January2016

Jan. 5, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — The Department of Justice ended 2015 with possible good news for the nation’s victims of the highway robbery scheme called civil asset forfeiture. In ending what amounted to a commission-based...

Jan. 5, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — There aren’t many things that can get a police officer fired. A history of incompetence and the reckless killing of a 12 year-old boy, on video, didn’t do it. Choking a...

Jan. 5, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — A police officer’s job is a dangerous one. Other than that of a soldier’s, no other job description in the world holds the expectation that the employee face the potential...

Jan. 5, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Accountability is something we discuss regularly here, and it’s something the average civilian faces on a regular basis. If we make mistakes, we have to suffer the consequences for them. ...

Jan. 5, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Mark Cohen, founder and CEO of Legal Mosaic, looks back on 2015 and talks about some of the things large law firms would like to see in the pipeline of...

Jan. 4, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Welcome back folks, here’s what you missed: Cook County State Attorney Anita Alvarez has requested that the FBI join the investigation into the fatal shooting of Bettie Jones and Quintonio LeGrier by...

Jan. 4, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — The impending (re)-imprisoning of two Oregon ranchers, Dwight and Steven Hammond, has led anti-government protesters to occupy the administration building of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Among the occupiers are...

Jan. 4, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Last year, we were inundated with headlines that warned of a slip back into the old days of criminals running our city like they did in the old days. The...

Jan. 4, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Former Marksville Police Department officer and City Marshall Derrick Stafford spent New Year’s Day in a jail cell, unable to post his $1 million bond and unable to convince District...

Jan. 4, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — In 2009, Maria Uriostegui was stabbed in the stomach and elsewhere at least nine times, in Denton, Texas. Her estranged husband, Silvano Uriostegui, was arrested and charged with Aggravated Assault...