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Police said a 32-year-old cleaning woman accused Mr. Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her in the Sofitel Hotel near Times Square. The alleged victim, a native of Guinea and mother of two, said she entered room 2806, a $3,000-a-night luxury suite,
A judge in Bartow decided to release Ellen Beth Wachs, an outspoken atheist, who has been in jail since Sunday. She was arrested after an incident involving her neighbor's 10-year-old son, and charged with simulation of a sexual act in the presenc
describe the history of prison slavery and to demonstrate how the image of penal servitude integrates itself into and reinforces the voluntaryist view of the State, Whether one views the origin of the State as grounded in "conquest" or "consent," his
Bernard von NotHaus, creator of the Liberty Dollar, was found guilty of making counterfeit coins and an intent to defraud. Sentencing will be held in several months. The jury reached its decision in less than 90 minutes.
A lawyer for Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking secret government files to WikiLeaks, has complained that his client was stripped and left naked in his cell for seven hours on Wednesday.
Several Rastafarians and other inmates have been moved to a high-security prison as officials try to persuade them to cut their hair, which many refuse to do because it goes against their religious beliefs. Many inmates had spent more than a decade i
In Oregon, a 9-year-old girl was escorted from class to a school conference room, where a child-welfare caseworker and a police officer questioned her about whether her father had touched her inappropriately. After 2 hours of questioning, she finally
Everyone has a pretty good idea of what a criminal looks like right? When you take all of the societal biases out of the process, can you really tell who the car thief is? Or who committed a burglary or assaulted a police officer? How about securi
A group of Muslim students accused of disrupting a speech by the Israeli ambassador at the UC, Irvine, were charged with misdemeanor conspiracy counts, ending speculation about what would come from their actions nearly a year ago.
A day once existed in America when a woman like Dena Long-Christensen, 44, would have been celebrated, admired for her "can-do" spirit, and held up as a role model for others. That day is sadly past. Now Long-Christensen—and others like her—are tre
Across the country, politicians and their cronies have invested heavily in the for-profit prison systems. The more people go to jail, the more money they make: Pennsyvlania Auditor General Jack Wagner has found a way for the state to save as m
A Bulgarian man was sentenced Thursday to two years and a day in prison for stealing the identity of an Ohio boy who was kidnapped and killed at age 3. Doitchin Krastev, who used the name for more than a decade while living as an American citizen,
The former Calumet County district attorney who resigned after a sexting scandal says he's immune from a civil lawsuit filed by a crime victim who claims he sexually harassed her. Ken Kratz says he was a public official at the time of the alleged har
The jury had been deliberating over four days in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani when it sent a note to the judge, asking how much the defendant needed to know about Al Qaeda’s conspiracies to bomb and kill in order to be convicted.
MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN: While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer a
A Texas man declared innocent after 30 years in prison had at least two chances to make parole and be set free -- if only he would [lie] admit he was a sex offender. But Cornelius Dupree Jr. refused to do so, doggedly maintaining his innocence in
He does it all on a Samsung smartphone, which he says he bought from a guard. And he used the same phone to help organize a short strike among inmates at several Georgia prisons last month.
"Staff have been running around trying to breathalyze prisoners. It's been reminiscent of the end scenes of 'The Benny Hill Show' - the only thing missing was the music"
In striking down evidence obtained through warrantless GPS tracking, Delaware Judge Jan R. Jurden wrote that "an Orwellian state is now technologically feasible," adding that "without adequate judicial preservation of privacy, there is nothing to pro
Since May, Los Angeles high schooler Jeremy Marks has been in jail—essentially for filming a school police officer hit a 15-year-old. He'll be home for Christmas, though, thanks to a Google engineer who heard about Marks on Reddit.
The then-senator was convicted in 2008 on corruption charges, but prosecutorial wrongdoing led Holder to ask the judge to drop the case in April 2009, after Stevens was ousted by voters. Stevens died Aug. 9 in a plane crash in Alaska.
There are lots of hoops to jump through before Arizona law will legally allow you to smoke marijuana.
An appeals court ruled the government must obtain a warrant before it can access e-mails stored by Internet service providers. The government violated Fourth Amendment rights when it obtained e-mails without a warrant, but it did so in good faith, so
This is the shocking moment an innocent woman was violently assaulted and then strip-searched by police in what a judge has described as an 'indignity to a human being'. The video shows a female special constable kneeing a 27-year-old woman in the
Karen and Bob Emery President of DelValley Silver 22 year old daughter was murdered in PA a week ago. Please pray for their family
Demolition teams on Thursday burned down an explosives-packed house in suburban San Diego that authorities called the largest cache of homemade bomb-making materials ever found in the United States. Flames roared, and thick, toxic gray smoke billo
Over €31,000 set aside for the legal defense of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been frozen by the Swiss bank PostFinance, which said that Assange had given false information in creating the account.
In these circumstances, only the courts can define the limits of TSA authority to search, interrogate, x-ray, and grope innocent travelers who are not suspected of any crime. So far as we know, Mr. Mocek’s case is the first time someone in the USA ha
The prosecution ... moved to dismiss the case, admitting its error. ... The case was dropped on a technicality, not on its merits in relation to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which ... criminalizes the modification of technology to circumvent
Adam Mueller, who has been making headlines on Photography is Not a Crime lately, is on his way to Mississippi for a trial regarding his arrest last year for videotaping police. The evidence, including statements from the arresting office as well
