23-year-old Matthew Freeman is facing a year in jail for violating Michigan's laws for convicted sex offenders. He was caught by a police officer playing basketball within 400 feet of a school. He also happened to be in front of his own home.
The JFP reported in 2006 that former Hinds County District Attorney Ed Peters and his then-assistant district attorney, Bobby DeLaughter, excluded DNA evidence in 1994 that likely would have exonerated Willis of the crime. Maw said she suspected Pete
Siobhan Reynolds, president of the Pain Relief Network, ran afoul of Assistant US Attorney Tanya Treadway by publicly defending Dr. Stephen Schneider, whom Treadway is prosecuting on drug charges related to his painkiller prescriptions.
The civil liberties advocacy organization Flex Your Rights has a new video coming out next month called 10 Rules for Dealing with Police. Here’s a trailer:
A New Jersey woman whose false story about a gang rape sent an innocent man to prison has pleaded guilty to perjury. Biurny Peguero told police she was kidnapped and raped at knifepoint in 2005 by 3 men, including William McCaffrey.
"The mistrial came after the jury sent two notes saying it was hopelessly deadlocked over charges Hal Turner threatened to kill or assault a federal judge," the AP report continues. "A retrial was scheduled for March 1 in Brooklyn, where the case was
Last month, Purdue University student Roy Sun was arrested and charged with “terroristic mischief.” He could face up to eight years in prison. His crime? He got a little too pissed off about a parking ticket.
Sun got the ticket and had a boot put
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas ramped up the fight against county leaders on Tuesday, announcing a federal racketeering lawsuit against "leading" judges, the Board of Supervisors, and a private law firm.
Judge,Jury and self appointed "Executioner of the law" Sheriff Joe has finally sunk himself in his own self serving quicksand.. don't throw him a rope this time, only some barbwire from "tent city" to save him or his gestapo style comrades from thems
Judge Gary Donahoe has ordered the detention officer to hold a news conference to apologize for taking the document. If he refuses to do so by today's deadline, Donahoe said he would throw the officer in jail for contempt of court.
Mike Huckabee granted clemency to multiple cop-killing suspect Maurice Clemmons back in 2000, commuting a 35-year sentence after less than 10 served. It's not Huckabee's first "Willie Horton Moment".
2 senators say authorities should pursue criminal charges against the couple who crashed last week's state dinner at the White House. Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) say such behavior should be strongly discouraged.
David Hackbart flipped a cop off and ended up cited for, you guessed it, disorderly conduct. He didn’t even get arrested and the charge was eventually dropped. But that didn’t stop him from filing a lawsuit against the City of Pittsburgh for violatin
In the next several months, the Supreme Court will decide at least a half-dozen cases about the rights of people accused of crimes involving drugs, sex and corruption. Civil liberties groups and associations of defense lawyers have lined up on the si
The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, suspected of being a Qaeda terrorist, was captured in Pakistan in 2004, held in secret prisons run by the C.I.A. and then moved to the naval base at Guantánamo Bay. During about five years of detention, he says, he was confine
[A] slurry of pre-digested Red State Fascist soundbites was regurgitated by John F. McManus, president of the John Birch Society and Publisher of The New American magazine.
Are we at war — or not?
For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of a U.S
The feds had to make an example out of Bob Kahre. He had committed a super no-no. He had exposed the government’s gold-coin, legal-tender claim for the fraud it is.
In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison....Complying with a Supreme Court ruling last year, 15 federal judges in the U.S. courthouse here are giving det
Months ago I posted about federal prosecutors’ pursuit of Dr. Weiner, an outspoken cardiologist who was charged with Mann Act violations for using a Memphis-based website while in Mississippi to meet and date adult women.
Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 4 other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, and 5 other suspects will be sent to military commissions [WTF?].
I see this on a daily basis, citizens being caught up in the legal system, usually under no fault of their own. Invest 45 minutes of your time and watch these videos and become fully informed, listen to this law professor and Officer and heed their w
It was, prosecutors claimed, a clear case of Wall Street crime — and a chance to bring to account 2 culprits of the subprime age. But jurors disagreed, and two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were found not guilty of securities fraud
Next week the Supreme Court will hear arguments, in Sullivan v. Florida, about whether sentencing a 13-year-old boy to prison without the possibility of parole violates the cruel-and–unusual-punishment clause of the Constitution. Joe Harris Sullivan
The amazing video below was taken on October 19 in Arizona's Maricopa County Superior Court.
As defense attorney Joanne Cuccia discusses her client's sentencing hearing with the judge, Maricopa County Sheriff's Department detention officer Adam S
Do Americans who have been framed by unscrupulous prosecutors for crimes they did not commit have a right to sue the prosecutors when the fraud is finally exposed? According to the Obama administration, the answer is no.