by georgeroland | Jun 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
Suppose you live in an apartment, and you invite a friend over for dinner. Your friend arrives, and you begin eating. Moments later, there is a knock at your apartment door. It is the apartment manager, and the police. They tell you that your friend was issued a...
by georgeroland | Jun 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
The standard for school searches of students, backpacks, and such was discussed last time. Recall that the Fourth Amendment bars “unreasonable” searches and seizures, so the critical inquiry is what constitutes “reasonable” searches at school. In order to be...
by georgeroland | Jun 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
A large number of juvenile offenses happen at school. I recall once telling a prosecutor who seemed particularly disturbed by the fact that my 14 year-old client had graffiti’d, of all places, a school—A SCHOOL!!—that his chosen location seemed perfectly...
by georgeroland | Jun 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
In his book, Surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison (roughly translated as “Discipline and Punish: the birth of the prison”), Michel Foucault discusses a social theory called “panopticism.” The basic idea of panopticism is the...
by georgeroland | Jun 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
In a Class B possession of marijuana case, the State has the burden to prove that the defendant knowingly or intentionally possessed a usable quantity of marijuana in an amount two ounces or less. TEXAS HEALTH & SAFETY CODE s481.121(b)(1). No “usable quantity”, no...
