The Courts

All Hell Breaks Loose In Oregon Courtroom As Ammon Bundy Attorney Wrestles With U.S. Marshalls

All Hell Breaks Loose In Oregon Courtroom As Ammon Bundy Attorney Wrestles With U.S. Marshalls

Pandemonium breaks out in a courtroom after an Oregon jury acquits the Oregon occupiers. This Thursday a Portland, Oregon, jury acquitted “Ammon Bundy, his brother Ryan Bundy and five co-defendants not guilty of conspiring to prevent federal employees from doing their jobs through intimidation, threat or force during the 41-day occupation of the Malheur National […]

Mass. Supreme Court Says Black Men May Have Legitimate Reason To Flee Police

Mass. Supreme Court Says Black Men May Have Legitimate Reason To Flee Police

Citing police data and an ACLU report, the Massachusetts high court stated that black men have a legitimate reason to flee police officers. WBUR, Boston’s NPR News Station, reports that “Black men who try to avoid an encounter with Boston police by fleeing may have a legitimate reason to do so — and should not […]

Jared Fogle Files Motion Blaming Child Victim’s Parents For Her Emotional Distress

Jared Fogle Files Motion Blaming Child Victim’s Parents For Her Emotional Distress

Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle filed a motion this week blaming a child victim’s parents for her emotional distress. Lawyers for imprisoned Subway spokesman Jared Fogle filed court papers accusing the parents of a girl who was secretly filmed by his accomplice of being responsible for the girl’s emotional distress. NBC News reports that Fogle’s […]

No Jail Time For Rapist So He Can Enjoy The ‘College Experience’

No Jail Time For Rapist So He Can Enjoy The ‘College Experience’

Another rapist gets a slap on the wrist. 18-year-old David Becker, a former Massachusetts high school athlete, was charged with sexually assaulting two unconscious women at a house party last April: two counts of rape and one count of indecent assault and battery, according to MassLive. Instead of sentencing Becker to serve jail time, the rape […]

Bail Or Jail Is Coming To An End If The Department Of Justice Prevails – Video

Bail Or Jail Is Coming To An End If The Department Of Justice Prevails – Video

The Justice Department says that holding the poor in jail because they cannot afford bail is unconstitutional. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals last week asserting that holding defendants in jail just because they cannot afford bail is unconstitutional. “Bail practices that incarcerate indigent […]

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