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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.
Erick Williamson has argued since his October arrest that he should not be punished for being naked in the privacy of his own home. A jury agreed with him Wednesday and acquitted him of all charges.
The tape was played by federal prosecutors at the bond hearing for the 8 Hutaree members. It captures an anti-government rant by a man alleged to be the group's leader. He calls birth certificates, driver's licenses, building permits, and other gove
The United States is classifying the writings and testimony of an alleged terrorist whom interrogators waterboarded dozens of times, possibly in an effort to keep nettlesome CIA secrets under wraps, his attorneys say.
Lawyers for Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Hussein — known more widely by the name Abu Zubaida — say the Pentagon has capriciously classified their client’s writings and statements to investigators, raising questions of why the government has sought to keep Zubaida’s assertions private. They argue, plausibly, that the US’ penchant for secrecy in Zubaida’s case may be linked to efforts to keep controversial intelligence activities out of the public eye.
Have you been accused of a crime in the United States? Are you a grand juror? Have you been selected to serve as a petit juror? Then you need to know this.
My story from our April issue [Reason] is now online. Read it here. Some of the new information not in the online version from last month:
Wow. Sometimes justice comes close to actually happening, but then you think, nawwwww, they're just doing this for my consumption.
With our days as a manufacturing power a wistful memory and the marketing of fraudulent Wall Street "financial products" an self-replenishing source of national outrage, incarceration may soon be our leading national industry.
The Justice Department has granted Minor just three hours today to visit his dying wife in hospice, accompanied by four armed guards. The Department says they consider Minor a "threat" to society, though he was not convicted of a violent cr
Experts say this exclusive video shows a dental examiner creating the bite marks that put a man on death row.
Move over Bob Schulz - there's more than one way to 'skin a cat'.... LETS TRY THEM ALL!
A Broward County judge denied bond to a woman spotted by a Publix shopper pouring an unspecified black liquid into jars of baby food inside the grocery store on the evening of Feb. 12.
Two former U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a fleeing drug smuggler were released from prison Tuesday and allowed to return to their homes in El Paso. Jose Compean, 32, and Ignacio Ramos, 40, served roughly two years of their respec
Michael T. Conahan, appeared in federal court in Scranton, Pa., to plead guilty to fraud for taking more than $2.6 million in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers.
From Glenn Sacks eyes Reese Hopkins case (1/16/09): Columnist and former syndicated talk radio host Glenn Sacks has taken a keen interest in the child rape case against ex-WRKO gabster Reese Hopkins, saying there are “a lot of tangible problems” w
A federal judge in Alexandria ruled yesterday that she would not throw out contempt-of-court charges against former professor Sami al-Arian, who has refused to cooperate with a terrorism investigation, and set his case for trial on March 9.
The Supreme Court said Friday that it will review whether a strip search for prescription-strength Ibuprofen violated a 13-year-old Safford student's constitutional rights.
U.S. prosecutors want a Miami judge to sentence the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 147 years in prison for torturing people when he was chief of a brutal paramilitary unit during his father's reign. [sets precedent -- T. Knapp
