Only Harrington gets balls kicked into his yard, lets see, is that harassment? 11-22-2014 California: School officials in Orange County have installed a temporary fence between a Costa Mesa high school and the home of a registered sex offender who lives next to the campus. But whether the fence was erected to shield students from the man or to prevent soccer balls from flying into his backyard
O.C. school installs fence between campus and home of sex offender
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International Game Developers Association (IGDA) and Defamation
1. Sometime within the past 48 hours, the International Game Developers Association, through its agent Kate Edwards, linked to and widely publicized what it called an "Online Harassment Resource." (Kate Edwards of IGDA Tweeted out a message falsely accusing thousands of people of a crime.) 2. This "Online Harassment Resource," which was published on the IGDA's website, linked to a blocklist created by Randi Harper, a young lady has been in jail at least three times and may have a drug problem. Randi Harper has also falsely accused at least one man of a serious crime. 3. The blocklist itself never claimed that anyone on the list had actually harassed anyone. Rather, the blocklist automatically generated a list based on whether or not the person followed two out of nine people deemed by this jailbird to be a bad person. (The blocklist clearly states that it does not target online harassment.) 4. The International Game Developers…
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Is there an employer exemption for the Ignition Interlock Device (IID)?
Yes. If you must drive an employer-owned vehicle for work there is an exemption that allows you to drive that employer-owned vehicle. However, you still must install the IID on your personal vehicle. Also, your employer must fill-out the exemption...
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Cosby In Context (Update)
One of America’s most beloved entertainers, Bill Cosby, is now not only a rapist, but a serial rapist. As his lawyer, Marty Singer, correctly points out, most of the allegations now being raised aren’t new. Rather, they are debunked allegations renewed in the context of new social norms, where challenging such claims is viewed as a form of sexual abuse in itself. Victims can’t be blamed. But the latest, victim number 7, provides an opportunity to appreciate how conduct that occurred (assuming it occurred) in one era is viewed through the prism of another era, and significantly misinterpreted. In an interview on WPTV in West Palm Beach, Fla., the woman, Therese Serignese, 57, a registered nurse, accused Mr. Cosby of drugging and having sex with her after one of his shows at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1976 when she was 19. The narrative of drugging a woman for sex is a recent one. Today, there are roofies, drugs surreptitiously slipped into a…
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The Killing of Akai Gurley: A Mistake, Perhaps, But No Accident
There was no excuse offered. Akai Gurley did nothing, absolutely nothing, to cause probationary Police Officer Peter Liang to shoot him in the chest and kill him. Whether Gurley did anything wrong in his life before that, even the cops didn’t have the gall to try to taint him with priors so we wouldn’t feel too badly about his killing. It wouldn’t matter anyway, but that rarely stops people from being stupid enough to connect unrelated dots. No, Akai Gurley was shot dead for no reason whatsoever. His two-year-old daughter will have no father. The job he was about to start with the city will be filled by someone else. He can’t do it. He’s dead. For no reason. Police Commissioner Bill Bratton called it an accident. The shooting, at 11:15 p.m. on Thursday . . . But 12 hours later, just after noon on Friday, the New York police commissioner, William J. Bratton, announced that the shooting was accidental and that the victim, Akai…
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CT Releases New Report on Adam Lanza
The Office of the Child Advocate in Connecticut has released its report on Adam Lanza. It's 114 pages and available here. The Daily Mail has this recap. I just finished reading the report. Here are some quotes: Autism Spectrum Disorder or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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ISIS Releases New Issue of Dabiq Magazine
ISIS has released Issue #5 of its English publication, Dabiq Magazine. You can read it here. There's nothing in it about Peter Kassig or other ISIS beheadings. It's mostly about the other groups which recently announced their allegiance... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Child sex charges dropped against Willow Spring man
11-22-2014 North Carolina: A Superior Court judge in Harnett County has dismissed child sex charges against a Willow Spring man accused this past summer of raping a child – accusations he says have destroyed his life. Tommy Keith Wall was arrested June 24 on charges of first-degree rape of a child, first-degree sex offense against a child and felony conspiracy. The charges were dropped Oct.
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Sex offender released from jail after case of 'mistaken identity'
9-27-2011 Oregon: UPDATE: Police released a Springfield man from jail Wednesday night after police say he was misidentified in a alleged sex offense case outside an area elementary School. Police said Randy Tompkins is not the man an eyewitness had originally reported seeing talking to young girls outside of Riverbend Elementary School. Tompkins is a registered sex offender and was arrested
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Mistaken Identity Labels Innocent Man a Sex Offender
9-2-2010 Washington: Dan Wheeler has been wrongly labeled a sex offender and it all happened after his wallet was stolen. Cops say the thief, who actually is a registered sex offender, used Wheeler's name as an alias, and now the thief's crimes are mistakenly linked to Wheeler. Wheeler says he had no idea the identity switch took place until a cop pulled him over near his home outside Seattle
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Exonerated man's name pulled from sex offender website
10-28-2013 Illinois: llinois State Police removed Carl Chatman's name from the sex offender registry this morning, following notification that Chatman had been exonerated in an alleged 2002 rape at the Daley Center and, thus, should not have been on the website. The mistaken entry was identified after Berwyn police arrested Chatman Sunday because he was listed on the site as an unregistered
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Angry mob in Denver attacks man thought to be sexual predator
5-20-2013 Colorado: DENVER – Residents angry that police had not warned them about sex assaults of children took matters into their own hands, chasing down a man they thought was the attacker, pelting him with rocks and leaving him with a bloody face in Colorado, authorities said Monday. Pueblo police later released the man because of lack of evidence, The Pueblo Chieftain reported.
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The 'other' Carlos Molina isn't too thrilled about frequent cases of mistaken identity
4-30-2014 Nevada: LAS VEGAS -- Carlos Molina, who will fight Adrien Broner on Saturday in a super lighweight bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, never used to get allthat upset about being mistaken for another boxer who fights as a super welterweight with the same name. That boxer, whose name is Carlos A. Molina, won the IBF junior middleweight world title by beating Ishe Smith last year in
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Merrill Lynch manager became janitor after mistaken ID in child sex probe
6-3-2014 New York: A Long Island man says he went from being a Merrill Lynch manager to a shattered school janitor after the feds — in a terrible case of mistaken identity — arrested him at work and threatened to ship him off to Mexico to face charges that he had sex with minors. Philip Simone, a married dad from New Hyde Park, is suing the government in Brooklyn federal court for $2.75
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Good News! Afghan Authorities Commit to Ensure Brishna’s Safety
(FARSHAD USYAN/AFP/Getty Images) Victory! Following the sentencing of Brishna’s rapist, Afghan authorities have now committed to ensuring Brishna’s protection. In May 2014, Brishna, a 10-year-old girl from Kunduz province, was raped by a local mullah. She was able to receive medical treatment and protection thanks to the assistance of the organization Women for Afghan Women, but members of her family and community threatened to kill her and “dump her in the river” simply because she was a victim of this crime. Rape survivors in Afghanistan are at risk of so-called “honor” killings as they are deemed to have brought ”shame” on their family and community. In early October, Amnesty issued an Urgent Action calling on the Afghan authorities to protect Brishna from any further violence. Three weeks later, we issued another appeal urging that she be allowed to continue with her education, as she had been taken out of school.…
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CPL 440.10 (subd. 3, par. [a])
Defendant's claim that the trial court abused its discretion in not providing a hearing on this charge suffers from two defects. First, although defendant waited for ov three years to bring the instant proceeding, his attorney made no effort to explain this delay other than to say he was busy working on defendant's appeal. Moreover, nowhere does criminal defendant disclose when he learned of the alleged coercive tactics employed by the prosecutor. As a result, defendant has failed to show that he used due diligence in adducing such facts prior to sentencing as required by CPL 440.10 (subd. 3, par. [a]). The second flaw in defendant's position is that he has failed to allege sufficient facts to show that the prosecutor's allegedly coercive tactics could have prejudiced his defense. Defendant was well aware that BL had given a signed statement on July 9, 1975, nearly three weeks before she was subpoenaed to appear before the Grand Jury, in which she stated…
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Saudi Detainee Transferred From Guantanamo
Muhammad al-Zahrani, imprisoned at Guantanamo since 2002, returned home to Saudi Arabia today. He agreed to participate in the Saudi rehabilitation program. Al-Zahrani is the 13th prisoner to leave Guantanamo Bay this year and the seventh in just... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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"Thousands of Criminals, on the Way Back to Your Neighborhood"
Bill Otis has this post at Crime & Consequences. In part: Whether President Obama has the authority to allow the effective nullification of our immigration statutes through executive order is an interesting subject, about which I may have more to...
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Crash near Downey Injures 3
IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE - generated by our News Release ListServer DO NOT REPLY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Idaho State Police District 5 5205 South 5th Ave. Pocatello, Idaho 83204-2299 (208) 236-6466 FAX: (208) 236-6068 For Immediate Release: 11/22/14 5:30 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office On Saturday November 22, 2014, at approximately 1:33 p.m., the Idaho State Police investigated a single vehicle crash on northbound Interstate 15 at milepost 35, near Downey. A 1999 Ford Explorer, driven by Gary Conder, 54 of Pocatello, was headed northbound when his Explorer went off the left shoulder of the roadway and into the median and rolled. Gary Conder and his passenger Donna Conder, 51 of Pocatello were transported by ground ambulance. Kaitlyn Massey, 14 of Pocatello was also in the vehicle and was transported in a private vehicle. All occupants were wearing their seatbelts and were transported…
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Saturday Night Open Thread
JFK was assassinated today in 1963. I just tuned into a CNN special and saw Lee Harvey Oswald get arrested, and then shot. They cut to interviews of passersby. "That wasn't right. He deserved a fair trial," said the first one. The second one... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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