Las Vegas Man Arrested on 3rd DUI After Triple Fatal DUI at 15
The Las Vegas Police Department is discouraged to report that they had to arrest 36-year-old Sean Larimer on a bench warrant after he failed to appear in court over a recent DUI charge. Unfortunately, Larimer’s refusal to show up could be connected to yet another DUI arrest he faced last month. Even worse, Larimer has […]
Poly Saturated | Simple Justice
Wherever the interest began, I wasn’t there. But over the past few weeks, there have been more than a few people talking about polyamory. Before that, it had been a niche concern, the sort of thing that young people trying to navigate the shoals of marriage and sexuality latched onto to make their confusion appear […]
Blame Garland For The Hur Report
The characterization of Joe Biden “as a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory” in Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report was intentionally damning. There were a great many other ways to express his point, that Biden would have made a sympathetic witness had he testified in a prosecution, without calling him a doddering and […]
A Candidate’s “True” Name | Simple Justice
The Ohio law made sense when enacted and it still makes sense. The problem isn’t with the law, but with the cultural shift that entitled some people, a tiny cohort, to use their name of choice and condemns their real name as “deadnaming.” There was no such thing as “deadnaming” back then. The law, which […]
Tuesday Talk*: SJ Turns 17
On February 13, 2007, I was hanging around the house and getting in Dr. SJ’s way with whatever she was doing. To be rid of me, she suggested I start a blog, knowing how much I liked to write. So I did. Simple Justice was born. As of today, SJ has 13,336 published posts, of […]
Impeachment Ad Absurdum | Simple Justice
For Trump supporters, it happened when Trump was first impeached for his “perfect” telephone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25, 2019, where he suggested that $400 million in military aid to Ukraine would be conditioned on Zelensky alleging that Joe Biden and his son Hunter were under investigation for corruption. Not only […]
When Does Intent Matter In Criminal Cases?
Intent is oftentimes a key aspect of a criminal charge. Some charges require specific intent in order for the crime to be committed, while others do not require any intent at all. These are known as strict liability cases, and they only require the prosecution to prove that you in fact committed the act in […]