Mr. Schneiderman is one of the sponsors of a bill introduced in the Senate last month that would add a provision ...<< MORE >>
Donald Giles would appear to have the trifecta of mental incompetence arguments against execution. He is a paranoid schizophrenic with an IQ of 61 and a history ...<< MORE >>
Avvo.com is a resource for two million consumers per month who are seeking legal assistance. In New York County alone we had over 2,100 searches last month from consumers researching Criminal Defense Law. I am contacting every Criminal Defense lawyer in your area today to inform them ...<< MORE >>
Something crazy happened in Albany this week: The ...<< MORE >>
Kurt Greenbaum blogs at STL Social Media Guy, and is the online news director and now director of social media. On his hard-hitting blog, Greenbaum asked readers: "What's the craziest thing you've ever eaten?" A not especially clever person wrote, "Pussy." Harhar. A moderator deleted the comment. Wanting his voice to be heard, the nit-wit posted again, "Pussy."<< MORE >>
Last night on my way home from the gym I was ...<< MORE >>
But Donahoe rejected that story, saying there’s no way “a reasonable detention officer” would have thought a crime was taking place based on what he saw.<< MORE >>
“There was no immediate or future security threat that would have ...
The father of a 14-year-old Connecticut girl filed a missing persons report with police after his daughter left the house Saturday morning and didn't come home that night. The unidentified ...<< MORE >>
Lastly, swearing and berating those who care enough to spend their invaluable time starting a conversation with you is a great way to publicly demonstrate to others that you have ...
“My children have to appear in court,” Erica Russell, the mother of two eighth-grade girls who spent eight hours in jail, said Tuesday. “They were handcuffed, slammed in a wagon, had their mug shots taken and treated like real criminals.”Some mother you turned out to be, Erica. No remorse ...
...the number of one's Twitter followers has nothing to do with his or her influence. In other words, 9.9 times out of ...
Within the past year judges in Cook County Traffic Court in Chicago determined that speeds captured by lidar were not ...<< MORE >>
The new rules, issued in September and October, tell officers "screening may not be conducted to detect evidence of crimes unrelated to transportation security" and ...<< MORE >>
Maricopa County Judge Gary Donahoe looked out on a courtroom divided cleanly in half on Tuesday, all the way back through the gallery. On one side was ...<< MORE >>
Congress took a reasonable step in 1994 when it required states receiving federal education money to expel students who brought guns onto school property, but states and localities overreacted, as they so often do. They enacted “zero tolerance” policies under which children are sometimes arrested for profanity, talking back, shoving matches and other behavior that would once have been resolved with detention or meetings with the students’ parents.
This ...<< MORE >>
One of the jurors later confirmed that reference to scripture played a part in his deliberation. In his view, "the Bible is the truth from page one to the last page".How many peremptories does it take to keep true believers off a death qualified jury in Texas? Don't bother answering. It rhetorical. But then, how many Bibles must there be in a jury room to aid in the deliberations. In Khristian Oliver's case, the number is four.
One of the jurors testified that about 4 Bibles were in the jury room. Key passages were highlighted ...<< MORE >>
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. suggested a compromise approach that did not involve categorical distinctions but would instead require consideration of the offender’s age in deciding whether the sentence was proportional to the crime case by case.
“We know from Roper that death is different, and we know from Roper that juveniles are different,” the chief justice ...<< MORE >>
There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as ...<< MORE >>
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"Going to," "steal" and "money."<< MORE >>
...the CIA not only relied on confessions gleaned through extreme torture, it sent terror war suspects to Uzbekistan as part of its extraordinary rendition program.
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I'm calling from the NRA with a poll about how the United Nations wants to eliminate gun possession in the United States. I have a message from NRA vice president Wayne LaPierre to explain the poll.
Do I need to hear a message from Wayne LaPierre to answer a poll question?
Well, I think he wants you to hear his message.
Well, I don't think I want to hear his message.
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Yet the Connecticut Disciplinary Counsel, in its Order of Probable Cause and Complaint (H/T to Ben Glass of Great Legal Marketing for publicizing the order) against five innocent lawyers who participated in the Total Bankruptcy.com cooperative advertising website (one ...<< MORE >>
Although shocking, the "bystander effect" is a common social phenomenon that occurs when more than one person ...<< MORE >>
….so any attorneys want to explain to me what happened in this video? ...<< MORE >>
For nearly a decade, naked pumpkin runners did their thing unmolested, stampeding through the frigid dark past crowds of admirers who hooted, hollered and tossed candy. But last year the run attracted more than 150 participants, and Police Chief Mark Beckner fears things are getting out of hand. "It's a free-for-all," he says.
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More than a decade ago, Cory Maples of Alabama murdered two ...<< MORE >>