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PHOENIX (AP) -- Ron Barber, who almost lost his life in the Arizona shooting rampage that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, won a special election to succeed her, giving Democrats a psychological boost after last week's failed effort to recall Wisconsin's Republican governor....

PHOENIX (AP) -- Ron Barber, who almost lost his life in the Arizona shooting rampage that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, won a special election to succeed her, giving Democrats a psychological boost after last week's failed effort to recall Wisconsin's Republican governor....

PHOENIX (AP) -- Ron Barber, who almost lost his life in the Arizona shooting rampage that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, won a special election to succeed her, giving Democrats a psychological boost after last week's failed effort to recall Wisconsin's Republican governor....

PHOENIX (AP) -- Ron Barber, who almost lost his life in the Arizona shooting rampage that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, won a special election to succeed her, giving Democrats a psychological boost after last week's failed effort to recall Wisconsin's Republican governor....

PHOENIX (AP) -- Ron Barber, who almost lost his life in the Arizona shooting rampage that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, won a special election to succeed her, giving Democrats a psychological boost after last week's failed effort to recall Wisconsin's Republican governor....

PHOENIX (AP) -- Ron Barber, who almost lost his life in the Arizona shooting rampage that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, won a special election to succeed her, giving Democrats a psychological boost after last week's failed effort to recall Wisconsin's Republican governor....

Susanne Posel | Scientific research has climate change alarmists excited over a new way to direct man-made climate change into the social meme.

Infowars.com | Rand explains his endorsement of Romney might be saving the influence they have within the Republican party.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A gunman who held a pharmacy owner hostage at his store in rural western Nebraska is dead after a 14-hour standoff, the Nebraska State Patrol said early Wednesday.

The gunman, 27-year-old Andres Gonzales, died after a shootout with state patrol SWAT team members at the pharmacy ...

Ryan Gallagher | San Francisco is set to become the latest U.S. city to invest in software.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakotans say they've had enough of a decades-old controversy on its flagship university's nickname.

Voters overwhelmingly decided Tuesday to dump the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux moniker, an issue that has put its athletic teams at risk of NCAA sanctions and divided sports fans, alumni ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The three-day hunt for a man charged with killing three people near Auburn University ended with the suspect walking up the steps of an Alabama courthouse and peacefully turning himself in to a U.S. marshal waiting inside.

Hours after his surrender, Desmonte Leonard was being held ...

Infowars.com | Defrocked priests, child pornographers, and convicted rapists are allowed to molest children and women at America's airports.

Driving in a high crime area, eye contact with officer, and furtive movement like toward a gun was reasonable suspicion. State v. Norfolk, 2012 Mo. LEXIS 107 (June 12, 2012).*

The district court’s verdict in a bench trial, inter alia, that subpoenaing records of cell phone calls was reasonable was affirmed on credibility of witnesses. Cunningham v. Terrebonne Parish Consol. Gov't, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 11902 (5th Cir. June 12, 2012).*

“While the fact that Whisnant did not understand he could refuse consent to search is a factor to consider in determining whether consent was voluntary, police do not have to inform an individual of his right to refuse to consent to a search. ... Likewise, when requesting an individual's consent to search a vehicle, police are not required to inform the individual that others could object to the search. Nor are police required to obtain the consent of all the occupants of a vehicle in order to search it. ... In this case, the alleged consenter himself testified repeatedly that he consented to the search and never testified that he felt coerced into doing so by the factors cited by Collins or by any other factors. Accordingly, the district court did not clearly err in finding that Whisnant's consent was valid.” United States v. Collins, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 11828, 2012 FED App. 0173P (6th Cir. June 12, 2012).*

Merely alleging there was a basis for a suppression motion that was not filed does not allege IAC under Strickland. United States v. Action, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 81137 (S.D. Tex. June 12, 2012):

[B]y arguing that "there was a sufficient basis to file a motion to suppress," and that the defense "had nothing to lose and everything to gain" by filing the motion, Defendant does not establish ineffective assistance of counsel. Defendant must do more than allege there were grounds for filing the motion; he must prove that the motion would have been granted. He must move beyond asserting that there was no downside to filing the motion; he must establish a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's failure to file the motion, the result of his proceeding would have been different.

Defendant’s repeated refusal to remove his hands from his pockets during a traffic stop became reasonable suspicion. United States v. Fletcher, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 79795 (M.D. Tenn. June 8, 2012).*

When defendant’s DL was called in, there was a note to call his federal PO, which happened. That did not unreasonably extend the length of the stop. United States v. Campbell, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 81083 (E.D. Tenn. May 22, 2012).*

We Are Change | Luke Rudkowski and crew are able to ask some Bilderberg and Federal Reserve questions.

The administration calls its policy on illegal immigrants "prosecutorial discretion." In reality, it means deporting hard-working immigrants, says Ruben Navarrette

The excuse for stopping the defendant was that the license plate looked counterfeit, but it was apparent that it was not, and the reason for the stop thus evaporated. There is no law prohibiting a driver from using the roads of this country with a Mexican driver’s license. The officer called for a tow truck without any reason, and then conducted a rummaging search that was a purported inventory. The government’s failure to raise standing until the suppression hearing was waiver of the issue because it prejudiced defendant’s ability to prove standing. United States v. Garcia-Medina, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 80620 (D. Utah June 8, 2012):

It is well-established that an inventory search may not be used as a ruse for a general search. Florida v. Wells, 495 U.S. 1, 4, 110 S. Ct. 1632, 109 L. Ed. 2d 1 (1990) ("Our view that standardized criteria or established routine must regulate the opening of containers found during inventory searches is based on the principle that an inventory search must not be a ruse for a general rummaging in order to discover incriminating evidence.") (internal citations omitted). ...

Here, Trooper Sheets did not write anything down. He was not methodical in his search. He was tapping and rummaging, looking for something hidden. He called for a drug-sniffing dog without any basis for suspecting that drugs were present. And he made that request almost immediately after he requested the tow truck, even though at that point in the stop he had not asked Mr. Garcia-Medina questions to dispel his concerns about the driver's license, Mr. Garcia-Medina's residency in Arizona, or anything else of substance. The court finds that the purported inventory search was a pretext for investigating criminal activity and so it violated Mr. Garcia-Medina's Fourth Amendment rights.

A priceless piece of American presidential history will go on sale next week in New York.

Sen. John McCain on Tuesday accused Democrats of "hypocrisy" for opposing the appointment of a special counsel to investigate recent national security leaks, saying they supported such independent investigations in the past when Republicans were in the White House.