Rodney Reed Stays Death Penalty in Texas Execution for Murder of Stacey Stites
Rodney Reed Gets A Stay of Execution in Texas Death Penalty Case Rodney Reed has been a Texas death row inmate since his trial for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites. Stites was the 19-year-old fiancée of Officer Jimmy Fennell. During his trial, the state argued that Reed had raped and murdered the 19-year-old, and […]
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev Trial Case: Boston Marathon
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev Try to Change Venue From Boston April 15, 2013 is a date that will never fade from the memory of a Bostonian. The day began as a celebration of strength, speed, and determination, and without warning became a day of pain, injury, and sorrow. Two pressure cooker bombs exploded near the […]
Gerald Arthur Sandusky Appeals Sentence
Gerald Arthur Sandusky: Who Can Speak to a Conspiracy? It has been nearly four years since Gerald Arthur Sandusky was convicted for 45 of the 48 charges of the sexual abuse of young boys he faced. Still, for many Pennsylvanians this despicable act of abuse still leaves as bitter a taste in ones mouth as if […]
Adnan Syed Appeals Judgment and Conviction
Adnan Syed’s Appellate Case Serial has quickly become one of the most popular and well-known podcasts in existence. The podcast focuses on a step-by-step and real time examination by one reporter of a 1998 cold case. The subjects of the podcast, Adnan Syed, and his deceased ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, were typical Baltimore teenagers until […]
Pasquale Vaglio Suit for vacation on Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines Explorer of the Sea.
Pasquale Vaglio Suit for vacation on Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s Explorer of the Sea. The idea of the cruise ship vacation has allowed many to trade in their fears of the open sea for sombreros and drinks served in pineapples. Even with recent tragedies such as the Costa Concordia incident and outbreaks of illnesses onboard […]
Conshohocken company alleges that the Liquor Control Board forced them to close up shop and take a loss of about $81 million
Free Wine Is Not Free Throughout the past few years Pennsylvania has seen about one hundred wine-dispensing kiosks around the state. The program was stopped a short time ago and the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has been sitting in the hot seat ever since. The machines as it turns out, stopped appearing across our state […]
Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson: Securities Fraud Appeal
Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson: Securities Fraud Appeal The subject matter of a New York lawsuit is being referred to as one of the most significant developments in insider trading law in a decade. Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for Manhattan, recently filed a petition in federal appeals court to rehear a Second Circuit Court […]
Supreme Court Stops Death Sentence of Mark Christeson
When Attorneys Are Late The United States Supreme Court has made an unusual and important decision in the area of capital punishment. In January of 2015, SCOTUS intervened in a lower court’s decision to reverse a death sentence for one inmate. SCOTUS’s involvements in death penalty decisions has been few and far between and has […]
Former Mayor of Detroit Michigan Kwame Kilpatrick Appeals Conviction
Former Mayor of Detroit Michigan Kwame Kilpatrick Appeals Conviction Kwame Kilpatrick, the former mayor of Detroit, was convicted for public corruption charges. He has argued since the get go that his conviction would not have occurred if he had had a better attorney during the trial phase. His most recent appeal took place last month […]
Philip Chism and the Crime of Colleen Ritzer
Philip Chism: Massachusetts, Math & Murder A young woman named Colleen Ritzer was raped and murdered in Massachusetts on October 22, 2014. The young woman was a 24-year-old math teacher. Ritzer was described as a woman who inspired many with her heart, intellect and positive spirit.Her friends and family remember her as an energetic and […]
