As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, a uniquely stupid chapter in the story of the American legal system is drawing nearer to a close. The Georgia Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release of Genarlow Wilson, the Douglas County man who has been serving a controversial 10-year sentence for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old…
Category: Crime
Hate Crime Anyone?
A while back in NYC there was a nasty crime. A group of white young men wanted money for drugs and decided to lure a gay black man out and rob him. They lured him using on-line chat and beat and then ran him in front of a car killing him. So, the prosecution went…
Justice for Ashton?
Ashton Glover was 16 years old when she was murdered by two high school classmates last year. After his arrest, Matthew McCombs, the trigger “man”, stated to police that he’d done it out of “morbid curiosity.” The evidence agreed: There was no fight or adversarial relationship between the girl and the two suspects that led…
Shah and the Case for Isolationism
Syed Maaz Shah was sentenced to 6 and a half years in prison Friday after a Houston federal jury convicted Shah in May of two counts of unlawfully possessing a firearm while in the country on a student visa. Born in Pakistan, Shah, 20, was on full scholarship at University of Texas at Dallas last…
SFWA, Scribd.com and ePiracy and why its important
Over the Labor Day weekend there blew up a weird story that involved the Science Fiction Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) and the website scribd.com. For those not in the know (like me), scribd.com allows users to upload text files and share them with users in a collaborative format (not unlike Flikr). Now the problem arose…
Football, Sport of Chumpions?
Is it just me or is football – the American variety, I should clarify, lest Europe be swept by another plague of soccer hooliganism because of this blog – the employer of a disproportionately large number of socially maladjusted freaks who either don’t know right from wrong or simply don’t care to acknowledge the norms…
Going Down for Drugs
What won’t those daffy drug dealers do to disseminate their deadly produce? In Texas they dig tunnels hundreds of feet long so as to bypass border security. Now the Houston Chronicle reports they’ll even build their own pseudo-submarines like this one: The Chronicle says: The drug cartels are taking trafficking to new depths. The latest…
Newark Follow-up
It seems that Jose Carranza, suspected of being one of the Newark killers, is an illegal alien already known to the justice system and had been indicted for the sexual assault of a 13 year old. (Carranza turned himself in, causing Mayor Booker to say that he thought he’d be safer in prison.) Do I…
Newark Executions
Earlier this week in Newark, 3 college students were executed in a neighborhood schoolyard. Another student was shot was through the back of the head, escaping death by fractions of an inch. Killed in the attack were Terrance Aeriel, 18, Dashon Harvey, 20 and Iofemi Hightower, 20. Aeriel’s 19-year-old sister was wounded and is expected…
Immigration Tragedies
U.S. District Judge James Munley recently ruled that a landmark municipal law cracking down on illegal immigrants is unconstitutional and I’m both angered and afraid that this will set a precedent banning similar ordinances proposed around the country. Advocates for illegal immigrants hailed the ruling against a law in Hazleton, Pa., as a victory and…