Law With Mr. Lafayette

In this episode, René Lafayette reviews some of the major decisions that the Court issued in late June before the Court adjourned until the October 2023 Term begins in October.

A reflection on the great nation we are proud to be citizens of…America!

In this episode of Law With Mr. Lafayette, a few of the courts decisions that were released on the last day of the Supreme Court’s term, that took place on Friday, June 30, 2023. A more detailed review of decisions and highlights of the Scotus term will be released in the next few days.

First, Vladimir Putin announces that he has transferred “tactical nuclear weapons” to Byleorus. This is a threat to Europe, NATO and the United States. Then China and Cuba have agreed to China establishing an eavesdropping facility in Cuba. Its target is the Southeastern United States. In this episode René Lafayette offers a serious review of both issues.

June 6, 2023 was the 79th anniversary of the Allied Invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944. From five beaches in Normandy, France Americans at Omaha and Utah beaches, the British at Gold and Sword and the Canadians at Juno took on Hitler’s “Atlantic Wall.” It was in September 1991 that René Lafayette visited the American military cemetery at Colleville Sur Mer. In this episode Mr. Lafayette remembers that event.

Associate Justice Samuel Alito of the United States Supreme Court in an interview published in the Wall Street Journal, has shared that he is pretty certain that he knows who leaked the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Medical Center decision in advance of its June 24, 2022 publication. Additionally, Alito questions the targeting of the six members of the High Court, who voted for Dobbs overturning Roe v. Wade. He says that the six members have become “targets for assassination.”

In this episode of Law With Mr. Lafayette, we take a different tact and discuss proms and their role in high school society today and other related topics, including the the costs associated with proms proper attire at a prom venues, and finally whether or not proms will continue as a social event in the future. I am joined by Kayleigh Lefrançois, who is one of my law students and together we discuss these topics.

In this the second of two episodes dealing with the case of Rhode IslandIsland v.Craig Price, more details are provided as to the chronology of events taking place after the arrest of Price in 1989 for the murder of four of his neighbors in the Buttonwoods neighborhood of Warwick, Rhode Island.

Craig Price was only 13 when he committed his first murder in 1987. Two years later at the age of 15 he committed three additional murders. This particular case is among those the most horrific to have taken place in the state of Rhode Island. It t is a case that I am familiar with since in my previous capacity as High Sheriff of Providence County I had met Price. I was responsible for courtroom security during his trial, and all trials during my tenure as the High Sheriff. Price became the youngest serial murderer in American history.

21 year old Jack Douglas Teixiera from North Dighton, Massachusetts was arrested earlier this month and on April 26, during a detention hearing in Federal District Court in Worcester, he is facing the possibility that he will be held until his trial. In this episode of Law With Mr. Lafayette, the specifics are revealed and shared with you.