No Suing Your Getaway Driver for Crashing, Court Rules
Sure, he was negligent, but you were all engaged in a felony.
Criminal Mind, The
“Carlos the Jackal” Still Worried About His Image
Convicted terrorist and murderer Carlos Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal," is still upset about how he is portrayed in the new movie, "Carlos," which premiered at Cannes in May. Ramirez is fuming about the movie from…
Paying Restitution More Important Than Plastic Surgery, Says Judge
Last week, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick got his probation upgraded to jail time after a judge found he had been hiding assets to avoid paying restitution. Kilpatrick was supposed to be paying back $1 million of the $8.4 million…
Man Offers Medical Explanation For What May Have Seemed Like Peeping
Here's one I drafted last summer but, for some reason, never got around to posting. It still seems worth mentioning, though, because of the remarkable defense argument involved. In July 2009, 30-year-old Sultan al-Sayed was sentenced to nine weeks in…
Juror in Stolen-Credit-Card Case Steals Fellow Juror’s Credit Card
Prosecutors in the Bronx have charged 20-year-old Jennifer Mercado with credit card theft after a shopping spree in which she allegedly bought over $500 worth of stuff using someone else's credit card without authorization. She may have gotten the idea…
Busy Bank Robbers Call Ahead, Place Order to Go
Much criminal stupidity (on the part of criminals, or otherwise) has graced the pages of this blog, and I am really not one to pick a single favorite or rank anything number one in any category, but I am pretty sure…
Baffling Mistakes Criminals Make All the Time
Among many others.
Camera Catches Moment That Robber Realized Robbery Not Going as Planned
Clifton Taylor's final mistake, at least his last one as a free man, was to choose to represent himself. But as the article in the Kansas City Star put it, "[H]is judgment had been suspect before." In March 2009, Taylor…
Rat Planter Pleads No Contest to Extortion Charges
Debbie Miller pleaded no contest on Tuesday to charges stemming from a failed attempt to extort money from a Wisconsin restaurant by planting a dead rat in her lunch. The report did not say what kind of lunch Miller had,…
Three Items Added to Bank-Robbery Checklist
Bruce Carton at Legal Blog Watch has added three items to his growing checklist for bank robbers, which seems like an extremely handy reference that I bet bank robbers don't even thank him for. With the new additions, it appears…