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Sacramento police find themselves confronted with the coldest of cold cases: Police in Sacramento, Calif., are investigating the death of a 62-year-old man who died from a shooting—36 years after it happened. Walter Johnson Jr., who was left paralyzed from the 1977 attack, died from complications related to his paralysis, leading police to rule [...] The Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik who killed 77 people last year was deemed sane by a Norwegian and sentenced to 21 whole years for his act. The sentence means that Mr. Breivik, 33 years old, is regarded to have been in a sane state of mind at the time he committed the brutal [...] Arkansas man charged in deadly beating with prosthetic arm, http://fxn.ws/LR0YUG – You can’t make this stuff up. Share on Facebook JimmyC linked to The Blaze summary of this in the Open Thread. This deserves to be mocked openly with its own thread From the Australian Journal of Medical Ethics — “After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?: Here’s the abstract — full article at the link: Abstract Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons [...] This is a textbook case of “manslaughter” in criminal law — though more tragic than most. While I understand the response… A New Hampshire man was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison Friday for beating his wife to death with a flashlight after he came home to find she had strangled [...] There are no words… well there are but this is only a Rated R blog. Staring angrily, Adam Baker confronted his wife in a courtroom Thursday after she admitted to murdering his 10-year-old disabled daughter and scattering her remains in the western reaches of North Carolina. “There are no words to explain the hate I [...] Even in the most lax criminal justice system in the U.S., killing 93 people would get you at least 93 life sentences. You would never see the light of day without having to look through or over a fence for the rest of your life. In Norway? Killing 93 people will get you a grand [...] I ran across a great article this morning in the Spring edition of Stanford Medicine. In my criminal law class we discuss a case from New York in the 1980s called People v. Eulo in which the New York court held that death occurs when the brain irreversibly ceases to function. The old common [...] I meant to shoot that bitch. From The Riverside Press-Enterprise: A Twin Peaks man was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter Friday night after he said he accidentally shot his wife instead of the family dog, which was aggressive toward him, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Faith Ellen Bater, 61, was found [...] An LAPD Detective Stephanie Lazarus, was recently arrested for the 1986 murder of a woman named Sherrie Rae Rasmussen. Her colleagues tricked her into talking about the case and then arrested her. There video of the last few minutes of that interview are below… and I find it compelling… you can see the “oh s&*t!” [...] I teach a few courses in our forensic psychology program so I find this stuff fascinating. NPR (which actually has some very good stuff) is doing a series of stories on neuroscience and crime…. here’s a link to the first one about neuroscientist James Fallon — a professor at UC-Irvine and a descendant of Lizzie [...] Meet Frank Dryman… the eyes of a fugitive killer, the eyes of a rehabilitated man or both? From AOL News: The aging Frank Dryman, a notorious killer from Montana’s past, had hidden in plain sight for so long that he forgot he was a wanted man. In an exclusive jailhouse interview with The [...] A lot of criminals are idiotic, self-justifying morons. In class today we’re watching an interview (of which this includes parts) with Richard Kuklinski aka The Iceman and forensic psychologist Parke Dietz. This guy was the real deal…. Very few people are really scary… a guy who is a sociopath, is fearless and also paranoid [...] Slate’s column The Explainer has named its 2009 Question of the Year: “If a Siamese Twin Commits Murder, Does His Brother Get Punished, Too?” There isn’t much case law to work with on this question, since in the United States, at least, conjoined twins represent something like 0.0005 percent of all live births—with an [...] I stand by the idea that the scariest person in all of the world is a prosecutor… his or her discretion is almost unbounded — and that includes choosing evidence. Read this from The New Yorker — it’s long, but well worth it, (Ed. but imbalanced as the UPDATE informs). News of the tragedy, which [...] UK police are going to re-examine the death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones who was found tits down in his pool in 1969. The story was always a typical late ’60s drug/alcohol accidental suicide, but apparently an investigative journalist — also a dying breed — has given information to the police that warrants [...] |
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