I am the next door neighbor of The Degrootes. Not only is this really occurring I have kept my own log. When the choppers hover my home vibrate and the shaking is so intense I am in fear of a window breaking. I observed these "police officers" in
I am the next door neighbor of The Degrootes. Not only is this really occurring I have kept my own log. When the choppers hover my home vibrate and the shaking is so intense I am in fear of a window breaking. I observed these "police officers" in
Georgia's high court upholds the sentence reduction for Genarlow Wilson and orders his freedom. Wilson has served over two years of a ten year sentence for having consensual oral sex.
The administrator of the extremely popular fitness forum posted a thread with an ominous message and plea for all forum members. The message? The site had been contacted by the Secret Service in response to a thread titled, “Let’s kill bush (serious)
For years, voices have been crying out about the "myth of fingerprints". A judge in Baltimore now agrees. And prosecutors and police all over the country are concerned.
After exercising her right to remain silent during a traffic stop, Lauren Canario was arrested, denied bail, held in contempt of court and is still being held in jail in violation of NH State law while awaiting arraignment over three weeks later.
A Superior Court judge set a hearing to determine whether the secret content of a grand-jury investigation into the New Times newspaper should be unsealed. County Attorney Andrew Thomas closed the investigation and dropped the charges
The Holy Land Foundation mistrial was seen in the NY Times as an exoneration. But was it? Or was it a signal that a different approach is needed. Libertarians, War on Terror warriors and others will now square off.
This story can be classified in a lot of different catagories: "Look How Far They've Fallen", "Examples of Bad Lawyers", or "Karma". Former eligible-bachelor-gone-bad Gary Zerola was back in the new again.
The judge had initially sent the jurors back to see if the impasse could be broken after a confusing scene when three of the jurors said they had not agreed with the verdicts he had read aloud to the packed courtroom. (WHAAA???)
[for another perspective] Asked if Thomas would go after the many Web sites that have published Arpaio's address online, he made a major legal flub. "There's a big difference between that and putting his name and address on the front cov
[Buried more than half way down article.] After newspaper owners were freed from jail, a third "New Times" employee, writer Ray Stern was cited for disorderly conduct when he went to the office of Sheriff Arpaio's attorney to look at so
Politically motivated officials at the Pentagon have pushed for convictions of high-profile detainees ahead of the 2008 elections, the former lead prosecutor for terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay said last night, adding that the pressure played a pa
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced he was dismissing the case against New Times and no charges would be pursued against the editors and writers involved in the case. He was firing special prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik, who had pursued the
Two good friends of mine own the Phoenix New Times, and what has happened to them is a microcosm of what has happened in post-9/11 America, a land of illegal wiretaps, entrapment, surveillance, and Homeland Security.
Amazing that the Arizona Capitol Times buried this story on page 8 of their current issue: "State Bar files ethics complaint against County Attorney." The piece offers a recap of the ongoing legal battle between County Attorney Thomas and t
Joe Arpaio, Andy Thomas and Dennis Wilenchik hit New Times with grand jury subpoenas. The authorities are also using the grand jury subpoenas in an attempt to research the identity, purchasing habits, and browsing proclivities of our online readershi
Plainclothes Maricopa County Sheriff's officers arrested New Times founders, Village Voice Media Executive Editor Michael Lacey and Chairman/CEO Jim Larkin at their homes late Thursday evening for revealing grand jury information in their recent
Village Voice Media Executive Editor Michael Lacey was released from PHX's 4th Avenue Jail around 4 a.m. this morning after being arrested Thursday evening by plainclothes agents of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. Charged with the misde
During his tenure, inmates have died needlessly in his jails, and his office has engaged in reckless police operations and Gestapo-like activities against rivals. Such callous disregard for human rights only enhances his reputation as the "tough
Those imprisoned in N.H. are supposed to be arraigned within 24 hours of arrest. Judges in Milford County denied Lauren arraignment and sent her back to jail after exercising her right to remain silent. She has remained in jail for over two weeks...
While the spam conviction is a "proud and successful case for the Justice Department," it serves to illustrate the limits of criminal prosecution on the spam problem, said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle. "It
You've been protected and served! Josh Adams displays the wounds of honor he received while attempting to protect his wife from a criminal police assault. The injury was inflicted by a police-issue Maglite flashlight (see photograph of the bloods
Frank Waterhouse is suing for unlawful seizure with excessive force, alleging that police fired a Taser and bean bag rounds at him because he was videotaping their search of a friend's property. Police officers followed a police dog onto the prop
Attorneys are putting new scrutiny on a practice that has become common among law enforcement — having officers, not medical personnel, draw blood with syringes in suspected drunken driving cases.
A jury has refused to convict boot camp employees in the beating death of a 14 year old boy despite video evidence of the accused kicking and punching the boy shortly before he died. No wonder authorities think they can get away with murder. They do
Mychal Bell, 17, had gone to juvenile court in Jena on Thursday expecting another routine hearing. Judge Mauffrey ruled that Bell's arrest in connection with the school beating violated the terms of probation for the earlier convictions. Bell
[never to be seen again] The FBI seized thank-you notes sent from New York Senator Hillary Clinton during a search of the Manhattan home of Democratic fund-raiser Norman Hsu, who was charged last month with fraud, federal prosecutors said.
No matter how one feels about Mychal Bell’s past misconduct, Walters’ continuing press to prosecute both Bell and the other Jena 6 defendants as severely as possible raises questions about the sense of legal impartiality which he claims for himself i
A man's sweet tooth got the better of him. He stole a doughnut. A single doughnut. Authorities called it strong-arm robbery. The "doughnut man," faces 5 to 15 years in prison. Because he has a prior record, he could get 30 years to li
