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| | What Changes Are Occurring With Regard To Roadside "Drunk Driving" Investigations? | | |
The biggest change is the introduction of video cameras on patrol cars. A videotape that shows a drunken, combative driver, or a driver who can barely stand up on his own, is very convincing to a judge or jury, regardless of how a defendant appears in court. It is very difficult to protest that the officer is misinterpreting the roadside sobriety tests when the jury can see the driver's performance, and perhaps even hear what the driver is saying.
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On September 4, 2007, the Supreme Court of Israel ordered the Israeli government to redraw the route of its West Bank security barrier near the Palestinian village of Bilin within a "reasonable period." The court also determined that the separation barrier discriminates against Bilin residents because the Israeli government has seized and uprooted thousands of olive trees along the border to make room for construction. A section of the security barrier Learn more about the security barrier from B'Tselem, and about Israeli policy in the Palestinian territories from the JURIST news archive.
On September 4, 2007, Washington, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty and DC Attorney General Linda Singer appealed the ruling of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit invalidating DC's handgun ban to the US Supreme Court. The court had found that the city's 30-year-old ban on private possession of handguns was unconstitutionally broad. The Supreme Court ruled against DC in the case, District of Columbia v. Heller, finding that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to private gun ownership. Learn more about the Second Amendment from Cornell University's Legal Information Institute.
On August 31, 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Neutrality Act of 1935, which placed an embargo on arms and war materials on all countries involved in war. The act was used in October 1935 in response to Italy's invasion of Ethiopia to bar arms sales to both countries. The act was part of the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s, which came in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia. They sought to prevent the US from becoming involved in the war. Learn more about US attempts at neutrality during World War II from the Telegraph.
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