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Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:12 PM

Steve Cooley

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Name: Steve Cooley
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents
Pro-Pot Group Says L.A. City Council In Its Pocket
Pro-medical-marijuana group Americans For Safe Access this week claimed victory in its campaign to get the Los Angeles City Council to see things its way when it comes to regulating L.A.'s 800 or so registered pot shops.After campaigning on-air at KPCC ... [Los Angeles Weekly - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
LA County Launches Dog Fighting Tip Line
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office on Nov. 17 launched a 24-hour tip line for local residents to report dog fighting.Those who call the tip line (877-NO2FITE) and provide information about a dog fighting ring, an upcoming dog fight or an ... [Veterinary Practice News - 18 hours ago]
First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 4 Documents
D.A. chides L.A. council, says he'll target pot dispensaries
With the Los Angeles City Council poised to take up a medical marijuana ordinance after two years of contentious debate, L.A. County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley warned Tuesday that he intends to prosecute dispensaries that sell the drug even if the city's ... [Los Angeles Times - 11/18/2009]
First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents
LA council may vote on medical marijuana ordinance
LOS ANGELESThe Los Angeles City Council may vote on a long-awaited medical marijuana ordinance on Wednesday that could force hundreds of dispensaries to close.The ordinance seeks to prohibit the sale of marijuana at clinics that have sprouted across the ... [San Jose Mercury News - 11/17/2009]
First Reported 10/29/2009 - Updated 10/30/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
CA: Crime locale is key in California's 3 strikes law
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, pictured here on Oct. 1, almost never charges a nonviolent offense as a third strike. He says 25 years to life in prison is the same sentence he gives murderers, and it's "disporportionate."Damian Do ... [Stateline - 10/30/2009]
First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Prosecutors union sues LA County district attorney
The Association of Deputy District Attorneys filed the lawsuit Friday in federal court against the county and District Attorney Steve Cooley.It claims that union supporters were suspended without pay, threatened with firing and some were transferred to ... [San Jose Mercury News - 11/02/2009]
First Reported 10/31/2009 - Updated 10/31/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Polanski's victim is not judge and jury
One of the chief arguments for Roman Polanski in his otherwise not-very-defensible case is that his victim -- the girl he allegedly drugged, raped and sodomized when she was 13 in 1977 -- doesn't seem to be holding a grudge.Samantha Geimer has said repeatedly ... [Los Angeles Times - 10/31/2009]
First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 1 Documents
U.S. Says It Will Ease Up on Prosecutions of Medical Pot Use
Daily Journal Staff WritersIn a banner day for marijuana dispensaries, the U.S. Justice Department on Oct. 19 formalized its January policy shift away from prosecuting medical marijuana in states that allow it and a judge ruled that Los Angeles moratorium ... [California Real Estate Journal - 11/06/2009]
First Reported 10/23/2009 - Updated 10/23/2009 - 1 Documents
Los Angeles could act on medical pot in early November
The Los Angeles City Council moved Thursday to consider a controversial medical marijuana ordinance in early November, as a poll released by a national organization that supports marijuana legalization found that more than three-quarters of voters in ... [Los Angeles Times - 10/23/2009]
First Reported 10/19/2009 - Updated 10/20/2009 - 3 Documents
Charles Karel Bouley: L.A. District Attorney to Snub Obama's Pot Policy?
In an effort to clear the haze around the murky medical marijuana situation in the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday issued what many are hailing as a huge loosening of the ropes on the 14 states with medical marijuana clinics. Deputy ... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 10/20/2009]
First Reported 10/21/2009 - Updated 10/21/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Medical Marijuana Plan Draws Mixed Reviews in Calif.
The Obama administration's new hands-off policy on medical marijuana is getting mixed reviews in California.Some cities that have been trying to put a lid on any new marijuana storefronts aren't happy. The new policy comes at a time when parts of California ... [NPR - 10/21/2009]
First Reported 10/20/2009 - Updated 10/20/2009 - 2 Documents
U.S. to end war on medical marijuana in legal states (Reuters)
WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) In a sharp policy shift, the Obama administration told federal attorneys not to prosecute patients who use marijuana for medical reasons or dispensaries in states where it has been legalized.A Justice Department official ... [Yahoo! News - 10/20/2009]

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...be collectively ashamed of their failure to grasp this issue,' Cooley said, arguing that state laws do not allow medical marijuana to be sold. "undermining those laws via their ordinance powers is counterproductive, and quite frankly we're ignoring them. they are absolutely so irrelevant it's not funny." The council may vote today on the ordinance, which would regulate medical marijuana dispensaries and allow the city to shut down hundreds that have opened...
D.A. chides L.A. council, says he'll target pot dispensaries [Los Angeles Times - 11/18/2009]
"the attorney general's announcement recognizes that those dispensaries operating in violation of state law are subject to prosecution by the state and federal governments" Cooley said
U.S. Says It Will Ease Up on Prosecutions of Medical Pot Use [California Real Estate Journal - 11/06/2009]
"Twenty-five to life is the same sentence we give to first-degree murderers," says Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley. "and to give that to someone who committed a petty theft or two-bit forgery just seemed disproportionate."
CA: Crime locale is key in California's 3 strikes law [Stateline - 10/30/2009]

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LA County Launches Dog Fighting Tip Line [Veterinary Practice News - 18 hours ago]
Pro-Pot Group Says L.A. City Council In Its Pocket [Los Angeles Weekly - 11/19/2009]
L.A. City Council puts off medical marijuana vote [Los Angeles Times - 11/19/2009]
L.A. County district attorney opens inquiry int... [Los Angeles Times - 11/19/2009]
D.A. chides L.A. council, says he'll target pot... [Los Angeles Times - 11/18/2009]
District attorney issues sharp rebuke of L.A. m... [Los Angeles Times - 11/18/2009]
LA's top prosecutor: Sell pot, get busted [San Jose Mercury News - 11/17/2009]
D.A. Defies L.A. City Leaders, Vows To Prosecut... [Los Angeles Weekly - 11/17/2009]
LA council may vote on medical marijuana ordinance [San Jose Mercury News - 11/17/2009]
Doctor's Thinking on Medical Marijuana Wrong Pr... [City Watch - 11/15/2009]
On Medical Pot: Where are the Doctors? [City Watch - 11/11/2009]
U.S. Says It Will Ease Up on Prosecutions of Me... [California Real Estate Journal - 11/06/2009]
Prosecutors union sues LA County district attorney [San Jose Mercury News - 11/02/2009]
Deputy prosecutors sue L.A. County over alleged... [Los Angeles Times - 11/02/2009]
Polanski's victim is not judge and jury [Los Angeles Times - 10/31/2009]
Editorial: Polanski's victim is not judge and jury [Los Angeles Times - 10/31/2009]
CA: Crime locale is key in Calif... [Stateline - 10/30/2009]
Crime Locale Is Key In California's 3 Strikes Law [NPR - 10/29/2009]
Pot Is More Mainstream Than Ever, So Why Is Leg... [AlterNet.org - 10/29/2009]
Los Angeles could act on medical pot in early N... [Los Angeles Times - 10/23/2009]
Medical Pot Is Bringing L.A. Together [Los Angeles Weekly - 10/22/2009]
Medical Marijuana Plan Draws Mixed Reviews in C... [NPR - 10/21/2009]
Los Angeles City Council to rush vote on medica... [Los Angeles Times - 10/21/2009]
Pot-Smoking Patients War Coming to End By Obama [Post Chronicle - 10/21/2009]
USA : Federal prosecutors to end war on medical... [France24 - 10/20/2009]
L.A.'s ban on new marijuana dispensaries ruled ... [Los Angeles Times - 10/20/2009]
U.S. to end war on medical marijuana in legal s... [Yahoo! News - 10/20/2009]
Judge rules L.A.'s ban on new medical marijuana... [Los Angeles Times - 10/20/2009]
U.S. backs off medical marijuana policy [Los Angeles Times - 10/20/2009]
U.S. to end war on medical marijuana in legal s... [Yahoo! News Australia - 10/19/2009]
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How Much of a Difference will the Administratio... [The Volokh Conspiracy - 10/24/2009]
Many critics of the War on Drugs, myself included, were happy to see the Obama adminstration’s new memo urging federal prosecutors not to pursue cases against medical ...
Is the LA District Attorney ignoring the law? [Anderson Cooper 360 - 10/23/2009]
Allison B. Margolin Criminal Defense Attorney As the Obama administration attempts to steer federal agents away from prosecuting marijuana dispensaries, ...
Charles Karel Bouley: L.A. District Attorney to... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 10/20/2009]
In an effort to clear the haze around the murky medical marijuana situation in the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday issued what many ...
Marijuana Policy Flux & Its Consequences [The Moderate Voice - 10/19/2009]
This morning the AP reported that the Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws. ...
L.A. Still Total Weed Spot, No Thanks to Lame-o... [Gawker - 10/19/2009]
Obama's willing to look the other way on the medical marijuana thing. You know who is not, though? Lawmen in L.A., which is now one big legal weed spot. They are ...
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