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City of Chicago to pay man $3.6 million for wrongful conviction - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago taxpayers will pay $3.6 million to compensate a man who spent nine years in prison after allegedly being framed for an attempted murder he did not commit, under a settlement advanced Monday by a City Council committee. Robert Wilson was picked up by the Chicago Police Department in 1997, one day after 24-year-old June Siler had her throat and face slashed with a box cutter. Wilson was waiting at the same South Side bus stop where the attack occurred.
BLOOMINGTON — A two-day hearing on the termination of a Bloomington police officer investigated for an incident involving a special-needs child at Stevenson School has concluded.
Hearing on officer's firing concludes
Ex-WSU Cop Convicted of Criminal Sexual Conduct Sent to Prison
DETROIT (WJBK) -- A Wayne County jury convicted Gregory Gladden of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Hedge fund billionaire gets 11-year sentence in fraud case - The Washington Post
But it was also substantially less than what the prosecution had sought against the man it called “a billion-dollar force of deception and corruption on Wall Street.”Appeals Court: Arresting Guy For Filming Cops Was A Clear Violation Of Both 1st & 4th Amendments | Techdirt
from the huge-victory-for-free-speech dept
News Corp.’s Lost $7 Billion Shows Investor Concern Over Hacking Fallout - Bloomberg
News Corp. (NWSA) ’s loss of $7 billion in market value over four trading days shows investor concerns that a probe into alleged phone hacking by journalists at one London newspaper could have a broader impact on the company.Law Firm That Worked With HBGary Hit With Bar Complaint - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes
The nuclear fallout from HBGary’s tangle with the hacker collective Anonymous has blown into the territory of another player in the scandal: Hunton & Williams, the law firm that solicited proposals from HBGary on behalf of clients like Bank of America and the U.S.
Breaking News on EFF Victory: Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment | Electronic Frontier Foundation
In a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v.
'Chevron [should] cease its lies and pay,' said Humberto Piaguaje, an Ecuadorian tribal leader attending the AGM.