Crime and Punishment

Seen this guy before? The folks at the 7111 W. Foster branch of Liberty Bank for Savings apparently have. The FBI thinks he robbed them back on August 22nd and then again on November 28th, both Mondays. … [Read more...] about Seen This Robber Before?

Via Scott Ott at the satirical Scrappleface comes an interesting bit of truth about the death penalty. As you may know (it's gotten some press), the United States is about to conduct its 1000th execution since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. However, based on this Department of Justice table (extrapolating for the last three years) there have been about 450,000 … [Read more...] about 450 Thousand

Wheels within wheels...recantations within recantations...a frame within a frame? Marathon Pundit is all over the latest news about the Anthony Porter/Alstory Simon murder case. I don't have much to say about the death penalty—I am as disturbed by the blood lust on one side as by the candlelight vigils for murderers on the other—but this is a bizarre story. … [Read more...] about A Frame Within a Frame?

How come all the Google AdSense ads on my About Me page are for criminal defense attorneys? That can't be good. … [Read more...] about Smooth Criminal?

Public defense blogger David Feige notes that the police did manage to catch one looter: That's Merlene Maten, who's 73 years old. My immediate thought was that the police must have picked her up because she was easier to catch than all the younger looters. Apparently, that's what everyone else thinks, too: Family and eyewitnesses insisted Maten was an innocent woman who … [Read more...] about The Police Nab a Looter