Perjury and Obstruction Trial Against Former San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds Commences in San Francisco; Trial to Begin With Hearing on Bonds’ Former Weight Trainer–Possible Contempt

The trial of former San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds on four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice commenced yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The.

To date, no reported decisions mention the employment of the "Chewbacca Defense" at trial, despite the passage of almost 14 years from the late Johnnie L. Cochran’s demonstration in 1998 of the novel and innovative defense on the 14th episode of the.

After the Enron scandal, Congress aimed to pass a law prohibiting the destruction of evidence and preventing similar scams from occurring. The result was Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), an unwieldy law that prosecutors have increasingly been applying to a very broad range of different.

In March of 2010, a bank called Park Avenue Bank failed. The former bank president subsequently became the first person in the United States who was convicted of stealing funds provided to bail out banks as part of the Troubled Asset Relief.

Over 300 street gangs are situated in the Las Vegas Valley. Police say that number is growing because members are breaking ties and creating new factions. About 20,000 members (which equates to 6/1000 residents in Nevada) are in this area, based on.

Originally posted on Drug Law Blog by attorney Alex Coolman This week is the second anniversary of this blog's debut in the world (with this unremarkable post) in April of 2006. I completely forgot about the first anniversary, but I've been thinking.

Note: I first wrote this post back in March when James Q. Wilson published an op-ed in several major American newspapers defending America's intense use of prisons. I decided not to publish it at the time, but today I see that Wilson.

Savannah personal injury attorney, Benjamin Eichholz, entered a plea in federal court yesterday to obstructing a Department of Labor (DOL) investigation by repeatedly transmitting false and misleading documents to the Department of Labor and by making false and misleading statements to investigators. Eichholz,.

Today’s Wall Street Journal Law Blog reveals that Dallas Mavericks owner, Landmark Theaters owner and Chairman of HDNet Mark Cuban has gone on the offensive against the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC made widely publicized charges against Mr. Cuban for insider.

An interesting collision of circumstances: California prison health care receiver J. Clark Kelso is saying he hopes to seize billions of dollars from the California general fund to pay for much needed improvements to the state prison system. The only hitch: the.