"This is the biggest baloney I’ve ever seen in my life," said Ralph Crozier, a 55-year-old criminal defense attorney from Southbury, Connecticut. For once he wasn’t talking about charges against a client, but about the charges filed against him for…
In a radio interview last week, Charles "Cully" Stimson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, said that companies should consider boycotting major law firms that represent suspected terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay. He also suggested that…
Police in Sylva, North Carolina, announced this week that they had tracked down arrested two men suspected in the vandalism early Saturday of the Sylva police department building. Detective Aimee Sumner said that a police sergeant discovered the glass front…
In November, the Trading Standards department for Powys County, Wales, forced a sausage manufacturer to change the label of its "Welsh Dragon"-brand spicy sausage, on the grounds that the label was misleading because the product did not contain real dragon….
A judge in Brooklyn was reprimanded by New York’s Appellate Division this week for sentencing a man to 11 months in prison for acting as lookout for an armed robbery — not because the sentence was too harsh, but because…
Testifying on Tuesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told committee members that he has a "very important secure phone" in his kitchen at home for use in case of emergencies. Specifically,…
A man in Liverpool, England, who was arrested after police responded to a report of a domestic dispute appeared before a judge with bruises on his face, and told the judge that the police had beaten him up. Unfortunately for…
A group called Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch runs an annual contest to find the dumbest or least necessary warning labels, and it released its 2006 list today. The winners are: On a washing machine: "DO NOT put any person in…
The Smoking Gun recently posted a transcript of a police interview with former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson after Tyson was stopped on December 29 for driving erratically. Tyson was read his Miranda rights and stated that he understood those rights…
A Detroit man who was only trying to meet a few nice lady mannequins after a lengthy prison stay may actually get life in prison for an attempted breaking-and-entering charge stemming from an incident in October. Ronald Dotson was arrested…