A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against the Maricopa Co. Attorney Andrew Thomas and his office of negligence, conspiracy and racketeering, and violating the constitutional rights of 2 journalists by arresting them for publishing details of
O.J. Simpson has been found guilty on all charges in the gunpoint robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas casino hotel room more than a year ago. Simpson faces up to life in prison.
A common feminist/domestic violence establishment claim goes something like this--"a third of all women who are murdered are murdered by an intimate partner, whereas only 3% of men are murdered by an intimate partner." From this one would t
As a general rule I'm opposed to criminalizing victimless crimes such as drugs or prostitution, and a recent conversation with a friend further confirms my belief.
Former attorney general Alberto Gonzales will not be referred to a federal grand jury for his role in the 2006 firings of 9 US attorneys, but a long-awaited report will recommend a prosecutor continue to probe the involvement of lawmakers and White H
Police gas and arrest entirely peaceful protestors in Minneapolis during the RNC.
As with the 25 other ongoing FBI inquiries involving the mortgage debacle, the main focus of interest is whether companies and their executives misled investors and auditors when they put a value on their mortgage-related investments.
Mark Poveromo feels ripped off twice over. A judge ordered him to repay money he collected from a builder convicted of stealing from him --- and told him to kick in the thief's attorney fees and court costs, too.
The Bush administration's top attorney in Idaho is bringing charges against a North Idaho woman for refusing to pay for a Diet Coke and then pouring it out on a counter at a cafeteria at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Boise.
Thirty quotes from the people involved in the Caylee Anthony case: mother Casey Anthony; grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony; Orange County Sheriff, Kevin Beary; Greta Van Susteren, Nancy Grace, statements from protesters who’ve surrounded the Ant
Pressed FBI officials to say when the anthrax case will be closed and why investigators had fixed on Ivins six months after notifying him in April 2007 that he was not a target. Investigators told congressional aides that they are still pursuing lead
The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided. Shocking ministers and energy companies the jury cleared 6 Greenpeace activists of c
They said they would not have convicted Montes and Scarmazzo of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise had they realized the felony carries a mandatory prison sentence of 20 years to life.
Unable to get into his London meeting house, William Penn led a Quaker meeting in the street outside. He was arrested and put on trial on Sept. 5, 1670, 338 years ago this week. The judges explained to the jury that preaching a nonconformist sermon w
We noticed last week that it was awfully peculiar that Colorado’s U.S. Attorney, Troy Eid, had so airily dismissed conspiracy charges against the three white-supremacist tweakers who were caught planning to assassinate Barack Obama
A 27-year-old blogger suspected of streaming songs from the unreleased Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" on his web site was arrested by FBI agents on suspicion of violating federal copyright laws, and his bail was set at $10,000.
Money-laundering charges against former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay and two indicted co-conspirators may be dismissed because the 2002 campaign finance case involved checks and not cash, a lawyer for DeLay said.
2 self-described "grammar vigilantes" from the East Coast are being banned from national parks for a year and fined $3,035 after altering a historic sign at the Grand Canyon. The 2 later posted their activities to a Web site, which was repo
A Justice Department plan would loosen restrictions on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allow agents to open a national security or criminal investigation against someone without any clear basis for suspicion,
Sheriff Mark Curran walked into his own jail on Wed. to spend a week as a prisoner, saying he was inspired to learn what it was like to be confined and to sample jail programs designed to reduce recidivism.
FBI officials attempted to bolster their case against researcher Bruce E. Ivins yesterday by presenting experts who said that a lone scientist working for three to seven days with readily available equipment could have produced the lethal spores used
4 years after pleading guilty to an abortive scheme to steal customer credit card numbers a hacker learned from prison that a co-conspirator who pressured him to go through with the hack attack was working for the feds at the time.
The Phoenix Police Department is looking into whether it should open a criminal child pornography investigation into photographs shot by a Tempe artist [about to become famous] and published last week by a Valley newspaper {PHX New Times}.
FBI said the initial anthrax sample Ivins took from his Army lab in February 2002 and gave investigators did not meet chain of custody. So they destroyed it after testing. Then accused Ivins of giving them a different sample as a replacement.
Tens of thousands of US inmates are paid from pennies to minimum wage—minus fines and victim compensation—for everything from grunt work to firefighting to specialized labor. Here's a sampling of what they make, and for whom.
H. Beatty Chadwick, a former corporate lawyer, has been imprisoned in a county jail for over 13 years even though he has never been arrested, criminally accused or tried. Chadwick is imprisoned on ‘contempt of court’ charges that sprang from a conten
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, four princes and other Saudi entities are immune from a lawsuit filed by victims of the September 11 attacks and their families alleging they gave material support to al Qaeda, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.
The "People's Court" begins its work: Also called the "Blood Tribunal," the National Socialist court didn't permit jurors to interfere in the imposition of "justice."
"The FBI's theory as to how and when Ivins traveled to New Jersey on September 17 and mailed the letters is simply impossible..."
Karen Fletcher will be sentenced under a plea bargain for having written fictional stories about sex with children. Prosecutors have already indicted writer Frank McCoy for similar writings, depicting the stories in question as "child pornograph
