AG Holder: New Recording Policy Intended to Protect Suspects and Federal Law Enforcement

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new policy to require federal agents to electronically record statements while suspects are in custody is intended to protect both suspects and law enforcement, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a video posted by the Justice Department Thursday. “Federal agents and prosecutors throughout the nation are firmly committed to due process…

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Pittsburgh’s New FBI Leader Is Tested on Third Day with Mass Stabbing at High School

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was just Scott S. Smith’s third day as special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh office when a student slashed and stabbed classmates in a hallway at Franklin Regional High School last week. “It was a horrific incident,” Smith told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for a story. “Behind the scenes, though,…

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Too Much Evidence Prompts Dismissal of Prescription Drug Case

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Is it possible to have too much evidence against someone? It appears so after a federal judge in Iowa dropped a case involving the nation’s largest prosecution of Internet pharmacies, the Associated Press reports. The evidence against former Miami doctor, Armando Angulo, included more than 400,000 documents and two terabytes of electronic data,…

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FBI, Justice Department Reviewing Potentially Flawed Forensic Evidence

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and Justice Department are launching an unprecedented review of forensic evidence in thousands of criminal cases to ensure no one was wrongly convicted since at least 1985, the Washington Post reports. The sweeping review includes rape, murder and robbery cases conducted by all FBI Laboratory hair and fiber examiners, people…

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