Miscellanea

1. Nice work, if you can get it: Here's a link to an article about the federal magistrate judge opening at Yosemite National Park. Visiting judges from around the county have been brought in until the position is filled. Idaho Senior Magistrate Judge Larry Boyle (pictured with his wife, Beverly) did a two week stint and his experience is featured. Judge Boyle is quoted as saying that the park is the Garden of Eden, “[b]ut the law is the same as in San Francisco or Boise or Manhattan.” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/us/11yosemite.html

True, but you don't get as many Interstate Transport of Bobcat for Immoral Purposes cases in Manhattan.

2. State v. Hanington decided: In case you've been wondering about the appropriate standard of appellate review of a sentence which was imposed after a probation revocation, rest easy. The COA has finally told us: "When we review a sentence that is ordered into execution following a period of probation, we will examine the entire record encompassing events before and after the original judgment."
http://www.isc.idaho.gov/opinions/hanington%20opinion.pdf

And then, at least in my experience, the sentence will be affirmed (like in Mr. Hanington's case).

3. New Link: John Wesley Hall has a nice website on Fourth Amendment Law which updates his Search and Seizure Treatise. http://www.fourthamendment.com/blog/. I've also added it to the list of Useful Sites.