Entries Tagged as ‘Fifth Amendment’

February 10, 2010

Three Years in Prison for Refusing Breathalyzer Test

This is one of the most outrageous articles I have read:
A South Euclid man who became the first person in Summit County to be found guilty of tampering with evidence for refusing to take a Breathalyzer test was sentenced to three years in prison in Summit County Court.
Apparently there is a new law in Ohio [...]

December 19, 2009

Update on Paxton Lawsuit

For the background story on UK ace pitcher, James Paxton, click here.  He wanted to know what the NCAA wanted to talk about. I suspected it was about the draft process and Paxton’s advisor.  According to John Hale at BluGrass Baseball, we now know that:
Paxton is almost certainly under investigation by the NCAA for violating the no-agent rule.
That should come [...]

December 9, 2009

Paxton files Reply

James Paxton’s attorneys filed his Reply yesterday to UK’s Response to his Motion for an Injunction. The background of the story is that officials at UK told Paxton he had to interview with the NCAA.  Unfortunately, the officials refused to tell Paxton what the sit down was about. To make it worse, an official from UK [...]

November 29, 2009

Tiger Woods Hires Lawyer

Tiger Woods has hired a criminal defense lawyer according to John Wesley Hall, Jr.:
Every public figure should have one of us on retainer.
From DUI Attorney.com:
Just because Woods has hired a well-known and able defense lawyer does not mean that he is guilty or even that he has anything to hide. In fact, a smart innocent person with [...]