Adeyemi Oshunrinade February 21, 2021 The acquittal was bizarre and swift, all based on unsound arguments by the defense but, the GOP Senate voted not guilty despite overwhelming evidence presented by the impeachment managers. The vote count was 57… Read More ›
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SCOTUS MINUS ONE: SCALIA’ DEPARTURE WILL CAUSE A CONFIRMATION WAR
ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE February 14, 2016 Known as one of the conservative minds of the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia died at the age of 79. A leading conservative voice of the Supreme Court, Justice Scalia, believed issues such as… Read More ›
WHAT IS WRONGFUL BIRTH? MOM SUES SPERM BANK FOR HAVING A MIXED RACE BABY
BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE October 6, 2014 Jennifer Cramblett, a 36-year-old woman from Uniontown, Ohio, filed suit Sept. 29 against Chicago-area Midwest Sperm Bank because the clinic artificially inseminated and impregnated her with the wrong sperm. Cramblett claimed she and… Read More ›
PROMISSORY ESTOPPEL: CAN YOU SUE OVER A PROMISE NOT FULFILLED?
BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE October 7, 2013 Section 90 of the Restatement of the law of Contracts states: “A promise which the promisor should reasonably expect to induce action or forbearance of a definite and substantial character on the part of… Read More ›
CRIMINAL LAW DEFENSE OF OTHERS: Homicide in the Name of Family
BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE The law that gives one the right of self-defense also confers the privilege to act in defense of others whenever it is reasonable and necessary to do so. It would be unreasonable and unwise for a man… Read More ›
SELF DEFENSE: A SETTLED PRINCIPLE OF CRIMINAL LAW
ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE No doubt we all have the reflexes of self-defense the moment we were born. It is innate and we react in self-defense when we feel the impulses or it is necessary to do so. If a fly lands… Read More ›
PUBLIC AUTHORITY: A Special Defense in Criminal Law
BY Adeyemi Oshunrinade There are certain acts which if done by order of a superior or under the protection of public authority, are not considered crimes; if a police officer shoots and kills one holding a knife to his wife’s… Read More ›
SAVANNAH DIETRICH: PLEA DEAL, When Tweeting is a Crime
BY Adeyemi Oshunrinade Her ordeal began when she got drunk at a gathering and fell asleep; 17-year-old Savannah Dietrich of Louisville Kentucky woke up to realize she had been sexually assaulted by two teenage boys she knew. Her offenders did… Read More ›
JAMES HOLMES: Aurora Massacre, Questioning the Second Amendment by Adeyemi Oshunrinade
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” This is the command of the Second Amendment and just as a Bible… Read More ›
DRUNKARD IS EXCUSED: ALCOHOLISM AS A DEFENSE IN CRIMINAL LAW
Adeyemi Oshunrinade One of the issues in criminal law is whether one intoxicated and controlled by presence of alcohol in his system, should be deemed to have the required intent to commit the crime charged. Prior to the nineteenth century,… Read More ›