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…
Might as well swim.
Responding to what must be the first and only nuisance complaint ever based on the music of John Denver (based on its volume, anyway), police in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, ticketed a man on January 13 after neighbors complained the Denver…
Alfred Hightower had been on the run since 2007, when a warrant was issued for his arrest on drug-dealing charges. Hightower was apparently from Kokomo, Indiana, but had fled to Canada. His downfall, though, was that he spent a…
Hope you had a good New Year's Eve, and that you didn't have to spend it in jail. On the other hand, if you were hoping to spend it in jail because you preferred that to spending it with your…
The Smoking Gun, the nation's top source of remarkable mug shots (among other things), has posted its selections for the top 20 of 2009. As you can see, that one is only #10. Link: The Smoking Gun
In class-action cases we generally recommend removing to federal court if possible, moving to dismiss, and then swiftly taking class representatives' depositions if the motion is not successful. There are other strategies, however. Here's one that we could not officially recommend,…
Now at the top of the Naughty List: William Caldwell, a 45-year-old man who patiently waited in line at a Georgia mall to tell Santa that he had a present for him: dynamite. No bomb was found, but Caldwell was…
In August, police in Framingham, Massachusetts, responded to a report that a gas station had been robbed. They brought along a tracking dog and released it in the direction in which witnesses said the robber had gone. Just a few…
There are better ways to demonstrate the concept of an “imminent threat,” probably.