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View ArticleAP complains of ‘massive and unprecedented intrusion’ by DOJ into reporters’...
In a letter Monday to Attorney General Eric Holder, the Associated Press complains of a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” by the Department of Justice into its reporters’ newsgathering activities,...
View ArticleOpen-file discovery bill named after Michael Morton soon headed to Governor
Find below the jump a press release from state Sen. Rodney Ellis hailing the passage of the so-called Michael Morton act requiring Texas prosecutors to implement open-file policies.Ellis/Duncan...
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UK - Sex Offenders and the Human Rights Act
Original Article06/15/2011By Tim Worstall Sex offenders will be able to apply, under the Human Rights Act, to get off the sex offenders register. This has caused the usual amount of huffing and puffing...
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Woman Charged with DUI after Crashing into Squad Car
A 27-year-old Los Angeles woman was arrested after rear-ending a squad car while under the influence of alcohol. According to a news report in WeHoNews.com, the car crash occurred at Santa Monica...
View ArticleAfter three PA murder convictions, which form of LWOP will abortion doctor get?
The question in the title of this post is my reaction to the notable state criminal trial verdicts in a high-profile case reported in this new New York Times article. Here are the conviction and...
View ArticleUtah Sex Offender is a Suspect in Bank Hold-Up
A 71-year-old registered Utah sex offender is a suspect in an April hold-up at an Ogden credit union. A Disguise Can Make the Man The man allegedly wore quite a get-up in an effort to disguise his true...
View ArticleStraw Buyer Admits Role in $5M Mortgage Scam
Timothy E. Shannahan pled guilty to conspiring to commit mortgage fraud by acting as a straw buyer in a $5 million mortgage fraud scheme. In pleading guilty before Magistrate Judge Nita L. Stormes,...
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DOJ Subponaed AP Reporters' Phone Records
The Justice Department has disclosed to the Associated Press that it subpoenaed more than two months of phone records of several AP editors and reporters in 2012. The AP, as well as civil liberties...
View ArticleCalifornia Man Guilty in $250 Million Ponzi Scheme
A federal jury has returned a guilty verdict against a California man for masterminding a massive Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of over $250 million. James Stanley Koenig, 60, was found...
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Lewd Conduct in Los Angeles Charges? 4 Actions Can Torpedo Your Case…
If you’ve recently been investigated or arrested for lewd conduct in Los Angeles, you're likely feeling terrified, overwhelmed, and isolated. In this fraught state, odds are high that you will make one...
View Article"Mental Evaluations Endorse Insanity Plea in Colorado Shootings, Defense...
From The New York Times: Prosecutors and the police have characterized Mr. Holmes’s actions as methodical and deliberate. They say that he spent weeks assembling an arsenal of guns, ammunition and...
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DOJ obtained Associated Press phone records; AP demands return and...
The Associated Press announced today that the Justice Department obtained two months of telephone records from more than twenty AP office telephones just over a year ago. The DOJ notified the AP of the...
View Article"A Clueless "Expert" on Tsarnaev and Miranda"
Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences has this incisive critique of Erwin Chemerinsky's article in the National Law Journal.
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Leonard Ansill of Jupiter Farms, Florida Arrested for Million-Dollar Ponzi...
Leonard Ansill of Jupiter Farms, Florida was arrested Wednesday for allegedly defrauding his investors out of more than $1 million, news sources report. Ansill, 77, was booked into the Palm Beach...
View ArticleEx-Loan Officer Gets 12 Years for Mortgage Fraud
Fred Haywood, 42, Chicago, Illinois, a former loan officer, was sentenced to more than 12½ years in federal prison for engaging in a mortgage fraud scheme involving 65 real estate transactions with...
View ArticleWoman Gets 34 Years for Selling Homes She Didn’t Own
Shela Amos, Indianapolis, Indiana, was sentenced to 34 years for defrauding victims by using the vacant home sale scheme whereby the defendant sold homes she did not own. Scam artists use...
View ArticleMath is Hard: Fear is Not Danger
A recent Gallup poll names the Houston, Sugar Land, and Baytown region among the least safe U.S. metro areas, according to resident confidence in the safety of where they live. Only 63 percent of those...
View ArticleEnder’s Game Trailer Finally Released
First Trailer for Ender’s Game Finally Released (via http://www.geeksplode.com) Okay – I know I’m definitely too old to Squee – but if I weren’t, I’d squee about this – those of you who read my blog...
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