Supervisor Jeff Stone introduced an ordinance this week seeking reimbursements for the cost of jailing inmates that an estimated $143 dollars per day.
Stone told the Riverside Press Enterprise the county could reap as much as a $5 million windfall
In 2008, it was discovered that a supervisor for the Houston Police Department had falsified BAT van inspection records for at least the previous eighteen months, thereby calling into question test results in at least 2,600 cases.
The financial woes of Las Vegas-based copyright trolling firm Righthaven worsened Saturday when one of the defendants it unsuccessfully sued for infringement asked a judge to allow seizure of the firm’s assets
"The reliability of the BAT vans has come into serious question by the chief prosecutor of Harris County herself," declared a defense attorney in a DWI trial. "If they're so unreliable, then why are you prosecuting someone with evidence you deem unre
The case against Chris Geo, who was arrested in August after video recording in front of a FEMA warehouse, was dismissed. Geo was charged with failure to comply with a federal officer after he refused to provide his identification.
Just weeks before fallen hedge fund tycoon Raj Rajaratnam was sentenced to 11 years in prison for insider trading, U.S. prosecutors pressed him to turn on his friend, former Goldman Sachs Group Inc director Rajat Gupta.
The woman’s nightmare began when she called police to report her truck had been taken from in front of her Hawkins Street home. She ended up being arrested for an aggravated assault allegedly committed by another woman named Teresa.
Kansas City's Roman Catholic bishop has been charged with failing to promptly report child pornography on a priest's computer, prosecutors said, becoming the highest-ranking U.S. church official charged in long-running clergy abuse scandals.
On September 30, Judge Doherty handed down a decision in Vidrine v. United States awarding $1.7 million in damages for a malicious prosecution. The facts of what happened are simply appalling, and they deserve wider attention.
The Supreme Court will decide whether a jury forewoman’s offhand comment that the jury was unable to make a decision on a murder charge means the suspect can’t be retried on that charge.
The high court on Tuesday agreed to hear an appeal from Alex
A 52-year-old boxer wrongly imprisoned for 26 years is fighting his first professional match on Saturday.
Dewey Bozella was convicted of the grisly murder of a 92-year-old New York woman in 1977 on the testimony of two convicted criminals. Since h
Domestic abuse can involve real violence, with real victims. But drug cases, with no real victims, allows for property to be forfeited and money seized.
Nearly every day, we read about new exonerations of people wrongfully convicted of crimes, and in almost all of those cases, the main reason for the wrongful conviction was prosecutorial misconduct. Two exonerations in Texas and California highlight
The last decade has spawned a massive expansion of the domestic Surveillance State. Worse, the U.S. Government has vested itself with the virtually unchallenged ability to operate this surveillance regime in full secrecy and even beyond the reach of
I heard the Magistrate ask EVERY TIME, if the defendant was a U.S. Citizen. Clearly, this is an important component to the equation of sending we, the people, off to the growing number of courts, jails, and prisons...
It’s interesting that the local DA dropped the charges in this case. But only after the guy spent a night in jail.
“I’m just an ordinary citizen. I was on my way to the movies, and all of a sudden I’m facing a felony and 15 years in prison,” F
The leader of anti-government extremists known as the Montana Freemen, who clashed with federal authorities in the 1990s, died on Tuesday of apparent natural causes at the U.S. government's highest-security prison.
Leroy Schweitzer, 73, was found
A study says those lineups you see on television crime dramas and often used in real-life police departments are going about it all wrong questioning the reliability of eyewitness identifications with DNA evidence clearing innocents of crimes
Dominique Strauss-Kahn broke his silence four months after a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault, calling his encounter with the woman a “moral failing” he deeply regrets, but insisting in an interview on French television Sunday that n
Wendy Olson, the “Justice” Department’s commissarina for legal affairs in Idaho, has dropped criminal charges against Jeremy Hill, the heroic father who shot and killed a grizzly bear that threatened his family. This wasn't done in recognition of Jer
My client was found not guilty by a Chicago jury on 2 counts of attempt first degree murder [on cops] with a firearm, 2 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm to a police officer [whom he shot], and 4 counts of Armed Violence. My client was 23 a
Three supervisors of the US government’s controversial anti-gun-running program “Fast and Furious” were promoted by the ATF despite continued criticism of their actions, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
Casey Anthony must return to Orlando within two weeks to serve a year's probation for check fraud, a Florida judge ruled. Anthony's attorneys had argued that she served her probation while in jail awaiting trial in her murder case and requiring her t
Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for sexually assaulting two underage followers he took as brides in what his church deemed "spiritual marriages."
The head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of La
The people in charge of the major networks are evil, gutless cowards. So, who are these people, and where do they live? What are their home phone numbers, and how can you show them some justice?
A federal indictment states Dawkins started to fill out a passport application in 2004, didn't complete it, then filled out a new application 2 years later. On that new application, he checked "no" for "Have you ever applied before?"
The Renton City Prosecutor wants to send a cartoonist to jail for mocking the police department in a series of animated Internet videos.
The "South-Park"-style animations parody everything from officers having sex on duty to certain personnel gett
A Bloomington man is facing possible jail time, accused of breaking a city ordinance that prohibits residents from feeding wild animals.
In Bloomington, it is legal to use bird feeders — as long as they are 5 feet off the ground. Neighbors and the
Eleven-year-old aspiring veterinarian, Skylar Capo, sprang into action the second she learned that a baby woodpecker in her Dad's backyard was about to be eaten by the family cat.
"I've just always loved animals," said Skylar Capo. "I couldn't sta