Ohio man who killed girlfriend over ATM card is year's 8th execution, most in state history

Court seems skeptical on $14 million judgment
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed skeptical of a $14 million judgment given to a former death row inmate who accused New Orleans prosecutors of withholding evidence to help convict him of Murder. John Thompson, who at one point was only weeks away from being executed, successfully sued the District Attorney's office in New Orleans, arguing that former District Attorney Harry Connick showed deliberate indifference by not providing adequate training for assistant District...

Guns and state borders: Trekking north
THE Iron Curtain kept Europeans in the Communist east from travelling westward. The Iron Pipeline keeps Guns travelling northward. That nickname has accrued to I-95, a highway running along America’s east coast from Miami all the way to Maine, which Gun traffickers have long used to haul Guns bought in southern states with relatively lax purchasing Laws to sell in North-eastern states such as New York and New Jersey, which more strongly regulate Gun sales. But gun-trafficking is far more c...

Sheriff: Ohio mom killed 2 kids and #x2014; 6-year-old girl and 18-month-old boy and #x2014; before killing self
CARROLLTON, Ohio — A woman shot and killed her two Children in their beds before committing Suicide Wednesday morning in their rural home, authorities said. Carroll County Sheriff Dale Williams said the woman's father notified police at around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. The man was in the house at the time but didn't witness the shootings, the Sheriff said. The shooting, which took place in a rural town about 20 miles southeast of Canton, left the 24-year-old woman and her two Children ȁ...

Slay revenge or mistaken ID? Brooklyn man Kenroy Smith shot in the back
A Brooklyn man who held a series of odd jobs was shot to death in a flurry of bullets, leaving relatives to explain the Murder to his 2-year-old son. Kenroy Smith, 27, who had just played Video Games with a friend, was killed about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Flatbush Gardens apartment complex. Police said Smith spotted an armed man waiting for him in the lobby of the Foster Ave. building. He tried to sprint back up the stairs, but the gunman caught up to him and shot him in the back several time...

Ohio sues GMAC Mortgage, Ally Financial over foreclosures
Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray Wednesday filed a civil Lawsuit against GMAC Mortgage and its parent, Ally Financial, alleging they used fraudulent affidavits and documents to mislead courts in hundreds of Home Foreclosures in the State. Calling it a "grave situation," Cordray said Ally Financial's actions raise questions about the legitimacy of Foreclosures in Ohio and 22 other States. He said the concerns extend to the practices of other major servicers across the country. Cordray's...

Police say Ohio man forced pregnant girlfriend to drive to abortion clinic at gunpoint
Columbus, Ohio — Police say an Ohio man who wanted his pregnant girlfriend to get an Abortion forced her to drive to a health clinic at gunpoint. Columbus police say 27-year-old Dominic Holt-Reid became angry with the woman Wednesday because she refused to go through with an Abortion scheduled at the clinic earlier in the day. He was charged with Kidnapping and carrying a Concealed Weapon and is being held in the Franklin County Jail. Jail staff did not known whether he had an attorney....

Ohio Attorney General Sues Ally Financial Over Alleged Foreclosure Fraud, First In A Possible Wave Of Lawsuits
WASHINGTON — Ohio's Attorney General is suing Ally Financial Inc. and its GMAC Mortgage division, alleging the company violated state Fraud laws in handling Foreclosure cases. The action could be the first in a wave of Lawsuits by state Regulators over what appear to be widespread problems in documents used by the nation's largest Mortgage lenders. Attorney General Richard Cordray said Wednesday the alleged Fraud could involve hundreds of Foreclosures in the state. The Lawsuit claims the...

Annals of American Injustice
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the question on whether prosecutors can be liable if they violate the Constitutional Rights of the accused. The background of the case is, in addition, very instructive about the functioning of the death penalty, even before we get to the fact that the DA intentionally withheld exculpatory evidence: In John Thompson’s case, there was no physical evidence linking him to the crimethe brutal Robbery and Murder of an unarmed New Orleans...

Getting Off Death Row
In 1995, Shareef Cousin was sentenced to death at the age of 16 for a Crime he didn't commit. He served several years on death row in Louisiana's Angola Prison before his conviction was overturned. Now 28, Cousin is out of Prison and attending Morehouse College in Atlanta. He shared the story of his wrongful conviction in a Podcast he created as part of a competition that asked College Students for their perspectives on Capital Punishment. The Podcast competition was funded by the National...

U.S. judge bought drugs for stripper, feds say
A Federal Judge in Georgia has been arrested on drug and weapons charges after Federal agents say he bought drugs for a stripper with whom he was having an affair. Senior U.S. District Judge Jack Camp Jr. has been charged with posession of Cocaine, Marijuana and the painkiller roxycodone, according to Court documents. He is also charged with posessing a firearm as an unlawful user of controlled substances and with aiding and abetting the posession of drugs by the stripper, who had a prior drug...

GA Federal Judge Arrested on Drug and Gun Charges
You don't see this too often: A senior Federal Judge in the Northern District of Georgia (formerly the Chief Judge until taking senior status) has been arrested and charged with illegal drug and gun Crimes : Senior U.S. District Judge Jack T. Camp Jr. was arrested late Friday night near Sandy Springs. Camp, 67, is accused of purchasing Cocaine and Marijuana, along with prescription Painkillers that which he shared with an exotic dancer he met last spring at the Goldrush Showbar in...

Florida Man Denies Cocaine Found in Buttocks Is His
Monday, October 04, 2010 By Staff, Associated Press Bradenton, Fla. (AP) - When sheriff's deputies allegedly discovered bags of Marijuana and Cocaine between a man's buttocks, they said he gave a quick explanation. Manatee County deputies said Raymond Stanley Roberts told them "The white stuff is not mine, but the weed is." Deputies stopped the 25-year-old Wednesday in Bradenton for speeding. Officers said they smelled Marijuana and searched him. That's when they allegedly found a bag of...

Cops: Cocaine, meth sold at medical pot clinics
Los Angeles — About $350,000 worth of Marijuana products were seized during Raids at 16 locations across Southern California including several Medical Marijuana dispensaries, police said. Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies said 11 people were arrested on suspicion of drug dealing Wednesday. The Raids targeted a single group of criminals illegally making and selling Cocaine, meth and Marijuana at Medical Marijuana dispensaries, Capt. Ralph Ornelas said. "This organization was...

Fed Judge Embroiled In Stripper, Drug Scandal
A Veteran Federal Judge known for handing down tough sentences has been arrested for engaging in a wild Drug and sex escapade with an exotic dancer he met as a patron at a Strip Club. The Reagan-appointed Judge, 67-year-old Jack T. Camp, looks more like a loving grandpa with round glasses, thinning white hair and a warm smile. For more than two decades he has presided over cases in U.S. District Court in Atlanta , where he was chief Judge before retiring last year to hear cases as a senior...

Rehab is better than ban: player unions
AP The player unions representing footballers and cricketers in England have called for recreational drugs to be removed from the World Anti-Doping Agency's prohibited list. Rather than punishing athletes who test positive for Cocaine and Marijuana during in-competition testing with a two-year ban for a first offence, the groups are appealing for leniency with a focus on rehabilitation. "We have to make sure that a guy struggling with a problem can step forward and receive help to get that...

Slain mother, child laid to rest
T hey were buried the way they died: A mother cradling her toddler in her arms, his hand on hers. The final embrace yesterday of Eyanna Flonory and her 2-year-old son, Amanihoteph Smith, made grown men weep, clergymen thunder and a city unite. Hundreds of mourners waited in the rain outside Morning Star Baptist Church in Mattapan, a few blocks from Woolson Street, where the mother and child were gunned down last week with three other people in what remains an unresolved mass killing in a city...

Just Say "Yes!": Legalizing Drugs Is Good for Society ... and the Economy, Harvard Prof. Says
According to their website, "The report also estimates that drug legalization would yield Tax Revenue of $46.7 Billion annually, assuming legal drugs were taxed at rates comparable to those on Alcohol and tobacco. Approximately $8.7 Billion of this Revenue would result from legalization of Marijuana and $38.0 Billion from legalization of other drugs." But won't we become a nation of drug addicts?

Booze vs Pot
Booze vs Pot I absolutely will not be drinking three beers in short order, followed by smoking a blunt for this report. The contest I'm speaking of is the Alcohol lobby versus the pot legalizers in California. The California Beer & Beverage Distributors disclosed it donated $10,000 to defeat Prop 19 -- which would regulate and tax Marijuana like Alcohol. The Alcohol Lobbyist's funds will help spread the lie that employers must tolerate stoned employees, and the talking point that 'California...

Buying books is fun, with a glass in your hand
Before I first acquired a Kindle, exactly one year ago, I didn't usually buy books while under the influence of Alcohol. I won't say I never did it, because that would be a lie. But it wasn't a habit. After a couple of glasses of wine, I tend to fixate on the present. I have no use for five to seven days' delivery time. The Kindle is wonderful for drunk people because you can climb into bed, press one button, and The Anatomy of Melancholy instantaneously materialises before you, plucked by the s...

Key role for anti-money-laundering experts
The role of anti-money-laundering specialists is more than detecting suspicious transactions. It is about finding threats to our country, including Terrorist Financing, said the speaker at the inaugural event for the Richmond Chapter of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists. "I don't want to be the bank that shows up in the paper that allows Terrorist Financing or Money Laundering," said Mike Kelsey, deputy chief compliance officer at Capital One Financial Corp., one of ...

America's Secret or Secrets
< https://www.CNN.com/2010/WORLD/americas/10/01/us.Guatemala.Apology/index.html?hpt=T2 > It would have been better for the researchers to have burned this money than to do what was done; it was by no means money that was well spent. Egregious acts within the United States of America never bolster the trust or image of our country. The embedded articles mention that today safeguards are in place, which would prevent something like this from occurring; personally I have my doubts; evil and...

Blackwater: Still Doing Just Fine
Never mind the dead civilians. Forget about the stolen guns. Get over the Murder arrests, the Fraud allegations, and the accusations of guards pumping themselves up with Steroids and Cocaine. Through a “joint venture,” the notorious private-security firm Blackwater has won a piece of a five-year State Department contract worth up to $10 Billion, Danger Room has learned. Apparently, there is no misdeed so big that it can keep guns-for-hire from working for the government. And this is ...

Bounty
American Glob wants a question answered Sure, the need to figure out the political Party of notorious figure in the News, in order to taint the other side with guilt by association, has, at times, become a bit absurd. But this time the question is extremely valid. By all accounts the two charged with these crimes (the invasion of Privacy that played a role in the Suicide of a Rutgers Student) were not mentally unstable, angry or atypical of a goodly amount of College Students. And the left is...

Atlanta Police dispute 'most dangerous neighborhoods' list
Four parts of Atlanta, Georgia, made a list of the country's most dangerous neighborhoods. A report that placed four neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia, among the 25 most dangerousin the United States has not gone unnoticed by the Atlanta Police Department. On Thursday, the department cast doubt on the methodology behind the " Top 25 most dangerous neighborhoods ," and cautioned the publicagainst taking the report at face value. "We will not dispute that there are...

Atlanta Police dispute 'most dangerous neighborhoods' list
Four parts of Atlanta, Georgia, made a list of the country's most dangerous neighborhoods. A report that placed four neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia, among the 25 most dangerousin the United States has not gone unnoticed by the Atlanta Police Department. On Thursday, the department cast doubt on the methodology behind the " Top 25 most dangerous neighborhoods ," and cautioned the publicagainst taking the report at face value. "We will not dispute that there are...