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Today's Fresh Blogs...| The Experiment Begins |
| Published: February 28, 2007, 6:41 am |
| Tags: Crime Punishment |
| With a gestation period shorter than an elephant's, that first metro column has finally seen light of day. Wound up chucking the prepared ones, and jumping on the news, Endless Summer style. Bill Burd had said on the phone that... |
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| Not Illegal??? Sicko Runs Pro-pedophile Web Sites; Discusses His Favorite “Hunting Grounds” |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 7:00 pm |
| Tags: Crime And Punishment, United States, Children |
| The New York Times has thoughtfully provided pictures of this piece of human debris who runs web sites detailing where pedophiles can go to see or get the most “action”. He is currently living in Los Angeles, but may be coming to a town near yours soon. Seems that once people become aware of his “hobby” they tend to get |
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| Australia: Flimsy Terrorism Case Against Indian Doctor Dropped |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 8:37 pm |
| Tags: United Kingdom, Crime And Punishment, Australia, Technology |
| Australia drops charges over UK bomb plot James Grubel (Reuters) Australian authorities dropped terrorism charges against an Indian doctor on Friday, saying there was little chance of a conviction over his connection with a failed car bomb plot in Britain… … [Dr. Mohammed] Haneef, 27, had been charged with recklessly supporting |
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| Cheapening Justice |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 2:57 pm |
| Tags: Crime And Punishment |
| Criminal cases are piling up in English courts for lack of judges, according to today's Times. Apparently, retired judges are being pressured into service, and part-time recorders (think magistrate) are continually being asked to extend their stays on the bench.... |
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| Vick's Co-defendant Pleads Guilty |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 12:03 pm |
| Tags: Crime And Punishment |
| In another bad turn for Michael Vick, one of his co-defendants pleaded guilty to dogfighting conspiracy charges in a plea deal with federal prosecutors this morning. Tony Taylor, 34, told U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson that he's not expecting leniency... |
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| FBI violated Constitution in Jefferson Raid |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 1:46 pm |
| Tags: Crime Punishment |
| The FBI broke the law when it searched Rep. William Jefferson's Rayburn office in May 2006 and viewed legislative documents, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today. The court ordered the Justice Department to return any legislative materials taken... |
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| Education Board Cracks Down on Obscene Teahcer |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 11:14 am |
| Tags: International Education, Education, Japan, Japanese, Molest, Punishment, Teacher, Tokyo |
| What is it with Japan's teachers and the obscene things they do?Does this happen everywhere and not make it in the news? Or is it just so rare in Japan that when it does happen, it ALWAYS makes the news?It seems to me that nearly every day, while reading through the Japanese news I come across yet another teacher who has molested someone, |
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| USA: Discrimination, Profiling Against Muslim Prisoners at Federal Facility |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 10:37 am |
| Tags: Muslims, Crime Punishment, United States |
| GOVERNMENT SEGREGATES MUSLIM PRISONERS, RESTRICTS PHONE CALLS AND VISITS William Fisher (The World According to Bill Fisher) Legal authorities are charging that racial profiling is responsible for low-risk Muslim prisoners convicted for crimes the Justice Department intimates are terror-related being held in a segregated unit where their |
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| Deputy U.S. Marshal Indicted for Allegedly Abusing Prisoner |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 5:44 pm |
| Tags: Crime Punishment |
| A federal grand jury indicted a deputy with the U.S. Marshals Service in Washington today for allegedly using excessive force against a bound man and then attempting to cover up his actions, authorities said. Stephen Cook was indicted on seven... |
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| Libya: Gadhafi’s Son Admits Foreign Medics Were Tortured, but Claims Palestinian Doctor Exaggerated |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 10:46 pm |
| Tags: Crime Punishment, Libya |
| Perhaps when electric shocks were being applied to his genitalia, the doctor’s perception became a bit fuzzy, eh? Gadhafi’s son: Bulgarian medics tortured (Associated Press) The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has acknowledged that the Bulgarian medical workers who were jailed on charges of infecting children with HIV were |
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| Christian? |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 10:24 am |
| Tags: Drug, Court, Cnn, Christian, Punishment |
| Monitoring the courts is their right, but these church-goers would be more effective and more Christian, too, if they took a less punitive approach to drug abuse. Of course, the historical success of the Christian churches has moved many of them from succoring the downtrodden to treading down on them instead. |
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| ABA commission pulls proposal on criminal records |
| Published: August 11, 2007, 1:54 pm |
| Tags: Crime Punishment |
| Out in San Francisco at the American Bar Association annual meeting, we've just heard word that a controversial proposal that urged sealing records of certain past criminal convictions and arrests has been pulled from the agenda of the association's House... |
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| The Wired |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 12:02 pm |
| Tags: Crime Punishment |
| While it takes brass to raid a congressman's cave -- as when the FBI set upon Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson's office in May 2006 -- that's nothing compared to the derring-do of former Rep. bob Ney's chief of staff, the... |
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| Unnerving view from Texas: Christianity and executions |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 7:58 am |
| Tags: Capital Punishment |
| only believe that capital punishment is permissible but that it is demanded by God. And they see sanction for that in the Old Testament especially," said Matthew Wilson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Though the cowboy tradition and the Old South don't help either: it must be said that while only 12 % of |
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| Bad Boys |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 4:56 am |
| Tags: George Michael, Crime, Punishment |
| George Michael has made a start on his community service, doing gardening at a homeless shelter in London:"I'm just like everyone else. If you do something stupid, you have to pay the price. I've been doing some gardening and really enjoyed it."I'll do whatever they want me to do. I don't want any special treatment." Putting George to work in the |
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