Defendant Continually Surprised By Failure of Jury-Attacking Strategy
It doesn’t endear you to jurors, that’s for sure.
Criminal Mind, The
Burglar’s Plea to “Let It Be” Backfires With Judge
Quality judicial work by Judge Gregory Todd of the Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Yellowstone County, Montana. You can see a PDF of the memo itself at the link below, but here’s an excerpt: Mr. McCormack, you pled guilty to the…
UPDATED: Miami Shooting Reopens Debate Over Condiment Control
According to Miami police, early Tuesday morning the driver of a car in a Wendy’s drive-through lane requested a number of chili-sauce packets with his meal. Ominously, that number was greater than three, the maximum packets per customer allowed by…
Long-Distance Relationship Made Easier by Multiple Car Thefts
Love conquers all, or at least the ignition systems of older Toyota Camrys and Nissan Sentras. Police in Los Angeles say that Antonio Moreno of Inglewood, desperate to see his girlfriend in Santa Barbara and without a car of his…
“Girls Gone Wild” Creator, Residing in Hole, Continues to Dig
Joe Francis, the entrepreneur who has made umpteen million dollars from the "Girls Gone Wild" videos, was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on two counts of tax evasion. He was easy to find because, as you may…
Tampa Trial of Band-Aid Bandit Begins
Opening statements this week in the trial of Rafael Rondon, the alleged "Band-Aid Bandit" who was arrested in 2006 after a string of 39 bank robberies in the Tampa area dating back to 2000. The robber was dubbed the "Band-Aid…
Ostrich Murderer Walks Away With Five-Month Sentence
The San Francisco Chronicle reported on March 29 that a man who murdered an ostrich late last year had been released from jail after serving only a five-month sentence for animal abuse. This despite the fact that it was a…
Search Engine Captures Bank Robber It Had Previously Instructed in Bank Robbing
Search engines are a vital part of modern life, at least for people like us who have computers and are able to hook them up to that series of tubes I call "the Internet." The amount of information search engines…
Officials Report Burqas May Hide More Than Female Form
Someone who shows up at a checkpoint anywhere in the Middle East with strange bulges under their clothing is likely to attract some attention. (I concede that this could happen anywhere, depending on the nature of the bulge.) That’s what…
Man Asks Police for Help With Break-In
An unidentified man in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, called police earlier this week and asked for help breaking into a church. They were happy to come over, but didn’t help him with the break-in. The man told police that he had…