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I am the next door neighbor of The Degrootes. Not only is this really occurring I have kept my own log. When the choppers hover my home vibrate and the shaking is so intense I am in fear of a window breaking. I observed these "police officers" in

News Link • Global Reported By sheila pritchett

I am the next door neighbor of The Degrootes. Not only is this really occurring I have kept my own log. When the choppers hover my home vibrate and the shaking is so intense I am in fear of a window breaking. I observed these "police officers" in

News Link • Global Reported By sheila pritchett
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AP/Daniel Lee

Georgia's high court upholds the sentence reduction for Genarlow Wilson and orders his freedom. Wilson has served over two years of a ten year sentence for having consensual oral sex.

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You Tube

After exercising her right to remain silent during a traffic stop, Lauren Canario was arrested, denied bail, held in contempt of court and is still being held in jail in violation of NH State law while awaiting arraignment over three weeks later.

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Arizona Republic

A Superior Court judge set a hearing to determine whether the secret content of a grand-jury investigation into the New Times newspaper should be unsealed. County Attorney Andrew Thomas closed the investigation and dropped the charges

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DALLAS (Reuters)

The judge had initially sent the jurors back to see if the impasse could be broken after a confusing scene when three of the jurors said they had not agreed with the verdicts he had read aloud to the packed courtroom. (WHAAA???)

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Washington Post

Politically motivated officials at the Pentagon have pushed for convictions of high-profile detainees ahead of the 2008 elections, the former lead prosecutor for terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay said last night, adding that the pressure played a pa

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Arizona Republic

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced he was dismissing the case against New Times and no charges would be pursued against the editors and writers involved in the case. He was firing special prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik, who had pursued the

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Phoenix New Times

Joe Arpaio, Andy Thomas and Dennis Wilenchik hit New Times with grand jury subpoenas. The authorities are also using the grand jury subpoenas in an attempt to research the identity, purchasing habits, and browsing proclivities of our online readershi

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Phoenix New Times

Village Voice Media Executive Editor Michael Lacey was released from PHX's 4th Avenue Jail around 4 a.m. this morning after being arrested Thursday evening by plainclothes agents of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. Charged with the misde

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Phoenix New Times

During his tenure, inmates have died needlessly in his jails, and his office has engaged in reckless police operations and Gestapo-like activities against rivals. Such callous disregard for human rights only enhances his reputation as the "tough

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NewsFactor

While the spam conviction is a "proud and successful case for the Justice Department," it serves to illustrate the limits of criminal prosecution on the spam problem, said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle. "It

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by William Grigg

You've been protected and served! Josh Adams displays the wounds of honor he received while attempting to protect his wife from a criminal police assault. The injury was inflicted by a police-issue Maglite flashlight (see photograph of the bloods

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The Oregonian

Frank Waterhouse is suing for unlawful seizure with excessive force, alleging that police fired a Taser and bean bag rounds at him because he was videotaping their search of a friend's property. Police officers followed a police dog onto the prop

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CNN

A jury has refused to convict boot camp employees in the beating death of a 14 year old boy despite video evidence of the accused kicking and punching the boy shortly before he died. No wonder authorities think they can get away with murder. They do

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USA Today

Mychal Bell, 17, had gone to juvenile court in Jena on Thursday expecting another routine hearing. Judge Mauffrey ruled that Bell's arrest in connection with the school beating violated the terms of probation for the earlier convictions. Bell

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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

A man's sweet tooth got the better of him. He stole a doughnut. A single doughnut. Authorities called it strong-arm robbery. The "doughnut man," faces 5 to 15 years in prison. Because he has a prior record, he could get 30 years to li

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