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	<description>Author: John H. Bryan, West Virginia Attorney</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Charleston Lawyer Sues WV State Police For DUI Arrest Beating</title>
		<link>http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/charleston-lawyer-sues-wv-state-police-for-dui-arrest-beating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported in the Charleston Gazette today, Charleston lawyer, Roger Wolfe, who is a &#8220;senior labor and employment lawyer&#8221; with Jackson Kelly, was arrested on suspicion of DUI on June 17, 2007.  Apparently he was taken to the South Charleston state police &#8220;barracks&#8221; (again, why do cops like to pretend that they are some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You think the cops are bad in West Virginia?</title>
		<link>http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/officer-threatened-starbucks-manager-for-free-coffee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnbryanlaw</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Daytona Beach, Florida, near my hometown, a police &#8220;lieutenant&#8221; (I still don&#8217;t understand why we give cops fake military rank) was accused of stating the following in response to being cut off from getting free coffee:
&#8220;If something happens, either we can respond really fast or we could respond really slow. I&#8217;ve been coming here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honor Among Lawyers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/honor-among-lawyers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lawyers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Simple Justice this morning, Scott Greenfield has a great post about the old days of practicing criminal law, when there was some semblance of integrity among lawyers - and among prosecutors.  This reminds me of a lawyer I am dealing with right now in an unnamed city in southern West Virginia, who would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police Officers and Domestic Battery in West Virginia</title>
		<link>http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/police-officers-and-domestic-battery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnbryanlaw</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Battery]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Domestic Violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Charleston Gazette this morning, there is an article about a Dunbar, West Virginia, police officer - George Ike Radar - who was charged with domestic battery for slapping his wife 20 times and pointing his finger into her chest.
Bravo to State Trooper E.B. McClung for arresting this jerk.  But shame on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charleston Taco Bell Shooting Will Reverberate Around West Virginia</title>
		<link>http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/charleston-taco-bell-shooting-will-reverberate-around-west-virginia/</link>
		<comments>http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/charleston-taco-bell-shooting-will-reverberate-around-west-virginia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnbryanlaw</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic Violence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Magistrates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Charleston Taco Bell shooting last Saturday, which is detailed in the Charleston Daily Mail here, is not one that will likely fade from memory.  The perpetrator of this crime, Desmond Clark, gives new meaning to the term &#8220;bad apple,&#8221; and he has indeed just about ruined the probation system and the domestic violence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Virginia Sex Offender System Watered Down - and sometimes unjust</title>
		<link>http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/west-virginia-sex-offender-system-watered-down/</link>
		<comments>http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/west-virginia-sex-offender-system-watered-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnbryanlaw</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sex Crimes]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/?p=138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Register-Herald today:
A Beckley man has been arrested and charged with his second offense of &#8220;failure to register as a sex offender.&#8221;  Well, the guy was registered, you can look it up yourself on the WV Sex Offender registry, found here.
What crime did he commit?  His wife (presumably) bought a car and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man Charged With Shooting Dog 5 Times</title>
		<link>http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/man-charged-with-shooting-dog-5-times/</link>
		<comments>http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/man-charged-with-shooting-dog-5-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnbryanlaw</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Charleston Daily Mail:
A man in Boone County was charged with shooting a chocolate lab 5 times with a pistol, allegedly in self defense.  The dog&#8217;s name is Titan, which is fitting given that he has apparently recovered.  
Something that I have learned in the practice of law is that there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Justice in Magistrate Court&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/more-justice-in-magistrate-court/</link>
		<comments>http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/more-justice-in-magistrate-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnbryanlaw</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Magistrates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Prosecutors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although I stated in a previous post/rant about magistrate court in West Virginia that I do everything in my power to prevent having a bench trial in magistrate court (rather than a jury trial), I was forced yesterday to try a case in magistrate court.
The reason I was forced was this: my client initially requested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contractor Prosecuted in Raleigh County - and thats a good thing&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/contractor-prosecuted-in-raleigh-county/</link>
		<comments>http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/contractor-prosecuted-in-raleigh-county/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnbryanlaw</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Liability]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fraud]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Larceny]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Register-Herald today:
Matthew Peelish, a Raleigh County contractor, pled guilty to 3 counts of felony obtaining goods by false pretenses for taking money from people and not completing the work, and for obtaining materials from local merchants on an account and refusing to subsequently pay.  The Court held him to task and sentenced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mom Robs Slot Parlor With BB Pistol, Children in-tow</title>
		<link>http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/mom-robs-slot-parlor-with-bb-pistol-children-in-tow/</link>
		<comments>http://wvcriminaldefenseattorney.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/mom-robs-slot-parlor-with-bb-pistol-children-in-tow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnbryanlaw</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Robbery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Charleston Gazette today:
This is another one of those &#8220;only in West Virginia&#8221; items&#8230;  
A St. Albans woman, who has since qualified for the Parent of the Year award and the Intellectual Criminal of the Year award, robbed a video slot parlor with a Crossman BB pistol.  She held it to the [...]]]></description>
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