Charles Whitman: The Texas Bell Tower Sniper

Charles Whitman and America's First Mass Shooting Anyone who was born before 1955 can remember America's first mass shooting. If not, criminal justice attorney Nick Wooldridge reminds. The shooting shook the nation's conscience. It prompted Congress to act quickly. Within months of.

CEBU CITY, Philippines - A 54-year-old man will be spending the rest of his life in jail for selling 10 sticks of marijuana weighing 1.79 grams in 2005. Regional Trial Court Judge Gabriel Ingles Monday ordered Rosario Bayot Mahinay to pay a.

Ferguson, Missouri Will Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Tensions still run high in Ferguson, Missouri when Michael Brown's name is mentioned. Take a seat at Huddle House out on Highway 32, and the conversation is about last night's Falcon's  game.

Nevada's Background Check Law for Handgun Purchases Being Reviewed The efficiency of background checks is still up for debate over three decades after the assassination attempt that gave birth to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) of 1993. In March.

Fleecing The Elderly Fraudsters in cities like Las Vegas, Phoenix and California’s Central Valley are actively looking for naïve senior citizens. The scams reflect the real estate challenges from foreclosures, weak sales and abandonment. The scammers fake ownership papers, set up websites.

Larry and Carri Williams were given the maximum time in prison after they were found guilty of starving and beating Hana, their adoptive daughter, to death. Larry Williams received 28 years and his wife, Carri, 37. The scheme and tactics they utilized.

Is America's Judicial System Biased Along Color Lines Studies reported by "New Century Foundation" and allegedly confirmed by the FBI's National Crime Victimization Survey state the Justice System is not prejudiced against minorities. The New Century Foundation was founded in 1984 and.

Life comes to a quick ending when you're locked on prison death row for a pair of murders that you didn't commit. Almost daily we are learning of prisoners crooked from the ultimate punishment.  Placed there by unscrupulous prosecutors, dishonest cops, mental.

It's no secret that some convicted sex offenders are guilty of nothing more than being a teenager and messing around with a slightly younger teenager. Seehere, and here, and here, and here. But as travesties of justice go, I just learned of.

False Positives Often Send Innocent People To Jail While many of today's medical tests are accurate, false negative or positives do occur. The problem of false test results are so numerous the National Institute of Health issued a whitepaper on the subject.