On Wednesday, Philip Speirs was sentenced to eight years in jail on kidnapping and rape charges, despite telling the court that he committed the crime because he had been bitten by a spider. Speirs told the court that he had…
The former head of a state-owned power company in China, currently on trial for corruption charges, does not seem to have helped his case by reading a four-page apology letter in court this week. While the apology seems to have…
A legal team in Southern California trying to create a defense exhibit has come under fire for what some might call "thinking outside the box," but others have suggested might be "illegal human experimentation." George Engman is on trial in…
It doesn’t endear you to jurors, that’s for sure.
Hector Pulido explained to police that, by biting his nephew repeatedly, he was only trying to teach his nephew that biting people is wrong. Sure, in retrospect, he may have said, it’s possible that actually biting a 3-year-old multiple times,…
IBS, of course, as criminal defense attorneys out there may or may not know, stands for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Helen Gallo asserted this defense last week in Clearwater, Florida, after she was arrested for shoplifting from a grocery store. Gallo…
According to the International Herald Tribune, Florida Governor Charlie Crist said today that he is "seriously thinking" of granting a posthumous pardon to Doors singer Jim Morrison. (This is a major step forward since my report on this last week.) …
On April 12, a jury in Tampa convicted Rafael Angel Rondon of being the "Band-Aid Bandit," suspected in the robberies of 39 banks in nine counties between 2000 and 2006. Rondon’s brother-in-law, Emeregildo Roman, was also convicted. The report did…
Two recent cases may be of interest to those charged with operating something or other while under the influence of something or other, or to those struck by such a person, or to the attorneys for any such party. Or…
It was all for the people of Atlantic City, said former city council president Craig Callaway. Since he was saying this at a sentencing hearing after being convicted of taking bribes from an FBI informant, it is possible that he…