Monthly Archives: October 2023
Retired Lawyer Pleads Guilty To Financial Crimes Related To An Investment Scheme
All defendants in criminal cases have the right to plead not guilty and go to trial, but more than 90 percent of defendants plead guilty. It is not only the defendants who cannot afford their own lawyers and are represented by public defenders who plead guilty; some of this number includes wealthy defendants who… Read More »
Florida Woman Pleads Guilty To Financial Crimes After Living Under False Identity For More Than A Decade
In the movie Identity Thief, Jason Bateman plays a nebbish named Sandy Patterson who realizes that he has unknowingly revealed his identifying information to a scam artist, played by Melissa McCarthy. Throughout most of the movie, McCarthy’s character convinces almost everyone she meets that she is the real Sandy Patterson. In real life, most… Read More »
What Is Sexual Cyber Harassment?
If you want the Internet to barf out large volumes of shareable content in a short span of time and people to share said content frantically with the members of their families who are most averse to clickbait, just put the prefix “sex” or “cyber” in front of a common word. Cyberbullying? Yikes! Sexting? … Read More »
Driving An Oldsmobile In The 80s Is Not A Crime
In the summer of 1988, Anissia Johnson and Vincent Wright were robbed at gunpoint by two men. After the robbery, the robbers got into an Oldsmobile that quickly sped away. The driver of the Oldsmobile never got out of the car, and the victims did not see him from up close. Several weeks later,… Read More »
