Should a U.S. Attorney come out with verbal guns blazing after making an arrest? Is it unfair to the defendant? Is it unfair to the public to keep quiet? Where’s the boundaries? BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Chicago Sun-Times Political Reporter CHICAGO — Speaking to 200 lawyers from around the country Thursday, retired appellate Judge Abner…
The city of Detroit certainly has no surplus in its budget, no surplus of jobs. What it does have is a surplus of scandals. Ex-fed prosecutor Sheryl Robinson Wood/law firm photo BY JOE SWICKARD and BEN SCHMITT Detroit Free Press DETROIT — Former Detroit police monitor Sheryl Robinson Wood was ousted under a cloud. Some…
Frankly, it would have been a heck of lot more surprising if Karl Rove had minimal involvement in the U.S. Attorney firings during the Bush administration. By Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Political adviser Karl Rove and other high-ranking figures in the Bush White House played a greater role than previously understood…
It doesn’t seem to have great shock value when a brotel owner in the great state of Nevada gets busted for bribing an official. By HENRY BREAN LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL LAS VEGAS — The second time she met with him to negotiate a bribe, Candice Trummell thought brothel owner Maynard “Joe” Richards seemed unusually paranoid….
Now this is pretty darn scary. Rep. Edolphus Towns says he plans to introduce legislation to ban such software. Whether or not that’s the answer, is another question. But someone needs to find the answer. It seems a more effective way would be to create a software that prevents this from happening. Banning software seems…
This has been one of the more brazen, biszare hate-crime incidents. At age 89, he could face the death penalty. But at that age, he’s not likely to get it. Any prison sentence will be a life sentence. Scene of the Crime By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury indicted an elderly…
The motive has not been determined. But it very well may end up being the drug cartels, which are hoping through violence to make the Mexican and U.S. government back off. Meanwhile, on Wednesday the Associated Press reported that Mexican authorities had found a Mexican radio journalist beaten, dead and partially buried in Acapulco. Whatever…
