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4:43 p.m. The lead attorney for DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis, Craig Gillen, asked for a mistrial after Ellis former assistant testified.
Gillen said Hall prejudiced the jury after invoking her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself 30 times.
Superior Court Judge Courtney Johnson rejected Gillens request.
Court is in recess until 9 a.m. Tuesday.
4:34 p.m. Nina Hall, an assistant to DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis, invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself 30 times during testimony Monday.
Most of those times, Superior Court Judge Courtney Johnson ordered Hall to answer the questions. Hall wasnt required to testify about whether she had accepted money from vendors or perjured herself before a special grand jury.
Hall said Ellis was upset that Joanne Wise, who worked for a technology contractor called Ciber Inc., hadnt returned his phone calls for campaign contributions.
He was angry they had not returned his phone call, that there was no excuse for them not having returned his phone call, Hall told jurors. He indicated he was going to tell their boss they provided poor customer service and they were rude.
3:47 p.m. A former assistant to DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis, Nina Hall, will have to testify but she can assert her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in response to some questions, Superior Court Judge Courtney Johnson ruled.
Johnson said Hall can be asked about a conversation with Ellis that she overheard, and she can be asked to identify Ellis handwriting.
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House Republicans are steaming that ex-IRS official Lois Lerner decided to talk to POLITICO for a profile on her life after twice taking the Fifth before Congress.
Lerner refused to answer questions before House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issas panel and quickly became the center of the tea party targeting saga that erupted 16 months ago. The former head of the IRS tax exempt unit declared her innocence in the interview, as she has maintained throughout, but would not discuss her time at the IRS in the run-up to the firestorm.
Republicans, who voted to hold Lerner in contempt of Congress and held countless hearings blasting her for refusing to speak, said it was unfair for her to speak to media and not lawmakers.
Her decision to make unsubstantiated claims to a media outlet while claiming Fifth Amendment protections from answering Congress questions is telling, Issa (R-Calif.) said in a statement on Monday. She appears to have great confidence that her allies in the Obama Administration will not consider legal action after she resigned and declined to discuss the IRS actions against private citizens.
(Also on POLITICO: Exclusive: Lois Lerner breaks silence)
The scandal erupted in May 2013 after Lerner, at the behest of her boss, acknowledged that her division had given added scrutiny to conservative groups using search terms like tea party. A damning inspector general report followed, which led to President Barack Obama firing the acting IRS chief, congressional hearings and an FBI probe.
Although Lerner acknowledged she is a Democrat, she said her political leanings never affected her work. Republicans have released emails showing she took an interest in GOP nonprofit Crossroads GPS, including asking why the group was not audited and suggesting the group should be denied tax-exempt status.
House Speaker John Boehners staff posted a blog calling out Lerner for telling POLITICO she is not sorry for anything I did.
Thanks to President Obama and his cadre of cover-up artists, we still dont know what exactly that entailed, his communications adviser, Matt Wolking, wrote in a blog.
Meanwhile Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who chairs the IRS Oversight subcommittee, called the interview a poke in the eye to the American citizens who were targeted by the IRS.
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Checkpoints occupy a unique position in the American justice system. Atthese roadside stations, where police question drivers in search of the inebriated or illegal, anyone can be stopped and questioned, regardless of probable cause, violating theFourth Amendments protection against general warrants that do not specify the who/what/where/why of a search or seizure. Though the Supreme Court agrees that checkpoints skirt the FourthAmendment, the Court has been clear that the special needs checkpoints serve, like traffic safety andimmigration enforcement, trump the slight intrusions on motorists rights.
We have checkpoints for bicycle safety, gathering witnesses, drug trafficking, illegal immigration and traffic safety.Many states,like California, require cops to abide by neutral mathematical formulas when choosing which drivers to pull over (like 1 in every 10 cars). In reality, these decisions are left to the discretion of individual police officers, which results in a type of vehicular stop and frisk.
Thats why people in Arizona havesuedthe Department of Homeland Security for its wantondeployment of immigration checkpoints in their state.Among their complaints are racial profiling, harassment, assault and unwarranted interrogation,and detention not related to the express special need of determining peoples immigration status.
A key legal detail about checkpoints is that they cannot be used for crime control, as that would require individualized probable cause. But legal scholarsarguethat non-criminally-minded checkpoints are also illegal. They point out that the FourthAmendment protected the colonists from being searched for non-criminal wrongdoing. Doing nothing wrong at all, they argue,is not grounds to be searched or haveyour property seized.
Regardless, unlike DUI checkpoints, these immigration checkpoints, expanded by the 2006Secure Fence Act, are only allowed within 100 miles of the continental United States border. But thats abig perimeter. Nine of the countrys 10 largest cities, entire states and some two thirds of the US population reside within this constitutionallyexempt zone.
At these checkpointssome of which have becomepermanentfixtures on the highwaypeople are forced to stop when flagged down, againregardless of probable cause. But the extent to which people are legally obliged to answer officers questions isunclearand seemingly arbitrary. Not surprisingly, the militarysimmigration checkpoints havegarneredoutspoken criticism from across the political spectrum.Legalized by the Supreme Court in1976, these checkpointsseem to have taken on a newmomentum in the post-9/11era. (Private militias have eventaken tosetting uptheir own versions.)
DUI checkpoints, on the other hand,deemedconstitutional in 1990, monitor roadwaysin38 states. But they have been outlawed by12 othersthat have invoked states rights to increase federal civil liberty protections.In the Courts 1990opinion, Chief JusticeWilliam Rehnquist wrote that states interest in eradicating drunk driving is indisputable and that this interest outweighed the measure of the intrusion on motorists stopped briefly at sobriety checkpoints, which he described as slight.
In the dissent, William Brennan reminded the Court that, some level of individualized suspicion is a core component of the protection the Fourth Amendment provides against arbitrary government action. In pulling people over at random, checkpoints remove this individualized component.
Today, the practice seems to be experiencing a renaissance of sorts. With the help of local police, private government contractors have used the tactic to collect anonymous breath, saliva and blood (DNA) samples of American motorists for the federally fundedNational Roadside Survey of Alcohol and Drugged Driving. Participation in the survey is voluntary, despite the confusion that may come with uniformed police asking for bodily fluids. Motorists are offered $10 for cheek swabs and $50 for blood samples. These practices have sparked considerable publicoutrage; law enforcement officials inSt. Louis, Missouriand Fort Worth, Texashavestatedtheir intent to limit their future participationin the study.
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Going after the Nobel Prize in Physics grants first amendment protection to use the lives of living people to determine the existence of parallel universes.
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DANA DiFILIPPO, Daily News Staff Writer difilid@phillynews.com, 215-854-5934 Posted: Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 3:01 AM
WHEN an anti-Islamic group decided to advertise on city buses and billboards this fall with photos of a terrorist poised to behead an American and a Muslim leader smiling at Adolf Hitler, transit officials in New York and Washington, D.C., huffed their disapproval - but allowed the ads to run.
They had no choice, they said, because the ads were protected under the First Amendment.
SEPTA's officials disagreed and rejected the ads.
But the group behind the ads - the American Freedom Defense Initiative - won't surrender quietly. The New Hampshire-based group sued SEPTA in federal court last week, complaining that the transit agency violated AFDI's free-speech rights.
One local First Amendment expert says SEPTA picked an unwinnable fight.
"The most fundamental principle of the First Amendment is that you may never bar any message based upon the content of the message," said Burton Caine, a law professor at Temple University and past president of the Philadelphia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. "This is absolutely prohibited, what SEPTA is doing.
"Everybody has this same idea that they like the First Amendment," Caine said, "but when the speech is offensive, people will make all kinds of excuses why it's not protected. The whole point of the First Amendment is to protect speech that offends. No exceptions."
A federal judge said as much in 2012, ruling that the AFDI could post ads in New York City and Washington, D.C., that compared Muslim jihadists to "savages."
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Greg Lukianoff is the presidentof the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and the keynote speaker at UNC's sixth annual First Amendment Day, which is put on by theUNC Center for Media Law andPolicy.
Staff Writer Katie Kilmartin asked him questions about what he plans to talk about, his opinion on UNC's First Amendment climate and more.
DAILY TAR HEEL:What are your thoughts on UNCs ranking as one of the worst 10 universities for free speech?
GREG LUKIANOFF:I was disappointed that I had to include UNC on this years list. I explain my reasons in that piece which you can find here:http://huff.to/1qoIv5M
Im quite sure I will be getting questions about it tomorrow!
DTH:What do you plan to speak about at the Keynote Address for First Amendment Day?
GL:Tomorrow, I plan to talk about, of course, the First Amendment, but beyond that the larger principles of freedom of speech itself and why I believe those principles are under threat. Make no mistake about it, free speech is an eternally radical idea, so it is always under threat at all times in human history.
I will also talk about my first book Unlearning Liberty, and my new short book, Freedom From Speech, in which I lay out my causes for concern for speech going forward.
DTH:What main ideas do you hope people will take away from you address?
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Gary Birdsong speaks in the Pit on Monday morning. Birdsong has been preaching on campus since the early 1980s.
Some people come to UNC for the academics, clubs or sports. But Gary Birdsong, commonly known as the Pit Preacher, comes to UNC because of a divine inspiration.
God gave me the desire, he said. If you dont have a desire, you cant do it, especially on college campuses.
Birdsong said he began preaching at UNC in the early 1980s. He has traveled to schools all over the nation, including nearby institutions like N.C. State University and Duke University.
Birdsong said before he was saved and began preaching, he spent time with members of The Brotherhood and Hells Angels biker clubs.
After his religious transformation, he attended Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, Texas, and he visited Israel for a few months. He met Brother Jed Smock, who also preaches on college campuses, and started sharing his testimony as well.
Birdsong said hes glad he has the protections under the First Amendment, but he wouldnt stop preaching even if it werent allowed.
I dont care if I have it or not, Birdsong said. If God tells me to do it, Ill do it.
Freshman Bryan Labra said that Monday was his first time listening to Birdsong in the Pit. He said he thinks Birdsong should be allowed to preach on campus and that he does not abuse freedom of speech under the First Amendment.
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Presentation to the 14-10 Club, Royal Institution of Great Britain 11/Sep/2014
Presentation by Adam Cleary, Founder of Bullion Bitcoin, to the 14-10 Club at the Royal Institution of Great Britain - 11 September 2014.
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The Bitcoin Dilemma
Traders Brian Shannon and Rob Booker discuss the bitcoin phenomenon that has spurred a lot of interest from the investing community.
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At San Franciscos Buyers Best Friend, a worker demonstrates the companys custom-built bitcoin payments system. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
Over the past year, its become a lot easier to buy bitcoin, thanks to services such as Coinbase. And thanks to retailers such as Overstock.com and TigerDirect, its now a lot easier to to spend them online. But theres still one big pothole in bitcoins bumpy road to mainstream adoption: Your local coffee shop.
Thats because most cash register software still doesnt support the worlds most popular digital currency. But the situation is about to change, according to Square CEO Jack Dorsey. He says that Square is building a register that will allow companies to accept bitcoin as well as Apples new contactless payment system, Apple Pay.
Were building a register so that sellers can accept a credit card, so they can accept cash, so they can accept a cheque, so they can accept Bitcoin and so they can accept any form of payment that comes across the counter including future ones and burgeoning ones like Apple Pay, Dorsey told the CBC this week, speaking at the opening of Squares new Canadian offices in Kitchener, Ontario.
Reached Monday, the company didnt have any word on when its bitcoin-ready register might be on the market. But it said say that it wants to support new types of payment systems. Square sellers should never have to miss out on a sale. They should be able to accept any form of payment, said Square spokesman Johnny Brackett.
Today, shops such as Buyers Best Friend in San Francisco and restaurants such as the Pink Cow in Tokyo accept payments in bitcoin. Basically, you hold your smartphone up to a scanner at the cash register. But such systems can be difficult for businesses to set up. Square, whose in-person payment systems are already used by so many businesses, could potentially make it much easier for small stores and restaurants to accept bitcoin, a new kind of currency that exists only on the internet.
Though many believe bitcoin can remake the way we handle moneyremoving some of the control traditional exhibited by big banks and government organizationsit is still a long way from reaching the mainstream. But with company such as Overstock now accepting bitocin payments across the globe and Square flirting with a bitcoin register, the currency is inching closer.
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Sonny Vleisides (right), is Butterfly Labs' co-founder and largest shareholder. A federal judge told him in January 2014 that there was a "strong smell" of fraud with respect to his company.
Federal authorities believethat the three named members of the companys board of directorsJody Drake (aka Darla Drake), Nasser Ghoseiri, and Sonny Vleisidesspent millions of corporate revenue on all kinds of things, including saunas and guns, while ignoring many customer orders that went unfulfilled or were significantly delayed.
The case was filed in federal court last week in Missouri, and it comes over a year after Ars firstreportedon the company and began testing its initial round of specialized computers designed to do nothing but mine for Bitcoin.
"The FTC alleges that one corporate defendants and three individual defendants have taken in over $50 million by operating a scheme that required consumers to pre-pay for machines that would allow consumers to mine for Bitcoins, a new virtual currency," the complaint states. "Defendants either never delivered these machines or delivered them so late that they became obsolete."
No one from BFL, including the three named defendants, responded to Ars repeated requests for comment by phone, e-mail, and Skype.
Unsubstantiated rumors on the Bitcointalk.org forums stated that BFLs offices in Leawood, Kansas (just outside Kansas City) were "raided" by the United States Marshals Service last Friday.
Nikki Credic-Barrett, a spokeswoman for the USMS, told Ars on Monday that one of her colleagues from the Western District of Missouri, whom she declined to name, said that the USMS was "present at this location on that day."
"Anything concerned with what happened is under seal," she said. "That's the most he could tell me."
For the past year, BFL insisted that mere manufacturing delays were to blame for the company's woes. However, suspicion of active fraud never died down. In fact, it's gotten worse after it came to light that Butterfly Labs' largest shareholder, Sonny Vleisides, violated the terms of his probation in a previous lottery scam casewhere he took a plea deal. As a result, Vleisides probationpreviously slated to end in September 2013continued for another two years.
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ACT Comets coach Mark Higgs is excited by the prospect of Canberra players picking up professional contracts. Photo: Jeffrey Chan
Opportunity is the buzzword in Canberra cricket this summer with ACT Comets coach Mark Higgs convinced the pathway to the elite level is now as strong as it's been since the Comets were kicked out of the national one-day competition in 2000.
Cricket ACT is pushing for re-entry into the national one-day competition as early as the 2015-16 summer and players will get the chance to push their individual cases when the Comets play World Cup teams Afghanistan and Ireland in four one-day matches over the next three weeks.
The Comets play Afghanistan at Manuka Oval on Friday and Sunday this week, before backing up against Ireland on October 7 and 9. The Comets will also contest the Sydney T20 competition in October, providing a scouting opportunity for Sydney's Big Bash league franchises, the Thunder and Sixers.
Higgs, who played for the Comets's in their inaugural 1997 season in the national one-day competition, said Canberra had worked hard to re-establish itself as a genuine elite pathway. Australian players Brad Haddin and Nathan Lyon began with the Comets, as did established state cricketers such as Ryan Carters and Jason Behrendorff.
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"I think we're able to give people quality opportunities," Higgs said. "Over the last few years we've had some quality cricket matches and it's been good for our program and to put people into state programs.
"We're lucky enough where we play second XI [state] cricket, we've got games against Ireland, we've played against the Big Bash League franchises. If you're from the country or you've missed out on going through the under-age [development] programming, there is another opportunity.
"The player who stands up in these sorts of matches is the guy that goes on and takes that opportunity."
Comets captain Jono Dean leads by that example. Dean smashed an eye-catching 51 off 38 balls in last year's Prime Minister's XI match against the West Indies and was then signed by BBL team the Adelaide Strikers.
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