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Report: Hundreds of Gays Tortured and Killed in Iraq

Posted on August 17, 2009
As we continue to pour billions of dollars and sacrifice lives of our military in Iraq, the country continues its return to radical Islamic rule. We have seen the continued denial of basic rights for women in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Now there is a report of hundreds of gay men and women [...

Burglars Turn in Child Pornographer After Stealing His Computer

Posted on August 17, 2009
Never say the English do not have a better class of criminals. When burglars broke into the home of Richard Coverdale, 24, they were delighted to snare a computer with the rest of the property. They soon discovered, however, disturbing pictures of child pornography and turned in the evidence to the cops...

Clementine Cartel Fights for Turf on East Coast

Posted on August 17, 2009
I warned about this lemonade cartel but no one listened after the town of Tulare California caved to the citrus criminal element. Now, New York officials are facing a new cartel on the other coast headed by a shadowy figure known as “Clementine...

DENY EVERYTHING

Posted on August 16, 2009
I know this looks bad but there is always a defense. Of course, this week’s award for creativity in a criminal defense belongs to Keith Griffin of Jensen Beach, Florida. We are on our last day in Duck after a wonderful time with monster waves, dolphin sightings, and castle building...

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Florida High School Principal and Athletic Director Face Six Months Over Prayers

Posted on August 16, 2009
It is not that Pace High School Principal Frank Lay and school athletic director Robert Freeman do not have a prayer, they had too many prayers. The two officials defied a settlement barring prayers on constitutional ground and now face six-month sentences — a matter of widespread protest among parents...

Yale Publishes Book Addressing Controversy Over Muhammad Cartoons ? And Deletes All of the Pictures of the Cartoons

Posted on August 16, 2009
In an astonishing act, Yale University Press has told an author that her book addressing the controversy over the Muhammad cartoons will be published — without any of the 12 cartoons shown in the book. Muslims consider images of Muhammad to be blasphemous and particularly object to the insulting cartoons, which caused riots and [...

French Ban Burkinis

Posted on August 16, 2009
The French has been fighting against the wearing of religious scarves and Burkas by Muslim women for years. Now, French officials have taken on the Burkini — a loose swimsuit that covers Muslim women like a wetsuit with a hood. Burkinis have been banned in pools as more clothing than swimsuit...

Police Taser Man Sitting on His Front Porch

Posted on August 15, 2009
This video has raised objections over why police appear to walk up to a man sitting on his porch and taser him without any violent act on his part. There appears to be more to this story, however, given the large number of officers who are present. Does anyone know the back story? [...

Chicago Woman Sues Ex-Boyfriend Over Posting Intimate Pictures on Porn Site

Posted on August 15, 2009
In Chicago, Jessica Voth has filed a torts case against her former boyfriend Miles Marsh after he allegedly posted “intimate and personal pictures” of her on a website called exgfpics — or “exgirlfriend pictures.” The site itself appears to cater to such hostile and juvenile acts of ex-boyfriends...

Australian High Court Rules In Favor of Right to Die

Posted on August 15, 2009
The Australian high court has issued an important ruling in favor of a quadriplegic man’s right to die. Christian Rossiter will be allowed to refuse food and water and the nursing facility will not be criminally liable for allowing him to kill himself...

Shock Video: New York Officer Tasers Mother in Front of Children After Minor Traffic Stop

Posted on August 15, 2009
Audra Harmon, 38, has sued the Onondaga County (N.Y.) Sheriff?s Department in yet another abusive use of a taser without provocation. In this video, the officer yanks Harmon out of the car in order to taser her. What is fascinating is that the officer, Deputy Sean Andrews, could have cuffed her but repeatedly [...

Things That Tick Me Off: Credit Card Travel Policies

Posted on August 15, 2009
My latest entry to “Things That Tick Me Off” is the new policy of credit card companies to block purchases on cards when customers simply go from state to state. We now need to call credit card companies and go through the endless series of automatic options to reach an operator to say that [...

Federal Judge Rules Homosexuality Not Per Se Category of Defamation

Posted on August 14, 2009
Southern District of New York Judge Denny Chin has handed down an important torts ruling. Lawyer (and former boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith) sued Howard K. Stern, the lawyer and former lover of tabloid sensation Anna Nicole Smith, sued tabloid journalist Rita Cosby for allegedly defaming him in her book “Blond Ambition: [...

Louisiana Officer in Beating Case Reinstated and Given Back Pay Despite Shocking Videotape

Posted on August 14, 2009
It is always controversial when society “allows the criminal to go free because the constable blundered,” but what about allowing the constable to go free because the constable blundered? Shreveport police officer Wiley Willis became a national figure after shocking pictures were released of a woman who was beaten in his custody — after he [...

More Brawner Than Brains: New Mexico Man Arrested After Intimate Moment With Car in Parking Lot

Posted on August 14, 2009
Danny Brawner, 46, appears to find a good tranny irresistible. Brawner was arrested in a grocery store parking lot after passing out following an intimate moment with his vehicle. He was found passed out with his pants around his ankles next to the vehicular victim at Smith’s Food and Drug Store in Albuquerque...

Montana Police Release Man Who Shot Co-Worker at Wal-Mart Due to State?s Sweeping ?Castle Doctrine? Law

Posted on August 14, 2009
For most prosecutors, it would seem an easy criminal case. Daniel Lira, 32, was working inside Wal-Mart’s loading dock area when he got into an argument with co-worker Craig Schmidt, 49. He ended up hitting Schmidt in the face. Schmidt responded by pulling out a ...

Irish Police Finally Catch Notorious Prawo Jazdy

Posted on August 14, 2009
Step aside Keyser Soze. For years, Irish police have hunted notorious Prawo Jazdy, a motorist who had succeeded in evading police for years while racking up speeding and parking tickets across the country. Now, the crime wave of Prawo Jazdy has been brought to an end ...

Driven to Extremes: Maryland Judge Accused of Flattening Tire of Woman in Courthouse Parking Lot

Posted on August 13, 2009
Charles Circuit Court Judge Robert C. Nalley has been accused of letting the air out of a car of a part-time cleaning woman who works at the courthouse. Two officers from the county jail insist that they saw the judge let the air out of a 2004 Toyota Corolla that was parked outside of [...

Wright Picks Wrong Bag: Former Clinton Aide Charged With Smuggling Needles and Knife into Arkansas Death Row

Posted on August 13, 2009
Betsey Wright, 66, the former Chief-of-Staff to Gov. Bill Clinton, has been arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle a knife and 48 needles into the Arkansas death row in a bag of Doritos. Wright, a lifelong opponent to the death penalty, insists that she found the bag in a vending machine and commented “I guess you [...

Iraqi Freedom: U.S. Supported Government Moves to Ban Books

Posted on August 13, 2009
With continuing stories of the denial of legal rights, the abuse of women (ad here and here), rise of radical Islam, and war crimes, many Americans are still unsure why we are sacrificing thousands of our citizens and billions in funding in Iraq. Now, the U...

Lawyer Files $13 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against Baltimore Sun

Posted on August 13, 2009
Criminal defense attorney Ivan J. Bates has filed a $13 million lawsuit against the Baltimore Sun after articles suggested that he engaged in witness tampering and invoked the fifth amendment to avoid incriminating himself in wrongdoing. The Sun is standing by the reporting of journalists Melissa Harris and Julie Bykowicz...

Chuckles the Castrating Clown: Japanese Succeed in Making Clowns Even Scarier

Posted on August 13, 2009
Ok, this is just creepy. The Japanese have invented a urinal clown that moves, laughs, and plays music as you . . . well, you can see for yourself. When you combine the common fear of clowns, this becomes particularly disturbing. Therapists must be making a mint...

Rapper ?C-Murder? Miller Convicted Twice of Murder in One Day in Louisiana

Posted on August 12, 2009
There is an interesting murder conviction out of Louisiana where Rapper Corey “C-Murder” Miller was found guilty of second-degree murder — but after a series of bizarre problems in the jury room. When the jury first delivered a guilty verdict in the case in the murder of Steve Thomas, 16, it was rejected [...

Minnie Mouse Molested! Pennsylvania Man Found Guilty of Groping Minnie at Magic Kingdom

Posted on August 12, 2009
John William Moyer, 60, likes his females short, dark and hairy. Moyer was found guilty of groping a Minnie Mouse character at the Magic Kingdom and sentenced to 180 days of probation, 50 hours, of community service, and a $1,000 fine. Presumably, he also had to get to his car with Mickey, [...

Somalia Stones to Death a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl For Premarital Sex

Posted on August 12, 2009
Amnesty International has confirmed that a Sharia court in Somalia executed a 13-year-old girl for having sex outside of marriage in Kismayo. Aisha Ibrahim Kuhulow was reported to be 23 year old, but her father has confirmed widespread reports that she was only 13...

The Corkney Cuban: English Comedian Held By U.S. Officials As Suspected Illegal Alien From Cuba Due to His ?Funny Accent?

Posted on August 12, 2009
English comedian Paul O’Grady should have known better. He tried to enter the United States with a “funny accent” and was stopped in Miami by our security officials as a suspected “illegal alien” from Cuba. It was a close call...

Honored in the Breach: Obama Administration Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions by Gutting Them

Posted on August 12, 2009
Today, the Geneva Conventions turned 60. Like many people “of a certain age,” the Geneva Conventions can be forgiven for feeling a bit marginalized and forgotten. The Obama Administration is about to finish the work of the Bush Administration in gutting the enforceability of the Conventions by blocking any investigation or prosecution of [...

Bush White House Memos Show Greater Role of Rove in Firings of U.S. Attorneys

Posted on August 12, 2009
Despite his past denials, memos and transcripts released by Congress show that former White House political adviser (and current Fox analyst) Karl Rove was deeply involved in the firing of the U.S. attorney in New Mexico David Iglesias . The material also shows that the White House planned the firings of Iglesias and the [...

Is That an Ice Cream or Are You Just Glad to See Me? Company Introduces ?Vice Cream?

Posted on August 11, 2009
If you are tired of the Viagra shakes, get ready for “Vice Cream.” A company is marketing “The Sex Pistol” which is marketed as pumping up your libido with your calorie intake with a mix of sexual-empowering ingredients, including ginkgo, biloba, arginine and guarana — and La Fee Absinthe...

Pampered: Florida Woman Told That There is No Crime in Man Convincing Her To Change HIs Diapers and Feed Him With a Bottle

Posted on August 11, 2009
Janet Schulte has been given a surprising education into the line between crime and courtesy in Melbourne, Florida. Schulte was convinced by a man to change his adult diapers due to his mental disability. After three months, she learned that he was not disabled and simply had a diaper fetish...

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