Kentucky Representative Tim Couch wants to know who is saying what on the Internet. He has proposed legislation to make anonymous postings online illegal. It would face a daunting challenge on constitutional grounds. Continue reading “Kentucky Legislator Seeks to Make Anonymous On-Line Postings Illegal”
Category: Criminal law
The Italian Supreme Court has ruled that wives can lie when asked questions in a criminal iinvestigation that would reveal an affair. It is a jurisdiction that might have saved Bill Clinton, but it is not clear that the Court would extend the same privilege to men. The Court has a history of bizarre, sexist rulings such as its 1999 decision that a woman was not raped because she was wearing tight jeans, which had to have been removed with her consent. Continue reading “Putting the Lie Back into Sexual Liaison: Italian Supreme Court Says Wives Can Lie About Lovers”
President Bush waited until Saturday to veto the ban on waterboarding, hoping to diminish press and congressional attention. He had nothing to fear. Both democrats and republicans have already guaranteed that Bush will not be held accountable for the torture program. After effectively decriminalizing torture, the objections heard from Democrats should be met with a healthy degree of scorn. Continue reading “Bush Vetos Ban on Waterboarding — Democrats Feign Shock”
In what seems like a scene out of the movie “The Big Easy,” New Orleans police are accused of beating and using a taser on Steven Elloie on June 23, 2006 and then losing the critical police tape showing the incident. The two officers, Jason Samuel and Hans Ganthier, are defendants in another such brutality case that occurred at another bar on Mardi Gras. Continue reading “New Orleans Cops Allegedly Beat and Tase an Innocent Man; Then Lose Video of Incident”
PGA Tour golfer Tripp Isenhour has been charged with intentionally killing a red-shouldered hawk (pictured below) after it forced him to do a re-take while filming his series “Shoot Like A Pro.” John Henry Isenhour III, his real name when he is not depopulating nature, now faces 14 months in jail if convicted.
Continue reading “Shoot Like a Con: Golf Pro Tripp Isenhour Criminally Charged with Killing Migratory Bird”
SwissMiniGun has made the world’s smallest working revolver at just 2.16 inches long (5.5cm) with bullets that can kill. They are small enough for earrings or even a lovely lapel pin. They are also illegal in the United States. Continue reading “At Last, A Gun For the Tiniest Felons: Company Makes a Lethal 2.16 inch Gun”
While some commentators have rushed to suggest that the puppy shown in this video was either dead or stuffed, the accused Marine has reportedly posted an apology. David Motari has been named as the Marine in the video, though the Marines are still investigating. In what is purported to be a posting from him below, he blames the stress of combat.
Continue reading “Semper Fido: David Motari Allegedly Apologizes for Throwing Puppy Over Cliff”
Philadelphia Judge Deborah Griffin has many positive things on her resume: a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the first black student to win the Missouri-Columbia Law School moot court, and overcoming great challenges in her childhood to become a lawyer. The one omission was that she has a felony record. She is now facing possible removal from the bench. Continue reading “Philadephia Judge Faces Removal for Hiding That She is a Former Felon”
As President Bush appears to be winning over House Democrats to join their Senate counterparts in granting immunity, President Bush says in this video that it is not enough to wipe out roughly 40 civil liberties lawsuits — citizens need to say “thank you” to the telecom companies for their “patriotic” actions. The fact that the program constitutes a crime under our laws is besides the point. The real issue is who will thank telecoms for not allowing a bunch of laws stand in the way of warrantless surveillance of their customers. Continue reading “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Telecoms: Bush Calls On All Americans to “Thank” the Telecoms”
The United States Marines Corps is finally responding to international outrage over Marines the video below of a Marine throwing a puppy over a rocky cliff in Iraq. The Marine is called by the name Motari on the video and bloggers believe that they have identified the culprit.
Continue reading “Semper Fido: Investigators Close in on Marine Who Threw Puppy Off Cliff”
The Senate Democrats have again caved on the issue of torture, unanimously confirming
Chicago federal Judge Mark Filip to be the second-in-command at the Justice Department despite his refusal to answer the simple question whether waterboarding is torture — a fact established by U.S. and international courts. As with the telecom immunity controversy, the Senate delayed the vote to suggest that they were actually taking a stand on torture and then voted with the White House to avoid a final confrontation on the question. Continue reading “Senate Unanimously Confirms Filip for No. 2 Position at Justice Depsite His Refusal to Answer Torture Question”
Sharpsburg police officer Travis Parker was insulted by a boy who made faces and allegedly an obscene gesture from a school bus at him. Most drivers mumble about “kids today” but Parker pulled over the bus, allegedly threatened the driver, and arrested the kid for disturbing the peace. He then returned for other kids who joined the taunting as he put teenager in his cruiser. He has since resigned over stress related to the incident.
Dessie Lewis, 18, was charged with disturbing the peace — a charge later dropped. His brother Derrick Lewis, 15, was also removed from the bus.
At one point Parker is accused of pointing at his gun when the bus driver asked what was happening — though that is an account from one of the children.
This bizarre story joins other recent arrests for people putting too much salt in an officer’s burger as a McDonalds, here,
coughing on an officer, here,and shouting at a clogged toilet inside a home, here.
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Mukasey’s Paradox;
On further review, his manipulations on torture and contempt are a beautiful, twisted thing. Continue reading “Mukasey’s Paradox”
Riley Taylor, 54, accidentally shot and killed his wife at a family function in Georgia. This follows another recent case of an accidental spousal shooting by an officer. Continue reading “Another Police Officer Shoots Wife Accidentally”
According to Amnesty International, the good people in the Iranian justice system are about to add another outrage from their prehistoric legal system. The group says that two gay men, Tayyeb Karimi and Yazdan, will soon be killed by throwing them off a cliff. The group estimates that 4000 lesbians and gay men have been executed since the Iranian revolution. Continue reading “Iran to Kill Two Gay Men By Throwing Them Off Cliffs”