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  • September 2008

    • Va. Court Voids Spam Law

      Richmond Times Dispatch (VA)  |  Sep 12, 08 1:32 PM CDT

      Va. Court Voids Spam Law

      (Newser) - Virginia’s anti-spam laws are unconstitutional because they prohibit behavior shielded by the First Amendment, the state’s supreme court ruled today. The ruling overturns the conviction of Jeremy Jaynes, who received the nation’s first felony spam conviction in 2004, the Richmond Times-Dispatch says. Prosecutors alleged Jaynes sent up to 10 million emails a day from his North Carolina home. More »

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      email  • Virginia  • free speech  • spam  • First Amendment  • felony

  • July 2008

    • Requests for Pardons Flood White House

      New York Times  |  Jul 19, 08 11:33 AM CDT

      Requests for Pardons Flood White House

      (Newser) - President Bush is nearing the end of his term, and felons are coming out of the woodwork in historic numbers to ask for pardons and reduced sentences, the New York Times reports. It is not unusual for there to be a spike in pardons granted by a president in his final months in office: Half of Bill Clinton’s 459 pardons happened in his last three months. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Bill Clinton  • conviction  • Marion Jones  • felony  • Martha Stewart  • presidential pardon  • commutation  • clemency

    • Barenaked Ladies Singer Busted on Coke Charges

      Canadian Press  |  Jul 16, 08 7:23 AM CDT

      Barenaked Ladies Singer Busted on Coke Charges

      (Newser) - Barenaked Ladies frontman Steven Page has been busted on cocaine charges, the Canadian Press reports. The singer for the Toronto-based band, which recently released a CD for children , Snacktime , was caught with drugs in an apartment in upstate New York, according to authorities. Page, 38, posted $10,000 bail and is due in court later this week. He also posted bond for a woman arrested with him. More »

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      celebrity  • cocaine  • drug use  • felony  • drug possession

    • ATM Thefts On the Rise

      MSNBC  |  Jul 3, 08 7:25 PM CDT

      ATM Thefts On the Rise

      (Newser) - ATM theft is a labor-intensive crime: You have to steal a pickup, slam it through a gas station storefront, and haul the ATM out. But that’s exactly what an increasing number of criminals are doing, MSNBC reports. From 2000 to 2006, thieves nabbed about 120 ATMs a year across the country. This year, authorities already have reported 140 thefts—in north Texas alone. While that's an extreme example, thefts are up by smaller amounts all over. More »

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      crime  • bank  • theft  • GPS  • felony  • bank robbery  • ATM

  • June 2008

    • Stay-At-Home Mom, Indeed

      Babble  |  Jun 27, 08 4:08 PM CDT

      Stay-At-Home Mom, Indeed

      (Newser) - Home-birthing isn’t only strange and magical—it requires some covert-operation skills, Madeline Holler writes in Babble. After finding she preferred an attending midwife in the birth of her first child, Holler found using one for her second to be illegal in Missouri, where she'd moved. As such, she found, "there were trade-offs in going off the grid to have a baby." More »

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      pregnancy  • Missouri  • mothers  • motherhood  • felony  • placenta

  • May 2008

    • Law & Order Star Busted for Gun at LAX

      E! Online  |  May 12, 08 5:08 AM CDT

      Law & Order Star Busted for Gun at LAX

      (Newser) - Former Law & Order star Dennis Farina was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport yesterday for carrying a concealed, loaded and unregistered .22 caliber handgun, reports E! Online. Farina, 64, had been planning  to fly to his hometown of Chicago. The actor, who has played cops and criminals in several movie and TV dramas, was charged with a felony and released on $35,000 bail. More »

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      TSA  • felony  • Law and Order  • LAX

  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008

    • Deputy Charged for Dumping Quadriplegic

      MSNBC  |  Feb 16, 08 6:12 PM CST

      Deputy Charged for Dumping Quadriplegic

      (Newser) - A Florida sheriff’s deputy turned herself in today after dumping a quadriplegic from his wheelchair during a jailhouse booking last month, MSNBC reports. Deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones was promptly released on $3,500 bail and will face a charge of felony abuse of a disabled person. She was already a known suspect: A videotape of her toppling Brian Sterner, 32, from his wheelchair had made headlines and received thousands of hits online. More »

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      crime  • Florida  • abuse  • felony  • bail  • Tampa

  • September 2007

    • Bail for Simpson Set at $125K

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 19, 07 12:44 PM CDT

      Bail for Simpson Set at $125K

      (Newser) - A Las Vegas judge set bail at $125,000 for OJ Simpson today on 11 counts issuing from his hotel altercation with sports collectors. The former football star entered no plea at today's hearing and was ordered to surrender his passport, the Los Angeles Times reports. His lawyer said Simpson will return to his Florida home as soon as possible. More »

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      kidnapping  • OJ Simpson  • memorabilia  • robbery  • felony  • bail  • sports collectibles  • misdemeanor

  • August 2007
  • April 2007

    • Pelosi Is a Felon

      Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 6, 07 9:00 PM CDT

      Pelosi Is a Felon

      (Newser) - Mr. Turner, a lawyer and forme assistant secretary of state in the Reagan administration says Speaker Pelosi is a felon under a 1799 law known as the Logan Act.  Citing Marbury v Madison, perhaps the most cited legal case in American legal history, he says that Pelosi breached the separation of powers demanded by the constitution. More »

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      Nancy Pelosi  • law  • constitution  • felony

  • March 2007

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