On What Grounds Are Criminal Convictions Appealed?
The legal process doesn’t end with a criminal conviction. Even if you’ve been found guilty by a trial court, you can appeal to a court of appeals if you believe you’ve been wrongly convicted or received a harsh sentence. When an appeal goes to an appellate court, any of the following scenarios can happen: The […]
Brevard Judge Accused of Punching Public Defender
When Assistant Public Defender Andrew Weinstock entered the courtroom yesterday, he may have been prepared to exchange some verbal blows if needed with Judge John Murphy, but probably not the physical kind. In a showdown not exactly sanctioned by the State of Florida, and one that both had probably dreamed of at some point in […]
Woman Stabs Boyfriend 25 Times With Heel of Stiletto
If you search for the phrase odd murder weapons online, you will find stories of homicides that have been committed with many different, and yes, odd objects. From spatulas to icicles, to an Xbox360 and a bowling ball, people seem to use whatever is at their disposal when the time comes to end another persons […]
5 children drowned by their mother, Andrea Yates
Andrea Yates, Texas Mother Who Drowned Her Five Children Her oldest child would have been 20 years old this year. Her youngest would have been 14, while the children in between them would be 15, 17, and 19 years old. Five children, all under the age of seven, had their lives taken in June 2001 […]
Colton Harris-Moore, 18 year old “Barefoot Bandit”
Catch Him if You Can: The Barefoot Bandit When Colton Harris-Moore was just 18 years old, he was being chased around the world by police for his crimes. The elusive chase would go on for two years before he was finally caught and captured by police in the Bahamas. Colton was not your average teenage […]
The Sordid love affair of Emmett Corrigan and Kandi Hall
A Love Affair Gone Wrong: Emmett Corrigan had been blessed with a successful law career, a beautiful wife, and four children all at the young age of 30. Fresh out of law school, he joined a bankruptcy and criminal defense firm in Boise, Idaho where he met his paralegal, Kandi Hall. Kandi’s husband, Rob Hall, […]
Kenneth Minor: The Hit Man Hired by the Victim
Jeffrey Locker was a successful motivational speaker and author living in a beautiful home with three children in an affluent area of Long Island, New York. Life was going well for him, until the market crashed in 2008, and a year later, he decided that he needed to do the unthinkable to help and provide […]
