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DA dismisses case against Merriman

District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis on Friday dismissed reality TV star Tila Tequila's accusations that San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman choked her and threw her to the ground early Sunday while she was trying to leave his suburban home.

New Orleans DA backs off bankruptcy idea

New Orleans' district attorney is backing off the idea of his office filing for bankruptcy.

Texas AG Investigating DA's E-Mails

The Texas Attorney General's office agreed Thursday to investigate whether a powerful prosecutor should lose his job for sending and receiving inappropriate messages through his county e-mail account.

Lawyers Threaten Shutdown of DA's Office

Millions of dollars in assets can be seized from the district attorney's office to pay off a $3.65 million judgment against the office in a racial discrimination lawsuit, a federal judge ruled Monday.

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Convicted rapist sentenced for sexual assault of elderly man
Source: adn.com: Alaska

A convicted rapist was sentenced this week to serve more than 32 years in prison for the brutal 2007 rape of an elderly man, according to the district attorney.

Bad Checks, Bad Taste..Good Advice!

I am sure some of us have encountered a bad employer sometime in our lives, I sure know I have! I have a case pending, so using actual business name's will come in a conclusion blog later.

Students Sue Prosector in Cellphone Photos Case
Source: The New York Times

The picture that investigators from the office of District Attorney George P. Skumanick of Wyoming County had was taken two years earlier at a slumber party. It showed Marissa and a friend from the waist up. Both were wearing bras.

Circuit Court Rebukes Former Prosecutor Kenny Hulshof (R-Mo.) for Subverting the Legal System
Source: The Agitator

Yesterday, Cole County, Missouri Circuit Judge Richard Callahan issued a stunning opinion in the case of Joshua Kezer, a 34-year-old man who has been in prison for 17 years for the 1992 murder of 19-year-old college student Angela Mischelle Lawless.

This Is Your Face After Inconveniencing The Stanly County District Attorney. Any Questions?
Source: feralchild.net

Theodore Jerry Williams (defendant) was arrested and placed in the Stanly County Detention Center on 17 November 2003 on charges unrelated to the present matter.

U.S. Supreme Court Gives "Absolute Immunity" To District Attorneys For Administrative Mistakes That Result in Mistaken Convictions
Source: Chicago Tribune

The Supreme Court threw out a lawsuit Monday from a Los Angeles man who spent 24 years in prison for a murder he did not commit and ruled that county prosecutors are shielded from being sued, even if their management mistakes lead to mistaken convictions.

Edward Lanphear court proceeding rescheduled
Source: Wisconsin Rapids Tribune

Excerpt: A pretrial conference for a 46-year-old Saratoga man charged with the abduction and assault of two south Wood County men has been rescheduled for Feb. 13.

Ramsey investigator says Karr needs second look
Source: Daily Camera

Excerpt: A Colorado Springs private investigator who has worked on the JonBenet Ramsey case for almost a decade says he's asking the district attorney and police to take another look at a one-time suspect who he thinks could be a threat to other girls.

DA in Cheney case explains failure to appear
Source: The San Antonio Express-News

BROWNSVILLE — Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra said he didn't appear at Wednesday's hearing on indictments against public officials including Vice President Dick Cheney because he didn't get proper notice and didn't understand the rush.

The Texas DA That Got Cheney and Gonzales Indicted Has Gone Missing.
Source: The San Antonio Express-News

Willacy County prosecutor Juan Angel Guerra stumped a presiding judge and attorneys for clients as high up as Vice President Dick Cheney when he failed to show up to court on his own grand jury's indictments.

Hair From Murder Doesn't Match Convicts on Death Row
Source: The Louisville Courier-Journal

Two men convicted of a double murder and a third murder are on Kentucky's death row. Hair evidence in the double murder is not a DNA match for the two men, the victims, or a third man who plea bargained and testified against them in return for a life sentence.

E-bay user goes to prison for selling school-owned computers for personal gain.
Source: The Appeal Democrat, The Desert Sun

E-bay user goes to prison for selling school-owned computers for personal gain. Ryan McCarthy of The Appeal Democrat wrote on OCTOBER 2, 2008:

Deutsche transcripts detail fatal swirl of smoke, radio chatter and terror
Source: NY Daily News

Blocked stairwells, radio confusion and misinformation about the water supply system thwarted firefighters' efforts to put out a blaze at a toxic ground zero skyscraper that killed two firefighters, an internal report said Thursday

New Orleans D.A. Fights Murder by Sending Pot Smokers to Prison
Source: Reason Magazine

Shortly after Keva Landrum-Johnson took over as district attorney...hundreds of new felony cases flooded the public defenders office, overwhelming the 29 defense attorneys.

A Call To Heroes: My "Sit Down With Vincent Bugliosi
Source:

The heroes in Vince's case are those who would prosecute George W. Bush for murder in an American court of law.

At Opednews: An Appeal Is Taken To State Supreme Court In District Attorney Challange
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

Does a District Attorney have to be licensed to practice law, or, as the New Mexico Constitution states, just "learned in the law"? The New Mexico Supreme Court has been asked to decide that one....

Eliot Spitzer- A Disproportionate Life
Source: Wall Street Journal

''If Eliot Spitzer had spent his free time with Albany's in-house hookers, this wouldn't be happening. Publicly embarrassed? Yes. Resign? I doubt it. Now he's done. Princeton, Harvard Law, New York attorney general, governor, toast.

Spiral of Complaint in Santa Clara County

When freedom of speech provides your only recourse, I suppose you have to take advantage of it if and when it can help. Santa Clara County seems to have the worst of the Bay Area's legal systems to me.

Does Your Local Prosecutor Do His Job?

I was brutally attacked last year here in Santa Clara County, and the local D.A.'s office has failed to file charges, actually bordering on accusing me of being in the wrong.

Lindsay Lohan May Dodge Prison Sentence
Source: ABC News

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office is disinclined to charge Lindsay Lohan with three drug-related felonies, a decision that could spare the troubled actress from a prison sentence, celebrity news outlet TMZ.com reported on Tuesday.

Nooses and a legal lynching in Jena, Louisiana
Source: colorofchange.org

Last fall in Jena, Louisiana, the day after two Black high school students sat beneath the "white tree" on their campus, nooses were hung from the tree. When the superintendent dismissed the nooses as a "prank," more Black students sat under the tree in protest.

Is rape still a crime?
Source: genderracepower.com

There's likely a deeper reason why the DA won't go forward. Anyone wanna guess?

Status with USAKIA and School, Criticism of Santa Clara County Local Government

Here's a new entry since I have a lot of work again: I have USAKIA stuff, my stuff, especially an "assault with a deadly weapon," and school stuff, and all three have a connection because I do the work, so I again start here by talking about it in personal terms. USAKIA ha …

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