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The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse as investigators have uncovered major holes in the credibility of the housekeeper who charged that he attacked her in his Manhattan hotel suite in May, according to tw
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Kurtz faces a maximum sentence of 6 years in prison for the allegations of Obstruction of a Police Officer, Battery on a Law Enforcement officer and Resisting Arrest without Violence. This stemming from an incident before 2 AM New Years day when Kurt
A group of activists gathered across from the Courthouse in New York City to demand the maximum sentencing for NYPD officers at the center of the well-publicized “rape cops” trial. Acquitted of rape, despite substantial evidence against them,
The case against a Rochester woman arrested while videotaping police has been dismissed. Early Monday afternoon, demonstrators rallied outside the Hall of Justice in support of Emily Good, the city woman who was arrested while videotaping police o
A jury convicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Monday of nearly all the corruption charges against him, including that he tried to sell or trade President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat. Blagojevich had faced 20 charges, including the Se
But on Thursday, in another 5-to-4 decision, the court disappointed law enforcement officials by reaffirming Melendez-Diaz. The court went on to extend the Melendez-Diaz decision, saying that what it called surrogate testimony would not do.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that vandals Saturday night broke into the storage facility of Associated Attractions, a company that helps design, create and store floats.
You miss the main threat posed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s assuming the power to spy on all of us by physical surveillance, covert infiltration and even trash-picking, all without reasonable grounds for suspicion, much less the constitut
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In conjunction with the launch of HuffPost's Crime vertical, senior writer and criminal justice reporter Radley Balko looks at several myths and misconceptions about the criminal justice system. Balko looks at double jeopardy, enhanced sentencing and
A Davis woman whose Oak Avenue rental home was raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — an incident she said terrified the residents — continues to pursue answers regarding the agency’s actions that spring morning.
A Colorado woman who stabbed two burglars at her home - killing one - is now facing murder charges. Karen Elaine Cordova, 48, of Erie, Colo., was arrested on Monday, two days after cops said she stabbed the men with a five-inch blade after they br
A jail video in Cleveland surfaced disputing official police statements on a booking incident last January, where the arrestee claimed police brutality. During the pretrial, prosecutors subpoenaed the surveillance tape but were told that it did not e
The liberal political forum Democratic Underground, LLC. (DU) has escaped a lawsuit filed by Righthaven, LLC. that claimed a user illegally appropriated several paragraphs of a news story.
Weapons smuggled into Mexico as part of a US sting operation -- and then lost -- have been linked to numerous killings, including that of an American federal agent, a congressional report disclosed Wednesday.
Manning's motive?: Manning was asked to help investigate, arrest, and presumably rendition for torture, professors who had written a study of how the money for reconstruction in Iraq was actually being spent.
After the United States Court of Appeals reaffirmed "speech, such as parody and rhetorical hyperbole, which cannot reasonably be taken as stating actual fact, enjoys the full protection of the First Amendment," a judge held a deputy district attorney
A federal jury convicted a Chicago businessman on Thursday of helping plot an attack against a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad but cleared him of the most serious terrorism charge accusing him of cooperating in the dead
The US Supreme Court upheld a $290 million patent infringement verdict against US software giant Microsoft on Thursday in a closely watched case brought by a small Canadian company.
With well over 2 million people in jail – the U.S. has the world’s biggest prison population. The US has 5% of the worlds population and 25% of the worlds prison population. Now Children are the latest victims of the Prison Industrial complex who a
Louisiana must remove 2 inmates from the solitary confinement they were placed in almost 40 years ago. Albert Woodfox, 64, and Herman Wallace, 69, were placed in "Closed Cell Restriction" in Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) since they were convi
Two Baltimore City police officers convicted of misconduct will not serve jail time. Detectives Tyrone Francis and Milton Smith appeared Wednesday before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Timothy J. Doory, who sentenced them to 18-months suspende
Marion Superior Court Judge Grant Hawkins ruled Tuesday that blood-alcohol evidence in the case of former Indianapolis police Officer David Bisard cannot be used to bring charges of drunken driving, but may be used to support a charge of criminal rec
During deliberations juror 6, wouldn't go along with the program. The others weren't amused. Neither was the judge who, after questioning the jury foreman about the evils committed by Number 6 during deliberations, discharged him from the jury for b
Bradley Franzen, 41, pleaded guilty in a Manhattan court to bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling offenses. Franzen was one of 11 people charged in a crackdown on the 3 largest online poker companies operating in the USA.
The New York Police sent the test results to French authorities on Sunday where they allegedly confirmed the trace. The results are expected to be made public shortly. Mr Strauss-Kahn, 62, who is accused of trying to rape a maid last week in his s
Figures released by the FBI Monday also showed that there were declines in all four categories of violent crime in 2010 and all categories for property crime went down as well. "In a word, remarkable," said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at North
A Brazilian citizen and Sedona father of three has been in jail for 881 days accused of molesting his two sons. We are not identifying him so as to protect his children’s privacy. “Most important to me is my children need to know that didn't h
Citizens are expected to know every law. Break one, and you suffer the consequences. Ignorance is no defense, even when it comes to vague, obscure, or densely-written laws. But when law enforcement officials—the people we pay to enforce the criminal
