23/Jun 2008 | IBD calls out Hansen: A Desperate Man By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday | Ed Pilkington in New York Monday June 23, 2008 James Hansen, one of the world s leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial f... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Second Circuit Appeals Court Upholds Conviction of Uzair Paracha, Expert Testimony Given in Case | Al-Qaida . Paracha's defense attorneys had sought on appeal to challenge the admission of expert testimony during the trial from myself addressing various relevant aspects of the organization and stru... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Torture Airways- Invisible To | Via Lenin s Tomb . (skillfully evading the original responsibility for linking to The Daily Mail) Have you seen this plane? ACPO have admitted to me in a private letter that their investigation amo... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | UPDATE: Man picked to lead UW-Parkside faces investigation | UW System officials that his college is under federal criminal investigation, a UW spokesman said Monday. Louisville College of Education and Human Development Dean Robert Felner was approved by the B... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Part II: Can conservative bloggers tell the truth? | Eric Boehlert I don't mean to be judge and jury, but I must say my challenge last week to conservative blogger John Hinderaker over at Power Line, who recently claimed that most of the Swift Boat Vete... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | VCU Summer Reading | Publishers Weekly review, 11/28/05: "Seldom has a work of such careful intellectual rigor and fairness been so deeply touching. Yoshino, a law professor at Yale and a gay, Asian-American man, masterf... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Legal help too slow in Texas arrest, high court sa | A man whose life was turned upside-down by a wrongful arrest and weeks in jail should have been given access to a lawyer sooner so he could have shown the arrest was erroneous, the U. The high court r... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Victims defend men charged in scam | COLUMBIA --- The three men, claiming to have been rescued from financial ruin by divine intervention, went to homes and churches across North and South Carolina spreading tales of financial rescue. Wi... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Nurse charged with sex abuse | The FBI on Monday arrested a registered nurse on charges that he sexually assaulted a female patient while she was incapacitated during a medical procedure and photographed her while she was changing ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Police officer wounds man officials say pointed gun at him | St. Louis A city police officer shot and seriously wounded a robbery suspect who pointed a gun at him Monday morning in a neighborhood just northeast of Fairground Park, officials said. Charges file... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | What's Fair Use, Anyway? A... [+90 | ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Return of the Sensible Sullivan? | Shortly after I first discovered Andrew Sullivan s writing in the New Republic in 1989, i started reading his work with great alacrity. As I was then struggling with coming out, I appreciated his uniq... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Supreme Court Rules on Right to Counsel | Says Right to Counsel Begins With First Appearance Before JudgeJustices begin final week before adjourning for summer Legal Times Tony Mauro June 24, 2008 A defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counse... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | U.S., Mexico Clash Again in Court Over Executions | High Court Justices Question Power of Bush Order in 'Medellin' Case. Jose Medellin is one of 52 Mexican nationals on death row who weren't informed of their right to counsel. Lawyers for the United ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Greedy or Unsophisticated? Opposing Arguments Paint Differing Portraits of Fen-Phen Lawyers | Three lawyers accused of defrauding their clients in a $200 million diet drug settlement were greedy, a prosecutor charged Monday during closing arguments of the high-profile trial. But a defense atto... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Foul-Mouthed Harangues Put Judge in Hot Seat | An Essex County, N., judge's use of obscenities on the bench to get his point across is certain to get him disciplined. The only question is whether his conduct was bad enough to warrant a time-out. T... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Zupljanin Declines To Enter Plea | Tanjug - 12 hours ago THE HAGUE - Bosnian Serb Stojan Zupljanin declined to enter a plea regarding the indictment charging him with war crimes against Croats and Muslims committed in Bosnia-Herzegovin... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Women testify at colonel s rape trial | Base and forced himself on her two other times, all as she was about to leave for the day. But she said she was too afraid of losing her high-profile job to report . He had a lot of power, the civil... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Tuesday Poll Information: McCain calls for $300 million prize for better car battery | 23, 2008 at 10:18 PM CDT (CNN) -- Sen. John McCain on Monday called for a $300 million prize to whoever can develop a battery that will "leapfrog" the abilities of current hybrid and electric cars. C... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Neglect accused denied bail | A MOTHER charged with criminal neglect after police raids uncovered more than a dozen children suffering from malnourishment has been refused bail after a brief court appearance this afternoon. Six ch... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Mayor's Veto Overridden | In a deal being described as unusual by biotechnology industry insiders, Pfizer officials announced this week that the pharmaceutical company will fund the adult stem cell research of a small La Jolla... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Man charged with slapping police dog | CLINTON - A man who allegedly punched, slapped and kicked a police dog in an attempt to avoid arrest last October has been indicted on a cruelty to animals charge. Thefas Dewayne Booker, 32, of Oak Ri... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | When it comes to illicit drugs, sewage doesn't lie | Which city uses more cocaine: Los Angeles or London? Is heroin a big problem in San Diego? And has ecstasy emerged in rural America? . Environmental scientists are beginning to use an unsavory new t... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | John W. Whitehead: Compliance Weapons: One Step Closer to a Police State? | George Orwell , 1984 Compliance weapons, also known as non-lethal or non-deadly weapons, have become the rage in law enforcement. On paper, these weapons seem like a welcome alternative to bloodshed, ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Graffiti Writer falls from a Freeway overpass in East Los Angeles | Says: June 23rd, 2008 at 2:47 pm Talk about justice!! Unfortunately, I can see this guy wheeling around in his chair defacing every restroom and anything else within his reach. Of course his entire fu... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | 2 women testify Air Force colonel assaulted them | A civilian worker at Sheppard Air Force Base testified Monday that a training group commander raped her and forced himself on her twice more but she didn't report it and maintained a friendly tone wit... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Interesting Nodes on Law | Index of Latin American Constitutions (Georgetown University) . International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL). Legal Resources in Europe (University of Saarland). ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Rais: We need lost letter on rock | PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia will file a petition to reclaim Pedra Branca only if documents, including a letter of permission signed in 1844 to build a lighthouse on the rock, could be found. Foreign Minister ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Zaki: Speedier appeals only if lawyers buck up | V. Anbalagan PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal can deal with civil appeals in a speedy manner only if lawyers provide information promptly. Court of Appeal president Tan Sri Zaki Azmi said if they did no... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Report: Gitmo detainee wants 2nd chance | SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico An alleged former child soldier and Guantanamo detainee facing life in prison says he hopes to become a doctor and live a normal life in Canada, a news report said Monday. Omar... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Both trying to keep Prime Minister Olmert in power during crucial vote | FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Israel's Arab parties working with Palestinian government Both trying to keep Prime Minister Olmert in power during crucial vote . JERUSALEM Israel's Arab parties are c... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Researcher says it's 'ludicrous' for Christians to expect justice | LAW OF THE LAND 'Porn judge' has no 'judgment' Researcher says it's 'ludicrous' for Christians to expect justice . Questions have been raised about Judge Alex Kozinski's explanation that he happened... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Two men charged with helping Iranian military | Through Google e-mail accounts and FedEx shipments, a Plantation man conspired with a California man to export military aircraft parts to Iran, according to federal prosecutors. Attorney's Office in M... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Child sex crime skyrockets | Children are committing sex crimes in record numbers in Queensland, with shocking new figures revealing up to a 2000 per cent rise in the rate of juvenile sex attacks in less than 10 years. A 16-year-... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Chiero murder trial postponed | The trial of an Uxbridge man accused of killing his mother has been postponed until October. Judge John McCann yesterday reset the trial to Oct. The trial, which was set to begin yesterday, was put of... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Daredevil taggers make news, but injuries are rare | Crime. Steve Lopez Sandy Banks Patt Morrison George Skelton Dana Parsons Steve Harvey Steve Hymon . Sheriff's deputies drive into an access tunnel under the heavily tagged 6th Street b... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | St. Louis County showed its support for crime victims | St. Louis County recently held National Crime Victims Rights Week, a public event at the St. This year s theme was Justice for Victims. That means that justice is accomplished only when victims ar... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | BREAKING NEWS: City fires Palo Alto Children's Theatre employee | BREAKING NEWS: City fires Palo Alto Children's Theatre employee By Kristina Peterson/DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER City officials upheld the decision to terminate Palo Alto Children s Theatre employee Richa... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | 'Don't believe what you've heard,' Omar Khadr pleads in prison letter | An Ontario man died Monday after a Taser incident involving Ontario Provincial Police, the province's Special Investigations Units said in a media release. The UN Security Council condemned Zimbabwe's... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | This Is Your City s Sewer On Drugs | New Method of Research Enables Scientists & Law Enforcement to Know What s Cookin - San Diego Opts Out of Study . By Marla Cone / Los Angeles Times / June 22, 2008 Which city uses more cocaine: Los ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Mental Exam For Man Facing Retrial In Death of Two Girls | NASA warming scientist: "This is the last chance" | Charges filed in shooting of pregnant bank teller | Dad of two slain Texas children charged with murder. A man facing a retrial on murder charges f... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Broadcom exec pleads guilty | SANTA ANA - Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli pleaded guilty Monday to lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission as it probed stock option backdating at the chip maker. Samueli, a billiona... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Shipping teens to Gitmo defies logic -- and the law | The Bush administration's treatment of juvenile prisoners shipped to Guant namo Bay defies logic as well as international law. Editor's note: Since May, staff members of Human Rights Watch have been r... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | "Rights Without Exceptions" | New York City and is the Gun Rights columnist for American Handgunner magazine. This article is adapted from columns he wrote in the November/December 2000, January/February 2001, and May/June 2001 ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Army Chief reminds mily police always to | Army`s Military Police (Pomad) corps must carry out their law-enforcing tasks in accordance with human right values. "I hope the Army`s Military Police will carry out their law- enforcement functions ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Prosecutor: Man Tried To Kill Torture Victim | NEW YORK -- An ex-convict accused of raping and torturing a graduate student for 19 hours should be convicted of attempted murder because he tried to burn her alive to stop her from identifying him, a... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Oh sinner do not stray from the straight and narro | A video debate on the historicity the resurrection between Liberty University Professor Gary Habermas and JesusNeverExisted. The debate was held McEwan Hall, Edinburgh University on March 10, 2008. Pe... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Drunk drivers beware | Georgia law enforcement officials are cracking down on drunken driving. Drivers can expect more DUI patrols and sobriety check points across the state over the next two weeks. The campaign is held eve... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Adoptive dad of 27 about to testify against perps now faces allegations | CRIMENETDAILY New foster father for famous sex-scandal children arrested Adoptive dad of 27 about to testify against perps now faces allegations., was rocked three years ago when it was discovered th... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Oral arguments heard to decide fate of California educational choice | Homeschool advocates fight for parental rights Oral arguments heard to decide fate of California educational choice . Oral arguments were heard today in the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Suspect in officer shooting is killed SoCal shootout | ANAHEIM, Calif. A man suspected of shooting a police officer was killed in a gunfight with police on a crowded California freeway early Monday, ending a daylong manhunt that started near Disneyland.... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Discount Bugliosi Book | Activism. (Photo by Linda Milazzo) There are adjectives that come to mind when describing famed former prosecutor and renowned author, Vincent Bugliosi, who for forty years has set the standard for p... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | MBADINUJU S TRAVAILS | Chukwudi Nwokoye Back in the days when I was in Secondary School, my English Literature teacher who was also our Vice-Principal, one Mr. Ebisi from Enugwu-Ukwu, would preach: The game of life is like... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Lawyer: NBA wants to financially 'destroy' bet ref | NEW YORK The NBA wants to financially "destroy" disgraced referee Tim Donaghy for embarrassing the league during the playoffs with allegations that outcomes of previous games were purposely manipula... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Weirdly, smoking crack is not good for you | 23 Jun 2008 12:00 pm Amy Winehouse apparently has emphysema . The Sunday Mirror quoted Mitch Winehouse as saying that Amy has an irregular heartbeat, and has been warned that she will have to wear an ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Defense argues that LA rail disaster wasn't murder | LOS ANGELES - Speaking in the voice of his client, a defense attorney Monday delivered a closing argument in which a murder defendant admitted to jurors that he caused a deadly commuter rail disaster,... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Jury to decide Entwistle case | If prosecutors are right, Neil Entwistle is a cold-blooded killer who shot and killed his wife and baby and tried to run away to his native England. But defense lawyer Elliot Weinstein painted Entwist... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Former Los Angeles Police Officer, Former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy, and Three Co-Conspirators Sentenced for Civil Rights Violations | Former Los Angeles Police Officer, Former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy, and Three Co-Conspirators Sentenced for Civil Rights Violations . Former Los Angeles PoliceDepartment Officer Jesse Moya,... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Call This Consumer Activism? | The Ministry of Justice and state prosecutors have begun cracking down on the practice of people using Internet message boards to instruct and encourage people to threaten and pressure businesses that... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Judges Press For New Juvenile And Family Court | 06/23/2008 Moldy floors. These were the highlights of a recent tour of King County's juvenile justice center. Judges and center staff are pressuring King County executive Ron Sims to build a new facil... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Muslim Traitor gets 22 years for threats to America | We know this pattern all to well; another minion admitting that mohammeds islam can not justify its existence so force must be used. Well he now has 22 long years to think about why old allah abandone... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Fake robbery 'mastermind' ordered to pay 48,000 | THE MAN behind an "inside" faked nightclub takings robbery must pay 48,700 by which he is deemed to have benefited from his criminal activities. David Simpson, who is serving a total of seven years a... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | AP NewsBreak: Feds must turn over underwear from '75 slaying | SIOUX FALLS, S. - A federal magistrate judge has granted a request from a Canadian man to allow DNA testing on an undergarment from a 1975 slaying and ordered the government to look for another piece ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | The Law Offices of Lawrence Taylor | The TransAmerica Building 600 Montgomery Street Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94111 p: 415-496-2034 f: 415-552-6099. Top-rated criminal defense firm of DUI attorneys practicing drunk driving defense (D... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | AFP rules out Neal probe | 11:39AM. Federal police have ruled out a separate investigation into embattled Labor backbencher Belinda Neal and her run-in with restaurant staff. Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland last nigh... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | U.S. Supreme Court rejects asbestos appeal | Top court rejects property takings case. Supreme Court Monday declined to hear an appeal by W. over the company's alleged release of asbestos from a Montana mine. By refusing to hear the case, the hig... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Council meets in closed session over arrested member | Democratic City-County Council members went into a closed-door meeting Monday to review the weekend arrest of a colleague who allegedly assaulted a police officer. Doris Minton-McNeill declined to com... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | J can wanted in the US for murder remanded | Jamaican David James Clarke who is wanted by prosecutors in the United States (US) for a double murder was remanded when he appeared in the Half-Way-Tree Criminal Court on Monday. Clarke who was nabbe... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Former auditor's presence felt after resignati | Former auditor's presence felt after resignation By TIM TALLEY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- One week after resigning as auditor and inspector, convicted former auditor Jeff McMahan's ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Entwistle: Protector or killer? Jury will decide | Prosecutor Michael Fabbri holds the gun to his head in the way he said Rachel Entwistle would have had to if she killed herself as the defense suggests during his closing argument today. If prosecutor... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Former Lincoln County Judge dies | Morgan, 89, was the Lincoln County Judge from 1977 until 1987 when he retired. His passing left many attorneys who practiced before his bench with fond memories Monday. Morgan was born to Earl Edward ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | 101 tickets, 35 warnings handed out at Rock Cut State Park | Law-enforcement officials issued 101 tickets and 35 warnings Saturday at Rock Cut State Park as part of a roadside-safety detail. Participating agencies included the Illinois State Police District 16,... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Homegrown terrorist sentenced | One of three men involved in a homegrown terrorism plot that was uncovered during an investigation into several South Bay gas station robberies was sentenced Monday to 22 years in prison. Levar Haney ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | U.S cover-up is cited on illegal arms shipment from Albania | 59 minutes ago The American ambassador to Albania endorsed a plan to remove evidence of illegal Chinese origins on ammunition being shipped to Afghanistan , a military attach told investigators. 28 m... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Canada's Khawaja key to U.K. bomb plot: Crown | Criminal Sentencing and Punishment. Tobin Grimshaw/Canwest News ServiceTerror suspect Momin Khawaja lost a court challenge on Friday. He is alleged to have been involved in a conspiracy to plot bombin... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Dallas man ordered to pay back money | DALLAS A man who falsified documents in order to receive $23,402 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after Hurricane Katrina was sentenced Monday to two years probation and was ordered to p... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Scouts and Guid | The website of our scouting group in Sint-Mariaburg, Belgium (Zowa den beste scoutsgroep uit het universum en omliggende planeten) . TP1 created an original graphic signature unifying the three schoo... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | H. Morgan Griffith to Join Albo & Oblon, L.L.P | ARLINGTON, Va. Morgan Griffith has joined the law firm Albo & Oblon, L. He will be Partner-in-Charge of the firm's new Roanoke/Salem office. Initially, he will be one of two lawyers at that office. He... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | SAFB Court Martial Begins | TX - A jury was picked and testimony began in the Sheppard Air Force Base court-martial of Colonel Samuel Lofton, III. He is being court-martialed in connection with charges filed by two women for sex... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Zionist 22 yr-old war profiteer arrested for $300 million fraud (... more Anti-Semitism?) | The 22-year-old president of a Miami Beach arms-dealing company and three other people were charged Friday with selling prohibited Chinese ammunition to the Pentagon to supply Afghan security forces, ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Police Beat with Terry Martin - Dealing with Distraught People | How Well Do You K. QUESTION: "There have been a number of recent incidents where distraught individuals have been approached by uniformed officers and the individuals have quickly killed themselves. ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Bosnian Serb war criminal stands trial | Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Stojan Zupljanin, standing before the UN court wishes his erstwhile fellow fugitives 'long life and freedom'. "Unfortunately or fortunately, I am not sure anymore, Dr K... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | 1 home, 3 killings over 2 years | DeKalb DEKALB COUNTY Double-slaying site also scene of '07 killing By DAVID MARKIEWICZ , KRISTINA TORRES . The Decatur house where two women were fatally shot Sunday was the scene of another homicide... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Roth-very narrow | a public defender | SCOTUS today issued its opinion in Rothgery v. Gillespie County [pdf], which has caused some discussion in the blawgosphere. The prevalent theme in this discussion is a sense of being unfulfilled. A s... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | IAC during plea bargaining | In an exciting move, SCOTUS today granted cert. in a capital habeas case [petition here , opposition here ] to decide whether someone can receive ineffective assistance during the plea bargaining proc... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Mokbel to fight extradition in court | Tony Mokbel will fight his extradition from Greece in the Supreme Court. Mokbel, 42, appeared via video link in the Melbourne Magistrates Court this morning for a brief hearing. He appeared to be dres... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Explosives expert in Pueblo faces four criminal charges | Colorado Bureau of Investigation agent in Pueblo, who was arrested for having explosives in his home, appeared in court Monday. James Crippin, 54, faces several criminal charges, including theft of $1... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Full coverage in Africa news | Members of Zanu PF militia beat unidentified Zimbabweans at an opposition rally in Harare on Sunday. Correspondents in Harare and London ROBERT Mugabe last night sent his goons into the Harare headqua... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | U.S. churches join UN call to end torture | Torture(1166)Bush Enemy Of Human Rights(735)Human Rights(719)Progressive Values - Issues(622)Faith(302)Crimes Against Humanity(233)Torture AntiTorture Legislation(222)Christian Values(49)Denmark(20)Am... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Court to hear Mokbel plea | Mex Cooper. Tony Mokbel will fight his extradition from Greece in the Supreme Court. Mokbel, 42, appeared via video link in the Melbourne Magistrates Court this morning for a brief hearing. He appeare... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Nelson hits out at 'abuse of power' | 10:38AM. Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson is demanding the Prime Minister exclude Labor backbencher Belinda Neal from the Labor caucus until police inquiries are completed. "(Kevin) Rudd now needs to ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Malibu Mayor Asks For Paparazzi Laws | The man who oversaw the investigation into PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON's headline-grabbing sex scandal has been asked to help draw up new city laws that would keep the paparazzi from Malibu, California. Th... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | US jury trying Briton for killing wife and baby considers verdict | News Scotsman ( Free subscription ) | 47 minutes ago THE jury trying Briton Neil Entwistle over the murders of his American wife and baby will retire to consider their verdicts today.com ( Free subscr... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Man Suspected In Teen s Death Turns Himself In | KISSIMMEE -- Police said the man suspected in the shooting death of a 15-year-old is now behind bars. Jones was wanted for the shooting death of Mario Small, Jr. Jones has a long criminal record, incl... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Sweep Arrests 194 Fugitives | Law enforcement officials say a weeklong sweep in 23 West Virginia counties has resulted in the arrests of 194 criminal fugitives. The joint federal, state and local operation dubbed "Falcon" issued 3... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | One in 10 school starters are | Obesity school starters Almost one in 10 children starting primary school is obese, Department of Health figures reveal. The statistics are part of a breakdown of the nation's health designed to help ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Paddy Ashdown: Military intervention in Zimbabwe 'could be | Military intervention in Zimbabwe would be justified to stop the violence there deteriorating into mass slaughter, Paddy Ashdown told The Times last night. Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon said: The... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Khawaja's bombs aimed at U.K. civilians in clubs, shops: prosecutors | Police transport Mohammed Momin Khawaja from the Ottawa courthouse back to the detention center following his court appearance in Ottawa Monday June 23, 2008. OTTAWA - Federal prosecutors are vowing ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | US Elections: Obama Has Online Edge in 2008, Conference Emphasises | Government & Politics Politics News Crime & Criminal Justice Domestic & International History Law & Legal Resources Legal Associations Legal Education Military & Armed Forces Political Science Governm... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | The Response to California's Gay Marriage Ruling: How the Losing Side's Tactics Harken Back to the Fight Over Racial Equality | Amar: The Response to California's Gay Marriage Ruling: How the Losing Side's Tactics Harken Back to the Fight Over Racial Equality . The Response to California's Gay Marriage Ruling: How the Losing S... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Supreme Court, Habeas, John Yoo, & The WSJ | Rupert Murdoch has a corrosive effect on whatever he touches, and this writer once tangled with him in an article called Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdoch Empire. Former Chicago columnist Mike Royko als... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | RIP, America | Do not think this resurgence of emails from me means I am back writing regularly. I am extremely busy but have had a few things that needed saying and then my focus returns immediately and totally to ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Vic Trola | Let me say one more thing, again, about rank-ordering the misconduct. In my view, the mp3s are far more problematic than the porn. Judge Kozinski s interference with my case is far more problematic th... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Bolivia man sentenced to 12 to 15 years in shooting death of his wife | Bolivia | Family members sobbed and wiped their tears as they sat in the seats of a Brunswick County courtroom listening to Don Kaufman speak on their behalf. Robert Kaufman, 65, sat across the room i... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | City staff will not recommend vehicle ban on seawall | By Elvia Aguilar ( Contact ) Originally published 06:18 p. Woman: Ex-boyfriend steals car, says he will drive off Harbor Bridge. The city staff Tuesday will not recommend banning vehicle traffic in fr... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Kidnapping, assault charges | A 32-year-old Odessa man remained Monday in the Ector County Detention Center charged with eight felonies on bonds totaling $160,000 after he drove off in a Ford Expedition carrying three children Sun... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Three Mexia men indicted for burglary | Three Mexia men indicted for burglary By Bob Wright-Editor Burglary of a habitation charges were lodged against three Mexia men, and those charges have resulted in indictments of all three. Indicted f... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Nation briefing 6/23 | Texas town reels from horrific abuse MINEOLA, Texas -- In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they kn... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Jailhouse blues | This is the first in a three-part series on the reallife experiences of a drug user from the time he was arrested to the day he leaves a rehabilitation centre 16 months later. THERE is something morbi... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | "ample evidence that Obama is something special," | Catching up with a fawning Associated Press story on Barack Obama from last Saturday, Obama rises from political obscurity to verge of history, on Friday the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto ridi... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Cyber Terror Against Advertisers 'Will Be Punished' | The Justice Ministry and the Prosecutors Office on Monday reaffirmed their determination to crack down on activists who are attacking businesses that advertise in Korea s big conservative dailies, th... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Civilian contractor's court-martial produces sub-jurisdictional sentence | The No Man called my attention to this press release from Multi-National Force - Iraq announcing the guilty plea and conviction of the civilian contractor tried by court-martial. The press release obs... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Civil Justice Reform | In brief: In the final instalment of our three-part series on the Victorian Law Reform Commission's recent report into the reform of the Victorian civil justice system, Partner Peter O'Donahoo . and L... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Student received indecent calls after being tricked | Student received indecent calls after being tricked By Liam Heylin A JUNIOR CERT student on his way home from an exam was tricked into giving his mobile phone number to a man who then sent sexual text... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Minot Trial Jury Selection Begins | Jury selection in a Minot murder trial has begun. Now it is up to the attorneys in the case to narrow dow a pool of about 100 people to just 14. Antonio Stridiron, 32, is charged with murder in the sh... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Enshrining War Crimes | By Christopher Reed As Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi prepares to visit Yasukuni shrine and a newspaper office is bombed, Christopher Reed tracks the trouble back to the revelation of imperial secret... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Prison bus killer judged too dangerous for mental facility | Supermax prison in Baltimore came after the prison's warden and the security chief of the state's maximum-security psychiatric hospital concluded that the medical facility would not be able to keep it... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Grand Jury To Hear Manslaughter | A Mobile judge found probable cause against the parents of a three year old killed in an apartment fire. Brandon Gurley and Elizabeth Foster, 23, are charged with manslaughter for the death of their s... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Woman Wrongly Accused In Prescription | The woman Prichard police identified as being wanted in connection with a prescription drug scam is not the right woman after all. Tuesday morning, Police said the woman in the surveillance photos, tr... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Latest news - Story: Kern prosecutor pleads in casino fight case | 2:10 PM A Kern County prosecutor facing misdemeanor battery and public drunkenness charges reached a plea agreement Monday in a Santa Barbara County court. Hearing postponed for Kern prosecutor accuse... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | No Bond For Tennis Coach Accused Of Taping Sexual Assaults | ATLANTA -- A northwest Georgia tennis coach accused videotaping sexual assaults of a young girl and posting the images on the Internet was ordered held without bond Monday after a judge heard testimon... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | An opposition at sea | The fact that two provincial elections are on the cards does not seem to have healed the rift within the UNP - even for the sake of unity at the election. Things have settled down into a depressingly ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Human-trafficking syndicate uses Clark as exit point -- center | Business Mirror The Blas F. Ople Policy Center, a nongovernment organization concerned with migrant workers rights and welfare, warned the public on Monday against the continued trafficking of women ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Justice News: Pepper-sprayed protester seeking $50k's court day | Parliament TV. 10:49 am Press Release: Global Peace And Justice Auckland PRESS RELEASE GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND Monday 24 June, 2008 9.40am Pepper-sprayed protester seeking $50k has final day... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Paddy Ashdown: Military intervention in Zimbabwe 'would be | You need Flash Player 8 or higher to view video content with the ROO Flash Player. Military intervention in Zimbabwe would be justified to stop the violence there deteriorating into mass slaughter, Pa... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Federal Appeals Court affirms terror-related conviction | RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a man who lied to a federal grand jury about his training with a Pakistani militant group. Circuit Court of Appeals also affir... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Bills on foreclosures await governor's approval | By Lynn Arditi Journal Staff Writer Banks that repossess foreclosed properties in Rhode Island will have to pay the properties tax and utility bills in a more timely fashion and post bonds for the p... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Home Improvement Sting Nabs Problem Contractors | For several months, an unoccupied home on Wilson Street in Plainville housed the state Department of Consumer Protection 's latest home improvement sting. Posing as homeowners, undercover investigator... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | ICE arrests California farmworkers | 16:41.On June 4, ICE agents executed a federal search warrant at the business office of Boss 4 Packing in Heber, California, a locally-owned company that provides contract workers to farms in southern... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | An excellent vacation | In the immortal words of the sublime philosopher Alice Cooper, school's out for summer. In a case of harmonic convergence, Philadelphia School District students finished work Thursday, the very same d... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Commentary | Attacks on Obama's wife exemplify poor journalism | By Starita Smith It began when they questioned Michelle Obama's patriotism after she said her husband's success was making her really proud of her country for the first time in her adult lifetime. Bil... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | They rock! Group uses concerts to sign up young voters | I'M NOT MUCH of a rock concert fan. And even when I wasn't too old I didn't go to many. Elton John once (but that wasn't my idea), the Righteous Brothers, Simon and Garfunkel and (to really date mysel... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Women testify in Air Force rape case at Texas base | WICHITA FALLS, Texas A woman testified Monday that a training group commander raped her at Sheppard Air Force Base and forced himself on her two other times, all as she was about to leave for the da... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | FALCON Nets W.V. Fugitives | A Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been issued for the entire viewing area until 10 p. Thunderstorms are expected, some of which may be severe. Law enforcement officials say a week-long sweep in 23 West ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | REGION: Attorney defends actions of officer who shot football player | SAN DIEGO ---- Coronado police Officer Aaron Mansker followed department policy and wasn't a renegade "cowboy" when he shot former San Diego Chargers linebacker Steve Foley, an attorney for the police... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Greenspan accuses Livent finance chief of 'massive fraud' | TORONTO -- The former chief financial officer of Livent was accused Monday of widespread and repeated criminal conduct by the lawyer representing Garth Drabinsky. "You are guilty of massive fraud," ch... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Attorney Reads From Metrolink Crash Defendant's Diary | SUV on train tracks, causing a Metrolink derailment that killed 11 people and injured more than 180 others, wrote in his diary five weeks earlier that he was contemplating suicide, one of his lawyers ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Parra to plead in child porn case | Parra has been implicated as an alleged co-conspirator in the ongoing public corruption investigation. A federal grand jury indicted Parra in early February on unrelated child pornography charges, whi... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Man charged in slaying of Franklin resident | NEW BRUNSWICK Five hours after a Franklin man was shot to death on Jones Avenue and Comstock Street early Friday, a 21-year-old city man was arrested on charges of cocaine possession and simple assa... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | PETA protesters lie in 'bloody' water outside KFC | Ileana Johns, left, and Chelsea Pagan-Hermina, right, both PETA volunteers, protest in front of the KFC restaurant on State Road 200 near Interstate 75 on Monday. Sid Dobson, of Ocala, who said he sea... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Broadcom's Samueli pleads guilty | Entertainment. UPDATE: Broadcom's Henry Samueli agrees to plead guilty to lying to federal officials .. UPDATE: Auction prices for 'The real foreclosures of Orange County' .. With mortgage rates on th... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Cities' sewage is one big drug test | Crime. Steve Lopez Sandy Banks Patt Morrison George Skelton Dana Parsons Steve Harvey Steve Hymon . Which city uses more cocaine: Los Angeles or London? Is heroin a big problem in San ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Cape man accused of assaulting a police officer | Bridget DiCosmo Southeast MissourianDavid Lindsey, 46, of 325 N. 1, was arrested last week and now faces charges of assault on a law enforcement officer following an incident that occurred at Southeas... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | The reluctant teacher of the year | The wheels of justice may move slowly, but some of the cogs, like public defender Lisa Kloster, are spinning at a dizzying pace. Their ranks will thin by several dozen later this month when layoffs be... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Flooded Midwest getting fixed faster than the 'city that forgot to care' | By Stu Bykofsky Philadelphia Daily News Daily News Columnist NEW ORLEANS - America sometimes has the attention span of a gypsy moth, and the nation this week is heartsick over the raging floods that d... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Prosecutor: Rapist picked wrong victim | 5:47 PM The "sadist" accused of raping and torturing a Columbia journalism student picked the wrong woman to violate, a prosecutor said Monday. " Robert Williams could not have known what a bad choice... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Body of man missing after boating collision recovered | Law enforcement officials on Monday recovered the body of a man missing from a boating wreck Sunday on Lake Cherokee. A Gregg County Sheriff's Office press release identified the man as Chris Carpente... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | 2 Accused Of Selling Military Aircraft Parts To Iran | MIAMI -- Two men have been charged with illegally exporting military aircraft components to Iran, federal prosecutors said Monday. Hassan Saied Keshari, 48, and Traian Bujduveanu, 53, are charged in a... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | BSO Deputies Charged In Undercover Sting | FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Two Broward Sheriff's Office deputies were charged Monday as part of an undercover investigation into the transportation of illegal diamonds and drugs in exchange for money. F... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | What is an Arizona Reckless Driving Charge? | Trackbacks . Reckless driving is one of the more serious misdemeanor offenses in Arizona. The crime can be either a class 1 or class 2 misdemeanor. When charged as a first time offense, as a class two... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Do whales have standing? Ask the Supremes | One of the very 1st posts ever to appeared at IntLawGrrls was entitled " Whales Against War? " It concerned a 2007 decision in which, by a vote of 8 to 1, the California Coastal Commission ruled "that... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Erik L. Smith | As publius noted, the Supreme Court has ruled in Boumedienne et al v. As befits someone with no legal training, I have stuck to the straightforward issues, leaving complexities to others (cough, publi... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Victim's family defends deputy's shooting | PORT ST. LUCIE Chance put Stephen Bryant, a man with a lengthy criminal record and a history of depression, in the path of two deputies on the look-out for a burglary suspect Sunday. But it was his ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1930 - Model for U.S. Domination of Iraq | National Call for Congressional Visits: Urge your Representative to Sign the Declaration of Peace Congressional Pledge . COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO BUSH WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY TO RELE... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Molete raid: Why we launched attack on 80 miscreants | Raphael Ibeazor, Oyo DCPStill basking in the euphoria of commendation from members of the public in Oyo State over the two hours raid unleashed on miscreants in Molete area of Ibadan by the joint effo... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | McPhail compares mayor plight to '50s Red Scare prosecution | Likening the Detroit City Council s effort to oust Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from office to the 1950s Red Scare-era prosecution of accused spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Kilpatrick s general counsel a... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Former Blue Peter presenter John Leslie arrested over an allegation of rape | John Leslie, the former Blue Peter presenter who was acquitted of indecent assault in 2003, was arrested last night over an allegation of rape. The 43-year-old attended a London police station by appo... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Ziemann to stand trial for murder in '09 | Mark F. Ziemann, 48, was scheduled for a two-week trial beginning Jan. 20 on charges arising from the death of his wife, Rhapsody. The trial date was set Monday in Lancaster County District Court at a... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Defense: Rachel Entwistle Killed Baby, Self | 0:00 ]." case for a couple of years now but the fate of Neil Entwistle will soon be going to the jury Entwistle as the British man accused of murdering his wife Rachel and their baby daughter Lillian ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | 1:45 | Lillian in their Hopkinton home nearly two and a half years ago. In dramatic fashion lawyers gave their closing arguments today and -- bill shields tells us the defense is pointing the finger at. Toda... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | City native sentenced for murdering wife | Sheboygan native Matthew Gretz was sentenced Monday to 25.5 years in prison for killing his wife a year ago in their Minneapolis apartment, court . Gretz, 33, admitted stabbing his wife of three years... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Carey picks Villanova; Ryan chooses Rutgers | After touring colleges up and down the East Coast, Germantown Academy's Jesse Carey has decided to stay local. Carey, a 5-foot-10 senior-to-be point guard, has orally committed to play basketball at V... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Closing Arguments Delivered In Columbia Torture Trial | Attorneys wrapped up their cases Monday in the trial of Robert Williams, charged with raping and torturing a Columbia University graduate student. Williams faces 71 counts including kidnapping, arson,... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Man pleads guilty to weapon possession | QUEENSBURY A four-time felon who was arrested in February with a loaded handgun and a bag of crack cocaine pleaded guilty Monday to a felony charge on the eve of trial. Morgan, 24, of Glens Falls, p... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Top court rejects property takings case | Appeals court can't add to sentence on own. Supreme Court Monday declined to revisit the controversy over government power to seize private land for economic development. Justices agreed, however, to ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Lawyers in Love Celebrate Anniversaries at Home and at Work | Grant and Sandy Liser are celebrating their 19th wedding anniversary this month. But the two Texas lawyers are achieving a memorable milestone as partners at the office this year, too: a decade togeth... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Police investigate possible abduction by fake officer | ABC 4 News) - Police are investigating the possible abduction of a teenage girl by a man posing as a cop. Police say he coaxed a little girl into his car, and then assaulted her. Police are asking for... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Man gets 30 years for 2007 deadly DUI wreck | 6:27 p. BRADENTON A man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Monday for killing three people in a wrong-way drunken driving accident in June 2007 in downtown Bradenton. Terence Papoutsakis, 35, of B... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | This is horrible! Poor kids. And how can those 50-100 adults stand watching | A mom and her boyfriend have been sentenced to life in prison. AP A building that once housed a daycare center and later became a "swingers' club" in Mineola, Texas turned into a house of horrors for... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Global court to consider release of first suspect | Emma Thomasson AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Judges at the International Criminal Court will consider on Tuesday releasing their first suspect after they suspended his trial over access to evidence in a blow... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | East Naples woman yelled at operator, tried to kick deputy s groin, authorities say | For one East Naples woman, yelling profanities is apparently much more satisfying outside. In fact, Collier County Sheriff s deputies say she called to inform a dispatch operator of as much. And when ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Broadcom co-founder to admit he lied to SEC | Henry Samueli has admitted that he made false statements during a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of the backdating practices at Broadcom (BRCM:BRCMNews,. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Broa... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Cert. denied in the border fence case | Where Intellectual Honesty Has (Almost Always) Trumped Partisanship -- Albeit in a Kind of Boring Way Until Recently -- Since 2005". Sokol on Antitrust Counsel (and Some Thoughts on Chambers Generally... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | "4th Circuit Backs School District on Political Speech" | 4th Circuit Backs School District on Political Speech": At "The School Law Blog" of Education Week, Mark Walsh has this post about a ruling that the U. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued t... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Duh! Because he wants to win. And because it takes alot of money going up against this kind of nonsense | Duh! Because he wants to win. And because it takes alot of money going up against this kind of nonsense:. At a Washington breakfast with Republican insiders this morning, Karl Rove called Barack Obama... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Clemson Safety Charged With Beating Girlfriend | CLEMSON, S. -- Clemson's DeAndre McDaniel has been arrested on charges he assaulted his girlfriend this past weekend. A warrant from the Central Police Department said McDaniel was charged with aggrav... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Prosecutor: Deputies had probable cause to arrest man in fatal crash | CELINA - Sheriff's deputies were well within their legal authority when they sought and obtained blood and urine samples from a suspected impaired driver following a fatal crash in March, the prosecut... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Sudan President: We Don't Fear Sanctions | Sudan President: We Don't Fear Sanctions In a speech to Popular Defense Forces militias, Sudan President Omar Al-Bashir vowed that he would not hand over a single Sudanese to the International Crimina... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Feds must turn over underwear from 75 AIM slaying | 17:30:04 Location: SIOUX FALLS, S. Attorneys for a former American Indian Movement activist accused of murdering another member of the group in 1975 must be allowed to conduct DNA tests on the victim'... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Fen-Phen Closing Arguments Heard | COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) Three lawyers accused of defrauding their clients in a $200 million diet drug settlement were greedy, a prosecutor charged Monday during closing arguments of their high-profile t... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | The Duncan case | Grab the timeline and drag to browse stories by date ONGOING COVERAGE: DUNCAN INVESTIGATION Background: When three bodies were discovered at a North Idaho home on May 16, 2005, no one could anticipate... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Rep. Robert Wexler | Robert Wexler is a Democratic member of Congress serving his sixth term in the House of Representatives. He has earned a reputation as a straight-forward and articulate legislator who energetically ad... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | El Paso man implicated in corruption case will plead guilty to child porn, records show | One of the men implicated in the ongoing public corruption case who was arrested earlier this year on child pornography charges is scheduled to change his plea from not guilty to guilty on July 14, co... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Drug WarRant | Drug WarRant Amazon Store -- great ideas for your library and gifts for friends. Books, music, video, hemp food, clothing and fun items. Drug WarRant CafePress Store -- Drug WarRant merchandise includ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Secular Blasphemy | Web 2.D'oh links two great articles about the implications of the web on our online reading habits, and how these changes may influence how we think. First, read Nicholas Carr s Is Google Making Us ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Ziemann to stand trial for murder in 2009 | Mark F. Ziemann, 48, was scheduled for a two-week trial beginning Jan. 20 on charges arising from the death of his wife, Rhapsody. The trial date was set Monday in Lancaster County District Court at a... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Ill. state employees protest contract stalemate | American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union members and supporters rally in front of the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield on Monday, June 23, 2008. Thousands of state worke... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Repeat offender from Staten Island adds new arrest to lengthy rap sheet | 6:00 PMHe's a one-man crime wave with a dismal success rate -- at least 41 arrests and multiple convictions, many for property theft crimes. Now Henchausti Martinez -- who was once named one of Staten... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Lawyers warned over dirty money | Lawyers in Hong Kong have been told to step up the checks they make on potential clients amid growing concern over the twin threats of money laundering and terrorist financing. Under a series of measu... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | New federal rules force realtors to seek IDs | The UN secretary general said Monday that Zimbabwe's scheduled presidential election runoff should be postponed given the violence and intimidation that the country's president has unleashed on citize... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Man in California terror plot jailed for | 03:51 [IST]Los Angeles: A member of a radical Islamic group accused of plotting to attack US military, Israeli and Jewish facilities in California was sentenced to 22 years in prison, justice official... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Feds must turn over underwear from '75 AIM slaying | SIOUX FALLS, S. - Attorneys for a former American Indian Movement activist accused of murdering another member of the group in 1975 must be allowed to conduct DNA tests on the victim's underwear, a fe... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Husband Sentenced For Killing MCAD Student | MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) A former Target executive was sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing his wife last summer. Matthew Gretz pleaded guilty to the crime earlier this month. His wife, Kira Simon... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Sullivan to Moderate University of Chicago Alumni Association and Law School Supreme Court Review Panel Discussion | University of Chicago Alumni Association and University of Chicago Law School Supreme Court Review Barry Sullivan 7/15/2008 Chicago, IL Jenner & Block Partner Barry Sullivan will moderate a University... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Sullivan to Discuss This Year's Significant Supreme Court Cases at ACS - Chicago Lawyer Chapter's Fifth Annual U.S. Supreme Court Term in Review | American Constitution Society for Law and Policy - Chicago Lawyer Chapter Fifth Annual U. Supreme Court Term in Review Barry Sullivan 6/27/2008 Chicago, IL Jenner & Block Partner Barry Sullivan will b... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Waynesboro car dealer pleads guilty to fraud | STAUNTON A Waynesboro car dealer who bilked several banks and more than three dozen customers out of $142,626 pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor charges Monday in a plea deal with the Waynesboro pro... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Arrest Made In Crash That Killed Windsor Teen | WINDSOR, Conn. -- Police have arrested an 18-year-old in connection with a 2007 crash that killed a Windsor teenager. Antoine Lucy , of Manchester , turned himself in to Windsor police Friday. 26 cras... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Dvir Abramovich | AFTER the Holocaust more than 60 years ago, people asked how could we let it happen, how could the world's nations remain silent? They also promised to never again be bystanders when others... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Appeals court can't add to sentence on own | An appeals court cannot increase a defendant's prison sentence even though the trial court erred, the U. In its 7-2 decision, the high court ruled a federal appellate court "could not, on its own init... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Whitewood mayor, business owner recount Sunday standoff | WHITEWOOD -- Shots fired in Whitewood created quite a commotion Sunday when Albert Rankin, 47, of Whitewood started shooting a rifle from his apartment building on Meade Street. There were no injurie... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Labor calls in AFP over Neal scandal | BESIEGED MP Belinda Neal is likely to be investigated by the Australian Federal Police for a possible breach of federal criminal law. As a former staff member said she had been pressured by Ms Neal to... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Nearly 50 drug citations issued at Alpine Valley's Jack Johnson concert | EAST TROY--Law-enforcement officials cited 47 people for possession of marijuana and confiscated more than 70 grams of the drug during Saturday's Jack Johnson concert at Alpine Valley Music Theater. T... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Judge puts off trial, cites police delays | Home. The trial for Arthur Lee Gaines, 25, was delayed today. He is charged with the murder of Damarkos Eugene Alan Thorpe. A visiting Superior Court judge delayed a murder trial slated to begin today... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Hood requests execution date for inmate | Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood filed a motion with the state Supreme Court today requesting an execution date for Dale Leo Bishop on or before July 23. Executions by lethal injection had been p... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Governor scolded for pardon backlog | Chicago Tribune - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Marlon Pendleton walked out of an Illinois prison a hopeful man after more than a decade locked up for a rape he did not commit.... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Two Munitions Dealers Arrested and Charged in Conspiracy to Export Military Aircraft Parts to Iran | Defendants Hassan Saied Keshari and Traian Bujduveanu were arrested on charges of conspiring to export military aircraft parts to Iran, announced R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the So... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Johnstown Drug Arrest | Members of the Cambria County Drug Task Force worked with Johnstown Police Officers and FBI and Attorney General s Office agents to brake up a ring of drug dealers that moved about ten thousand dollar... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Swedish Covenant Hospital Settles Following Negligence | Home > 109Misdiagnosis 990Verdicts and Settlements Professional Malpractice > Swedish Covenant Hospital Settles Following Negligence . Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago recently settled a case fo... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | FP police stun man during arrest | FORT PIERCE Fort Pierce police officers used a Taser on a man early Sunday after he resisted arrest and struck one of them in the face, according to a police report. The man, Joe McClellan, 51, of F... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Crown outlines alleged terror plot in Khawaja trial | Momin Khawaja is seen in this artist's rendition during federal court proceedings in Ottawa on Monday, June 23, 2008. View larger image Armed masked tactical police, transporting Mohammed Momin Khaw... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Raynor rape case begins | Brunswick County man charged with the abduction and rape of two teenage girls. The incident happened in 2001, when the teens were visiting Ocean Isle Beach. DNA evidence lead to Laurice Milton Raynor'... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Initiatives to improve court services in Auckland | Initiatives to improve court services in Auckland Courts Minister Rick Barker today announced details of the initiatives that the government will be focusing on in order to improve the future delivery... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Killer's mom testifies: 'Richard is one of my good sons' | Bailiffs lead defendant Richard L. Crawford into the courtroom during the penalty phase of his murder trial at the Marion County Courthouse in on Monday. They are scheduled to hear closing statements ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Kids forced to perform in Texas sex shows | The Associated Press MINEOLA, Texas -- In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pi... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Open Letter to Dr. Zakariya Mahmud Haji Abdi on Somalia s Future and ARS Unity in Diversity | The deployment of UN peacekeepers should now be the focus of the efforts of all Somali political leaders. Zakariya Mahmud Haji Abdi on Somalia s Future and ARS Unity in Diversity Dear Sir, In the afte... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Ethiopia : Killings, Forced Evacuation, and Destruction of Villages - HRW Report on Ogaden | Sections from the HRW Report on Ogaden (Part 2), which focuses on the Violations by the Ethiopian Government" . In two articles (Criminal Ethiopia , Charged With Crimes Against the Mankind, Cannot... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Feds: 'Notorious' Immigrant Smuggler Arrested | Mexican Soldiers Shoot At Marine . Local Woman 1 Of 4 Shot Dead Near Rosarito Beach (WARNING: DISTURBING IMAGES). Death Toll Rises In Tijuana Shootout (WARNING: DISTURBING IMAGES). Customs and Border ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Federal govt denounced for move to commute death terms | Federal govt denounced for move to commute death terms LAHORE: Sheikh Alauddin, Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-e-Azam (PML-Q) forward bloc member in the Punjab Assembly (PA), on Monday denounced the fed... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | US military court convicts first civilian since Vietnam | JURIST] A US military court in Iraq Sunday convicted [Multi-National Corps release] Alaa "Alex" Mohammad Ali [JURIST news archive], an Iraqi-Canadian translator working in the country, in connection w... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Serbia not cooperating with Tribunal: ICTY president | JURIST] The president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive ] wrote in a letter [text, PDF; press release ] to the UN Monday th... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Ramos Horta in line for UN post | The Australian Government is backing East Timorese President and Nobel Peace laureate Jose-Ramos Horta for appointment as the next United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Diplomatic sources... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Governor Paterson And Legislative Leaders Announce Agreement On Legislation To Ensure More Complete Background Checks For Firear | GOVERNOR PATERSON AND LEGISLATIVE LEADERS ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT ON LEGISLATION TO ENSURE MORE COMPLETE BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR FIREAR.8418 GOVERNOR PATERSON AND LEGISLATIVE LEADERS ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT ON LE... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Harvard JD Admissions | I get a biweekly e-mail from the Human Rights Program updating me on their latest activities. The most recent one discussed a report the Human Rights Clinic released on prosecutions of apartheid-era c... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Human Rights Updates | I get a biweekly e-mail from the Human Rights Program updating me on their latest activities. The most recent one discussed a report the Human Rights Clinic released on prosecutions of apartheid-era c... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Feds must turn over underwear from '75 slaying | A federal magistrate judge has granted a request from a Canadian man to allow DNA testing on an undergarment from a 1975 slaying and ordered the government to look for another piece of evidence. 6 in ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Orlando toughens law on booting cars | Orlando hammered a tow truck company that's been booting cars downtown today. The City Council agreed to tough regulations on the use of so-called boots to immobilize illegally parked cars. So tough, ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | In handwritten answers to six personal questions sent to him by CBC news, 21-year-old Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr says he is peaceful and | Divers plan to enter ferry Divers will attempt to get inside the capsized ferry off the coast of the Philippines Tuesday to try to locate hundreds of missing passengers and crew, reports say. Act sent... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Man pleads guilty in defense contract ponzi scheme | A Haddon Heights man pleaded guilty in federal court in Camden today to scamming millions from investors who believed his company had a government defense contract to ship military equipment overseas.... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Third plane down in SJ since Friday | A small plane made an unscheduled landing in a Camden County cemetery this afternoon, but there were no early reports of injuries, police said. The plane landed in the Berlin Cemetery, located between... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Man admits killing Cutie the horse | A Lindenwold man pleaded guilty today to shooting a rodeo horse with a bow and arrow in Franklin Township, Gloucester County, then leaving it to bleed to death in a field near its owner's home. Jason ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Republican activist Shires gets probation, fine in fraud case | Scott Shires, the Republican activist who in 2004 reportedly recruited current U. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer to serve on the board of the privately held National Alternative Fuel Foundation (NAFF),... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Sexual assault by Jeffs alleged | Sect elder suspected of intimidating a witness. state of Texas has obtained DNA samples from Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and a convicted sex ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Panthers' Jarrett pleads guilty to DWI, gets punishment | Carolina Panthers wide receiver Dwayne Jarrett pleaded guilty to driving while impaired on Monday, minutes before he was scheduled to go on trial. Jarrett surrendered his driver's license and was orde... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Afternoon police beat update includes stolen 55-gallon drums | Justin T. Cinquegrana, 26, of the unit block of Dorset Avenue, Millville, was charged Sunday with theft by deception. He was held in the Cumberland County Jail on two unrelated warrants. n Jennifer Su... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | I did not take any cocaine - Osei | Thomas Osei, the man who drove into the President's car, on Monday rejected claims by the prosecution that he drove carelessly into the President's car because he was under the influence of cocaine an... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Tsikata's release handkerchief circulates in court | A white handkerchief with wine inscription with the heading "Free Tsikata Now" that spells out 10 reasons why the former Chief Executive of GNPC should be freed was on Monday circulated at the Supreme... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Court adjourns Tsikata's bail application | An Accra Fast Track High Court on Monday adjourned sine die a bail application by Tsatsu Tsikata, former Chief Executive of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), who was sentenced last Wednesda... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Former Bullitt County Deputy Sheriff charged with sexual misconduct is a no show in court | WHAS11 coverage Previous Story: Deputy charged with sexual misconduct retires, turns himself in (WHAS11) - A former Bullitt County Sheriff's Deputy accused of sexual misconduct with an inmate was a no... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Heat Waves: Burning Off the Fog of the FISA Fiasco | Arthur Silber brings the heat in his latest posts on the FISA "compromise." He cuts through the surface outrage over the Democratic-led, Obama-approved evisceration of the Constitution to expose the e... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Clemson S charged with assaulting girlfriend | Location: Clemson, S. -- Clemson safety DeAndre McDaniel has been arrested on charges he covered his girlfriend's head with a comforter and began choking her. A warrant from the Central Police Departm... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Thank God these radicals were stopped | 1 hour 3 min ago.. MOST HATED, DESPISED ASSHOLE IN 2000 YEARS OF HISTORY 1 hour 12 min ago.. I wish to object to a false fuzzy presumption presented 1 hour 14 min. far more worthy of EULOGIZING have p... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | OBAMA DID IN FACT, CAVE IN ON FISA, NOBODY SHOULD BE DELUSIONAL | Bill Wolfe, NJ.com This is not the change we were promised Today the House voted to approve a FISA bill that would provide retroactive immunity for criminal domestic spying violations by Telecom compa... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Vote for Sullivan! | Thu, 2008-06-12 01:19. From Sullivan for Congress (June 11, New York) Adam Sullivan, candidate for Congress challenging Rep. Jerrold Nadler in the Democratic primary in New York s Eighth Congressional... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Court upholds conviction in terrorism-related case | RICHMOND, Va. A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a man who lied to a federal grand jury about his training with a U. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday also upheld Sabri Benkahla's... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Attorneys Challenge Death Penalty After Delaware Prison Botched 2005 Execution | DOVER, DELAWARE - Delaware prison officials botched the execution of a murderer who was put to death three years ago, attorneys challenging Delaware s use of lethal injection said in court papers file... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Harbison v. Bell | Capital Defense Weekly. Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases. Actual Innocence Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law. Ted Gest's Criminal ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | The Employment Law Chronicle | Published by Alexandria, Virginia, District of Columbia Employment Law Firm of, Searcy Law Offices, LLC . As a courtesy to lawyers, The Employment Law Chronicle provides links to the text of key Fed... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), as amended: 29 | Published by Alexandria, Virginia, District of Columbia Employment Law Firm of, Searcy Law Offices, LLC . As a courtesy to lawyers, The Employment Law Chronicle provides links to the text of key Fede... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | New Air Tanker a Big Asset to California Firefighters | It's big, fast and can drop 10 times more retardant than the state's standard air tanker. The DC-10 jetliner turned air tanker has already made its mark in Northern California in this young wildfire s... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Broadcom exec to plead guilty to lying to | SANTA ANA, Calif. co-founder Henry Samueli plans to plead guilty to lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission as it probed stock option backdating at the chip maker, according to a court documen... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Neil Entwistle blames suicidal wife in double murder trial | 36 minutes ago A British man accused of murdering his America n wife and baby daughter today blamed his dead spouse for the killings as his US trial came to an end. Examiner ( Free subscription ) | 4... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Federal judge trims prison term for drug-maker | 2:38 PM-A federal judge has reduced the 30-year sentence of a Midvale man who was convicted of manufacturing methamphetamine. District Judge Bruce Jenkins shaved 38 months off of Casey Joe Beckstead's... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Teen beating video puts blunt Polk sheriff in spotlight | BARTOW, Fla. (AP) - Sheriff Grady Judd flinches a little when he talks about a particular close-fisted blow landed by a high school girl in an infamous video of central Florida teens pummeling a class... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Clemson's McDaniel arrested | CLEMSON, S. -- Clemson football player DeAndre McDaniel has been arrested on charges he assaulted his girlfriend this past weekend. A warrant from the Central Police Department says McDaniel, a safety... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Dunn found not competent to stand trial | After a second psychiatric evaluation, William Dunn, the Norwood contractor accused in the Nov. of Elmwood Road, was found incompetent to stand trial, leaving his criminal case in limbo. A hearing wil... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Another Drew | 9th Circuit Upholds Mandatory 5 Year Consecutive Sentence for Border Patrol Agent s Gun Possession When Convicted of Possessing Marijuana for Distribution On Duty Same Issue That Resulted in 10 Year... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Zimbabwe / UN s BAN Ki-moon / Remarks to Journalists following the Security Council luncheon | Zimbabwe / UN s BAN Ki-moon / Remarks to Journalists following the Security Council luncheon HARARE, Zimbabwe, . Remarks after the security council luncheon - New York, 23 June 2008 : SG: Good morning... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | No bond for child-porn suspect | Alleged child rapist James Bartholomew Huskey, whom the FBI believes made films for an international child pornography ring, was denied release on bond in a federal court in Atlanta Monday afternoon. ... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Notes from day 12 | Does it get any bigger? Here are notes from the 12th day in the double-murder trial of Neil Entwistle.The jury foreperson has been chosen to moderate the deliberations. He s in his early 40s and mus... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Russian court cuts US pastor's jail term for smuggling rifle shells | By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian court on Monday reduced the three-year prison sentence of a U. pastor convicted of smuggling rifle ammunition and ordered him se... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Law enforcement operation issues 333 warrants | Law enforcement officials say a weeklong sweep in 23 West Virginia counties has resulted in the arrests of 194 criminal fugitives. '); The joint federal, state and local operation dubbed "FALCON" issu... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Broadcom executive to plead guilty to lying to SEC | SANTA ANA, Calif. co-founder Henry Samueli plans to plead guilty to lying to the U. Securities and Exchange Commission as it probed stock option backdating at the chip maker, according to a court docu... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Duke's Lawyers - To my first point, your honor we suck | Louisville sued for breach and asked for $450,000 in damages. Duke s lawyers successfully employed the seldom used comparative sucking defense - the Blue Devils performance on the football field wa... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Fort Myers man found not guilty of murder charges sentenced to nearly 5 years | A man who beat a murder charge earlier this year was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for violating his probation.5 months in prison by Lee Circuit Judge Thomas Reese this morning. The judge f... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Broadcom's Samueli set to plead guilty in fraud | Advertising Autos The Biz Money Real Estate Small Business Technology Video Games Wealth Work & Careers Your Money . Business A-Z Investor Tips Law Resources Money Librar... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | Final arguments in Ky. diet drug settlement case | Three lawyers accused of defrauding their clients in a $200 million diet drug settlement were greedy, a prosecutor charged Monday during closing arguments of their high-profile trial. But a defense at... Read » |
23/Jun 2008 | U.S. fiat money and the Federal Reserve system | Gold money is not paper money. Traditionally, money has been both a storehouse of value and a medium of exchange. Fiat money exists by mimicking both, but when its ability to do so ends, fiat money is... |