Prosecutors want Ethan Couch to serve jail time for DWI assault charges after he was only given probation and rehab after being found guilty of 4 counts of manslaughter. In a move that many legal experts are calling political, the D.A. is pushing for jail time on the assault charges as Couch was only sentences […]
The defense team for a rich teenager found guilty of killing 4 people while driving drunk successfully argued for treatment versus prison by claiming he suffered from “affluenza.” The defense argued that Ethan Couch, 16-years-old at the time of the incident, was the “product of wealthy, privileged parents who never set limits for the […]
On Tuesday Attorney General Eric Holder took issue with the so-called ‘Stand Your Ground’-type of laws during a speech at the NAACP Annual Convention in Orlando. Meanwhile, demonstrations over the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial continued, with one protest in Los Angeles turning violent on Monday night. NBC’s Ron Mott reports. Visit NBCNews.com for […]
The US government is not the only entity who, with judicial approval, is amassing massive amounts of personal information against their so-called enemies. A federal judge has ruled to allow Chevron, through a subpoena to Microsoft, to collect the IP usage records and identity information for email accounts owned by over 100 environmental activists, journalists […]
Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), a leading opponent of gay marriage rights, appeared on Meet the Press this past Sunday to share his viewpoint on marriage equality with NBC host David Gregory. Gregory challenged Huelskamp to explain why it was so important for children to have opposite-sex parents and the Republican congressman insisted research had proven that children […]