ON AIR NOW
Click to Play
Giving law enforcement a direct stake in forfeiture efforts, most state and federal laws encourage policing for profit, not justice. Policing for Profit also grades the states on how well they protect property owners—only three states receive a B or
Agents conducted weekend raids in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio and arrested at least 3 people, and a militia leader in Michigan said the target of at least 1 of the raids was a Christian militia group, the FBI said. Some of those arrested face gun char
In the rush to save money in grim budgetary times, states nationwide have trimmed their prison populations by expanding parole programs and early releases. But the result — more convicted felons on the streets, not behind bars — has unleashed a backl
More than a year after a man was arrested outside a market in California with a $3.99 bag of Tillamook shredded cheese in his pants he had not paid for, a judge decided to go relatively easy on him, sentencing him to 7 years and 8 months in jail.
When I was 21, I went to an 18 and over nightclub with my best friend because he just turned 18. While I was there I met a girl that claimed to be 19 and we exchanged numbers. I hung out at her house with her mom and step-dad there - They knew how ol
The Justice Dept. has given a $500,000 grant to the National Sheriff's Association, which is doling out the money in $10,000 grants across the country that will create a national database that better identifies, registers and tracks inmates
Who won’t be paying? Former prosecutors convicted Masters on flimsy evidence. They were actually censured by Colorado Supreme Court for not bothering to look into evidence undermining their case and for withholding exculpatory evidence
Koua Fong Lee, a Laotian immigrant serving 8 years in prison for vehicular manslaughter. Lee was driving a 1996 Toyota Camry, when he accelerated to 90 mph, ran 2 stop signs, then struck another car, killing 3 of its occupants. Lee says the car accel
California may soon place animal abusers on the same level as sex offenders by listing them in an online registry, complete with their home addresses and places of employment. Would be the first of its kind in the country and is just the latest law g
Just examples from the Arizona Youth Survey - public school parents are assumed to consent - best teach your children: "You have a right to remain silent, anything you say will be used against you." You have to, because the schools won't!
After waiting over five weeks for the court date on Feb 19th I recieve a letter stating the judge called in sick and that the new date is in the middle of April, over 6 weeks from now.
Police have charged Crystal Gail Mangum, 31, with attempting to kill her boyfriend. Mangum wrongly accused 3 Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006. A judge ordered she remain in jail on a $1 million bond.
Federal authorities said they would not bring a civil rights case against police involved in the killing of a 23-year-old black man who was shot by the police outside a strip club on his wedding day. "Neither accident, mistake, fear, negligence, nor
The Civil Rights Division encourages qualified applicants with...MENTAL RETARDATION, MENTAL ILLNESS...
The White House is reviewing a plan to require the Justice Department and FBI to consult with the CIA before deciding to inform terrorism suspects arrested in the US that they have the right to remain silent and to consult with an attorney
California Superior Court Judge Andrea Bryan ordered the release of convicted child molester Augustin Uribe due to “numerous acts of misconduct” by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. Uribe’s conviction was overturned in 2008 after a v
In 1998, Andrew Wakefield, a gastroenterologist at London's Royal Free Hospital, published a study in the prestigious medical journal Lancet that linked the triple Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine with autism and bowel disorders in children.
A Detroit-area imam who died in a shootout with the FBI in October was shot 21 times -- at least once in the back -- and found by police lying down with his wrists in handcuffs behind him. The FBI has not alleged any terrorist activity against him, a
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested California could ease its crowded prison system by a billion dollars if 20,000 illegal immigrants currently held in the state were housed across the border to specially built jails in Mexico.
ABC News first reported Bernie Madoff had injuries consistent with an assault. Now, the source says Madoff was not attacked in prison, but that he fell off a bed onto his face. There was a lot of facial bleeding and, Madoff came with facial fractures
A judge says Kansas law doesn't allow a "necessity defense" in the trial of a man charged with killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers. Scott Roeder has confessed saying it was necessary to save unborn children.
Last week, James Bain was released from a Florida prison after serving 35 years for a crime he didn’t commit. DNA testing finally cleared Bain of raping a young boy in 1974.
Erick Williamson, the Springfield, Virginia man arrested earlier this year for being naked in his own home was convicted of indecent exposure on Friday. The judge sentenced him to 180 days in jail, but suspended the sentence.
But the appeals court reconsidered the case after a decision in June from the United States Supreme Court that prohibited prosecutors from introducing crime lab reports without testimony from the analysts who prepared them. The appeals court rever
[His arrest led to the great "Photography Is Not a Crime." In fact it was cited against him at sentencing.] 9 months after filing my appeal, I received notice I was victorious. The fact I prepared my appeal pro se makes the victory that much sweeter.
While we were all out doing our Christmas shopping, the highest court in the land quietly put the kibosh on a few more of the remaining shards of human liberty. It happened earlier this week, in a discreet ruling that attracted almost no notice
A judge is weighing a critical legal question in the case of a man who confessed to killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers: Can the man claim at his trial that the slaying was justified to save the lives of unborn children? S
A wayward crime lab worker who fakes his way into the job is one thing. A fraud who manages to stay on the job for 15 years is a symptom of mass institutional failure. The most disturbing part; the institutional failure continued after being exposed.
A Texas teenager who was sentenced to eight years in prison for graffiti and marijuana possession has had his sentence reduced under new state legal guidelines. Corpus Christi Judge Marisela Saldana sentenced 18-year-old Sebastian Perez to eight y
The New York State Police’s supervision of a crime laboratory was so poor that it overlooked evidence of pervasively shoddy forensics work, allowing an analyst to go undetected for 15 years as he falsified test results and compromised nearly one-thir
