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• L.A. Lawyer Pleads in Quellos Case, Admits He Didn’t Pay Tax on $35M Offshore Account

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 667
  A Los Angeles lawyer has pleaded guilty and agreed to accept up to a five-year prison term in a tax shelter scheme that involved a $35 million offshore account. Matthew Krane, 55, pleaded guilty in federal court in Seattle yesterday to tax evasion and passport fraud concerning an alleged Quellos Group LLC investment ...
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• 2 Judges & 1 Lawyer Win Bribery Appeals After 5th Circuit Raises New Issue

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 667
  Despite an apparent pleading error by the appellants counsel, a federal appeals court today reversed the federal program bribery convictions of two Mississippi judges and a trial lawyer. This is likely to shorten their prison sentences, although some other convictions against the three were not vacated. And they could ...
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• Watchdog Watch, Day 3

  
  Last Blog On Earth — Authority: 426
  Yep: Day 3. There was no Day 2 because this blogger wasn’t feeling too well. If you’ve not been following this whole deal, we’ve been urging the Watchdog Institute (the nonprofit investigative reporting off-shoot of the San Diego Union-Tribune ) to correct false information in a story published on Nov. ...
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• Escape inquiry reviews hospital visit

  
  Postcards — Authority: 504
  Authorities trying to determine how a convicted child rapist used a smuggled pistol to escape from prison two weeks ago are now investigating whether a trip to a hospital by the convict the night before may have figured in the breakout plan. Officials familiar with the probe said details of the trip that Arcade ...
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• Sexting Hysteria Drives Teen to Suicide. Media Blames Sexting, Fuels More Hysteria.

  
  The Agitator — Authority: 664
  Over at Hit & Run , the heartbreaking Hope Witsell story.
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• Outside prison security review ordered

  
  Postcards — Authority: 504
  Outside consultants will be hired to evaluate and help beef up security at the East Texas prison where a convicted child molester hatched an escape plot and to ensure security breaches do not occur at the other 111 state prisons, officials announced today. The development came after legislative leaders for several ...
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• Coroner rules East Grand Rapids man did not die as a result of taser

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 603
  The death of Matthew Bolick last month was not the result of multiple blasts from the East Grand Rapids police tasers, a forensic pathologist has ruled. The Grand Rapids Press reports that Dr. David Start has ruled Bolick’s death the result of excited delirium syndrome. The psychotic disorder, punctuated by ...
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• John Jay Continues Tradition of Holiday Cheer for Those in Need

  
  The CUNY News Wire — Authority: 142
  Along with shorter days, colder temperatures and final exams, the arrival of December has meant one other certainty for the past 27 years at John Jay: the annual Children’s Holiday Party. Friends and colleagues of the late Jack Brennan, who wanted to honor the memory of the beloved former John Jay security ...
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• Morning-ish Links

  
  The Agitator — Authority: 664
  Why men shouldn’t write advice columns . My colleague Jacob Sullum has an update on Assistant U.S. Attorney Tonya Treadway’s continuing harassment of pain patient advocate Siobhan Reynolds. DOJ needs to be firing people over this crap. And paying Reynolds’ legal bills. I first wrote about this case here . ...
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• Bill C-15: Stupid policy, shrewd strategy

  
  knitnut.net — Authority: 125
  The Conservatives are trying to take the war on drug users to another level with Bill C-15, which proposes mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses. This Bill, if passed into law, will strip judges of their discretion in sentencing Canadians convicted of drug offenses. Rather than being allowed to take all ...
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• New legislation would fix state’s public defender system

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 603
  A new bill, HB 5676 , has been introduced in the Michigan legislature to address the many problems with the state’s indigent defense system. The bill was submitted by Rep. Bob Constan (D-Dearborn Heights) and cosponsored by Rep. Justin Amash (R-Kentwood). The legislation, dubbed the Michigan Public Defense Act, ...
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• Criminal Case Against Ariz. Judge Raises Questions About Prosecution

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 667
  Following stunning criminal charges announced yesterday against the presiding criminal court judge in Maricopa County concerning his rulings in cases on his docket, some lawyers in Arizona are questioning the ethics of those involved in bringing the charges and even calling for outside intervention. Such prosecutions ...
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• ‘Caffeine Psychosis’ May Have Caused Man’s Erratic Driving, Defense Lawyer Says

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 667
  A hard-working financial analyst for the University of Idaho routinely chugged coffee and energy drinks and may have been under the influence of "caffeine psychosis" during an erratic-driving incident that put two college students in the hospital in nearby Washington state, his lawyer says. Attorney Mark Moorer, who ...
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• Iran: Stop Harassing Shirin Ebadi

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 679
  (New York) - Iranian authorities should immediately stop their harassment campaign against Shirin Ebadi, the human rights defender and 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate, and her family, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
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• Judge Holds US in Contempt for Not Videotaping Gitmo Detainee Testimony

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 667
  A federal judge in Washington, D.C., held the U.S. Department of Defense in civil contempt of court today for disobeying a prior court order that required "the appropriate agency" to preserve a videotape of a detainees testimony in a closed-door habeas corpus hearing. Although Mohammed al-Adahi couldnt appear in open ...
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• Probable cause to indict Soles

  
  Carolina Politics Online — Authority: 134
  R.C. Soles Jr., a N.C. State Senator from Tabor City will be indicted by a grand jury. This was reported in the News and Observer today. The grand jury wrote in its presentment that it had reason to believe that Soles had committed a crime: Twelve or more grand jurors concur in finding probable cause to believe ...
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• Over Body-Freezing Co.‘s Objection, Judge OKs Autopsy of Client’s Corpse

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 667
  Concerning that a clients corpse is "decomposing by the minute," a cryogenics company today asked a Florida judge to stop a planned autopsy to determine why a 48-year-old Navy veteran died last week. But Hillsborough Circuit Judge Martha Cook denied the emergency petition by Alcor Life Extension Foundation, saying ...
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• Civil Rights Re-Revoked

  
  Capitol News Service — Authority: 134
  Eleven former felons who mistakenly had their civil rights automatically restored had them taken away today. Governor Charlie Crist and the state cabinet signed an order to revoke the felon’s rights. The mistake was discovered after a September audit of the state parole commission. Governor Charlie Crist ...
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• Prominent L.A. Lawyer Shot in Head Outside His Home Was Murdered

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 667
  A partner at a Los Angeles law firm who was shot in the head outside his upscale home earlier this week was murdered, police now say, ruling out the possibility of suicide. However, little appears to be known about what might have led to the slaying of Jeffrey Tidus, who had a complex civil litigation practice, ...
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• US Lawyer Wrongly Accused in Madrid Bomb Case Loses Patriot Act Challenge

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 667
  Because he earlier accepted $2 million from the government for being mistakenly arrested in an international terrorism case and is barred by the terms of the settlement from seeking new injunctive relief, an Oregon lawyer lacks standing to pursue his challenge to the constitutionality of the USA Patriot Act, a federal ...
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