The AP reported this week that Saddam Hussein, facing charges for genocide, murder, torture, and a shitload of unpaid parking tickets, has fired everyone on his legal defense team except for one attorney, Khalil al-Dulaimi. Evidently, that means Khalil will…

On August 9, the Associated Press reported on the community service being performed by Jennifer Wilbanks, popularly known as the “Runaway Bride.” You may recall that Wilbanks first claimed to have been abducted and sexually assaulted by Mexicans, but later…

Like many politicians, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra does not really like being grilled by reporters. In the past he has angrily refused to talk to the press for some time after difficult questions have been posed. But Thaksin appears…

Thieves that steal gnomes, that is, not thieves who are gnomes. Police in Britain today charged two women with something or other, ending an 11-day investigation into repeated thefts of gnomes and other garden items from towns in central Scotland….

I think for something to qualify as a “crime spree” at least one of the crimes in the alleged spree has to have been successful. Otherwise, you would just have a series of attempted crimes, and I seriously doubt that…

Is domestic violence ever funny? No, of course not. With the single possible exception of when all the following criteria are met: It happens to someone else, and It involves a man being beaten by a woman, and She beats…

A Norwegian newspaper reported Wednesday that officials at Ringerike prison near Oslo have discontinued yoga classes after finding that they appeared to make the inmates more agitated and aggressive, not more relaxed as had been hoped. The classes, which feature…

In July, the Utah Court of Appeals ordered a new trial in the case of two women who sued the leaders of the True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days in 2001. The women…

Probably not very often, but this one is. Hint: the charge is “abusing harmful intoxicants,” namely, spray paint. The site links to a number of other excellent mug shots. The Smoking Gun

These days pretty much all courthouses prohibit cell phones, or at least require that they be turned off while in the courtroom. You should honor this rule at least in Chatham County, North Carolina. Sergio Cortez Herrera didn’t, and Judge…