Expert Witness Dinged $300,000 for Making Fake Child Porn | Threat Level. Dean Boland. Photo: Courtesy of Dean Boland An Ohio lawyer who serves as an expert witness in child pornography cases is on the hook for $300,000 in civil damages for Photoshopping courtroom exhibits of children having sex, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Attorney Dean Boland purchased innocent pictures of two juvenile girls from a Canadian stock-image website, then digitally modified them to make it appear as if the children were engaged in sexual conduct. Boland was an expert witness for the defense in a half-dozen child porn cases and made the mock-ups to punctuate his argument that child pornography laws are unconstitutionally overbroad because they could apply to faked photos. As a result, in 2007 he found himself the defendant in a deferred federal child-porn prosecution in Ohio, even though his exhibits helped clear at least one client of child-porn-related allegations.
“This $300,000 award undoubtedly amounts to tough medicine for Boland,” the 6th U.S. Rick Santorum wants to kill, eat Big Bird. Diamond District sidewalks are paved with gold for Queens man. MOTHER LODE: A haul from one of Stepanian’s “mining” expeditions. (Daniel Shapiro) There’s gold in them thar sidewalk cracks! A Queens man has discovered enough hidden treasure — bits of diamonds, rubies, platinum and gold — on the gritty sidewalks of Midtown’s Diamond District to make a living. “The streets of 47th Street are literally paved with gold,” a giddy Raffi Stepanian, 43, of Whitestone told The Post last week when a reporter discovered him on all fours — armed with tweezers and a butter knife — digging through cracks in the sidewalk in a driving rainstorm. The freelance diamond setter explained that he was sifting through “very valuable” New York City mud for tiny diamond and ruby chips, bits of platinum, white-gold industrial loops for jewelry assembly, and gold earring backs and loops from broken chains, watches, broaches and necklaces — all carelessly dropped and now his to mine.
“If it’s on the exchange floor, it’s got to be outside as well,” he said. John.doyle@nypost.com. Real Life Version of Up. Une belle initiative par la chaîne National Geographic avec ce concept de reconstitution de la maison du film Up (La Haut) des studios Pixar. Un lancement effectué depuis un terrain de Los Angeles, avec plus de 300 ballons à l’hélium et une maison grandeur nature. Police Hunting For Burger King Mascot Who Entered McDonald’s In Georgia. Will ‘inciting corporate-branding cognitive dissonance’ be a crime of the future? Georgia’s Rome News-Tribune reports: Rome Police were called to the restaurant at 2215 Shorter Ave. at approximately 1 p.m. by a manager in reference to a suspicious person. When they arrived, the manager said that a man dressed as the mascot for Burger King entered the restaurant with bags of hamburgers and began handing them out to several customers.He danced while inside the restaurant and stopped to take pictures with children.
The report states that one child took a picture with him and ran away as he appeared to be scared. The subject then got into a white Acura. The manager saw him take off his mask and he appeared to be a middle age white male with dark hair. 0Share 4Share. Man bludgeoned girlfriend to death, stabbed her with Bible pages. A man who killed his girlfriend by bashing her head with a hammer then grabbed a knife and stabbed Bible pages into her lifeless body, court heard Tuesday.
Patrick Barrett, 41, is facing a second-degree murder charge at Ontario Superior Court for allegedly killing his girlfriend Lucita Charles, 28, in May 2010. Barrett has admitted he killed Charles, but says he didn’t intend to and attempted to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter last week. The Crown rejected his plea. The grisly killing left Charles’ son Mataeo, 10, who has cerebral palsy, without his sole caregiver.
Mateo is now in the care of Safe Haven, a facility for disabled children in Etobicoke. Det. “There was a multi-coloured blanket lying on her body,” said Gray, adding the blanket and Charles’ head were “fairly saturated with blood.” Stabbed into Charles’ chest, said Gray, was a black-handled kitchen knife. “Between the knife and her body were a number of Bible pages,” said Gray. Eel be embarrassed in the morning: Hospital removes asparagus sized eel from man's rectum - Australasia - World. An unidentified man in Auckland presented doctors with a slippery problem last week when he was found to have an eel stuck in his rectum. The man was sent for X-rays and a scan, which confirmed the creature was firmly lodged where the sun rarely shines.
"The eel was about the size of a decent sprig of asparagus and the incident is the talk of the place," a hospital source told the New Zealand Herald "Doctors and nurses have come across people with strange objects that have got stuck where they shouldn't be before, but an eel has to be a first. " It is thought the eel was later successfully removed from the patient's body.
It is unclear how the creature became stuck inside the man in the first place. Though a seemingly rare occurrence, an eel slithering into somewhere it shouldn't did also feature in the Chinese media last year when a Mr Zhang Nan had to have an eel removed from his bladder.