Celebrity fashion designer Anand Jon was convicted on Thursday of raping and sexually assaulting aspiring models as young as 14.He faces possible life imprisonment after a Los Angeles Superior Court jury found him guilty on 16 criminal counts.The crimes involved lewd acts on a child, rape and sexual battery in assaults between 2001 and 2007. […]
Faulty Court System Punishes Natives in Alaska
Working as a Public Defender in the State of Alaska has opened my eyes to systemic problems facing Alaska Native criminal defendants. The importance of this coming election to much needed reforms cannot be overstated. Any polling place irregularities that serve to disenfranchise Native voters and affect the outcome of the Alaska State House and […]
Man Admits to Selling Donated Body Parts
Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office says a 58-year-old man from Anaheim, Henry Reid, has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit grand theft. Prosecutors say between 1999 and 2004, the man sold parts of donated cadavers to another man, Ernest Nelson, who then resold them to medical and research facilities. The man will […]
Casey Anthony Text Messages Released
Casey Anthony’s text messages were included in nearly 600 pages of documents of evidence against released yesterday by Florida’s Sate Attorney’s office regarding her missing daughter, Caylee Anthony. Casey Anthony is a person of interest in the disappearance of 2-year-old Caylee. The text messages and documents show suspicious behavior by Casey Anthony on the days […]
Conflict Continues Between Uribe and Supreme Court
Over the past year, Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez and the Supreme Court have been engaged in a fight because of the so-called Parapolitics scandal, where more than 30 lawmakers from the ruling coalition have been jailed, and dozens of politicians are being investigated, because of their alleged links with right-wing paramilitary squads, including Mario Uribe Escobar, the president’s cousin, […]
Immigration Battle Heats Up In Arizona
Phoenix mayor Phil Gordon is trying to turn up the Heat on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio concerning immigration by sending a letter to the US Attorney General accusing the Sheriff of racial profiling and asking the media to follow Arpaio. Arpaio has been vigourously upholding state illegal immigration laws, and this has led to […]
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