News: Criminal Defense

June 15, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

On Friday, the U. S. Department of Justice put a hold on nearly $30 million in bank accounts related to internet poker. According to the Associated Press and the Poker Players Alliance, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York instructed three banks to freeze the accounts...

June 15, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

A German man who claimed for years to be a member of the Rockefeller family was sentenced Friday to four to five years in prison for kidnapping his daughter.  A jury found Christian Carl Gerhartsreiter, 48, guilty of the kidnapping and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon...

June 12, 2009 by Matt Placek

A retired State Department analyst and his wife were arrested last week and charged with...

June 12, 2009 by Matt Placek

In Washington, DC, at 12:50pm on Wednesday, a man now known to be a white supremacist...

June 12, 2009 by Matt Placek

Four Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay prison were freed Thursday and resettled in Bermuda, sparking complaints...

June 12, 2009 by Matt Placek

Amanda Knox will testify Friday in an Italian courtroom to defend herself against charges that she took part in the killing of...

June 11, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

For the first time, the U.S. government has initiated a federal trial for a Guantanamo Bay detainee who is not an American citizen. Ahmed Ghailani, a Tanzanian accused of participating in two 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, pleaded not guilty yesterday at a U.S. District Court hearing in New York City.

June 10, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme filed a claim requesting that a federal bankruptcy judge recalculate the amount of money that each investor should recollect from the recovered funds.

June 10, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

In light of the doctor's recent murder, the Tiller family has decided to permanently close his Kansas-based abortion clinic. 

June 10, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Heather Snively, an eight-month pregnant Washington County, Oregon resident, was found dead last Friday in a kitchen crawl space in an Oregon home.  Twenty-eight year old Korena Roberts has been charged with Snively's murder.  Per Dr. Christopher Young, Snively was the victim of homicidal violence and died from blunt force trauma and sharp-force injuries.

June 4, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

The Organization of American States voted to readmit Cuba after a 47-year hiatus from the group on Wednesday. Following the announcement of the revocation, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya exclaimed that "the Cold War has ended this day in San Pedro Sula

Wednesday May 27th, 2009

Judge Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, a historic choice for the first of what are expected to be multiple Obama Supreme Court nominees during his presidency.

When a Pennsylvania lab technician lashed out against her husband’s mistress, she did not expect to be charged with a terrorist act. Carol Bond stole potassium dichromate from a lab where she worked as a microbiologist. She then applied the chemical, which is deadly if ingested, to her victim’s car door handle and exhaust pipe...

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court ruled that those individuals who have been convicted of crimes related to domestic violence are no longer allowed to carry or own firearms. The passing of this ruling has been the work of several agencies and organizations, which promote non-violence, gun control and domestic harmony.

While many people who live in the city of Seattle have little to no trouble getting their hands on marijuana for medical purposes, those who live in more rural or suburban areas have difficulty.

Recent reports have shown that runaway children are being put in jail for periods of time- an action that is illegal in all states. One young girl was put into a county jail for

The state of Arkansas recently added legislation that will make aggravated cruelty of animals a felony. The lawmakers’ hopes were that the bill would

Last year, 174 meth labs were found in Iowa. Though this number may seem striking, it pales in comparison to the number of labs that were found in 2004- almost 1,500! Also, the number of people who are behind bars for meth-related crimes has dropped by almost half.

A Seattle woman recently learned that her brother was killed by his wife, and that his adult stepchildren helped their mother load the body into the trunk of a car and roll it into a ditch.

A law created a few years ago in California was supposed to bar convicted sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools, parks and other areas where children might be playing. The idea was to remove the temptation for convicted felons. However, the plan has backfired, and now convicted sex offenders are having difficulty trying to find places to live. Many can only afford to live in the areas where they are not allowed to purchase or rent a home.