DUI Book

A new DUI book is coming soon from Albany lawyer Warren Redlich.

The working title is "Fair DUI – How To Protect Yourself From The MADDness".

In the book, Warren challenges some of the ideas pushed by Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The main focus is advising people how to avoid driving drunk, and how to handle yourself in traffic stops, arrests, and what do to after you're released.

The book should be available on Amazon Kindle in the summer of 2013.

iPhone Shuffle Repeats Same Song: The Fix

A friend was experiencing a really annoying problem with her iPhone. She would hit shuffle within a playlist or album. Instead of shuffling the songs on that list, it would repeat the first song over and over.

Took me a while to figure it out, but I found the problem and how to fix it.

While there are several web discussions about iPhone shuffle problems, I had trouble finding the answer but eventually did figure it out. This post should make it more obvious.

First, you need to tap the screen while you're playing a song. You should see something like this:

Notice the two orange symbols on the left and right just below the line showing how many minutes have played in the song. The one on the right indicates that it's shuffling songs. The one on the left is the important one for this post. If it's lit up like in this picture, it indicates that the same song will repeat.

Here's a closer look:

If you click on that icon on the left, it will change the repeat setting. Clicking it once should add the number 1, which indicates the song will repeat once. You're almost there:

Click it another time and it will go to gray, which means it's not repeating at all:

Now you should be done and it should work properly. Hope this works for you!

Florida School Parking Lots and Concealed Carry

[L]icensed parents can legally carry a concealed weapon in the car during [school] pickup and drop-off [but cannot] carry a concealed weapon into a school building and not even ... outside the vehicle in the school parking lot.

Read more at: Florida School Parking Lots and Concealed Carry

Suffolk County Traffic Court

Suffolk County's traffic tickets will be handled in a new Suffolk County Traffic Court, effective April 1, 2013.

In the past, cases were handled in Suffolk County Traffic Violations Bureau, an arm of the DMV. The new court is under the auspices of the county.

This is good news for pretty much everyone. TVB is known for being difficult. The new traffic court seems to be structured like the Nassau County Traffic Court, which is easier to work with while still upholding the law.

The new court is formally titled Suffolk County Traffic and Parking Violations Agency.

Sulaiman Abu Ghaith Indictment Should Be Dismissed

Bin Laden's brother-in-law has been indicted and is being held on the charge of conspiring to kill Americans. Having reviewed the indictment, it should be dismissed. Why? The caption of the indictment first:
 

"Conspiracy to Kill US Nationals" - Got that?
Next, the important part of the indictment is where it describes his "Overt Acts":


Let's get this straight:
1. In May 2001, he "urged" people to swear allegiance to Bin Laden.
2. He told Bin Laden he would "assist" him.
3. AFTER 9/11 Bin Laden summoned him for assistance.
4. AFTER 9/11, he gave two speeches and said mean and nasty things about the US.

#1 is vague. Were the urged people involved in the 9/11 attacks? Did he know that Bin Laden was planning to kill Americans? It ain't in there.

#2 cannot be a crime. He said he would assist. Did he actually assist Bin Laden? Did this assistance involve killing Americans? Or is this about the speeches he gave AFTER the Americans (and others) were killed?

#3 cannot be a crime. Bin Laden summoned him - that's Bin Laden's action, not Abu Ghaith's.

#4 cannot be a crime. He made speeches. That's it?

To be clear, I think Abu Ghaith is evil. He preaches hatred against Jews, and I'm in the tribe. But this indictment doesn't make out anything remotely close to a crime. Judge Kaplan should dismiss it and order the Feds to return Abu Ghaith to the authorities in Jordan, Turkey or Kuwait - Abu Ghaith's choice. For another take on the indictment, see LawFare.