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Nutcase Taunton Massachusetts Teacher Karen Boudreau Presses Criminal Charges Against 10 Year Old For Stick Figure Drawing That Only She Can Figure Out - Is She On Drugs?

Posted on June 14, 2008
TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS - A Taunton teacher is pressing criminal charges against a 10-year-old student after she caught the fifth-grader drawing a menacing picture that depicts him, a gun and a figure of her with a ?bullet whole? in her head. But the boy?s furious mother said she plans to fight the charge in court and believes [...

Hero Found Not Guilty Of Murder After Shooting And Killing Laval Canada Police Officer Daniel Tessier As He Invaded His Home With No Knock Warrant

Posted on June 14, 2008
LONGUEUIL, CANADA — A jury has found Basil Parasiris not guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Laval police Const. Daniel Tessier. Parasiris appeared relieved after the verdict was read out. His wife, Penny Gounis, gasped, “Oh my God!” and his sister began to weep...

Morris County New Jersey Municipal Court Judge Receives Less Than A Slap On The Wrist For Not Disqualifying Himself From Cases In Which He Had A Conflicting Interests

Posted on June 14, 2008
MORRIS COUNTY, NEW JERSEY - The state Supreme Court has admonished a Morris County municipal court judge, finding that he violated court conduct rules by not disqualifying himself from two cases in which he had a conflict. Judge William Bowkley, who serves in Chester, Jefferson, Hopatcong and Vernon, failed to disqualify himself from cases involving one [...

Suspended Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Jason Wayne Henry Gets A Special Deal And Slap On The Wrist After Attacking His Girlfriend In Domestic Violence Incident

Posted on June 14, 2008
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA - An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor simple assault charge stemming from an altercation with his live-in girlfriend. According to court records, 33-year-old Jason Wayne Henry received a 60-day deferred sentence Friday in Logan County District Court...

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Federal Judge Alex Kozinski Declares Mistrial In Los Angeles California Obscenity Trial After News Of His Own Obscene Web Postings Surface

Posted on June 14, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - A federal judge under scrutiny for posting sexually explicit material on his own Web site declared a mistrial Friday a Los Angeles in an obscenity trial over which he was presiding. Judge Alex Kozinski says he will ask that the case be assigned to another judge...

Retired Los Angeles California Police Officer Ralph Lakin Pleads Not Guilty To Child Pornography

Posted on June 14, 2008
WESTMINSTER, CALIFORNIA - A retired Los Angeles police officer pleaded not guilty Friday to charges he took pictures of young girls’ private areas at a Garden Grove festival. Ralph Cameron Lakin, 53, of La Palma, faces one felony count of possessing child pornography, eight misdemeanor counts of child annoyance and one misdemeanor charge of attempted child [...

Los Angeles California Police Headquarters Evacuated Over “Suspicious Envelope”

Posted on June 14, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - Los Angeles police headquarters is back to normal after a suspicious envelope prompted a brief evacuation of three floors. Officer Norma Eisenman says dozens of people on the second, third and fourth floors of Parker Center left the eight-story downtown building at about 9:15 a...

City Fireman Files Complaint After Minneapolis Minnesota Got Rough With Him

Posted on June 14, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - A Minneapolis firefighter says police officers mistreated him because of the color of his skin. On May 21, Elondo Wright called the police after his car was towed from a Minneapolis street. When the officers arrived, Wright says they quickly got rough with him...

Rikers Island New York Corrections Officer Nicholas Zito Gets A Special Plea Deal And Pleads Guilty After Switching Off Video Camera While Another Officer Was Beating An Inmate

Posted on June 14, 2008
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Prosecutors say a Rikers Island jail officer has admitted turning off a surveillance camera so it wouldn’t capture a fellow officer punching an inmate. The Bronx district attorney’s office said Friday that Correction Officer Nicholas Zito pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of attempted official misconduct...

Potter County Texas Sheriff Mike Shumate Convicted In Public Corruption Trial, Stripped Of His Badge And Taken Directly To Jail

Posted on June 14, 2008
POTTER COUNTY, TEXAS - It took more than 7 hours for an all-female jury to come back with a decision in the high profile, public corruption trial of Potter County Sheriff Mike Shumate. Around midnight Friday the jury handed over their verdicts to Judge Quay Parker...

Parsippany New Jersey Refuses To Identify Police Officer Who Shot And Killed Bear Cub

Posted on June 14, 2008
PARSIPPANY, NEW JERSEY - Parsippany police said today the officer who shot and killed a bear this week first attempted to scare it and even peppered it with rubber buckshot before ultimately deciding he had to put the cub down as it loped toward an elementary school where children were outside...

Crazed South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham Vows To Overturn Supreme Court’s Constitution Based Decision Regarding G.W. Bush’s Guantanamo Bay Torture Victims

Posted on June 13, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) vowed Thursday to do everything in his power to overturn the Supreme Court?s decision on Guantanamo Bay detainees, saying that, ?if necessary,? he would push for a constitutional amendment to modify the decision...

Double Murderer’s Appeal Puts Former Collin County Texas DA Tom O’Connell And Judge Verla Sue Holland In Bed Together

Posted on June 13, 2008
AUSTIN, TEXAS - An appeal filed Thursday claims Charles Dean Hood?s capital murder conviction should be overturned because the judge at his 1990 trial was involved in a secret intimate relationship with the prosecutor. Judge Verla Sue Holland, now retired, could not have provided Hood with an impartial trial while dating then-Collin County District Attorney Tom [...

Pattigate Police Chief Shelby Clements Again Under Scrutiny - Napavine Washington Deserves Better Leadership

Posted on June 13, 2008
NAPAVINE, WASHINGTON - Once again, Napavine?s Chief of Police Shelby Clements is in the news for less-than desirable reasons. Back in November 2006 Shelby and his senior-most officer, Noel Shields, were suspended for their roles in what was deemed ?Pattigate...

Los Angeles Obscenity Trial Suspended After News That Presiding Federal Judge Alex Kozinski Had Posted Obscene Materials On His Web Site

Posted on June 12, 2008
An obscenity trial in Los Angeles federal court was suspended today after The Times reported that the judge presiding over the case has maintained his own publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos and videos. Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U...

9th Circuit Court Of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski Wants His Pornography Collection Investigated After His Obscene Web Postings Surface And Obscenity Trial Is Halted

Posted on June 12, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - The criminal prosecution of a hard-core pornographer turned into a personal trial for the presiding judge, who called for an investigation Thursday into his own conduct over lewd photos and videos stored on his family’s publicly accessible Web site...

Fremont California Police Officer Nick Maurer Arrested, Charged After Attacking Firefighter - Victim’s Wife Dared To Tell Officer He Was Leaning Against Traincar Door - Bonus: A Second Fremont Cop Got His Ass Kicked

Posted on June 12, 2008
FREMONT, CALIFORNIA - An off-duty Fremont police officer was arrested on suspicion of battery after Sunday’s country music concert at AT&T Park in San Francisco for allegedly attacking an off-duty firefighter whose wife pointed out that he was leaning against the door of a Muni train, police said Wednesday...

Poughkeepsie New York Police Issue APB For “Small, Uppity Dog”

Posted on June 12, 2008
POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK - A woman was walking her pit bull around noon in the northern section of Waryas Park Wednesday, when she was approached by a small-breed dog, possibly a Jack Russell terrier, City of Poughkeepsie Police said. The woman tried to get between the small dog and her own dog and was bitten by [...

Easton Maryland Police Ticket Male Teen For Going Topless In Public - Panty Wearing Lt. Gregory Wright Says Its A Public Nuisance - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on June 12, 2008
EASTON, MARYLAND - For only the third time in five years, Easton police have ticketed someone for going topless in public. Sean Cephus, 18, was cited June 4 when police say he was spotted without a shirt on South Street near Hanson Street. He was also cited for failing to obey a lawful order to [...

9/11 Hysteria And Illegally Parked Car Pushes FBI Agents And Police Over The Edge - Much Of Downtown Albuquerque New Mexico Closed For Hours As they Piss Away Taxpayer Dollars Over Nothing

Posted on June 12, 2008
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO - An out-of-state station wagon parked illegally in front of a federal building downtown resulted in much of the center of the city being closed for hours Thursday morning. Police cordoned off the vehicle and closed from Third to Seventh streets and Central to Gold avenues after discovering the car illegally parked directly [...

Bush’s $60 Billion Iraq “Conflict” Now Viewed As Endless - Cost To U.S. Taxpayers? $2,700,000,000,000

Posted on June 12, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - As the Iraq war continues with no clear end in sight, the cost to taxpayers may balloon to $2.7 trillion by the time the conflict comes to an end, according to Congressional testimony. In a hearing held by the Joint Economic Committee Thursday, members of Congress heard testimony about the current costs of [...

Napavine Washington’s New Mayor Nick Bozarth Hides Details Of Dolphin Kissing (See Posts) Police Chief Shelby Clements Suspension

Posted on June 12, 2008
NAPAVINE, WASHINGTON - Napavine?s new mayor has put the police chief on administrative leave pending the results of two investigations into something he?s declined to reveal. [From an email to BCN: "you may remember this guy using the department computers for his sexy talk...

Marysville California Man “Accidently” Shot In The Neck With Assault Weapon By Yuba County California Deputy Sheriff Jason Nakamura Awarded $3.5 Million - His Children Still Hate Cops

Posted on June 12, 2008
MARYSVILLE, CALIFORNIA - Eric Day, a paraplegic from a gunshot wound in an accidental shooting by a Yuba County sheriff’s deputy, will receive $3.5 million in a settlement that includes payments to Day’s three sons. “It’s not going to give him his legs back,” his wife, Letty Day, said of the resolution of the claim filed [...

Former Morris County New Jersey Sheriff’s Department Warden John “J.K. Kinnecom Posted Sexually Explicit Photos Of Two Women Online Without Their Permission

Posted on June 12, 2008
MORRIS COUNTY, NEW JERSEY - Charges that a former top official for the Morris County Sheriff’s Office posted sexually explicit photographs of two women on the Internet without their consent will be forwarded to a county grand jury for review, authorities said Tuesday...

Belmar New Jersey Has Second Thoughts About Its Unenforceable Laws Targeting Drinking From “Unregistered” Beer Kegs, Obscene Gestures, And Loitering In Dark Alleys

Posted on June 12, 2008
BELMAR, NEW JERSEY - Drinking out of unregistered beer kegs, making obscene gestures and loitering in dark alleys soon will no longer violate borough law. The Borough Council voted unanimously Wednesday night to repeal the ordinances that had outlawed those actions, after learning the measures were unenforceable...

Drunk Driving Charges Conveniently Disappear For Lorain Ohio City Service Director Robert Gilchrist

Posted on June 12, 2008
LORAIN, OHIO ? When city Service Director Robert Gilchrist was hired, he had a pending drunken driving charge. Last month, Gilchrist pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of reckless operation. He was found guilty and received a suspended jail sentence...

Texas Style Justice Appears To Have Prevailed - Governor’s Mansion Fire Is Believed To Have Been Arson

Posted on June 12, 2008
AUSTIN, TEXAS - Gov. Rick Perry said he’s heartbroken over the burned Governor’s Mansion and vowed that the 152-year-old landmark where he raised his children will be rebuilt. “Whatever it costs, we will find the resources to do that,” Perry said Wednesday, speaking publicly for the first time since a fire destroyed much of the home [...

Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of G.W. Bush’s Guantanamo Torture Prison Victims

Posted on June 12, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts. In its third rebuke of the Bush administration’s treatment of prisoners, the court ruled 5-4 that the government is violating the rights of prisoners being held indefinitely [...

Supreme Court: G.W. Bush’s Guantanamo Bay Torture Victims Have Rights - Bush Can’t Turn The U.S. Constitution On And Off To Suit His Purposes

Posted on June 12, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision Thursday declaring for the first time that Guantanamo detainees have a constitutional right to a hearing in U.S. courts is a milestone. It also reinforces a familiar court pattern in the post-9/11 world of insisting on judicial review of detainee cases...

Bedfordshire UK Police Department Website Hacked - Cops Pwned

Posted on June 11, 2008
BEDFORDSHIRE, UK - Bedfordshire’s boys in blue are a little red faced this evening after their web site fell victim to evil hackers. It is infinitely possible the traumatised rozzers are right now nursing their little victim-of-crime slips, anguishing over whether to call the helpline, or have stiff drink...

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