A Texas state board said last Friday that arson investigators in the Willingham case used flawed science but were not negligent in an investigation that led to a controversial 2004 execution. The panel also said that investigators did not commit misconduct. Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in 2004, 13 years after a fire killed his [...]
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I just logged out of Twitter. Amongst the abundant Fathers’ Day greetings on this terribly commercialized day, I read a lot of tweets from people who were genuinely heart broken. Some never knew their father, some fathers are incarcerated, some had fathers who died of natural causes and some fathers were brutally murdered. Some had fathers [...]
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Norm Pattis alerted me to this issue Scott Greenfield faces. To explain the matter to you, I am going to copy shamelessly from Scott’s post (I can do that, it is for a good cause): “You may have noticed that I included my name in the title of this post. It’s the first time I’ve [...]
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I have been musing with my friends on Twitter about some of the cold cases on DCC and good remarks have led me to rethink some cases, go back over details, check where I might have missed something, or where I assumed something was clear while it only was so because I had worked on [...]
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On Friday June 4, 2010, around 3:00 a.m., the surgeon at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Dr. Sukru Emre, accepted a donor liver for Mr. Wayne Keeney. At 6:00 a.m., Wayne underwent transplant surgery! The surgery was successfull but Wayne still has a long recovery period ahead of him. Read the entire post by Norm Pattis here.
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Vidocq could not be happier! Magistrate Molloy was given the go-ahead to take back his place a chair of the bench! It also believed that he had received an apology. Incorrect reports claimed last week that Mr Molloy had been reinstated. In fact, that decision was only made this week. However, an investigation is still ongoing into his conduct by [...]
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I am going to refer you to a post written by Norm Pattis, a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer. The post is deeply moving. It is about Mr. Wayne Keeney, a criminal defense attorney. Wayne Keeney is fighting for his life and needs help desperately. Please click here, it will lead you to Norm Pattis’ [...]
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Do magistrates have the right to express themselves freely, must they be politically correct at all times, or is a more plain worded description allowed from time to time? My good friend on Twitter, @dcd_barrister, alerted me to this article. Magistrate Austin Malloy is in trouble for speaking his mind. According to his law clerk, Christine [...]
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My friend Deputy Chief Peter Sloly of the Toronto Police (@DeputySloly on Twitter) alerted me to Kids, Cops and Computers. This program connects children with the biggest encyclopedia on earth: the Internet. Kids, Cops and Computers works together with school boards and principals who select children for this program. The program however, does far more than just give [...]
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President Barack Obama paid tribute Saturday on behalf of a grateful nation to law enforcement officers who made the ultimate sacrifice while safeguarding their communities. Americans “rely on a certain order in our lives, a certain sense of security that lets us sleep safely in our beds and walk around our neighborhoods free from fear [...]
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