Benjamin Schreiber was convicted in 1997 of murder in an Iowa state court and sentenced to life in prison. (Source: The Rapid City Journal, Nov. 8, 2018; South Dakota.) On March 30, 2015, suffering from an undisclosed ailment, Schreiber was…
In the previous California Legal Update (Vol. 24, #11, Oct. 28, 2019), my brief of a Fourth District Court of Appeal (San Diego) decision, People v. Lee (Oct. 3, 2019) 40 Cal.App.5th 853, brought forth a number of (sometimes) irate (“don’t kill…
In The California Legal Update (Vol. 24, #9; August 30, 2019), I wrote an Administrative Note on “Red Flag Statutes” dealing with the procedures for law enforcement officers and/or “immediate family members” (soon to be expanded to educators,…
Need-to-know stuff for judges and prosecutors (as well as defense attorneys): Pursuant to paragraph (a) of section 991: “If the defendant is in custody at the time he appears before the magistrate for arraignment and, if the public offense is a…
Protecting Our Children From Internet Predators
Robert C. Phillips
DDA (Ret.)
October, 2019
It is not disputed that our nation’s youth are amongst our most precious assets, to be guided, nurtured, and protected at all…
P.C. § 150 provides that a uniformed peace officer, or any peace officer described in P.C. §§ 830.1, 830.2(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), or (f), or 830.33(a), has authority to command any “able-bodied” individual over the age of 18 to assist in an…
