Even when it is caught on camera, even when it gets him fired, it is still nearly impossible to convict a cop for physically abusing a citizen. A judge found former Philadelphia Police Lt. Jonathan Josey not guilty of punching a woman out in the vide
Law enforcement pulled another surprising move recently in the case of Melvin Colon, an alleged gangster from the Bronx, when cops convinced one of his Facebook friends to let them have access to Colon’s page.
Late Monday night a federal judge in New York, Raymond Lohier, granted the Obama administration an “emergency” stay that temporarily blocks a ruling by U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest last week blocking the NDAA.
A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a lower court ruling that would block the federal government from requiring tobacco companies to put graphic anti-smoking images on cigarette packaging.
In most court cases, documents are available to the public, but Judge William Sylvester sealed the Holmes case on July 20 at the request of prosecutors. Major media organizations have asked the judge to unseal the documents, citing the public's right
A girl who was sexually assaulted now faces jail time for talking about it publicly. Savannah Dietrich, 17, could be locked up on contempt-of-court charges for tweeting the names of her attackers after they got a sweetheart plea bargain
For the past six years, Michael Salman and his family and friends have diligently documented every chapter of their fight against the City of Phoenix over a building in the Salman's backyard.
In a YouTube video shot July 9th, 2012, Salman is surro
If the police steal your car, you may eventually get it back — if you’re willing to pay ransom for the privilege of letting a judge decide if the thieves get to keep it permanently.
Coming, as it did, in the shadow of United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' low, craven, belly-crawling, despicable and disgusting betrayal of his oath of office and everything else that the man ever lived by or held sacred
Justice Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court's 4 conservative justices to strike down the heart of Obama's health care reform law, but later changed his position and formed an alliance with liberals to uphold the bulk of the law.
Jury nullification, in which jurors refuse to convict defendants under laws they find objectionable or inappropriately applied, is a favored tactic of many libertarians who, rightly or wrongly perceive individual liberty as, at best, a minority taste
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts jokes that he’s headed for an "impregnable island fortress" to avoid questions about the startling health-care decision he wrote.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor (http://s.tt/1grO3)
A dinosaur skeleton is scheduled to be taken by U.S. authorities on Friday from the custody of an auction house after a judge permitted its seizure for its likely return home to Mongolia.
Heritage Auctions Co-Chairman Jim Halperin said the Dallas-
Wheeler – who was eventually picked for the jury – was even more surprised by the answers. She said yes, but 50 out of 130 jurors said no, they would not convict someone even if it was proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
“I was surprised it was that
While attending Snow College in Ephraim, Utah, Cook and a friend were smoking cigarettes near a parked car when they were accosted by several police officers. Following the standard script, the officers claimed to smell marijuana and demanded to sear
Just 44 percent of Americans approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing and three-quarters say the justices’ decisions are sometimes influenced by their personal or political views, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News.
A federal judge is blocking legislation authorizing the government to indefinitely detain without trial an “individual who was part of or substantially supported” groups “engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners.”
When longtime, prize-winning coal activist Maria Gunnoe went to Washington D.C. to testify to the House Committee on Natural Resources about the horrific water pollution her West Virginia neighbors live with day in and day out, she brought some photo
A federal judge on Thursday blocked key provisions of a Florida law regulating groups that organize voter-registration drives, escalating a debate over newly restrictive voter-access laws that have become a major issue in the presidential campaign.
In a controversial decision already sparking debate around the country, the NY Court of Appeals ruled viewing child pornography online is not a crime. "The purposeful viewing of child pornography on the internet is now legal in New York," Senior Judg
The federal appeals court in Washington has effectively blunted a 2008 Supreme Court decision giving terrorist suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay naval brig the right to contest their confinement.
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