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San Diego DA’s Prosecution of Pot Attorney Has Sent Chills Through the Legal Community
Lawyers in San Diego and beyond worry the prosecution of a lawyer who represents a marijuana business could force a central tenet of practicing law – attorney-client privilege – to go up in smoke.
Washington Post: Border agents beat an undocumented immigrant to death. The U.S. is paying his family $1 million.
The story of Hernandez’s 2010 death at the Tijuana-San Diego border, backed up by the video on that card, exemplified the brutality of the law enforcement officers who patrolled the border and the impunity with which they act, advocates for Border Patrol reform say.
Washington Post: U.S. border officers told a Mexican teen to drink liquid meth. His family received $1 million for his death.
“Mi corazón! Mi corazón!” Acevedo screamed, according to court records — “My heart! My heart!” He was dead about two hours later.
San Diego Union Tribune: DEA gets blistered over Chong case
Three years ago this week, Daniel Chong made news around the world when the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration admitted that its agents accidentally left him in a temporary cell for five days without food or water.
LA Times: Officials criticize DEA's light punishment of agents who forgot man in cell for 5 days
Daniel Chong, a UC San Diego student, was detained in 2012 for what he was told would be five minutes after he was swept up in a drug bust at a friend’s house, where he had been smoking marijuana.
The Man in the Gray Hat
The formerly controversial Gene Iredale embraces nuance and theft
Daniel Chong, forgotten in DEA cell, settles suit for $4.1 million
A University of California San Diego student left unmonitored in a holding cell for five days by the Drug Enforcement Administration has settled a lawsuit for $4.1 million, his attorney said. "This was a mistake of unbelievable and unimaginable proportions," attorney Julia Yoo said on Tuesday.