In Lowell, Mass, a prostitute is charged with stealing $62,000 after she involuntarily turned a brief liaison into a full bondage scene. Jessica Garcia, 30, allegedly was to be paid $30 to perform oral sex, but noticed that the man had a duffel bag filled with cash. The man says that she tied his belt around his legs, pushed him down, and ran for it with the cash.
Hundreds of people at the 79th annual Bud Billiken Parade found themselves without cars after a towing company, Rendered Services, allegedly posted no parking signs after they had parked and then towed them. They refuse to render what is Rendered. The company now faces an ex post facto posting case.
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Everyone (outside of the Administration) seems in agreement about one thing: the FBI did an appalling job in investigating the anthrax attack. Not only did they intentionally persecute and accuse the wrong man, they ignored what now appears an obvious suspect. The government has already paid millions in damages and tens of millions in wasted resources from the pursuit of Steven Hatfill. Now the question is whether it will pay millions more for its failure to properly hire and monitor employees. Bruce Ivins fits perfectly into a negligence case alleging failure to properly hire and monitor employees. One such case is already pending.
Federal District Court Judge William G. Young is someone who has handled a lot of juries and a lot a questions from jurors. However, he insists that he has never encountered the likes of Thomas R. Eddlem, who started asking about basic questions of federal authority. As a former John Birch Society member, Eddlem had serious questions about the right to tell people what they could possess, including cocaine. Young kicked him off the jury because he suspected a jury nullification problem in the making.
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Recently, police officers raided the home of Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo. The team proceeded to shoot the two black labradors at the home, bust through the door, and handcuff the the mayor (who was in his underwear) and his mother-in-law, here. The Prince George’s Sheriff’s Office are now accused of a pattern of botched raids, including prior pet shootings.
Yet another police officer has been suspended for threatening Starbucks employees with arrest or worst if they did not continue to fork over free coffee. Chicago police officer Barbara Nevers has been suspended for 15 months for allegedly demanding both free coffee and baked goods.
The Chinese have been heralding their ability to change the weather with hundreds of rockets and artillery pieces positioned Beijing. However, when it comes to pollution, nothing is quite a effective as an old-fashioned Chinese technique: when forecasters identify the “mist” as pollution and not a natural weather cycle — shutdown access to their site and change forecasters.
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A South Carolina deputy has been fired and charged after a dash camera recorded him punching teenager Jeremy Laquan Rucker, 18, in the face. What is curious is that there is no word on action taken against the other officers who assisted former deputy Brian Tollison.
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Mercedes Nichols, 17, gained international infamy when a video showed her participating in the ambushing and beating of cheerleader Victoria Lindsay. Now, Nichols has been arrested again for assault in Polk County, Florida for allegedly beating and stabbing her ex-boyfriend.
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There seems to be a sudden outbreak of roof driving arrests. Recently, we saw a newlywed husband charged with driving with his wife on the roof, here. Now, it is a grandmother, 54-year-old Brenda Bouschet, driving with her three-year-old granddaughter on the roof.
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Criminal defense lawyers have long counseled their clients that, “unless we can show you have an evil twin,” we are likely to lose. Well, that is precisely the defense in a English case where a twin was falsely arrested for bestiality. Police later concluded that DNA evidence belonged to his twin brother.
Continue reading “Finally, a True Evil Twin Defense”
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is out of jail — a considerable advantage for a sitting mayor. However, he was promptly charged with a new crime of assaulting a detective. His lawyers will have to throw it on the pile. Kilpartrick is awaiting trial on perjury.
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In Dayton, Ohio, Dexter Moore has been sentenced to five years after he hit Julian Hill, 17, getting off a bus at 100 miles an hour while wearing only one eye contact.
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We have just returned from court and the continuance of the trial for our client Dr. Sami Al-Arian. During the hearing, the prosecution objected to this blog and specifically the comments left by visitors to the site. We have used this site to make filings available to reduce the calls to our staff from the media and the public. While attorney blogs are allowed under local and federal rules to give updates on filings, we have decided to remove the Al-Arian entries to avoid this issue from being cited in the future as a distraction from the important issues in the case. Documents can still be obtained on the court site and various Al-Arian blog sites.
Posted 11:50 a.m. Friday, August 8, 2008
A curious controversy is emerging from of the recent cloning story out of South Korea. Featured in the international story and photographs was the owner of the cloned pit bull, Bernann McKinney. Her picture was shown so prominently that it caught the eye of some people who claimed that she is a bail abscondee named Joyce McKinney. The other McKinney was allegedly one sick puppy who fled from a perfectly bizarre kidnapping case of a Mormon missionary 30 years earlier.