Wecht Case One Step Closer to Dismissal

The sounds emanating from the U.S. Attorneys Office in Pittsburgh this week were more nails being pounded into the coffin of the Cyril Wecht prosecution. No doubt realizing that the efforts of the last two years in the office were going down.

Everybody makes mistakes, but some people pay for mistakes far more severely than others. The tightrope walker who stumbles and falls into a net might wrench her back. The tightrope walker without a net risks dying. In the realm of medicine, pain.

In November of 2012, Edwin Clark was walking with his 8-month pregnant girlfriend across an apartment complex to buy a TV. Suddenly they were ambushed by two gunmen who opened fire.  Clark died in the parking lot of Siema Town homes near.

“God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next,” says the old country song. For a couple in Las Vegas, “next” was jail. The man involved in the daylight attraction was killed.

Originally posted on Drug Law Blog by attorney Alex Coolman Pete on Drug WarRant mentioned something the other day that I, too, keep running up against as I follow reporting on drug issues: the tendency of reporters to turn every piece about.

A person was being killed in Las Vegas almost every 46 hours or every 2 days for the first few months of 2016. At this rate, the city should have more murders this year than in the past 5 years. By Feb.

North Las Vegas police announced that they have arrested an unlicensed caregiver and a baby sitter in two separate abuse cases that left one baby with permanent brain damage and another one dead. The two suspects, Alejandra Robles, 36 and Cynthia Lavender,.

Since last year, we’ve followed the government’s investigation and prosecution of Texan and Antiguan financier Sir Robert Allen Stanford for allegedly defrauding investors of billions in a Ponzi scheme. Well, as set forth in a 150 page Report of Investigation by the.

Originally posted on Drug Law Blog by attorney Alex Coolman I just got back from a vacation with my mom, where we talked about this blog and my occasional tendency to use rhetoric that is perhaps more provocative than persuasive.  My mom.

Sunrun Tries For A Second Sunrise In Nevada Sunrun, Inc., the most prominent residential solar business in America pulled out of Nevada, throwing hundreds of employees out of work and apparently helped uncover a scam. Sunrun blames the layoffs on new rules.