Lee Moran with the New York Daily News reports that a 31-year-old sex-ed teacher in Dallas apparently went too far with her sex ed. She is said to have "seduced" a 13-year-old student who told her that he had a problem with his manhood, whereupon she asked that he show her, and then she performed oral sex.
For this and a similar accusation, the teacher has been charged with aggravated sexual assault and having an improper relationship with students.
Though one commenter wrote that NPR's recent coverage of the complex issue of sexual coercion in society was "superficial," the piece did bring up a good point: that "sexual coercion," however it's defined, from rape to inappropriate touching, often happens behind closed doors.
It is, therefore, difficult for researchers to conduct conclusive studies about sexual coercion.
Everyone from the college itself to the local police department and prosecutors have been accused of failing to follow up on reports of sexual assault on the campus of the University of Montana.
The Justice Department began looking into sexual assault complaints in 2012, according to the CNN story, which has resulted in an "overhaul" of the school's policy regarding these kinds of cases.
Emanuella Grinberg with CNN reports that making kids put their names and faces on the sex offender registry after a conviction probably does more harm than good. Grinberg quotes a 26-year-old who committed an offense involving inappropriate touching when he was 12. The father of four said: "The biggest effect is obviously not being able to provide stable housing and a stable environment. I have missed two first days of school" - he can't go near his own kids' schools by virtue of being a registered sex offender - "experiences which can never be re-lived."
We don't know if the allegations of this Texas man's actions on Craigslist really qualifies as a "scheme," as Kevin Morris puts it in his piece for the Daily Dot, but the allegations would certainly make a prosecutor sit up and take notice. Morris writes, "Criminals love Craigslist," and whether or not that's true, it's certainly true that Internet sex crimes make headlines and prosecutors seek stiff punishments.
Here in Texas, you can't expect us to get into the marijuana market any time soon, unlike Colorado and Washington, two states that legalized marijuana for recreational purposes in the elections last November. Texas lawmakers, not unlike lawmakers elsewhere, and beyond the usual re-election concerns, don't know exactly "how high is too high" to be driving under the influence of marijuana - if it were legal, that is.
In Texas, any substance that can impair your driving fits under the umbrella term of DWI, and can result in charges if you're stopped and arrested.
Lawrence Hurley with Reuters Legal reports that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that immigrants who are here legally should not be deported by virtue of possessing a small amount of marijuana, which, in many cases, would be a misdemeanor.
The heat got turned up in Arizona recently when it comes to drunk driving. Texans are no strangers to forced blood draws in DWI arrests. Just look up the Texas no-refusal policy if you aren't, which, in brief, is a way for cops to get warrants for blood tests from on-call judges.
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that cops cannot ignore constitutional safeguards against unreasonable search and seizure - in other words, cannot take a DWI suspect to get his or her blood drawn without a warrant from a judge - in most types of DWI cases, the police in Arizona now have a way to speed up the process.
Tomorrow's 4/20, which means, for some folks at least, that it's time to celebrate cannabis. April 20 (along with 4:20 clock-time) has long been associated with marijuana, and to some, April 20 is a holiday, even if it remains unrecognized on official calendars.
Maybe that's where the 3.9 tons of marijuana was headed earlier in April - to fuel 4/20 celebrations - which Texas cops found in a tanker truck on a normal everyday traffic stop. The tanker was stopped for the same inspection that all commercial vehicles get.
We defend people, not charges. Occasionally the people we defend happen to be cops. (What? You thought cops did no wrong? Of course you didn't.) Christopher Sherman with the Associated Press reports that a former cop from Hidalgo County has been accused of working for a drug trafficker.
He faces at least 10 years behind bars on a federal drug charge involving marijuana.
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