The one place where money and all other things should be sacred was not so, recently. A Massachusetts couple has been accused of stealing from the First Presbyterian Church in Tennessee in January, alleges a charge. The couple were both acting suspicious and were questioned when they left the church.…
Just hours after Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot, a Massachusetts man made threatening emails to a Florida Representative. The man who made the threat says he is a political activist and was arrested for the threatening emails he had sent. The email contained a message to stop legislation that…
A 70-year-old man who killed a 57-year-old woman will most likely not see jail time as long as he does not violate the five years of formal probation he was sentenced to, the judge in the case said. The man did not even have a traffic ticket before the struck…
On Wednesday, the former chief executive officer (CEO) of Qwest Communications, filed a lawsuit that alleges the lawyers who represented him during his insider-trading case overbilled him, a newspaper has learned. The legal malpractice lawsuit was filed in state Superior Court in Newark, NJ, seeks punitive and compensatory damages totaling…
The ACLU is celebrating a small, yet exciting victory today after a judged reached the decision that two mentally challenged immigrants, both of whom are up for deportation and unable to function at a level competent enough to represent themselves, will be given legal representation so that they may have…
Most people respect the law and don’t drink and drive. People who decide to take chances with other people’s lives will undoubtedly be better off if they are ticketed, but a DWI conviction is no walk in the park, either. Aside from the immediate risks of losing one’s driver’s license…
There’s nothing sadder than a mother maltreating her own children. This case is about a mother who inspite of having four children already, still didn’t have the maternal instinct to care for her kids. She has two kids from her first partner and twins with a man reported to have…
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal that would have overturned a conviction of a Washington state man. The man is an ex felon who was appealing a law that would send him back to prison for several months. The man was pulled over by police in 2005. They told a…
A St. Louis attorney is involved in a federal lawsuit after being investigated by Federal Agents after questions arose regarding some tax shelters managed by the lawyer. Tax shelters are a very common, legal way to prevent the government from taxing a sum of money. They are frequently associated with…
A 30-year-old immigrant, married to an American woman, with a very young son, was arrested on September 28, 2009, taken from his family home in Durham, North Carolina, a New York Criminal Lawyer reported. “I was scared, but in the back of my mind, I just felt that everything would…