Home Intruders Shot and Chased

Two criminals got a big surprise when they broke into a family home recently. Instead of them getting away with a crime, they came face to face with a man who grabbed his AK 47 and chased them outside. A single shot.

In Flores-Figueroa v. United States, No 08-108, in a rare 9-0 shutout, Justice Breyer writing for the Supreme Court addressed and resolved the aggravated identity theft statute as follows: The question [presented by 18 U. S. C. §1028A(a)(1)] is whether the statute requires.

Pete at Drug WarRant and Scott at Drug War Chronicle have each fired off very sharp critiques of George Will's fairly awful column from Sunday's Washington Post, which seems to be an attempt to out-do James Wilson in its celebration of American incarceration rates. The main point.

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.

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.

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.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California filed a dismissal last week of its remaining charges against former San Francisco Giants slugger and outfielder, Barry Bonds, as reported by the Associated Press. Bonds was convicted in April on one count of.

The state of Nevada has thousands of rape kits that have not been tested. Collected for over thirty years, Kimberly Murga, Director of the Las Vegas police forensics lab says there are plans to test every one of these rape kits, especially.

Sporadic gun related violence has been the norm in Las Vegas in the past. But over the past 12 months, gun related shootings are becoming the norm. Almost every weekend there are people being shot in and around Las Vegas. At the.