Mmmm, who doesn't love the smell of a new car? There's just nothing else like it. It may also be deadly. That's according to an accident-reconstruction expert working for the defense in a Colorado criminal case. The expert has reportedly…
Why hasn't this been tried before? Or has it? On December 10, the Orange County Register reported that "longtime county inmate" Malcolm King had successfully argued he was entitled to special meals because eating the salami served at his facility…
Six months of investigation yielded no clues, apparently.
According to a study reported in the ABA Journal, lawyers under stress are tense, overly critical, cautious and emotionally distant. In a related story, lawyers not under stress are tense, overly critical, cautious and emotionally distant. The data for the study…
"I've been involved in the criminal justice system for 30 years," said Ontario Attorney General Chris Bentley, "and I can't say that I've heard of a similar circumstance." The circumstance was an assistant prosecutor "making strange faces" at jurors, which ultimately resulted…
As I mentioned back in November, Florida's outgoing governor, Charlie Crist, had been talking more and more seriously about granting a posthumous pardon to Jim Morrison for allegedly exposing himself (or a part of himself) at a concert there in…
Good news — the superintendent of the North Brookfield School District in Massachusetts has announced that students are again free to carry their own writing implements, ending a short-lived ban on that practice. He said the ban on this dangerous…
These guys are offering underwear with the text of the Fourth Amendment printed over your classified areas in metallic ink, so the creeps at the TSA have to at least glance at it when scanning you. It's a great idea,…
The saggy-pants trend is unfortunate for so many reasons, and as we have seen before, one of those reasons is that they can seriously impede a getaway. The latest burglar to fall (literally) victim to this problem was apprehended on…
On November 23, the Utah Supreme Court reversed the dismissal of Chad Hudgens' claims against his former employer, Prosper, Inc., and his former supervisor. The court did not reach the merits, holding simply that the lower court should have let…