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Reputed mob hitman Frank "The German" Schweihs -- once among the most feared men in the Chicago Outfit -- wasted little time Tuesday showing that the cancer that ravaged his body has not softened his... Continue reading at The Chicago Syndicate

ex-Supreme Team member Victor Wright was sentenced to LIFE in prison for dealing what prosecutors says was ‘massive amounts of cocaine.’ As you may remember Wright brandished a razor and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

In response to my survey of starting salaries for entry level positions at district attorney’s offices around Texas, one of my readers wrote in asking whether it was worth going through three years of law school to become a prosecutor. I’m posting my answer here so that others can add their thoughts and comments on [...]

Essex County Prosecutor Paula T. Dow and Belleville Police Chief Joseph Rotonda announced the arrest of Terreke Branch, 31, of Newark, by members of the Essex County Prosecutor’s V.I.P.E.R. Task Force, the Belleville Police Department Narcotics Squad and U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE).Branch was charged with 3rd-degree possession of cocaine and heroin, 1st-degree possession of co

An Orange elementary school principal has been indicted for allegedly arranging to have her vehicle set on fire in order to collect insurance proceeds, Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow said.Amanda Wright-Stafford, 51, of Hillside, was charged by a grand jury yesterday with 2nd degree aggravated arson, 2nd degree insurance fraud and 3rd degree attempted theft by deception. If convicted of the char

UPDATE: CASE DISMISSED: Katie M. Frawley, a 26 year old teacher and Maureen E. Van Vechten, a 36 year old teacher who both had previously been charged with 'unlawfully dealing with a child' have been cleared of all charges. The case against them dismissed.According to reports, the teachers who had been accused of providing alcohol to a minor were able to produce evidence disputing the allegation

The Essex County Prosecutor's Office will host its ninth "World Against Violence" Youth Conference (WAV #9): “Be The Best Friend Forever You Can Be To Yourself” for approximately 400 invited students from various Essex County middle schools on Friday, May 16.The goal of the one-day summit is to engage public school students in grades 6 through 8 from Essex County in a one day symposium on the

This morning the Washington Post reports that the military commission set up to try terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay is moving at a glacier pace, and is unlikely to try any of the 9/11 suspects before George W. Bush leaves office. Efforts to bring detainees before a court within the framework of the ramshackle 2006 Military Commission Act have been wrought with legal challenges and delays, over the rules of the proceedings, over whether evidence obtained using torture is admissible, over whether waterboarding is torture, over whether defense attorneys can access classified information that helps their clients, and even over basic technical elements like courtroom interpreting. In seven years, not a single detainee at Guantanamo has seen a trial. The first full case, of Osama Bin Laden'

JACKASS! (link) DOVER, N.J. - New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor told a Latino group it’s a civil offense _ not a crime _ for immigrants to live in the country without proper documentation, a comment that a spokesman later said was aimed at a narrowly worded question.U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie, widely considered to be a leading [...]

Two teens arrested in connection with the Mount Vernon schoolyard slayings last August in Newark will be tried as adults, Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow announced recently.Shahid Baskerville, 16, of Morristown, and Gerardo Gomez, 15, of Newark, were waived up to adult court last week by Essex County Superior Court Judge James G. Troiano of the Family Division.Baskerville has been charged with 20 criminal offenses including three counts of murder, four counts of robbery, one count of conspiracy to commit robbery, three counts of felony murder, one count of attempted murder, three counts of aggravated sexual assault, one count of aggravated criminal sexual contact, one count of unlawful possession of a weapon (machete), one count of possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose (machete)

Carla Del Ponte, the ex-chief prosecutor for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, has unleashed a storm of recrimination with allegations of a trade in human body parts in Kosovo and Albania after Nato bombed Serbia in 1999. Del Ponte claims, based on what she describes as credible reports and witnesses, that Kosovan Albanian guerrillas transported hundreds of Serbian prisoners into northern Albania where they were killed, and their organs "harvested" and trafficked out of Tirana airport. The Kosovan government, now headed by the former guerrilla leader Hashim Thaci, dismisses the claims as untrue, while Serbia and Russia are demanding a war crimes investigation into the allegations. Del Ponte, now a Swiss ambassador, has been ordered to keep silent by the Swiss government. The allega

Gracias a la web Famitsu, nos llega el primer trailer de este Perfect Prosecutor: Miles Edgeworth que es un spin off (por decirlo de alguna forma) de la saga de abogados de Capcom, en donde nos pondremos basicamente en la piel del fiscal Miles Edgeworth y su fiel escudero Dick Gumshoe, con la finalidad de hacer como que no vemos las pruebas, y de alguna manera escurrir el bulto.Tengo fe en la compañia y espero ver un gran juego, pienso que el cambio de visión en los juicios puede dar mucho de si, y ya veremos si no se convierte en una rama importante dentro de la saga.

Revelado recentemente na famitsu, mais especificamente ontem, o novo jogo da capcom da franquia do phoenix writgh, mas dessa vez vendo o outro lado, do seu rival: Miles Edgeworth.Tem um boato que fala que as tradicionais cenas nos tribunais não estarão presentes e somente as partes de investigação, onde junto com o detetive Gumshoe, Miles irá resolver os casos. Mas ainda nada está confirmado. Fiquem com as scans da famitsu.Scans:Quase lá, só mais uma noticia por enquanto. Obrigado!Obrigado por utilizar nosso feed!

Esto ha sido toda una sorpresa la verdad, yo que solo podia esperar el quinto capitulo de la saga Phoenix Wright para Nintendo Ds, me encuentro con que Capcom nos sorprende con un spin off tambien para la portatil y menudo spin off, porque cambia radicalmente el punto de vista de quien manejaremos y parece que incluso parte del sistema de juego. Perfect Prosecutor: Miles Edgeworth (aún no tengo confirmado si sera solo Perfect Prosecutor o si tendra la coletilla del abogado), nos pondrá en la piel de Miles Edgeworth que era el fiscal que ya todos conocereis (para mi uno de los mejores personajes que he podido ver) y tambien de el despistado Dick Gumshoe que era el policia de la comisaria. Aquí os dejo algunas caracteristicas adicionales y los scans de la revista Famitsu

VP backs legal action against prosecutor Vice President Jusuf Kalla said Tuesday the dismissed deputy attorney general for special crimes, Kemas Yahya Rahman, deserved punishment for his possible link with a major bribery case. Kalla said Kemas should be held responsible as the supervisor of state prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan, who was arrested for allegedly accepting a [...]

VP backs legal action against prosecutor Vice President Jusuf Kalla said Tuesday the dismissed deputy attorney general for special crimes, Kemas Yahya Rahman, deserved punishment for his possible link with a major bribery case. Kalla said Kemas should be held responsible as the supervisor of state prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan, who was arrested for allegedly accepting a [...]

It’s with a heavy heart that I say that disgraced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer must resign. Recent allegations that he was ‘Client 9’ to high-dollar prostitution service Emperors Club VIP irreparably sullen the image that Spitzer had worked his entire career to cultivate: Mr. Clean, the noble knight riding in on the white steed [...]

From today's Arab News : The six-year-long saga of Saudi businessman Yassin Abdullah Al-Qadi, who was accused by US authorities of funding terrorism, has ended with the Swiss federal prosecutor exonerating him of all charges. According to a report carried by Al-Watan newspaper yesterday, judicial authorities in Switzerland have closed the case against Al-Qadi after investigations that lasted for six years and two months. The judgment issued by a court in Geneva on Dec. 13 said it had not found any...(read more)

The American Civil Liberties Union has called for a special prosecutor to investigate the destruction of the CIA interrogation tapes. The full letter is available here. The letter outlines ten reasons why the Senate should ask for an independent prosecutor. (Sorry for those going through withdrawal during the writer’s strike–this is not a Letterman-like top ten list). The ACLU’s ten reasons are: There is credible evidence of numerous federal crimes Attempts to shield government officials from criminal prosecution were pursued by the White House, including by the president and vice president Attorney General Mukasey still refuses to say whether waterboarding and other forms of torture are illegal The current head of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department was in meetings on interrogations The past head of the Criminal Division reportedly advised on interrogation practices, possibly including the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah The Justice Department wrote th

There’s a national organization of some sort today who’s name slips my mind and I can’t be assed to go look for it because I’m cooking as I do this post and I’m afraid the extra effort might just cause my arms to fall off. They gave parents a grade of C- when it comes to being involved in what video games kids are playing these days. I agree, and as I’ve always stated, it greatly amuses me when people blame video games for teaching children wrongs yet never do they answer where the parents are. That copy of Manhunt 2 just walked out of that glass case and hitched a ride to your house did it? Now we’ve got a prosecutor in Detroit named Kym Worthy who says in regards to video games and that city’s skyrocketing crime rate: “It’s no wonder we’re seeing the crimes we’re seeing lately.” She also disclosed a list today of ten video games parents shouldn’t buy for their kids because if they do their child wi

Jack Banas, the St. Charles County prosecutor who announced that no charges would be filed over the Megan Meier Internet hoax, answered some questions yesterday about why no charges would be forthcoming.But he did not put an end to all the questions in the public's mind. And he was not the only one who commented on the story yesterday.---BREAKING:Drew's Lawyer: Drew Knew, Didn't Stop It VIDEO REPORTA blogger claiming to be Lori Drew posted "I'm Lori Drew" yesterday and engaged, for several hours in a running argument with readers who commented.Whether it was really Lori Drew or not, it was one of the only places that was arguing another side to the Megan Meier story--albeit, not very effectively.After looking over press accounts of the report yesterday by the prosecutor, we picked out what might be some items for the defense of Lori Drew in the public's mind.They were among the reasons that Banas stated no criminal behavior had taken place among the hoaxers that he could find.We p

Prosecutor won’t bring charges in MySpace suicide - CNN.com “There is no way that anybody could know that talking to someone or saying that you’re mean to your friends on the Internet would create a substantial risk,” Banas said. “It certainly created a potential risk and, unfortunately for the Meiers, that potential became reality. But under [...]

From The New York Crank Blog The New York Crank: Prosecutor and criminal investigator, discredited by various authors for outrageous prosecutions, decide to sue, sue, sue, sue, sue everybodyMore from The New York Crank Blogger..So Prosecutor Peterson, along with former Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation gumshoe Gary Rogers are suing in an Oklahoma Federal court. According to the September 28th issue of the Tulsa, OK, World, their laundry-list of defendants against charges of libel and slander include:•John Grisham, author of “The Innocent Man.”•Robert Mayer, author of “The Dreams of Ada.”•Dennis Fritz, the author of “Journey Toward Justice.”•Barry Scheck, one of Fritz’s lawyers who helped exonerate him, and a co-author of “Actual Innocence,” that discusses the case of Williamson and Fritz.•The Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, publisher of “The Innocent Man” and “Actual Innocence.”•Random House Inc., which owns Doubleday Dell.•Broadway Books, publis

Dennis Fritz Video The Kansas City News Channel Video click here KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A local man who spent 11 years in an Oklahoma prison for a murder he did not commit is now being sued by the prosecutor who put him behind bars.Dennis Fritz was exonerated in 1999. Last year, Fritz published a book called "Journey Toward Justice" about his experience. The book pulled no punches about the prosecutor in his case, KMBC's Martin Augustine reported.But the prosecutor said Fritz got it wrong, and is taking him to court again for libel. Watch Dennis Fritz tell his storyHEREDennis Fritz's Book "Journey Toward Justice" click On Amazon HereInternational Orders Order Here "Journey Toward Justice" by Dennis Fritz From Around The World click on here Amazon International Just type in Journey Toward Justice Author Dennis Fritz

The local prosecutor in Virginia plans to present his case against Vick to the Grand Jury starting Tuesday.From Fox Sports:"The local charges, and a conviction, could spell an end to any hope he has of resuming his NFL career after serving a likely federal prison term. An animal cruelty charge in Virginia is punishable by up to five years in prison, and he admitted in his written plea to helping kill six to eight pit bulls days before the first raid." Vick shouldn't even have an opportunity to think about playing football again.Personally, anyone who kills an animal should get the death penalty, but that's just me.read more | digg story

Erwin's Quest to VestGaffney: “I didn’t write the memo...I just signed it.”The post-Erwin fallout continues in WestChiTown as St Charles board member Jim Gaffney tries to distance himself from the now infamous "Erwin memo" that bears his signature.His 'I didn't write it but I signed it' excuse is the lamest thing I've heard since Erwin's, 'I didn't present at the conference, but I signed off on it.' What's next? 'I'm not the Queen of England, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night?'One source close to district leadership in St Charles told KSN&C, in April, that several district personnel were aware of Erwin's efforts to pressure HR staff to add 85 sick days to her account starting in 2004 - a year early. Some have opined that such pressure may have played a role in the departure of a former HR chief in 2006.The rumor was that after only a few weeks on the job, new HR director Tony Spahr started receiving significant pressure from Erwin - first orally - t

The city prosecutor who condemned Paris Hilton's early release from jail as celebrity favoritism is now under fire for a case of special treatment closer to home -- acknowledging his wife was wanted for arrest for nine years. The disclosure, first reported by the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, is the latest in a mushrooming scandal that has engulfed City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, who ran for California attorney general last year but lost.According to the Times, a warrant for his wife's arrest was issued by a judge in 1998 after she failed to appear in court on charges of driving without insurance on a suspended license in an unregistered car.Michelle Delgadillo, originally charged under her maiden name, was never detained in the nine intervening years, though the court order for her arrest remained valid until Wednesday.Hours after the Times story broke, she appeared in court to plead no contest to a misdemeanor charge of driving without a license, and the warrant was canceled.She

Nuremberg prosecutor says Guantanamo trials unfair - ReutersExcerpt:"The U.S. war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo have betrayed the principles of fairness that made the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremberg a judicial landmark, one of the U.S. Nuremberg prosecutors said on Monday."I think Robert Jackson, who's the architect of Nuremberg, would turn over in his grave if he knew what was going on at Guantanamo," Nuremberg prosecutor Henry King Jr. told Reuters in a telephone interview."It violates the Nuremberg principles, what they're doing, as well as the spirit of the Geneva Conventions of 1949.""http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N6B384799.htmAlex

In what's surely becoming a cause for laughter amongst Sweden's file-sharing community, Swedish authorities have been granted additional time to formulate a case against the Pirate Bay with a Swedish court giving the lead prosecutor Hakan Roswall until October 1st of this year to file formal charges.Full story athttp://www.zeropaid.com

Prosecutor Gerald Poindexter rejected a warrant to search the property formerly owned by Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick for remains of dogs, according to a television report. More: continued here

Wednesday, January 03, 2007 Prosecutor accused of driving drunkMIAMI BEACH HeraldThe veteran prosecutor who headed the case against the John Doe drug gang in the 1990s was charged with DUI after hitting two people on a motor scooter. The two suffered 'serious' injuries.By DAVID OVALLEdovalle@MiamiHerald.com

RICHMOND, Va. — The prosecutor in the investigation of a possible dog fighting operation at a house owned by Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick is confident charges will be brought. He can’t yet say who will be charged.   “We are moving forward,” Surry County Commonwealth attorney Gerald Poindexter said in a telephone interview with the Associated Press on Friday. He declined to set a timetable for when evidence in the case would be ready to present to a more…

Devotion to elderly rooted in salonKarr acted on horror stories she heard as hairdresserBy Jane Northrop, MEDIANEWS STAFFSometimes people tell their hairdressers things they won't repeat to anyone else.The stories Helen Karr heard as the manager of a string of San Francisco beauty salons shocked and saddened her. She heard tale after tale from elderly clients who found themselves in financial ruin at the hands of callous family members or opportunistic caretakers.Karr never forgot the feeling of helplessness she heard in those women's voices.On her 64th birthday, Karr enrolled in law school, earned a degree and now works as an elder abuse specialist in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.Today, victims of elder abuse are not only robbed of their money, they are often in danger of losing their homes. Some lose everything, including their life savings....Eventually they so isolate their victim from family members they claim "no one else cares about you, but me."Abridged read

QUESTION: My business sometimes receives bad checks and I know my local prosecutor’s office has a bad check collection program. Should I use that or something else to collect a bounced check?ANSWER: One possible way for businesses to collect bad checks is to submit them to your local District Attorney’s office. Some prosecutors have a special “bogus check program.” This is also known as a “worthless check unit,” “check diversion program,” “prosecuting attorney check recovery program,” and “pre-trial diversion.” These check recovery programs are usually free, do require some paperwork from business owners, but can be very effective.If your business gets a lot of bounced checks, this is probably not the best way to process your bad checks because this can put a heavy burden on your local prosecutor’s office. A free way to collect multiple bad business checks is to use a collection service, one of which is described on http://www.bumchecks.com/ (this web site dis

I do believe that at times there is a time and place to keep things secret and away from public scrutiny. I worked on nuclear missile sites while in the USAF and there were many things that shouldnt be publicly known about them even 30 years later. You have to admit that our Congress and Senate have atrocious records as far as leaking classified information. Look at the damage done by the information leaked to the New York Times in the last year alone. That said if it is a matter of blatant partisan politics as in the case of US Attorney Carol Lam possibly being fired for prosecuting a corrupt Republican...well theres just no excuse for that. That is wrong no matter how you look at it and any info leading up to that really bad decision should be made public. There is such a thing as taking being a "team player" too damned far. And when it involves corruption on the scale of Randy "Duke" Cunningham that’s taking it too damned far by a long shot. And as for his staff

This is looking worse and worse for the Bush administration. The more they deny claims of the firings being retaliation for nor being good “loyal Bushies”, as Kyle Sampson once called the other US Attorneys, the more evidence turns up seeming to indicate that it is exactly that. The one thing I will say is that Carol Lam was rather well known here in So Cal because of a huge decline in illegal immigration prosecutions by her office. Over the last few years there has been a drop of over 90% in prosecutions. Now she has said publicly in response to criticism of her record that instead of prosecuting individuals she was going after the “Coyotes” which brought illegal's into the country in bulk. The simple fact is though her office wasn’t prosecuting much of anything immigration related. The number of Coyotes prosecuted also dropped in a similar manner over the last few years. But the Bush administration saying that the “performance reasons” Carol Lam was fired for were lack of pro

I believe the firings of the seven prosecutors were truly a political move. At least some of them seem to have obvious political rationales in my mind. Here are my opinions on what might have happened here;Bud Cummings- Eastern District of Arkansas-Fired and replaced by Tim Griffin, 37, a close friend of Karl RoveMY OPINION: Republicans hold NO statewide elected office in Arkansas. The only Republican of note in the whole state at the moment is Rep. John Boozman of Fort Smith. Boozman is not considered too strong statewide. My belief is that the White House is trying to build the Republican bench in Arkansas (a state Bush won twice,) and nothing does that better than a 37 year old Republican who could be the next Governor, Senator or could challenge the liberal Vic Snyder for his Little Rock congressional seat. Federal Prosecutors do sometimes run and get elected to public office (see: Rudy Giuliani)Carol Lam- Southern District of California-Fired on December 7th because of "performanc

In a press release it was announced that Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason (pictured left) continues his battle against predatory lending and mortgage fraud by prosecuting two more cases. One case involves 13 defendants connected o one house that sold for $625,000 in Shaker Heights. The other case involves 8 defendants and a house that sold for $165,000 in Oakwood Village. Five cases have now been indicted since January 1, 2007, totaling 93 defendants and over $5 million in loans for 45 houses located in 9 communities: Shaker Heights, Oakwood Village, Cleveland, East Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, Solon, Pepper Pike, Garfield Heights, and Brook Park.“These criminals are devaluing our communities with foreclosures, blight, and vacant properties,” said Prosecutor Bill Mason. “My goal is to stop this economic mugging of our neighborhoods. These continuing indictments should send the message that Cuyahoga County is not a safe place for predatory scam artists. We a

{mosgoogle right}A recently jailed former prosecutor, who has been hit with a fresh arrest warrant for a fraud case, has kept silent about his alleged involvement in the incident, sources close to him said.Initially, Morikazu Tanaka, 64, told investigators during questioning that 90 million yen he is accused of defrauding from a businessman is an attorney's fee and a mediation fee."The businessman promised to pay 50 million yen as a contingent fee to me and 40 million ye [...]

New York, NY (CaymanMama.com) -- The acquittal of three policemen in the shooting case of Sean Bell lays bares the system with all its flaws that is in the dire need of desperate reforms. According to civil right activists, a special prosecutor should be appointed to handle like cases. According to ...