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I went to the store and on my street a kid was walking home from school at a normal pace. I pulled into my driveway and got something out of my car and they kid took off like roadrunner. Got my laugh for the day
New SCOTUS Ruling on 4th Amendment Freedom from warrantless searches:
https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/18/canaglia-v-strom-was-a-subtle-and-unanimous-victory-for-originalism/
Edwards v Vannoy from LA was ruled on by SCOTUS yesterday denying retroactive applicability of Ramos v LA.
I’m sure most have seen the recent footage of a man trying to kidnap a young girl (she escaped; he was caught). LE enforcement reported at least one prior sex offense was among his apparently extensive criminal resume.
Clearly the registry didn’t do a thing to mitigate this. So tell me again the point of it?
Resource to add to revisiting Supreme Courts reliance on fraudulent statistics regarding frightening and high.
This is a post by a civil attorney on Quora regarding a question of “What is the greatest scientific fraud of the past 50 years”
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-greatest-scientific-fraud-of-the-past-50-years
this is the person who wrote the following article
https://www.quora.com/profile/Patrick-McDonnell-1
For millennia, humans understood that opiates were addictive; and that users eventually developed both tolerance and dependency, which limited its use solely to the relief of acute short term pain; and for the relief of pain in terminal patients.
On January 10, 1980, the leading medical journal in North America, the New England Journal of Medicine published what appeared to be a relatively innocuous “Letter to the Editor” Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics | NEJM
Not a case study, or a double blind random controlled medical study; but a simple letter to the editor, based upon a mail survey, suggesting that patients who receive opiates for the relief of acute pain in the hospital do not generally report problems with addiction. Following the publication of that letter, numerous medical researchers in countless peer reviewed articles began citing that “letter” for as evidence that addiction was rare for physician-prescribed opiates, even when used long term for chronic pain.
As shown in the chart, the “letter” was cited over 600 times as proof that physician prescribed opiates were not addictive, and over twenty-five times in a single year, which coincidentally occurred while pharmaceutical companies were promoting oxycontin and other powerful opiates for routine non-terminal pain. Medical research can be compared as “rabbits having bunnies,” therefore, while these articles cited the letter, often as a “study,” countless other journal articles that relied upon this “study” were cited in other publications promoting opiate use, which were then cited by other medical articles.
Based principal upon this article, pain organizations began promoting pain as the Fifth Vital Sign based upon the patient’s subjective estimate of his or her own pain from one to ten. Unlike the other vital signs: Body Temperature, Pulse Rate, Respiration Rate, Blood Pressure —which are outside the patient’s subjective control— this alleged Fifth Vital sign was completely within the control of the patient, and was to be the determinant as to whether the patient received opiates. And after all, what is the harm if addiction is rare as long as a physician is prescribing opiates.
In 2017, after hundreds of thousands of patients died from opiate overdoses, and millions became addicted, the New England Journal of Medicine finally acknowledged the harm done by this letter, and its misuse as evidence that opiates were relatively harmless.
In conclusion, we found that a five-sentence letter published in the Journal in 1980 was heavily and uncritically cited as evidence that addiction was rare with long-term opioid therapy. We believe that this citation pattern contributed to the North American opioid crisis by helping to shape a narrative that allayed prescribers’ concerns about the risk of addiction associated with long-term opioid therapy. In 2007, the manufacturer of OxyContin and three senior executives pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges that they misled regulators, doctors, and patients about the risk of addiction associated with the drug.5
Our findings highlight the potential consequences of inaccurate citation and underscore the need for diligence when citing previously published studies.
A 1980 Letter on the Risk of Opioid Addiction | NEJM
In other words, “my bad, sorry about the deaths and desolation.” Suffice it to say that the prescription opiate crisis was a catastrophic failure of the medical peer review process that infected researchers across multiple disciplines. Opiate prescribing increased geometrically without any evidence that it was either safe or effective for chronic non-terminal pain:
The US medical industry, in particular, embraced opiate prescriptions:
Predictably, here are the deaths that resulted:
As a final note, opiates are referenced in antiquity and classical literature; and their side effects have been well known since Homer’s Odyssey. Opiate addiction was well understood after both of the World Wars, and the US had a first wave opiate addiction during and following the Vietnam War. Based upon nothing, the medical profession, en masse, ignored centuries of teachings about opiates.
The conclusion today is the same conclusion reached thousands of years ago, which is that opiate users develop both dependence and tolerance, which means it is both dangerous and ineffective for the treatment of long term chronic pain. To call the promotion of opiates for routine non-terminal pain a mere scientific fraud is an understatement. It required willfully ignoring well established scientific knowledge in favor of absolutely no scientific evidence.
Here is the actual “evidence” cited in 1980:
The entire standard of care for opiate prescribing was changed based upon a survey of patients who had received at least one narcotic pain pain reliever in the hospital. The survey had nothing to do with the treatment of chronic pain for opiates, and it was not a double blinded random controlled study. It was also never repeated by any other medical institution. Despite the limitations of this letter, it was repeatedly cited as a “study” in multiple preeminent medical publications without any real peer review or criticism.
While looking for ML use statistics, I found an article out of CT from 2018 that I don’t recall previously seeing. I do recall the legislative activity mentioned but not this fair, objective article, nor the advocacy group in CT, nor their lawsuit:
https://ctmirror.org/2018/05/21/sex-offender-registry-harm-good/
Take a minute and go to youtube. You will find vid after vid of people convicted of killing others after multiple repeat dui convictions. Now try and find even one vid of a repeat sex offender. You can’t.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-hoped-friendship-sex-101918512.html
Bill Gates hoped friendship with Sex Offender would help him with Nobel Peace Prize.
😖😡 This BS is infuriating!! They don’t do this to ANYONE else – murderers, gang bangers, gun violence offenders – no one but Registrants!! 😡
https://www.villages-news.com/2021/05/22/transplanted-new-york-sex-offender-jailed-for-failing-to-report-employment-change/
For Chr#st sake, fine him $200, but don’t f#cking arrest him…. AND don’t plaster his face all over the news!! Let him work his job and leave him alone!! 😡
How is this NOT cruel and unusual!!?? It’s outrageous!! 😡
Even if you win, you lose,,,,
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Former tutor cleared but damaged
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Supreme Court Overturns Habeas Win for Alaska Sex Offender
https://www.courthousenews.com/supreme-court-overturns-habeas-win-for-alaska-sex-offender/
The justices held that a criminal who already served his time for sexual abuse of a minor cannot challenge those convictions while facing a new charge for failure to register as a sex offender.
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(CN) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated a sex offender’s habeas corpus victory, finding that the Ninth Circuit incorrectly granted him relief because he was not legally “in custody” for his sex-based convictions when he tried to file a federal petition challenging them.
The case, which arose from Sean Wright’s failure to register as a sex offender, asked the court to consider how much time is allowed to elapse between when a person is in custody for a conviction and when the habeas petition challenging that conviction is filed and litigated.
The Ninth Circuit ruled last year that Wright’s incarceration and supervised-release sentence for his failure-to-register conviction rendered him “in custody” for the purposes of challenging his underlying sex-offense convictions.
But in a three-page unsigned opinion Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that the San Francisco-based appeals court got it wrong. The justices found that although Wright’s state conviction served as a predicate for his federal conviction, he was not in custody pursuant to the judgment of a state court.
“If Wright’s second conviction had been for a state crime, he independently could have satisfied [28 US Code] §2254(a)’s ‘in custody’ requirement, though his ability to attack the first conviction by that means would have been limited,” the ruling states. “Wright could not satisfy §2254(a) on that independent basis for the simple reason that his second judgment was entered by a federal court.”
An attorney for Wright did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.
In 2009, an Alaska jury convicted Wright of 13 counts of sexual abuse of a minor. After completing his sentence in 2016, Wright moved to Tennessee, where he failed to register as a sex offender as required by federal law.
He was jailed in the Volunteer State from June 2017 until February 2018 and pleaded guilty to one count of failure to register in Tennessee. Wright received a sentence of time served plus five years of supervised release.
During the course of the failure-to-register proceedings against him, Wright filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. §2254 in Alaska federal court challenging his state sex-offense convictions on Sixth Amendment speedy-trial grounds.
Wright argued that the Alaska Supreme Court failed to correctly apply the law when it dismissed his petition on the grounds that the Sixth Amendment only authorizes courts to hear petitions filed by a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a state court. Wright said his then-pending federal failure-to-register charges rendered him “in custody” with respect to his Alaska state court sex offense convictions.
U.S. District Judge James Singleton Jr. rejected Wright’s claims, ruling that he was not “in custody” under the meaning of the law when he filed his initial petition since he had already fully served the sentences imposed on him for his Alaska state convictions.
The Ninth Circuit reversed that finding, deciding that Wright’s state conviction was “a necessary predicate” to his federal conviction and that he was actually in custody pursuant to the judgment of a state court.
“Wright’s conviction and sentence for failure to register was ‘positively and demonstrably related to the [Alaska] conviction he attack[ed],’” the three-judge panel’s order stated.
With the Supreme Court’s vacatur of the Ninth Circuit’s judgment, the case will be returned to the appeals court for further proceedings.
The decision puts clear limits on a 2001 Ninth Circuit ruling, Zichko v. Idaho, which held that a conviction for failure to register as a sex offender would revive “custody” status as to an otherwise fully served conviction for the underlying sex offense.
Attorneys representing the government did not respond to a request for comment Monday.
What if the same amount of energy for sex offender issues by politicians and L.E. Went into gun control and DUI punishment. How many citizens would be safer. How many more families would be together this memorial day. 🤔
33 days left until the California SB384 takes affect I hope people start going free if not the California DOJ is gonna have big problem on their hands they’ve gotten away with creating a second-class citizen for almost two decades but I promise you they won’t get away with it for another one.
There’s no way in hell California sex offenders are gonna stand by and let the government kick them in the ass for another 10 years
Good luck 😕
Oh look! Another ridiculous Amber Alert for a non-custodial parent and a “child” (Really? Infant? Toddler?🙄) who was 17 at the time of the “aggravated kidnapping” (🙄) by her biological father and who is now 18.
https://www.wfla.com/news/national/tennessee-teen-missing-since-2019-found-safe-florida-amber-alert-canceled/
Nathaniel Glover, aka Kidd Creole, is a founding member of hip-hop group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and he is currently being held at the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center in the Bronx. He has been there since 2017 and has yet to go to trial, according to The Source. Glover, 61, was arrested and charged with murder in the second degree after stabbing a man named John Jolly in the chest. Glover and Jolly, a registered sex offender, had an altercation in midtown Manhattan.
Read More: https://www.grunge.com/421151/celebrities-who-are-still-in-prison/?utm_campaign=clip
My point in posting this is, the story was about the man stabbing a stranger. So then why did they feel the need to put that additional little tidbit about the victim. Served no purpose other than to spice it up. If the man had been convicted of robbery, would they have included that?
I took a chance an subscribed to another online therapy service last week. The Therapist called me yesterday and wanted to do a background interview. I held nothing back. After approx. 10 minutes he said that he wasn’t sure if he could help and that he , “ suspected I might have agitated depression”. NO SHIT? Let’s see………Loss of profession, friends(?), future in doubt, unstable life environment due to constantly changing government restrictions. He recommended going to V.A. And getting on meds. Oh, yeah. The answer to all my problems, drugs! I have asked for a full refund, with his blessing.
Another example of how the media spins the story and drives it in favor of government.
How missing teen Daphne Westbrook was found in Alabama
Check the comments.
Am I correctly reading 290 where if I just step foot across the state line into the state that I must register within 5 working days?
My gf and I were planning to be driving through western Nevada and I thought it would be nice to drive into CA for three days to see the Redwoods and Sequoias.
I am planning my vacation to avoid having to register in any states I visit and will make sure I comply with the residency rules and timeframes to keep from having to register.
If I have to register in CA for just stepping foot into the state then I will avoid CA and spend my tourism dollar in states that will welcome me (at least for a short visit anyway). And I will have to just wait until state and federal rules do not apply for me to visit CA.
Millions of child abuse images to be wiped from internet (Ukraine article) https://www.yahoo.com/news/millions-child-abuse-images-wiped-171303278.html
I’m not sure anything can actually be wiped from the internet and even if it could be done, that doesn’t stop people who have posted them before to re-post them. I don’t get the article.
While waitin’ for the June 2021 General Comments thread to be created here, I found this today: A 7-Year-Old Was Accused of Rape. Is Arresting Him the Answer? https://www.yahoo.com/news/7-old-accused-rape-arresting-120427916.html
The conundrum of minors and crimes is crazy. Is it 6 years old as is in NC for an arresting age minimum or is it 12 as in other states? Should they be charged as an adult at 13 or should they wait until 18? Should they be a perp and victim at the same time of their own crime, e.g. alleged sexting with another teen or posting racy pictures of themselves in an artistic manner? Can a minor consent to sex in whatever manner they desire but legally not in some states until 18 because they know not what they are doing?
There are two Missouri Republican house members that are under investigation for sex related crimes with minors. One was a cop who had sex with an underage drunk girl while he was on duty. He claims she was 19 and he was off duty, but internal memos have text messages that prove he is lying.
The other is a Guy that physically and sexually abused his 12 yr old son and 9 yr old daughter. Both children , now older, have written letters to the legislature asking for him to be removed.
These are the people that write the laws that ruin our lives, and the lives of our families.
How many more like them are in a position to do this. Our ACSOL donations might be better spent investigating our Reps and finding dirt on them. Then we can simply blackmail them into overturning laws or else be outed.
What’s the FBI up to here? Someone post something mean about them and/or favorable toward the shooter on a forum linked through the USA Today article? Will USA Today give in?
USA Today fights FBI subpoena asking them to hand over readers’ information | Daily Mail Online
A silver lining in the California law enforcement system. With a federal court judge lifting the assault weapon ban and the massive increase in violent crimes throughout the state due to the complete collapse of society, Registrants are the last thing on their minds for the near future. I am watching all of this with such a feeling of satisfaction.
I so want the entire system to go down the drain. Not just at the state level either. The disaster that is the federal political system is about to implode. I give it 2 yrs before there is a massive civil war. The decades of hate that hicks, ignorants and white supremacy nut jobs have been letting stew is about to boil over.
The world is too good a place as a whole to be stuck with the sludge at the bottom of the tank that is the America.
Wow tell me this isn’t scary and dirty. The FBI wants the names, identifying information, and IP addresses of ALL people who read a news story about a CP arrest gone bad. Why? They wont say. It chills me to the core because if they want to know this its because they want to investigate and prosecute for being informed. If they succeed what other websites or news articles will be next.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fbi-wants-usa-today-turn-025638403.html
Does anyone agree that our depression, anxiety, and feelings of hopelessness is NOT a mental health issue? IT IS AN ISSUE BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE POSITION WE ARE IN EVERYDAY! I never felt this way before. And I am sure I wouldn’t feel this way if the registry didn’t block my means of being self supportive, seeing loved ones, and not having to worry about being shot because of a label every time I walk out the front door.