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Billionaire Bribes Prosecutors to Avoid Prosecution?

Posted on June 09, 2010
What is this? Billionaire sex offender Jeffery Epstein has settled a dispute over legal fees that threatened a deal he made to avoid federal prosecution over alleged assaults of multiple young women and girls. Court papers filed Monday in Miami indicated Epstein had reached a settlement with lawyers appointed to represent some of his alleged victims...

Playing Loud Music is Justification for Arrest

Posted on June 09, 2010
Does anyone want to deny that we live in a police state?

Did Goldman Sachs Have Advance Knowledge of BP Oil Spill?

Posted on June 08, 2010
Just weeks before news of the BP oil spill hit, Goldman Sachs sold 44% of its BP stock. You can see this information here, at a legitimate site: Institution Name %Change in Ownership Goldman Sachs -43.7% Why did Goldman Sachs make this trade? No one is asking...

Reading this Blog Makes You Stupid

Posted on June 07, 2010
Or does it make you smarter? There's substantial debate about the effect of the Internet and other gadgets on user attention and intelligence. All of these attacks on the Internet fail to ask: What's the alternative? In other words, what were people doing with their time before reading blogs? Pre-blogs, were people translating Homer in between solving quadratic equations? I...

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Attorney-Client Privilege and Online Assaults

Posted on June 07, 2010
A client, not the lawyer, is the "holder" of the attorney-client privilege. By holding the privilege, the client alone can decide whether and to what extent a lawyer may share confidential details of the lawyer's representation of the client. There are some rare exceptions - among them is self-defense...

Scott Rothstein and the Art of (Not) Accepting Responsibility

Posted on June 06, 2010
Scott Rothstein is some lawyer who ran a Ponzi Scheme in Florida. He pled guilty to a bunch of felonies and is going to be sentenced to prison. Like every sophisticated criminal who gets caught, Rothstein understands the game. Here's how it's played: When you a write a sentencing letter to the judge, you must offer an explanation for your...

Scott Greenfield: On Blogging

Posted on June 06, 2010
Scott Greenfield has the most-widely read, solo-authored law blog. He discusses some of the hazards of and rewards of law blogging here.

Double Standards

Posted on June 04, 2010
If you did this, you'd go to prison. When a cop does the same thing, he won't even be forced to file an insurance claim.

Pay Attention to This Story

Posted on June 03, 2010
Very troubling: A federal prosecutor got mad at a lady who was "interfering" with the prosecutor's case. The "interference" seems like classic free speech to me. She gave media interviews--saying the case against a third party was absurd, unfair, etc...

Memorial Day Reflections

Posted on May 31, 2010
On Memorial Day, we?re supposed to thank a vet for freedom. We?re supposed to think about fidelity and sacrifice. We?re supposed to honor the dead. I honor the dead by refusing to pretend they died for anything. I honor the dead by hating those who lied to them...

College Students More Sociopathic and Narcissistic?

Posted on May 30, 2010
A lack of empathy is the sine qua non of the sociopath: ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Today's college students are not as empathetic as college students of the 1980s and '90s, a University of Michigan study shows. The study, presented in Boston at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, analyzes data on empathy among almost 14,000 college students over...

Willful Ignorance is Chapter in "Prosecuting Sex Crimes Handbook"

Posted on May 27, 2010
The War Against Men has reached the schoolhouse: A Fairfax County jury needed only 47 minutes Thursday to find a popular schoolteacher not guilty of molesting a 12-year-old girl in their school gym this year. Sean Lanigan, 43, smiled and tears flowed among his dozens of supporters in the courtroom as the verdicts were read clearing Lanigan of charges of...

Civil Forfeiture Goes Too Far: United States v. Hull

Posted on May 26, 2010
A rational person can simultaneously hold the following beliefs: In a state of nature, people who look at child pornography should be removed from the gene pool. In a nation of laws, a person who uses his property to commit crimes - by, say, growing marijuana - may have that property seized as the instrumentality of a crime...

Oklahoma Lawyers Robert Macy and Brad Miller, Added to Unethical Prosecutor List

Posted on May 25, 2010
Today the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals (Lucero, Murphy, and O'Brien) brought tears to the eyes of people who care about a more just criminal system. In granting habease relief to a prisoner, the Court identified - by name - the prosecutors who violated their oath of office, and their duties under the Rules of Professional Conduct...

Motivation and Men's Rights

Posted on May 24, 2010
I started blogging in 2004, and in six years have never had my motivations for writing questioned. Writing about the oppression of blacks doesn't cause people to assume I'm black. Writing about wrongful convictions doesn't lead people to believe that I've been wrongfully convinced...

Discrimination Against Men Leads to Child's Death

Posted on May 24, 2010
How many more children must die before judges will start treating men equally under the law? (CNN) -- When 4-year-old Ethan Stacy was reluctantly sent off to spend the summer with his mother late last month, he was in effect being given a death sentence...

The Beta Male's Slave Morality

Posted on May 23, 2010
Although we live in a patriarchy that unenduringly oppresses women, over 50% of men find themselves in sexless marriages. Some beta male just wrote a long article about his sexless marriage for New York Magazine. In typical patriarchal fashion, he blames himself for his wife's failure to honor her marital vows: With so many couples, especially those with two careers...

On Wall Street and the Coming Economic Collapse: It's Not Your Fault (But It Will Be)

Posted on May 20, 2010
Although American society preaches that one should never take personal responsibility for his actions, usually the bad things that happen in your life are your fault. If you sat down and examined the shackles around your ankle, you'd see that you welded the first link...

White v. McKinley: More Shocking Facts in False Child Molestation Case

Posted on May 17, 2010
Earlier today the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a jury verdict in White v. McKinley. In White v. McKinley, a wife falsely accused her husband of child molestation. The cop she was having an affair with withheld evidence exonerating the husband...

White v. McKinley: Must-Read Case of the Year

Posted on May 17, 2010
There is so much going on in Thomas J. White, Jr. v. Detective Richard McKinley (CA8) (here) that writing a post is a struggle. In White v. McKinley, a wife falsely accused her husband of child molestation. The cop she was dating withheld evidence exonerating the husband...

Criminal Law Links & Commentary

Posted on May 13, 2010
* Connecticut criminal lawyer Kevin Murray Smith offers sage advice about probation. Add to that: Dudes, if your woman accuses you (truly or falsely) of domestic violence, get out of the relationship. There will be no happy ending. You will eventually be in prison and convicted of a felony...

Summary of the Tonya Craft Case

Posted on May 12, 2010
This isn't a case I've been following closely, but do check out this summary from Popehat.

BP Halliburton Oil Spill: Worse than Being Reported

Posted on May 11, 2010
As the video below shows, the BP-Halliburton Oil Spill is doing much more damage than the media is currently reporting. One might say, as people often do, "Why care about this, Mike? There's nothing you can do." That is what one would expect a society of pacifier-sucking betas to say...

Community Policing

Posted on May 11, 2010
A video where a cop does not take his taser out on some kids. Imagine what might happen if more police were cool with kids:

Facebook Clears Boyfriend of False Rape Claim

Posted on May 10, 2010
The irony is that this woman could have sent an innocent man to prison if she hadn't sent herself a threatening message: Zoe Williams was jailed for falsely accusing her ex-boyfriend of rape and hacking into his Facebook account in order to send a "threatening message" to herself that would add credence to her claim...

"The Frontal Cortex"

Posted on May 10, 2010
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Warren Buffet: Insider Trader? (Moody's MCO)

Posted on May 09, 2010
There's at least probable cause that Warren Buffett violated insider trading laws when he sold $6.2 million in Moody's (MCO) shares. Buffett has been in regular contact with Moody's executives; in March Moody's received a notice that it faced an SEC lawsuit; in March Buffett $6...

"There is no money, and the emperor has no clothes."

Posted on May 09, 2010

A Cynic's Guide to Mother's Day

Posted on May 09, 2010
There is nothing special about procreation. It's been done billions of times. Properly raising a child is something special. "Good kids" are also becoming a rarity. Forty-one percent of children are now born to single mothers: The number of children born outside marriage in the United States has increased dramatically to four out of ten of all births...

25 Hottest Sex Offenders

Posted on May 07, 2010
I think this site is safe for work, but my numbers go up to 11. Check out these hot - sex offender - teachers at your own risk. I always tell my friends, "Never date a woman with the 'crazy eyes.'" Not everyone knows what I mean. If you don't, take a gander at Debra Lafave...

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