Criminal Law

KS- Vigilante mom relieved to see molester sentenced
5-19-2009 Kansas:Wichita ? An admitted child molester who was on the receiving end of some vigilante justice by his victim's mother was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Friday...

CA - Ellie Nesler, Mother Who Killed Her Son's Accused Molester, Dies at 56
View the article here So what about the "accused molester?"  Was he found guilty?  Why do they not go into that?  Well, that is typical journalism, one sided! 12/29/2008 FRESNO - Ellie Nesler, who sparked a national debate about vigilantism after killing her son's accused molester in a courtroom in 1993, has died of cancer...

Supreme Court takes up Md. case on lawyer request
1-26-2009 National: WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court today agreed to clarify how long a suspected criminal's request for a lawyer during police interrogation should be valid, taking on a case where a child molester asked for a lawyer almost three years before admitting to the abuse...

New charges from FL keep CA child molester behind bars a little longer
The release of convicted child molester George Joseph England from prison was thwarted last week by a criminal complaint signed in West Palm Beach, Florida. The new charges include transporting a juvenile from California to Florida with the intent to...

WA- Puyallup mom who attacked child molester with baseball bat pleads guilty to assault
See earlier story from June 2008, and hundreds of other attacks on persons involved with sex offenses. 1-6-2009 Washington: A Puyallup woman who became an Internet hero after she beat a convicted child molester with a baseball bat pleaded guilty Monday to assault...

FL- Man pleads guilty to killing child molester
See original report:2-19-2009 Florida:DADE CITY -- Luis Angel Rivera, accused of killing a convicted sex offender in Lacoochee in 2006, pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 25 years in prison...

Clergy Molester
Religious group to pay $1.3 million in priest molestation settlement.

Refco
Ex-CEO Gets 16 Years

Nail Guns
Injury Rate More Than Doubles in Three Years

New York City
$1.5 million settlement after a family of four was killed by an off duty drunken police officer.

False Arrest
City of Greer pays $50,000 settlement after imprisoning a woman whose charges had been dismissed years earlier.

City Streets and Jake Aaron Strickland
$1.2 million wrongful death settlement awarded after a husband and father was killed by a convicted drunk driver.