December 5th, 2011 Lawsuits against Carrier IQ (CIQ), HTC America and Samsung are stacking up, claiming that the defendant companies unlawfully intercepted and collected personal messages from millions of private mobile phones, handsets and smartphones. So far, three diffe...
October 19th, 2011 Here is a list of Top Ten DUI do's, provided by San Diego Criminal Attoney Anna R. Yum, to remember if you get pulled over for suspicion of DUI. A million thoughts are racing through your mind as you see the red and blue flashing lights in your rear view ...
November 19th, 2008 A man, suspected of being involved in the death of an FBI agent in Indianola, Pennsylvania is facing felony charges. According to reports, the FBI agent, Sam Hicks, was shot and killed while serving a warrant, Nov. 19. Suspect Indicted for Drug Trafficki...
November 5th, 2008 New York police are still on the search for the person responsible for a hit and run accident that left a pedestrian severely injured Nov. 4. According to reports, Antonio Romano, 55, was either getting in or out of his parked car in Staten Island, NY w...
November 3rd, 2008 A man living in Bennington, Vermont is facing life in prison for drug charges. Jerry E. Merrow, who was charged with a felony count of possession of marijuana in September, was arraigned Oct. 28 for new drug charges. Merrow’s new charges include: ...
October 29th, 2008 A Florida police officer was arrested Oct. 28 on a charge of fleeing the scene of an accident and on DUI charges. According to reports, Officer Christopher John Sutherlin was speeding down a Florida highway when he slammed his truck into the back of anoth...
October 28th, 2008 Two people arrested on drug charges in Maryland have been convicted of misdemeanors, rather than felonies, due to lack of investigation prior to their arrests. A third person arrested on drug charges was fully acquitted. The three individuals include:...
October 27th, 2008 A 22-year-old Fairfax man was sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of DUI involuntary manslaughter. Christopher Plaiser crashed his car Nov. 28, 2007 after having drinks with his buddies at a few local bars. One Passenger Died, an...
October 24th, 2008 More than 60 members of the Mongol Motorcycle Club, a Southern California-based biker gang, were arrested on murder, torture and drug charges. While the members argue they are nothing more than a social club, authorities disagree, accusing them of regular...
October 7th, 2008 Former child actor, Skylar Deleon, 29, is facing the possibility of the death penalty for his role in the murders of Tom and Jackie Hawks, a middle aged couple from Arizona. Deleon is known for having briefly acted on the 1990s children show entitled the ...
October 2nd, 2008 Darnell Hartsfield, a 47-year old Texan, was recently convicted on five counts of murder for slayings that occurred at an East Texas Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1983. After the two weeks it took to present both sides of this case, it took less than two hour...
September 29th, 2008 Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, 53, the former third-highest ranking officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud on Sept. 29 as part of his plea agreement, with prosecutors dropping the other 27 counts against ...
September 24th, 2008 A woman was arrested in Northridge, Los Angeles, Sept. 23, for failing to stop after hitting and killing a woman who was walking across the crosswalk. Marcia Roberts, 42, was reportedly found in her car blocks from the scene. She was arrested and booked ...
September 17th, 2008 Tampa Bay resident Timothy Baker, 32, was arrested Sept. 16 after breaking into a Hillsborough boat shop and attempting to steal a $100,000 boat and trailer. According to the reports, Baker was under the influence of alcohol and had cocaine in his possess...
September 16th, 2008 On Sept. 11, a Knoxville, Tennessee jury convicted Eric McLean, 33 of reckless homicide for fatally shooting his wife Erin’s young lover, Sean Powell. The prosecution in his trial was seeking a first-degree murder conviction, which can carry a life ...
August 14th, 2008 The Archdiocese of Chicago announced on Tuesday a $12.6 million dollar settlement with 16 victims of sexual abuse, bringing the total paid by the archdiocese over such claims in the last thirty years to $65 million. Approximately 250 sex abuse claims hav...
July 22nd, 2008 A woman who was recently charged with a DUI has taken action and filed a lawsuit against city of Gulfport and the police officer who arrested her. The woman claims she was accused of drunk driving after blowing a 0.0 twice on a breath test and passing a...
July 16th, 2008 A three judge panel rejected residency restrictions sought by various New Jersey municipalities against sex offenders, citing that local ordinances would conflict with the state’s version of Megan’s Law. Of the more than 100 towns and municip...
July 1st, 2008 A settlement was recently reached in the case involving two hotel owners who were accused of credit card fraud. The two men, who own a Holiday Inn in Joliet, IL, were supposedly falsely charged by the Will County Sheriff’s Department. Busines...
June 26th, 2008 The Supreme Court ruled in favor of individual gun rights today in a case involving a handgun ban in the District of Columbia. Washington D.C. has the strictest gun laws in the nation, banning private ownership of handguns even when kept in the home for...
June 25th, 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional in child rape cases, citing the ban against cruel and unusual punishment. It has been over 30 years since the high court’s last ruling on whether a crime that doesn’t result i...
June 19th, 2008 In a 7-2 ruling, the Supreme Court decided that it does not violate the Constitution to deny mentally ill criminal defendants the right to represent themselves in cases where they’ve been deemed fit to stand trial. The Case at Issue At issue was ...
June 5th, 2008 The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the defense on Monday in a case involving a Mexican national who was convicted of money laundering after authorities discovered $81,000 hidden in his car in 2004. The Case Humberto Cuellar was heading for the Mexican...
June 4th, 2008 A landmark in New York City’s Central Park recently settled in a suit filed against them for sexual and racial discrimination. The suit was filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Tavern on the Green. Restaurant Manager Accu...
May 20th, 2008 The Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 vote yesterday that a strict federal child pornography does not violate the First Amendment right to free speech. Free Expression activists and other groups had asked the high court to overturn the law, which falls under ...
May 13th, 2008 The United States ranks as having less than five percent of the world’s population, but recent reports have shown that the U.S. is home to the highest number of prisoners in the world. Many believe that this newly revealed statistic is a clear r...
April 18th, 2008 In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the lethal injection method used for executions in Kentucky does not violate the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The decision opens the way for states to resume e...
April 3rd, 2008 Florida’s House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill to increase the penalties for individuals convicted of murder or attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. Mandatory Life Imprisonment Under the proposed measure, a life sentence w...
March 26th, 2008 The Missouri Senate recently endorsed an amendment that would require the names of thousands of former sex offenders to be added to the state registry. In June 2006, the state Supreme Court ruled that those convicted of sex offenses prior to January 1995...
March 6th, 2008 The federal government announced yesterday that they have recently received hundreds of court orders reducing the sentences for crack cocaine offenders. More prisoners are having their sentences reduced since the new sentencing guidelines were impleme...
February 26th, 2008 A Kennebec County jury has acquitted a woman charged with operating under the influence (OUI) after determining that she broke the law to avoid sexual assault. “The law says you can break the OUI law if it’s necessary to avoid imminent physi...
January 30th, 2008 The governor of Connecticut wants to crackdown on underage drinking with a proposal that would mandate substance abuse counseling and a minimum year-long license suspension for teens convicted of DUI. “We need to put teeth into our laws that will deter t...
December 27th, 2007 More than $15 million in damages was recently awarded to an Illinois man and his wife in a highly publicized civil rights case. The verdict is believed to be the largest ever of its kind to be handed down in the state. Kevin Fox was arrested in 2004 for ...
December 14th, 2007 The New Jersey legislature voted this week in favor of a bill to abolish capital punishment. Governor Jon Corzine, an opponent of the death penalty, is expected to sign the bill into law. Capital punishment in the U.S. has been declining in recent years....
December 10th, 2007 In a 7-2 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that judges may use their discretion when imposing sentences in crack cocaine cases. Judges were previously strictly bound by federal sentencing guidelines that required harsher sentences for possession of crack than...
December 3rd, 2007 A former employee of the Public Regulation Commission in New Mexico was recently awarded $840,000 in damages in a sexual harassment lawsuit. “I have never known what to expect,” said plaintiff Wyla Green, adding that she was happy it was over...
November 26th, 2007 The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the highly controversial Second Amendment issue of gun control in an appeals case stemming from the District of Columbia, where gun-control laws are among the strictest in the nation. Decades-Old Gun Law Struck Down...
November 8th, 2007 The Texas Court of Appeals recently created an emergency filing system for e-mails in hopes that they won't have a repeat of the execution process that has raised national concern. New System Causes Buzz The new system was put into effect after the cr...
October 29th, 2007 A recent case in which a Baltimore County judge barred the use of fingerprint evidence in a homicide trial reflects a growing concern about the reliability of the long-used identification technique. In her ruling, Judge Susan M. Souder described fingerpr...
October 2nd, 2007 A tough new law tripling the maximum penalties for certain sex crimes in Florida took effect on Monday. Soliciting sex from a minor and possessing child pornography will now carry up to a 15-year sentence, whereas before those crimes carried a sentence of...
September 18th, 2007 One of the nation's toughest DUI laws will be enacted tonight at midnight in Arizona. Under the new law, first time DUI offenders will be required to have an ignition-interlock device installed in their car and offenders whose blood-alcohol level is .20 o...
September 6th, 2007 Law enforcement officials across the United States are conducting sting operations to net prostitutes who trade sex for money using Craigslist.org, a popular website that allows users to post and search advertisements—most commonly for jobs and sale items...
August 24th, 2007 A New York City councilman proposed legislation yesterday that would make nonconsensual 'voyeurism' a misdemeanor crime in the state of New York. He was prompted to write the new bill after complaints from women in his Queens district about a man standing...
August 16th, 2007 Brooke Astor, a famed New York socialite and philanthropist, gave away nearly $195 million from the Astor Foundation to various charities in her lifetime. She passed away Monday at the age of 105 after months of declining health and dementia. There is alr...
August 3rd, 2007 Because of a legal loophole created by the federal government, only U.S. Attorney offices can prosecute a non-Indian person who commits a crime against an Indian person on reservation land. This has led to a multitude of tragic results for Indian populati...
July 16th, 2007 The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay a $660 million settlement to 508 individuals with claims of sexual abuse against 221 priests, lay teachers, brothers, and other church employees. The Archdiocese also finally agreed to release the ...
July 12th, 2007 The Los Angeles Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church is expected to reach a settlement agreement soon regarding about 570 claims that the Diocese failed to protect children from sexual abuse by Catholic priests. The settlement would head off the first tri...
July 11th, 2007 Three bills aimed at reducing the number of wrongful convictions in California's criminal justice system passed a vote in the state's Assembly Public Safety committee yesterday, and will head to the Appropriations Committee next. The bills have already pa...
June 25th, 2007 The City Attorney for Los Angeles, Rocky Delgadillo, prosecuted heiress Paris Hilton in her recent suspended license and drunk driving cases, and now Delgadillo is apologizing for his wife's driving arrest warrant and his own misdeeds while in public offi...
June 12th, 2007 A federal lawsuit against the city of Frostproof, Florida by a former assistant city manager was settled recently for $340,000. Stella Heath contended that she was sexually harassed in the workplace by former City Manger Elly Johnson in 2005, and that af...
May 18th, 2007 Three Rochester, New York-area funeral home directors are among the seven individuals charged this week with body stealing, unlawful dissection, and other counts related to the illegal removal of skin, bone, and other body parts from corpses. Jason Gano, ...
May 15th, 2007 Governor Eliot Spitzer proposed that the state’s current database of DNA samples be expanded to include samples from people convicted of nearly any crime, including misdemeanors such as unauthorized use of a credit card, harassment, and minor drug offense...
May 2nd, 2007 South Carolina legislators are seeking to pass a bill that would make it easier for law enforcement officials to make DUI arrests and implement stricter penalties for repeat offenders. “What I understand prosecutors and law enforcement want is to punish...
April 24th, 2007 The three-drug lethal injection method used to execute U.S. inmates sometimes fails to properly work, resulting in painful and slow deaths that most likely violate the constitutional ban against cruel and unusual punishment, according to a new analysis of...
March 22nd, 2007 An ex-convict is suing the state Department of Correctional Services for delaying his parole based on information that should not have been considered. Raymond Stalley was convicted of DWI and imprisoned. He behaved well in jail and was supposed to be e...
March 5th, 2007 A recent study found that contrary to popular belief, in the United States, neither legal nor illegal immigrants raise crime rates in the populations them move into. The study was conducted by Washington’s Immigration Policy Center. Study Results...
January 31st, 2007 This is especially troubling because in many jurisdictions, once domestic violence charges have been pressed, legal proceedings will continue even if the person who pressed the charges drops them. “A Culture of False Allegations” “False allegations of...
January 24th, 2007 The United States Supreme Court has struck down the criminal sentencing law that allowed judges rather than juries to increase or decrease sentences. This decision could result in the adjustment of thousands of sentences for people currently in jail. Th...
January 11th, 2007 A study has found that those who have recently been released from prisons are at significantly higher risk of dying than those still in jail and those in the general population. The death rate for former prisoners was about four times higher than that o...
December 27th, 2006 The family of a woman who was killed in a hit-and-run accident won a $1 million lawsuit against the driver and Rockland County. The victim Stacy Gersten had a mild developmental disability and was 48 when a vehicle on a county road struck her on her wa...
December 19th, 2006 During the first six months of 2006, the rate of robberies and murders across the nation rose, according to preliminary FBI statistics, indicating that the lull in crime in the United States between 2001 and 2004 has come to an end. Furthermore, the vio...
October 10th, 2006 A Compton man suspected of car theft and beaten by a law enforcement official after leading them in a car chase, will receive a $450,000 settlement from the city of Los Angeles, according to his attorney. In June 2004, Stanley Miller, 39, was struck 11 ...
September 6th, 2006 A North Carolina appellate court ruled that a man convicted of cocaine possession after police shined a flashlight down his pants during a search should be granted a new trial because the search violated his legal rights. The court decision terminates a...
September 6th, 2006 A North Carolina appellate court ruled that a man convicted of cocaine possession after police shined a flashlight down his pants during a search should be granted a new trial because the search violated his legal rights. The court decision terminates a...
August 11th, 2006 A man who spent almost seven years in prison after a negligent fingerprint match falsely linked him to a police shooting, was awarded a $3.2 million settlement by the city of Boston in a wrongful conviction case. Stephan Cowans, 35, spent 6 ½...
July 19th, 2006 A ruling handed down by a federal judge in Missouri said that the state must allow pregnant inmates to have abortions, adding that it must also provide female prisoners with transportation to an apprA ruling handed down by a federal judge in Missouri said...
June 28th, 2006 Since its inception in 2003, the Ohio Innocence Project – a program run through the University of Cincinnati School of Law – has helped to exonerate several inmates who were convicted of crimes they didn''t commit. The nonprofit program uses new DNA tec...
March 22nd, 2006 The wife of a professor who was killed in a drunk driving accident last year filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the local restaurant where the drunk driver was employed and drank alcohol that night. John P. Manzer, 59, was leaving a drugstore around...
January 9th, 2006 In the latest development in Iowa’s growing convict abuse charges, three female convicts claiming that they had been sexually abused by a prison guard while incarcerated have been awarded $160,000 in damages. The prison guard, Kenneth Parrot, who worke...
January 5th, 2006 CIS Internet Services, an Internet Service Provider based in Clinton, Iowa has successfully sued a Florida man for a record $11.2 billion. The suit sought damages for Internet spam emails and illegal advertising. The man, James McCalla, was found guilty...
December 27th, 2005 The ACLU is targeting the state of Minnesota and in particular the city of Minneapolis over what the civil rights group says is a gross violation of a person''s constitutional rights. The case centers on Minneapolis area red-light runner cameras that have...
December 22nd, 2005 Daniel Doll, a San Diego area man who was paralyzed over two years ago by a falling movie theater sign settled his injury lawsuit for $12.7 million recently. The man had jumped on top of a 4-year-old girl he was babysitting in order to protect her from th...
December 19th, 2005 A group of protesters who sued Humboldt County, California Law Enforcement officials have been awarded $750,000 this past Saturday. The lawsuit stemmed from an incident in 1997 when several protesters had “chained” themselves together and refused to leave...
December 2nd, 2005 Researchers have reported the more marijuana a driver smokes before driving, the more likely they will be involved in a fatal crash. The study was a population-based, case-controlled study of more than 9,000 drivers with known drug and alcohol blood conce...
October 27th, 2005 This Halloween new laws will go into effect throughout the country that limit the exposure paroled-sex criminals have to children who are trick-or-treating. The laws either keep the parolees indoors for the night, or keep them from even answering their d...
October 27th, 2005 This Halloween new laws will go into effect throughout the country that limit the exposure paroled-sex criminals have to children who are trick-or-treating. The laws either keep the parolees indoors for the night, or keep them from even answering their d...
October 27th, 2005 In a decision with national implications a six-member jury in New York found the Port Authority guilty of negligence in guarding the World Trade Center from terrorist attacks. The case revolved around the 1993 bombing that killed six people and resulted ...
October 21st, 2005 The latest bill banning lawsuits against gun makers and sellers has been approved by the US Congress and is now being sent to President Bush where he is expected to eagerly sign it. The President long called for the ban on lawsuits against gun manufactur...
October 13th, 2005 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyers were awarded $80 thousand in a recent settlement with the city of St. Louis, Missouri over a controversial homeless “sweep” by the police in that city during the July 4th celebrations of 2004. The city agre...
October 5th, 2005 A Columbus, Ohio man’s parents have filed a $5.5 million civil lawsuit against a man they say murdered their son. The parents are also bringing a lawsuit against the Franklin County Coroner’s office in order to challenge their findings that their son com...
October 4th, 2005 A controversial new law took effect in Florida this past Saturday regarding gun defenses. The so-called “stand your ground” law says that if someone confronts you, then you have the right to use a gun or other violence to act in self-defense. The person...
October 3rd, 2005 A federal judge recently allowed a lawsuit to take place against the East Haven, Connecticut police department. The lawsuit alleges that the police department failed to protect a woman from her estranged husband, who shot and killed her in July of 2000. ...
September 30th, 2005 Massachusetts lawmakers are debating over the fine points of new DUI legislation called “Melanie’s Bill,” after a 13-year-old girl killed by a repeat drunk driver. The debate centers over strict rules that many in the Massachusetts government believe viol...
September 22nd, 2005 Two separate real estate agencies, Patricia Forgione''s Realty Network Inc. in Eastchester, NY, and Green Tree Realty and Relocation Company Inc. in White Plains, NY, were monitored by a Westchester county government agency after complaints about racial d...
September 19th, 2005 The small Texas town of Dalworthington Gardens recently began having police officers take blood samples of suspected drunk drivers. Officials in the town maintain that the new policy will speed up blood alcohol level results and arrests in drunk driving ...
August 9th, 2005 Health care advocates urged New York Gov. George Pataki to sign a bill that would repeal a law allowing auto insurers to deny coverage for medical bills of drunken drivers injured in car accidents. According to proponents, the repeal would aid hospit...
June 7th, 2005 The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed with a group of sex offenders who challenged the current Florida laws requiring sex offenders register with the state after getting out of prison and submitting DNA samples. Enacted after the 1994 ...
May 24th, 2005 The New York State Senate has passed several bills in attempts to protect state residents from drivers impaired by drugs or alcohol. The comprehensive package of legislation would increase penalties for repeat drunk drivers, increase penalties for dru...
May 16th, 2005 The Charlotte Observer has reported that judges in three North Carolina coastal counties acquitted suspected DWI offenders at a rate more than double the state average over a period of more than four years. According to the newspaper report, a group of...
May 7th, 2005 The Pentagon announced yesterday that the number of reported sexual assaults in the military grew in 2004, and that number is expected to continue rising next year in response to new policies intended to remove barriers to victims coming forward. In ...
March 26th, 2005 According to research by federal prosecutors in Boston, sexual assault on airplanes is much more common than realized. In court papers filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney John T. McNeil, the most common type of sexual assault on airplanes is touching wome...
February 9th, 2005 Rep. Timothy Hutchinson, R-Lowell, agreed to postpone discussions of his bill that would stiffen drug possession penalties for pregnant Arkansas women. Intended to deter the pregnant women from taking drugs, Hutchinson agreed to postpone the discussi...
February 9th, 2005 Prosecutors are urging lawmakers to tighten loopholes in Iowa’s drug possession laws after Iowa’s highest court threw out a pair of drug convictions because they said prosecutors did not have enough evidence. Opponents of the proposed drug possession...
February 8th, 2005 A bill filed yesterday in the Arkansas House of Representatives by Rep. Michael Lamoureux, R-Russellville, would allow felons convicted of drug possession to be eligible for parole after serving one-sixth to one-half of their sentences. The bil...
February 7th, 2005 Two Oklahoma state lawmakers are proposing a bill to increase first time DUI convictions to a felony if a child age 13 or younger is in the vehicle. first time Oklahoma DUI is currently a misdemeanor with a fine of up to $1,000, up to one year in...
January 31st, 2005 A newly formed Department of Defense Joint Task Force for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response was set up after a report was released last April from the Department of Defense’s Task Force on Care for Victims of Sexual Assault that called for the mili...
January 31st, 2005 New Jersey has required ignition locks on vehicles of repeat DWI offenders’ cars since 2001, but now first-time offenders may have to submit to the same penalties. First-time offenders could be ordered to install the pricey ignition locks on the ...
January 30th, 2005 Child health care officials and defense lawyers and prosecutors are alarmed that a Texas agency that examines and counsels abused children has stopped videotaping sexual assault examinations at its clinic despite the tapes’ potential to help authorities u...
January 13th, 2005 The Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision that U.S. immigration authorities cannot indefinitely detain illegal aliens convicted of crimes in this country who have completed their prison sentences. The order was in response to court c...
January 13th, 2005 United States Attorney General Michael J. Sullivan announced today a major reorganization of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney''s Office, marking the first major reorganization of the mechanism of federal criminal law enforceme...
November 15th, 2004 Nearly 10,000 signatures and letters in support of passing tougher New York drunk driving laws will be given to state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver by two Queens mothers November 16. The stricter New York DWI laws are in response to a man being...
April 2nd, 2004 The case against former Tyco executives accused of stealing $600 million from the company ended in a mistrial because of one holdout juror. Ex-CEO Dennis Kozlowski and ex-CFO Mark Swartz will likely face a retrial in the case that became one of the highes...
March 24th, 2004 An article titled "The Link Between Pornography and Violent Sex Crimes" on a Web site of Morality in Media has cited evidence of a casual connection between pornography and violent sex crimes. Evidence used in the articles was taken from interviewers and ...
February 11th, 2004 The Utah House is currently pursuing a bill that would cut the state''s legal drinking limit for drivers with children in their vehicles to half that of those who are driving alone or with other adults. House Bill 128, sponsored by Rep. Dana...
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