Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Duel on the Clearwater (1932)

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The transition from one year to another is a time to remember. Perhaps because I have recently made contact with some people from Pullman, ...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Sniffing and Sampling Only One Spot at Fire Scene Gets Arson Conviction Thrown Out, or How Not to Respond to Canine Evidence

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I don’t know if anyone keeps statistics comparing the type of evidence and the percentage of cases where ineffective assistance of counsel i...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Bomb Dogs More Effective Than Manual Screening at Ferries, but Cost Three Times as Much

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U.S. ferries annually carry over 80 million passengers and 25 million vehicles. They are potential targets for terrorism, and ferry systems...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

School District Resists Autism Service Dog, but Benefits Outweigh Control Problems

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K.D., an autistic child, attended an Illinois elementary school. In May 2009, the boy received a Labrador retriever, Chewey, from Autism Se...
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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Huang Hua, Joan Hinton, and China, 1984

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Two people that I met in China died recently. Last week it was Huang Hua , once Vice Prime Minister of China, who entertained my father and...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

Are Terrorist Threats Changing Constitutional Parameters of Police Behavior? Considering an Incident at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport

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An opinion of a federal magistrate shows that narcotics detection dogs at airport screening must be deployed before a seizure of a passenger...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Navy Oversight of Canine Operations Needs To Improve: Hazings in Bahrain

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The Log Cabin Republicans sued the United States and the Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, alleging that the “don’t ask, don’t tell” pol...