Say what you will about Barack Obama, the brother keeps in touch.
I gave his campaign $50 shortly after it achieved inevitability in the spring of 2008, not long after I’d been laid off from my last secure, well, my last well-paying job — and about a year before the money ran out.
He’s kept me posted ever since.
California defendants face new federal charges after state’s illegal search and seizure.
SAN FRANCISCO — When it comes to Celebrity Justice, the name Scott Feil doesn’t have quite the cachet of Barry Bonds or Lindsay Lohan, but anyone interested in learning how justice is served today would do well to follow Mr. Feil’s fortunes along a tortured path in the country that famously promises “liberty and justice for all.”
Mr. Feil was the Executive Director of a southern California medical marijuana dispensary called United Medical Caregivers Clinic (UMCC) when the Los Angeles Police Department raided his business in 2005, using a search warrant that was ultimately determined to have been issued illegally.
Years of legal wrangling resulted in a 2009 ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which found LAPD’s actions in the case unconstitutional and returned to Mr. Feil and UMCC nearly $200,000 that had been seized by the police and turned over to federal prosecutors. Read more…