Los Angeles Criminal Lawyers
September 20, 2007
Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin, LLP is a Southern California Criminal Defense Law Firm dedicated to defending clients on all felony, misdemeanor, and DUI charges. Their main office is located across the street from the Van Nuys Courthouse and jail. They also have offices to meet with our clients throughout Southern California and the San Fernando Valley.
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University of Florida student Tasered at Kerry forum
September 19, 2007
University of Florida student Andrew Meyer is Tasered and arrested after causing a disturbance at a town hall forum, which featured Senator John Kerry, at the UF Auditorium on Sept. 17, 2007.
If you liked this article, click here to buy me a beer!Duke Prosecutor Jailed, Accused Students Seek Settlement
September 8, 2007
You might remember the famous Duke Lacrosse rape case from March 2006, where three Duke students David Evans, 24; Collin Finnerty, 20 and Reade Seligmann, 21 were accused of sexually assaulting a woman who was hired to perform a strip tease at a lacrosse team party.
After further investigation, the accuser changed her story in December 2006 after a lack of abili and a lack of forensic evidence. The public prosecutor of that case Michael B. Nifong then drops the rape charges but still persued charges of sexual offense. However, things started going wrong, Mr. Nifong handed the case to the state Attorney General Roy A. Cooper who after an investigation concluded that the accused players were innocent and charged Mr. Nifong as a rogue prosecutor.
The accused who already spent over $3 million on their legal defense are now seeking a settlement of $30 million with the city. If the city refuses, the students are threatening to file a civil rights lawsuit. Also a suit is being filed against Mr. Nifong who has already reported to jail in Durham, N.C to serve 24 hours for criminal contempt.
If you liked this article, click here to buy me a beer!Ten Years for Consensual Oral Sex for high school student
June 7, 2007
Think about this “Ten years, ten years in prison for receiving Oral Sex. That was Genarlow Wilson’s sentence. A Georgia law designed to go after child sex predators has sparked a flood of support for a former honor student serving 10 years in jail.
When Wilson was a high school senior, he was 17 years old and he received consensual oral sex from a 15 year old, 10th grade girl. Everyone agreed, including the prosecutor and the girl herself, that she initiated the act.
It was all captured on video — the evidence used to convict him at trial. On the tape, police saw a 15-year-old perform oral sex on one partygoer, and after finishing with him, she turned and did the same to Wilson. Under Georgia law at the time, this was considered aggravated child molestation, a felony for teens less than three years apart to have oral sex. It carried with it a 10-year sentence, even though it was only a misdemeanor for those same teens to have sexual intercourse.
The D.A. offered Wilson — a football standout who was being recruited by some of nation’s top colleges, including Columbia and Brown — a plea deal: five years in prison and register as a sex offender. He turned it down.
The other students at the party took that deal and some of them are out of prison by now. Because Wilson thought he would be acquitted and did not want to be branded a child molester, he went to trial. The prosecutor blames Wilson for his sentence because none of the other defendants insisted on a trial; all the others “took their medicine.”
Wilson knew the risks, rolled the dice by going to trial and lost. This happened 2 years ago.
After Wilson’s conviction and sentence, the legislature changed the statute realizing it was unfair. It now makes consensual oral sex between teens a misdemeanor. Too little, too late for Wilson, as the law does not apply retroactively. The legislature could change the law again, and there is presently a bipartisan bill that has been introduced to do just that.
How to Download Free Music using Google
April 20, 2007
So, here is the way you have been looking for. How to download free music and MP3’s using Google to search for your favorite band and artist. All you have to do, is go to Google.com and type this
-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3|ogg|m4a|aac) “AskStudent”
in the search bar and replace AskStudent with your favorite band, and you will only find open indexes that contain downloadable music files.
For example, my favorite band is Linkin Park. So, I go to Google and type this, in the search bar
-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3|ogg|m4a|aac) “Linkin Park”
At times like this, when no one is looking, I hug my computer. This whole Internet thing is pretty cool.
AskStudent Advisory: Please check the local laws in your country. At a lot of places, downloading music is illegal. Subscribe to music. It’s hella cheaper than buying, just as entertaining, and not near as time consuming or worrisome. Also, your favorite bands get something in their pocket… which helps them make the next CD and you contribute, as opposed to consuming.
If you liked this article, click here to buy me a beer!The Virginia Tech Massacre of 04.16.2007
April 18, 2007
They came to Blacksburg, Va., from all over the country — and all over the world. They came to study and they came to teach. They had plans. They had friends. They had families.
As the list of confirmed victims in Monday’s massacre on the Virginia Tech campus grew, so too did the number of stories about the individuals who fell victim to the gunman, 23 year-old Cho Seung-Hui of Centreville, Va.
“Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there…I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond’s gift on snow.
I am the sunlight
on ripened grain.
I am gentle autumns rain.
When you awaken in the morning hush.
I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there…I did not die.”
-Unknown
April 16 - We’re all Hokies today.
1. Virginia Tech Shooting. 33 Confirmed dead including the shooter
2. Virginia Tech Shooter identified as Cho Seung Hui, a South Korean student
3. Names and Profiles of all the people killed at Virginia Tech on 04.16.2007
4. Virginia Tech Tribute on Youtube: College Students speak
“This tragic day in Blacksburg will be burned into memory for a long time to come. From what we know so far, we have lost many bright young minds at the hands of a deranged individual who senselessly violated the sanctuary of the Virginia Tech campus,”
- Florida Republican Adam Putnam
IF YOU MISSED THE CONVOCATION SERVICE HERE SERVICE http://www.hokiesports.com/convocation.html
“We’ve come to express our sympathy. In this time of anguish, I hope you know that people all over this country are thinking of you and asking God for comfort.”
- President Bush at the Convocation at Cassell Collesium
“It is a very bitter and sad day, and yet there’s no place in the world [my wife and I] would rather be than here with you,”
- Virginia Governor Tim Kaine at the Convocation at Cassell Collesium
As reported and confirmed, Norris Hall will now be closed for the remainder of the semester.
Truly moving words from VT Professor Nikki Giovanni at the Convocation
We are Virginia Tech
We are sad today
And we will be sad for quite a while
We are NOT moving on
We are embracing our mourning
We are Virginia Tech
We are strong enough to stand tall tirelessly
We are brave enough to bend to cry, and sad enough to know
We must laugh again
We are Virginia Tech
We do not understand this tragedy
We know we did nothing deserve it
But neither does the child in Africa, dying of AIDS
Neither do the invisible children, walking the night away to avoid being captured by rogue army
Neither does the baby elephant, watching his community be devastated for ivory
Neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water
Neither does the Appalachian child, killed in his own crib, in the home his father built with his own hands, being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized
No one deserves a tragedy
We are Virginia Tech
The Hokie nation embraces our own and reaches out with open heart and hands to those that offer their hearts and minds
We are strong and brave and innocent and unafraid,
We are better than we think and not quite what we want to be
We are live to the imagination
And the possibility we will continue to invent the future
Through our blood and tears
Through all this sadness
We are the Hokies
We will prevail
We will prevail
We will prevail
WE ARE
VIRGINIA TECH
Thank you to all supporters. Every thought, every prayer is very important to us all
If you liked this article, click here to buy me a beer!Names and Profiles of all the people killed at Virginia Tech on 04.16.2007
April 18, 2007
The following have been identified as people killed in Monday’s massacre on the Virginia Tech campus. Information has been compiled from The Associated Press, NBC News, CollegeMedia.com (the Virginia Tech student newspaper), MSNBC, Facebook and other media outlets.
We will keep updating the list as more information becomes available
Total Casualities: 32 + shooter (33)
Breakdown: 27 Students, 5 professors + 1 shooter
Names of Students killed at Virginia Tech
1. Ross Abdallah Alameddine, 20, of Saugus, Mass. He was a sophomore English major who was gunned down in French class.
2. Ryan Clark, 22, from Martinez, Ga., a biology, English and psychology major. He was a resident adviser on the fourth floor of the dorm where the rampage began.
3. Daniel Perez Cueva, 21, a student from Peru who was studying international relations. He was shot during French class, according to his mother, Betty Cueva.
4. Caitlin Hammaren, 19, of Westtown, N.Y., was a sophomore majoring in international studies and French, according to officials at her former school district.
5. Emily Jane Hilscher, 19, from Woodville, Va., according to family friend John McCarthy. She was a freshman majoring in animal and poultry sciences.
6. Matt La Porte, age unknown, from Dumont, N.J., a freshman majoring in university studies.
7. Jarrett Lane, 22 , from Narrows, Va., a senior majoring in civil engineering.
8. Henry Lee, age unknown, from Roanoke, Va., a freshman majoring in computer engineering.
9. Juan Ortiz, 26, a graduate student in civil engineering from Puerto Rico
10. Mary Karen Read, 19, of Annandale, Va., according to her aunt, Karen Kuppinger, of Rochester, N.Y.
11. Reema Samaha, 18, from Centreville, Va., a freshman whose passion was dance.
12. Leslie Sherman, age 20, a sophomore majoring in history and international studies.
13. Maxine Turner, age unknown, from Vienna, Va., a senior majoring in chemical engineering.
14. Erin Peterson , Centreville, Virginia. Age unknown, graduated in 2006 from Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., along with a second victim, Reema Samatha. That is the same high school that the alleged gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, graduated from three years earlier
15. Jeremy Herbstritt, 27, of Johnstown, Penn., according to WJAC TV. A graduate student in engineering, he had received his bachelor’s degree from Penn State
16. Daniel O’Neil, 22, of Lincoln, R.I. A graduate student in environmental engineering, he received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Lafayette College last year
17. Brian Bluhm, 25, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a civil engineering graduate student.
18. Michael Pohle, 23, of Flemington, N.J., graduated from Hunterdon Central High, according to school officials.
19. Austin Cloyd, age unknown, born in Charlotte, N.C was a freshman majoring in international studies and French.
20. Waleed Shaalan (not confirmed)
21. Julia Pryde, age unknown, a graduate student from Middletown, N.J.
22. Matthew Gwaltney , age unknown, of Chester Va., was majoring in environmental engineering.
23. Nicole White, age unknown, of Carrollton, Va., a junior majoring in international studies and German.
24. Rachael Hill, 18, of Richmond, Va., a freshman. She had graduated from Grove Avenue Christian School.
25. Lauren McCain, age unknown, of Hampton, Va. An undergraduate majoring in international studies.
26. Partahi Lombantoruan, 34, of India, was a civil engineering doctoral student, according to Kristiarto Legowo, a spokesman for the foreign ministry.
27. Minal Panchal, age unknown, of Mumbai, India. She was an architecture major.
Minal’s profile page on Orkut: http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=7532880825063317819
Professors and Instructors killed at the Virginia Tech Massacre
1. Christopher James Bishop, 36, an instructor in German and German literature.
2. Dr. Kevin P. Granata, age unknown, an engineering science and mechanics professor.
3. G.V. Loganathan, 51, an Indian-born lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
4. Dr. Liviu Librescu, 76, an engineering science and mathematics lecturer. He was born in Romania, immigrated to Israel in 1978 and moved to Virginia in 1985.
5. Jocelyne Couture-Nowak , age unknown, a French language teacher and former Montreal resident
Killer
1. Identified as Cho Seung-Hui, a 23 year old student from South Korea. He was a senior English major at Virginia Tech
We also have a list of those injured in recovery:
1. Heidi Miller
2. Kristine Heeger
3. Kevin Sterne
4. Elilta Habtu (Lilly)
Keep these friends and their families in your thoughts and prayers.
“We hold the victims in our hearts, we lift them up in our prayers and we ask a living God to comfort those who are suffering today,” - President Bush
If you knew any of the people killed at Virginia Tech or were on campus and wish to share your experiences, please post in the comments section below.
All our prayers are with the students we lost at Virginia Tech and their families.
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