Rudolph agrees to plea agreement
Accused serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph will avoid a possible death sentence by pleading guilty to a string of attacks in Alabama and Georgia, including a deadly blast during the 1996 Olympics, the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday. Rudolph, 38, will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in exchange for […]
READ MOREKirk Bloodsworth was sentenced to death for a 1984 rape-murder
Kirk Noble Bloodsworth, a former Marine discus champion, was exonerated byDNA in 1993 of the rape and murder of nine-year-old Dawn Hamilton — a crime for which he was sentenced to death in Baltimore County, Maryland, in 1985. After Bloodsworth’s conviction was reversed in 1986, he occupied a cell directly above that occupied by Kimberly […]
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Go indirectly to jail
Mike from Satan’s Laundromat gets arrested On August 27, 2004, approximately 5,000 bicyclists met in Union Square Park for the kick off of that month’s “Critical Mass” ride through the streets of Manhattan. Police arrested over 250 people who were held in lock-up for 24-hours — some longer. New York’s then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn’t want […]
READ MOREFama, Thaler and the ordinary investor
Today’s WSJ summarizes the debate between Thaler, a leading skeptic of market efficiency, and Fama, the leading defending of the efficient capital markets hypothesis. As the article notes, the debate could have implications for privatizing social security. It quotes Thaler as saying, “[i]f you give people 456 mutual funds to choose from, they’re not going […]
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NEW YORK CRIME TRENDS Index Crime in New York State: 1994 – 2001
New York City Index Offenses Reported to Police: 1994-2001 Counts 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Index Total 530,827 442,532 383,603 356,573 323,441 299,522 287,995 263,764 Index rate per 100,000 7,235.7 6,045.9 5,226.5 4,807.9 4,395.9 4,031.7 3,717.7 3,287.6 Violent Total 136,571 114,180 98,728 92,866 85,915 78,983 75,739 68,274 Violent rate per 100,000 1,861.6 […]
READ MOREANOKA COUNTY: Man shoots car, loses permit
Anyone looking out their window on July 5, 2003, in Anoka County Minnesota may have been convinced they were watching a re-enactment of a Grade B movie where the protagonist blows away his car with a shotgun. Damian Petersen, 34 plead guilty that August. The July afternoon had seen him but 11 bullets into the […]
READ MOREDefense Blames Brakes For Hit-and-Run Death
Vehicular Manslaughter Trial Begins in Md. By Philip P. Pan Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, September 23, 1997 ; Page D03 The trial of a Lanham man accused of killing an 8-month-old boy when his car careered onto a Prince George’s County sidewalk and struck the baby’s stroller opened yesterday with a young Riverdale woman […]
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Doctor’s diagnosis was nearly fatal
Kerry Max Cook at Northwestern University School of Law in December 2002. Kerry Max Cook was twice convicted and twice sentenced to death for the 1977 murder and mutilation of a 21-year-old secretary in Tyler, Texas. The first conviction, in 1978, rested primarily on the testimony of a jailhouse snitch who claimed that Cook had […]
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Circumcision Case to Proceed to Trial
Circumcision Creeps into Court In 2001, in North Dakota, District Judge Cynthia Rothe-Seeger turned away a motion for summary judgment by defendants in a circumcision case. The court decided the disagreement could go to trial in 2003. The decision to be made? Can a male infant, upon reaching the age of majority, sue his doctor […]
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Dahmer
A 31 year old factory worker who had threatened to kill him “and eat his heart out.” Edward’s had been held captive for five terrifying hours. Edwards, who insisted that he was not a homosexual, told police that he managed to escape by gaining Dahmer’s trust during a four-hour conversation. “He underestimated me,” the 32-year-old […]
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