Richard Cooey was executed by lethal injection this morning, after the Supreme Court denied without comment his final appeal. He had claimed that lethal injection could cause a painful death. The Court declined to address the issue, and simply denied a stay of execution. Yesterday, the Supreme Court rejected without...
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“Later, he was to decide that Andrew’s life had been fractally weird. That is, you could take any small piece of it and examine it in detail and it, in and of itself, would turn out to be just as complicated and weird as the whole thing in its entirety.”...
Lehman Bros. is now under investigation by three separate U.S. Attorney offices. Each of the investigations boil down to a question of whether Lehman publicly claimed its finances were fine, while privately admitting that it was in deep kimchee. This is a typical focus of securities investigations, and the investigations...
United States v. Mejia, et al., No. 05-2856-cr (2nd Cir., Oct. 6, 2008) In a decision that was more than a year in the making, the Second Circuit today limited the use of expert testimony by police officers. The court ruled that law enforcement experts should not be used to...
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