This article is prompted by recent publicity about drunk driving plea agreements in Lake County, Indiana. I decided to write on the topic after reading in the July 20,2016 edition of the NWI Times of Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter’s new policy of no “reduction” plea agreements for drunk driving defendants. When I entered the […]
While scanning the Indiana Law Blog (www.indianalawblog.com) on July 13, 2016 I saw reference (and a link) to Sunday’s NYT Magazine and an article therein titled “How a $2 Roadside Drug Test Sends Innocent People to Jail.” The point of the article is that these “kit” tests (where, for instance, a blue precipitate is taken […]
Henry VIII (at left) and Cardinal Wolsey Not long ago I wrote a two-installment Article on what I called “Common Law Divorce,” the phenomenon of unmarried former domestic partners flocking to the courts to disentangle their property interests. The topic had nothing to do with married people filing for a divorce pursuant to statutory authority. […]