Criminal Law

VA police shoot and kill soldier dressed like The Joker
Let's say you've never seen a Batman comic book or movie in your life, and then you see somebody dressed like this. I'm AT LEAST running away and calling 911. Hat Tip: Saw this via Hip Suburban White Guy!

Phoenix Arizona Police Officers Demand To Be Paid For Getting Dressed
PHOENIX, ARIZONA — Nearly 600 Phoenix police officers have filed suit in an attempt to force the city to pay them for the time they spend getting in uniform each day. Attorney John Commerford, representing the officers, said they spend considerable time getting dressed for each shift...

He's Kind of Pretty, Right
I have no idea, really, why this is news, but when a man dressed as a woman loses his shit, he gives cross-dressers everywhere a bad name. Police say a man dressed as a woman repeatedly crashed his car into…

Father Kills Daughter for Falling in Love with British Soldier; Police Congratulate and Release Him
Abdel-Qader Ali killed his daughter after he learned that she had fallen in love with a British solider, even though she was still a virgin and did little more than admit infatuation...

COMMENT: Reforms are long overdue, but lawyer will be treading a very difficult path
On a patrol in Helmand province one day, a young British soldier was pointed out to me ? he had done something that I could not bring myself to ask him about. He had killed a man, a woman and a baby in a car with a single bullet...

KBR Negligent in Soldiers Death, Report Finds
Military contractor KBR Inc. was responsible for the negligent homicide of a soldier killed by electrocution while serving in Iraq, an Army investigation has determined. Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth died of cardiac arrest in 2008 when he was electrocuted while taking a shower in his Baghdad barracks...

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

Canadian Government
allegedly used Canadian soldier as test subjects for nuclear explosion radiation exposure.

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.

Allstate Insurance Co.
$100,000 insurance settlement after a teenager was killed in a drunk driving accident.

Police Officer Slander
City of Detroit agrees to $25,000 settlement.

Police Whistleblower
Officer awarded $980,000 for whistleblower violations and retaliation.