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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/26/AR2006062600980.html ….journalists are tripping all over themselves to quickly and repetitively report the biased view of the young men's defense attorneys, family members, and other supporters. And the prosecutor, after saying...

(continued, apparently the post was too long) Nor is it accurate to say that prosecutors should only proceed on cases in which they know they will win. I’m sorry, but I simply have no idea where you got that idea. Of the hundreds of felony cases that I handled, I can think of only a handful in...

Sherlockmom, I almost don’t know where to begin with my response. First of all, I will willingly and openly admit that I haven’t followed this case as closely as some members on this message board. I’m not as fascinated by this case as some members, as evidenced by the fact that I’ve avoided...

From CNN a few minutes ago...(excerpts only)...http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/22/fla.shooting/index.html A Bureau of Prisons statement said the guard -- identified as Ralph Hill -- "retrieved a personally owned weapon and shot at federal officers who were participating in the arrest." It is...

I have a news flash for you...prosecutors don't start cases on their own, they only respond to what witnesses and victims tell them. If a woman tells the police that she was gang-raped, the police and the DA are required by law to open an investigation. If the investigation determines that there...

I'm paraphrasing one of my favorite Thomas Jefferson quotes: "If I live my life according to the principles that all religions have in common, then a truly wise and loving God would not stop me at the gates of heaven for the minor points on which they differ."

Good point!

That's amazing! Did the news story say whether it applied to injured spinal cords, or congenital (birth) defects, or both? It's too bad that stem cell research has become so politicized, because some of the top scientists in the US won't have anything to do with this kind of research, which...

I don't know if these guys are guilty or not, but as a general observation, the problem with cases like these is that, no matter how guilty these guys actually are, when it comes to trial, the main witnesses (possibly the only witnesses, although the article did mention an undercover agent but...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/06/21/prison.indictment/index.html (CNN) -- Two men -- a Justice Department official and a prison guard -- were killed in a shootout in a Tallahassee prison when federal marshals attempted to arrest six guards indicted for coercing women inmates into a sex ring...

Interesting case. How do you know this about the path? Do you live in that area? I grew up in Fairfax County and have been to that mall many times, but I wouldn't have any idea how to find that pathway.

Here's an interesting bit of law-enforcement trivia about Utah...it does have the death penalty, and it is the only state in the union that still uses the firing squad as one means of execution (the defendant is allowed to choose his method of death -- lethal injection or firing squad).

Woo-Hoo! Let's hope that people don't forget 5 years from now.

Whether it's a good idea for a child to visit her dad in prison is up to the kid and her family. But as it is, kids can already visit their dads in prison even if they're not girl scouts, so long as they're accompanied by an adult, so it's not like there wouldn't be any kids visiting there if...

I don't know the law in Cleveland, but in most states, a judge cannot dismiss a felony criminal case simply because of the actions of one of the lawyers unless the lawyer's conduct is so egregious that it "interferes with the orderly administration of justice." Usually, this is interpreted to...

Well, underlying all of this is the assumption that we know how the crime occurred, if not necessarily whodunit. For example, if we assume that the Lyon sisters were actually abducted while in the mall, a public place where other children were present, by TRM (or someone very much like him)...

I'm a big Jon Douglas fan, and in one of his books, he discusses child kidnappings at length. The ransom demand is probably unrelated to the case because according to Douglas, generally speaking, there are three kinds of strangers who kidnap kids (not counting family abductions): sexual...

Great post, Thrasher. Very well articulated. Of course we shouldn't leap to conclusions, but on the other hand, when dealing with an unsolved case, we also shouldn't develop tunnel vision either. The fact that the Tennessee reporter does have some possible history with crimes involving children...

That does seem like a strange sentence. Most likely, it means he's eligible for parole in 6 years. Most states have a maximum/minimum combination for sentencing, i.e., a sentence of 10-15 means that it's a 15-year sentence but the person is eligible for parole after 10 years depending on how...

With all of the violent crimes and large-scale robberies and carjackings that take place in big cities, metropolitan police officers don't exactly rush out their doors with sirens blaring to investigate non-violent petit larceny cases when the stolen property is only worth about $100. In fact...