Sesame Street Kit for Kids With a Parent in Prison
Just in case a kid can’t cope with having a parent in prison, Sesame Street designers have created a kit to help children get through the emotional issues involved with having an incarcerated parent....
View Article"Do You Have A Right to Remain Silent? Thoughts on the “Sleeper”...
This interesting post is by Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy. In part: [I]t’s unclear to me what is supposed to happen when a suspect outside of custody clearly asserts his Fifth Amendment privilege....
View ArticleFormer School Superintendent Charged with Mortgage Fraud
James F. Habel, 56, Dunedin, Florida, previously of Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, a former school district superintendent is named in a pair of indictments by a Monmouth County, New Jersey, grand...
View ArticleGuilty Plea in $600 Million Prepaid-Funeral Ponzi Scheme
A St. Louis woman has pled guilty to her role in a massive Ponzi scheme that billed itself as a nationwide leader in the sale of prearranged funerals. Sharon Nekol Province, 69, of Baldwin, Missouri,...
View ArticleDrinking And Biking In Minnesota
A recent newspaper article discussed an increasing tendency among young, urban Minnesotans to use bicycles as a preferred mode of transport. This article also helped spark a lot of lively debate on...
View ArticleDrinking And Biking In Minnesota
A recent newspaper article discussed an increasing tendency among young, urban Minnesotans to use bicycles as a preferred mode of transport. This article also helped spark a lot of lively debate on...
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Like Sex-Offender Registry, Dangerous Chemicals Website Would Pinpoint Plants
6-18-2013 Texas: Rep. Joe Pickett, D-El Paso, who is the chairman of the House Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee, has asked that the State Marshall’s Office and Department of Public......
View ArticleMortgage Broker Sentenced for Preparing False Loan Applications
Derrick Ivan Lance, 41, Edina, Minnesota, a mortgage broker, was sentenced for his role in a $20 million mortgage fraud scheme that involved 57 properties. The defendant was sentenced by United States...
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Inmate allegedly extorted sex offenders to run drug trafficking ring
6-18-2013 Washington: CENTRALIA, Wash. -- An inmate is now facing new charges after he was busted allegedly running an organized drug trafficking ring from inside prison. According to the... [[This,an...
View ArticleMotion to dismiss charges for DWI is denied.
The defendant is charged with violating five sections of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law. Two of the violations—of section 1192 (2) and (3), driving while intoxicated (per se) and driving...
View ArticleIncarceration is deemed foolish in this case.
In this drug crime, the People contend that the defendant, a 17-year old with no prior criminal record, assisted a co-defendant in the sale of 7/8ths of an ounce of cocaine to an undercover police...
View Article"Efforts to Fix a Broken System: Brown v. Plata and the Prison...
The title of this post is the title of this Note available via SSRN and authored by Lauren Salins and Shepard Simpson. Here is the abstract: Excessive incarceration is a national problem. Across the...
View ArticleCrime scene is important in this and other cases
The Drug Enforcement Task Force initiated an investigation into an organization in Brooklyn that was purportedly selling a brand name of heroin called "Raw". As a result of that investigation, the...
View ArticleCrash involving commercial vehicle near Lemhi
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View ArticleDrugs from overseas are found in apartment
In this drug offense case, defendant was found in his apartment with 6¼ grams of heroin about twenty to thirty minutes after a package containing 13 grams of heroin was delivered by mail to his...
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Santa Clarita Valley Sheriffs Plan Undisclosed DUI Checkpoint for June 20
The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station recently announced that they will be conducting a DUI (driving under the influence) checkpoint on June 20 from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. As reported by...
View ArticleThe Department of Justice Honors LGBT Pride Month
“Despite all that we’ve achieved in recent years, the road ahead – toward equality, opportunity, and justice for every American, regardless of identity or orientation – still stretches beyond the...
View ArticleFBI's internal investigation of officer shootings questioned
From The New York Times: But if such internal investigations are time-tested, their outcomes are also predictable: from 1993 to early 2011, F.B.I. agents fatally shot about 70 “subjects” and wounded...
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Jacksonville Drug Crimes Defense Lawyer :: 32 Arrested in St. Johns County...
Last week, investigators with the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office arrested 32 of 43 suspects over the course of two days on charges of conspiracy to produce methamphetamine and conspiracy to...
View ArticleUtah Man Arrested For Stealing Police Car
A Utah man who’d just been arrested for some criminal action is now facing additional charges after he stole a police car and took off in it. The man was arrested after police caught him and a woman...
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