“Barbaric and Horrific Conditions” Alleged at MS Prison for Mentally Ill
The suit charged that inmates at the prison, operated by Management and Training Corp., capture rats, put them on improvised leashes and sell them to other seriously mentally ill inmates. The solitary...
View ArticleCourt Vacates Conviction To Send Message To Prosecutor
Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Terence Mariani has been cited in the past for what appellate judges considered prosecutorial impropriety. Typically, the complaints have focused on Mariani’s efforts...
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Study: 50 million Americans can't afford adequate food
5-31-2013 National: While the Senate is slashing the government’s main food assistance program by $4 billion over the next decade, and the House by $20 billion, one in six Americans is going......
View ArticleJudge accuses prosecutor of withholding evidence in drug case
MIAMI — Two Colombians who were facing the prospect of spending the rest of their lives in a U.S. prison for drug trafficking will go home much sooner after prosecutors were accused of withholding...
View ArticleBoca Raton cop resigns after wife charged in running brothel
A Boca Raton police officer whose wife was charged with running a prostitution ring has resigned. Read more..
View ArticleNational tech press loves Stickland email legislation: Will it become law?
After Ars Technica published a widely read piece calling the bill "unprecedented" and the National Journal followed up, several more news stories have come out regarding legislation now pending before...
View ArticleBrush Fire near Blacks Creek
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When and for what will the Government prosecute banks?
Well nobody really knows for sure what the government will do when it finds out about a major case involving large banks. The New York Times is running a story about decisions made by the Obama...
View ArticleMorrison on Negotiating Peremptory Challenges
Caren Myers Morrison (Georgia State University - College of Law) has posted Negotiating Peremptory Challenges (Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 2013, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:...
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View ArticleNYU Grad Students Launch Multimedia Project in Support of Innocence Project
by Jordan Spector, Communications Intern Today, a group of NYU graduate students will launch a multimedia campaign promoting the work of the Innocence Project. "Be the Witness" is a multimedia...
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Attorney Tom Nagel discusses the legality of cussing at the police
Charges of disorderly conduct were recently dropped by a judge in Cobb County Georgia in a case involving a woman who said "F--- the police" and "police suck" as she rode her bicycle past two officers...
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Illinois Secretary of State adopts rules requiring integration of cameras in...
Under Illinois DUI driver's licensing law, there are two types of situations in which the installation of an Ignition Interlock Device (IID) may come into play. Both scenarios involve the same device,...
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Mom's boyfriend harms child
An accused mother left her son with her boyfriend when she went to work that night. She said that she had known the man about four months and he had been her boyfriend for two weeks. She had brought...
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TX - Vigilante media crew chases alleged sex offender teacher through the...
Original Article 05/31/2013 By WHITNEY RADLEY In a story all too familiar in recent months, 29-year-old Alief ISD English teacher [name withheld] has been accused of carrying on a... [[ This is a...
View ArticleBloomberg News: New York Cabbie Says GPS Tracking Used to Punish Drivers (1)
Bloomberg News: New York Cabbie Says GPS Tracking Used to Punish Drivers (1) by Patricia Hurtado: New York City’s taxi commission was accused in a lawsuit of violating the constitutional rights of...
View ArticletheHill.com: Goodlatte questions whether Justice lied on Fox News warrant
theHill.com: Goodlatte questions whether Justice lied on Fox News warrant by Jordy Yager: Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) on Friday questioned whether the Justice Department lied on its warrant to secretly...
View ArticleMcNabb Blows It With Public Advice to RGIII
I have always admired Donovan McNabb. I was present at the 2002 game in Philadelphia in which he threw for three touchdown passes after he broke his leg. I sided with him in the controversy with...
View ArticleDrunk Driver Flees DUI Checkpoint, Hits Trooper
Memorial Day Weekend Sees Drunk Driver Flee DUI Checkpoint According to authorities, a drunk driver struck a highway patrolman after fleeing a Memorial Day DUI checkpoint. The Charleston County...
View ArticleFollowing prosecutor recommendation, Texas jury gives repeat felon 50-year...
A helpful reader alerted me to this notable local article concerning a notable jury sentencing outcome emerging this past week from the Texas state courts. The piece is headlined "Theft of ribs gets...
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