Evidently, Nebraska is a criminal hotbed of wedgie activity.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a suit by the city that sought to make firearm makers responsible for the illegal sale of weapons.

This article takes aim (no pun intended) at the prosecution in the Sean Bell murder case.

This article discusses an interesting twist on the attorney-client privilege when terror suspects are involved.

Actor Wesley snipes gets 36 months (that's 3 years for you math-impaired folk) jail time for tax evasion.

U.S. Supreme Court sides with Virginia on lawfulness of arrests.

While last week’s wave of Spitzer schadenfreude may have left Wall Street types feeling warm and fuzzy, that seems to have been largely erased with today’s news of the Bear Stearns crisis. But not to worry — we saved one piece of Spitzer news from yesterday. On Friday, the NYT reported that federal prosecutors were [...]

Did Andy Fastow really discuss the Global Galactic Memo with Jeff Skilling? That’s one of the pivotal issues raised by 420 pages of interview notes recently obtained by Dan Petrocelli’s legal team — the lawyers representing Skilling, the former Enron president, in his pending appeal before the 5th Circuit. Skilling, currently residing in a Minnesota [...]

During my term as Chair of the National Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention, I have a visited cities in the United States, England and Belgium to discuss successful crime reduction strategies with local crime prevention officials. One thing that struck me was how similar their experiences were. In each city there was a serious crime problem, a focussed response and a substantial improvement in both the reality and the perception of safety.

The indictment alleges a conspiracy in which the five defendants schemed to get Carona elected and to corruptly use the office of sheriff to enrich themselves. In addition to the conspiracy, the indictment charges Carona with witness tampering, including his attempt to convince Haidl, as recently as August, to lie to a federal grand jury.