Dallas Criminal Defense Law Blog

Calvin Broadus, otherwise known as the famous Snoop Dog, has recently been busted for marijuana possession on a Texas highway checkpoint.

Law enforcement authorities found joints on his tour bus. In fact, a border agent is said to have smelled smoke coming from the bus; at that point, he ordered everyone off the bus so a dog could inspect, according to ABC News.

Examining the issue of legal medical marijuana...

Many of those who oppose today's current trend of legalizing marijuana for medical use (and who also tend to support strict penalties for drug offenses), often do so on the basis that legalizing medical marijuana is just one step away from legalizing marijuana generally.

"Today's guilty plea marks the end of his reign of murder, mayhem and corruption," says the prosecutor in 58-year-old Benjamin Arellano Felix's case. Felix recently pleaded guilty in a case that involves drug charges and other allegations.

A recent study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, published by Rutgers in New Jersey, indicates that young freshman women who engage in binge drinking - defined as consuming at least four to six drinks or more - are at a higher risk of sexual assault or other types of unwanted sexual contact.

As Molly Hennessy-Fiske reports for the Los Angeles Times, a $150 billion jury award for the estate of Robert Ray Middleton, who was 20 when he died, makes it the largest such award for personal injury in U.S. history.

"This is a plea for justice," says Middleton's lawyer, who hopes that the huge jury award will convince prosecutors to charge 26-year-old Don Collins, who, at 13, is said to have perpetrated sexual assault on an 8-year-old Middleton and then set him on fire two weeks later.

Los Zetas is one of the most powerful drug cartels in Mexico. It has an assassination unit, among other things, and a man nicknamed Tweety Bird allegedly heads up that unit. The Zetas are notorious for their assassinations, kidnappings, extortion plots, and other things, in addition to the business of drug trafficking.

"I heard rhythmic slapping sounds," says Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary, as the Chicago Tribune reports, "two or three slaps that sounded like skin on skin. I was already alarmed, embarrassed."

With McQueary's testimony, it appears as though Jerry Sandusky's sexual assault case has taken a turn for the worse regarding the march toward possible conviction.

As Peter Bella reports for the Washington Times, an incident in Texas involving NFL pro Sam Hurd's vehicle and the $88,000 in cash and marijuana found inside got "the ball rolling" toward Hurd's eventual arrest in Chicago and leveling of drug charges roughly half a year later.