Posted in crime on Aug 9th, 2008
It took a while to register, but there was something naggingly familiar about Bernann McKinney, the 57-year-old California woman whose ecstatically beaming features were splashed across the world’s media on Aug. 6. The story was already a corker: the five baby pitbull terriers McKinney was showing off had been cloned in Korea from the ear [...]
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Posted in child porn, crime on Dec 7th, 2007
TRAC is the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, maintained at Syracuse University. In August 2007, there were 62 federal prosecutions of child pornography, according to timely enforcement data from the Justice Department. Though unchanged from the previous month, filings in this category are down by about half (49.7%) from the previous year, and down 20% from [...]
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Posted in crime, rape on Oct 30th, 2007
A story about the understaffed Minneapolis Police Department Sex Crimes Unit:
Investigative units measure success by something they call a “clearance rate”—the percentage of reported crimes that lead to an arrest. The 10-year high for the Sex Crimes Unit was 57 percent in 2004. Last year, the rate fell to 26 percent—just 1 percent above a [...]
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Posted in crime, gay on Sep 12th, 2007
A Miami woman who was a former contestant on the reality show “Top Chef” was beaten by attackers yelling anti-gay slurs, her lawyer said Tuesday. (more. . . .)
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Posted in crime, ethics, rape on Sep 1st, 2007
In the aftermath of the Duke lacrosse rape case, lawyers in North Carolina are learning lessons from the faulty rush to judgment against three college athletes.
From the start, when players Reade Seligmann, David Evans and Collin Finnerty were wrongfully indicted for raping a stripper in 2006, there was a stampede by the media, some members [...]
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Posted in crime on Aug 30th, 2007
Senator Larry Craig, not only for the opening statement at his press conference — “Thank you all very much for coming out today” — but also for his silly rationalization that when he tap-danced on the shoe of an undercover cop in the adjoining stall, it was only because of his own “wide stance,” thereby [...]
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Posted in crime, gay on Aug 29th, 2007
Law prof. Dale Carpenter writes:
It’s hard to work up much sympathy for Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho). He had a perfect legislative score from traditional-values groups, a zero rating from gay civil-rights groups, supported the Federal Marriage Amendment, and refused even to commit to non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in hiring for his [...]
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Posted in crime, legal on Aug 24th, 2007
Gina Passarella
The Legal Intelligencer
08-24-2007
The Pennsylvania Superior Court isn’t buying the argument that a man who viewed child pornography on his computer, but didn’t save the images, couldn’t be charged with possession of child pornography.
A 7-2 en banc Superior Court panel in Commonwealth v. Diodoro reversed a prior three-judge panel that found there was not sufficient [...]
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Posted in crime, military, rape on Aug 9th, 2007
POPE AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. — A court-martial has been scheduled next month for a female airman who says she was charged because she refused to testify against three male airmen she had accused of rape.
The woman is charged with one count of committing indecent acts and one count of consuming alcohol as a minor. [...]
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Posted in crime, legal, porn on Jun 6th, 2007
Substitute teacher Julie Amero, who had convicting of allow her students to accidentally view pop-up porn, was to have been sentenced today. Instead, her lawyers have successfully moved for a new trial.
From theday.com:
“Judge Hillary Strackbein said the state had conducted further forensic information that the jury had not heard at the trial. The information, according [...]
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Posted in Glenn Marcus, bdsm, crime, law on May 27th, 2007
Alan analyses the upholding of the decision in the Glenn Marcus S/M trial:
Throughout the decision, Judge Ross exhibits a clear and articulate attempt to understand the differences between consensual BDSM and non-consensual criminal activity. She has numerous opportunities where she can take cheap shots at the S/m community by castigating them as freaks. But she [...]
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Posted in crime, law, legal, pedophiles on May 26th, 2007
Howard J. Bashman
A man is arrested in Las Vegas on federal criminal charges of traveling across state lines with intent to engage in a sexual act with a minor and using an interstate communication facility to attempt to persuade a minor to engage in sexual acts. The evidence against the man consists of the transcripts [...]
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Posted in crime, rape on May 20th, 2007
By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe StaffPublished 5/10/07
A Hampden County man who allegedly tricked his brother’s girlfriend into having sex with him by impersonating his sibling in the middle of the night cannot be convicted of rape, the state’s highest court ruled yesterday in a controversial ruling that affirms the court’s long-held view that sex obtained through [...]
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Posted in Gothamist, crime, law, lesbians on Apr 19th, 2007
A Manhattan jury found four women guilty of gang assault for attacking a man outside the IFC Center last summer. The man, Dwayne Buckle of Queens, said that the group of lesbians attacked him because he was straight, while the women contended Buckle had used slurs and threw a cigarette at them - and [...]
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Posted in crime, law, sex work on Apr 13th, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) — High-priced call girls always seem to have their little black books. Deborah Jeane Palfrey, accused of running an illegal escort service in the nation’s capital, has 46 pounds of phone records.
And her offer — or threat — to turn them over to the media has some in Washington playing a guessing game [...]
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Posted in Glenn Marcus, bdsm, bondage, crime, law, nyc on Mar 20th, 2007
Tristan writes about the Glenn Marcus BDSM trial (and also mentions Alan):
I don’t know enough about Marcus and Jodi to know if there were some serious personality flaws lurking beneath their chosen roles. What is clear is that the relationship began as consensual but, for Jodi, at some point this changed. It’s possible [...]
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Posted in crime, law, legal, privacy, security on Feb 22nd, 2007
Steve Bass at PC World has a good blog entry about the ridiculous conviction of Julie Amero, a substitute teacher who was arrested when a OC computer riddled with pop-up adware began displaying pornographic photos in front of junior high school students.
I’ve been privy to private conversations with a dozen security experts (you’d immediately [...]
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Posted in crime on Feb 8th, 2007
(02-07) 08:23 PST VIENNA, Austria (AP) –
Austrian authorities said Wednesday they have uncovered a major international child pornography ring involving more than 2,360 suspects from 77 countries, including hundreds in the United States, who paid to view videos of young children being sexually abused. (more…)
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Posted in crime, lisanowak on Feb 6th, 2007
Photo: AP/Orange County Sheriff’s Department
By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Disguised in a dark wig, glasses and a trench coat, U.S. space shuttle astronaut Lisa Nowak waited in hiding for a woman she considered a rival for another astronaut’s affections and tried to kidnap her, police in Orlando said on Monday.
Nowak, 43, was arrested on [...]
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By HEIDI SINGER, KIERAN CROWLEY & CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
February 1, 2007 — A flamboyant con artist and his Hamptons gal pal videotaped sex romps with married lonely-hearts they met over the Internet - then blackmailed them for thousands of dollars in hush money, police said yesterday.
The scammers went by the screen names “Mr. Nice” and [...]
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Posted in bdsm, bondage, crime, psychology on Jan 31st, 2007
A PERTH psychologist says forcing a patient to wear a dog collar and call him master is well within his profession’s ethical guidelines.
Bruce Alistair Beaton, 64, of Fremantle, was giving evidence at his Western Australia District Court trial for indecently assaulting the 22-year-old woman between January and March 2005.
He has pleaded not guilty to four [...]
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Posted in EC, contraception, crime, law, politics on Jan 30th, 2007
By PHIL DAVIS, Associated Press Writer Tue Jan 30, 3:43 PM ET
TAMPA, Fla. - A woman who told police she had been raped was jailed for two days after officers found an old warrant accusing her of failing to pay restitution for a 2003 theft arrest.
While she was behind bars, according to the college student’s [...]
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