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Category Archives: Current Criminal Justice Headline News
Update: Porn on a Plane — The Grant Smith Story
According to search warrants publicly released this past Friday (January 20), Smith gave local authorities permission to examine his MacBook and iPhone following his November 26 arrest and they found both (clothed) photos of 5-to-10-year-old girls Smith himself had taken, and photos of naked girls in the same age group, … Continue reading
Rick Perry’s Last Minute Appeal
Rick Perry wants the court to put him on the Virginia ballot even though he failed to fulfill the requirements properly and in time. I wonder how many Death Row inmates, during Perry’s years as governor, he pardoned even though they didn’t file their appeals properly and on time.
Posted in Bill Bickel, Managing Editor, Current Criminal Justice Headline News, Editorials, News
Tagged appeals, Death Row, politics
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Another NYC Tourist Arrested For Thinking His Out-of-State Gun Permit is Valid There
“I have three guns in the hotel room. Is that what this is about?” -Fred Vankirk, of Columbus Ohio, as he was being arrested Saturday morning shortly after a room service waiter at the Radisson Hotel spotted two .357 Magnum pistols and a .45 semiautomatic in his room I’ll say … Continue reading
Second Amendment Foundation: Mayor Bloomberg is ”Despicable”
Press Release, January 10, 2012: When Meredith Graves of Tennessee traveled to New York for a job interview last month and was ensnared by New York’s restrictive gun laws, it wasn’t enough that she may face criminal charges for being honest, Mayor Michael Bloomberg had to sully her reputation by … Continue reading
Posted in Current Criminal Justice Headline News, News
Tagged guns, Michael Bloomberg, press releases, Second Amendment
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Should Mister Guilty Get a New Trial?
[The presumption of innocence] is only defeated if, and when, Crown counsel has satisfied you beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Guilty – I’m sorry, that Mr. Wilson – is guilty of the crime charged -Ontario (Canada) Superior Court justice Madam Justice Faye McWatt, in a memorable Freudian slip, during … Continue reading
Posted in Current Criminal Justice Headline News, News, Polls
Tagged Canada, juries, polls, trials
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Passenger Who Helped Subdue ”Underwear Bomber” Sues Airlines For His Injuries
A passenger who helped subdue Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the “Underwear Bomber” who tried to take down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas 2009, is suing Delta Airlines (who owned Northwest at the time) and Air France-KLM for negligence for “allowing a bomber to board their aircraft with an … Continue reading
Posted in Current Criminal Justice Headline News, Lawsuits, News, Polls
Tagged airlines, lawsuits, polls, terrorism
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2012′s New Laws
Yahoo’s list USA Today‘s list Christian Science Monitor’s list Huffington Post’s list Fox News’s list
Posted in Crazy Laws, Current Criminal Justice Headline News, Lighter Side, News
Tagged laws
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Terrorist Cupcakes, Bernard Goetz Aftermath, California Death Penalty, and Abusive Language
Sticks and Stones? Under a proposed British law, words alone can constitute domestic abuse What Bernard Goetz regrets about the death of one of his “victims” This article leaves out an important fact: Goetz shot his would-be muggers in a New York City subway in 1984, when New York City … Continue reading
What’s New With Scott, Michael and Drew Peterson?
Scott Peterson is still ensconced in California’s Death Row after being sentenced to death in 2005 for the murder of his wife Laci. There are updates on two of the other (alleged) wife-killing Petersons, though… Author Michael Peterson, convicted in 2003 of killing his wife Kathleen two years earlier, was … Continue reading
Posted in Current Criminal Justice Headline News, News
Tagged Drew Peterson, Laci Peterson, Michael Peterson, murders, Scott Peterson
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