Your case is desperate. The evidence is overwhelming. The judge and jury hate you. It’s time for the legal maneuver of last resort. No, kitten lawyers don’t understand the relevant statutes. Kitten lawyers don’t know how to object, cross-examine, or make powerful closing statements. However, unlike you, no one wants to make them sad. The…
Death in the City of Light by David King is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive…
The West Memphis Three are free. Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr.—who have been in jail in Arkansas for eighteen years for the murders of three little boys in 1993—were released from prison on August 19th. Baldwin and Misskelley were serving life sentences. Echols was on death row. Their case became famous, in…
According to The Daily Progress, the Albemarle County School District in Virginia has decided that “A Study In Scarlet” is an inappropriate story for sixth graders. The main reason for the Holmes mystery appearing before the board is that the book presents Mormons in an unflattering way. They say that the book will be added…
For many years, The Smoking Gun has been publishing booking photos of celebrities. It’s all public record, but it does seem a bit like kicking someone when they’re down. How sorry we feel for the perpetrators, of course, has a great deal to do with what they are arrested for. Still and all, these celebrities…
According to Deadline: The executive producer/developer of FX’s Justified, Graham Yost, will team up with another producer from that cool show, Fred Golan, to resuscitate an old concept that died as a pilot for Syfy 8 years ago. Conceived as a “legal procedural with a twist, the reincarnated series will now include John Stamos as…
Human Target and Mark Valley fans, weep not! According to TVGuide, he’s coming right back to crime TV as a regular in Harry’s Law, NBC’s latest legal drama from David E. Kelley of Boston Legal and The Practice. Here, Kathy Bates stars as bored patent lawyer-turned-front-line-litigator Harriet “Harry” Korn, new tenant of an abandoned…
The thriller, by definition, thrills. Twists and turns of plot, lots of action, high stakes, memorable characters, vivid and often exotic settings…all vital ingredients. So when a story comes along with almost no action, no hold-your-breath twists, and none of the characters even have names…it isn’t a thriller, is it? Is it? The 1957 film…
(Click here to read Part 1 and the events before the Kuwaiti police station.) To their credit (I suppose), the police let me drive us to the Salwa station in my car. The first thing that I did was contact the duty officer at the US Embassy who, that night, happened to be Dick Wilbur,…
This was Casey Anthony as defense rested the case. Since then, the jury’s been in deliberation, and, moments ago, returned the verdict of Not Guilty of 3 charges of first-degree murder, child abuse, and aggravated manslaughter. They found her Guilty of counts 4 through 7 of providing false information to police. So that’s the punctuation…
