that there was anything dirty going on. You probably didn't  hear about it at the time because the Afghan government formallly asked that our government cover up the nothing-dirty-going-on, and

I wrote about John C. Osborne here: The lawyer who promises to get the accused in a federal cocaine conspiracy case out on conditions of release is unethical and a liar.. . . .What happens next? My bet is that once the lawyer has been paid and four weeks have passed and the client is still incarcerated, the lawyer will “discover” some reason that the accused cannot get

I think the Apostle John might have left it out of Revelations, but isn't one of the signs of the pending Apocalypse (or at least TEOTWAWKI) that the only person in Washington DC making any sense is Ron Paul?:On Wikileaks (h/t Paul Kennedy): And on the TSA:

I can imagine the ribbing in the police locker room: "Man, Bill, that Joel Rosenberg guy really punked you. He schooled you on the law on video, then got the county to start investigating you for assault, and rubbed it in across the internet. I wish I'd been there, I'd have…" followed by one of those fantasies that are so easy to come up with five minutes

Fun with Google:Federal criminal conduct usually falls under one of seven categories.Never mind the outrageous grammar; I'd like to know who is stealing from whom. These are websites by Scorpion Design, by Net Media Markets, and by this guy, who seems to have rolled (stolen?) his own:(Yes, Mr. Newcomb did in fact manage to misspell his firm's name in the masthead.)When you look at that guy's page

Channel 11 is reporting that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has ordered that the hearing in the John Green case on the unconstitutionality under the Eighth Amendment of Texas's death penalty procedure be stayed. The parties have 15 days to brief the issue.Here's the State's Request for Reconsideration, which prompted the court to act:John Green State Request for Reconsideration of Mandamus And here's Green's Brief in