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Tulsa Dad Accused Of Putting Child In Cage Ordered To Jail
TULSA, Okla. -- A judge on Thursday ordered a Tulsa man accused of locking his toddler in a metal cage to jail, revoking his probation...
AP
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-moye/
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Dad charged in death of 8-month-old son (Anderson, South Carolina)
Dad is identified as CHRISTOPHER FOSTER.
http://www2.wspa.com/news/2013/feb/27/4/father-charged-8-month-old-sons-death-ar-5697362/
Father Charged With 8-Month Old Son's Death
By: WSPA Staff | WSPA-TV Published: February 27, 2013 Updated: February 28, 2013 - 1:09 PM
ANDERSON, SC -- Anderson City Police have arrested a man and charged him with the death of his eight-month old son.
Lieutenant Tony Tilley of the Anderson City Police Department said that Christopher Foster, 20, of Anderson, was arrested Wednesday night and charged with the death of his son, Leon Samuel Foster, last June at their home on Edgewood Avenue.
According to Tilley, officers were called to the home in reference to the child being in cardiac arrest. With the assistance of the State Law Enforcement Division, investigators were able to determine that Christopher Foster was responsible for the child's death.
Foster is currently being held at the Anderson City Jail. Bond will be set at a later date.
http://www2.wspa.com/news/2013/feb/27/4/father-charged-8-month-old-sons-death-ar-5697362/
Father Charged With 8-Month Old Son's Death
By: WSPA Staff | WSPA-TV Published: February 27, 2013 Updated: February 28, 2013 - 1:09 PM
ANDERSON, SC -- Anderson City Police have arrested a man and charged him with the death of his eight-month old son.
Lieutenant Tony Tilley of the Anderson City Police Department said that Christopher Foster, 20, of Anderson, was arrested Wednesday night and charged with the death of his son, Leon Samuel Foster, last June at their home on Edgewood Avenue.
According to Tilley, officers were called to the home in reference to the child being in cardiac arrest. With the assistance of the State Law Enforcement Division, investigators were able to determine that Christopher Foster was responsible for the child's death.
Foster is currently being held at the Anderson City Jail. Bond will be set at a later date.
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Dad who was sole suspect in murder of infant son commits suicide (Craven County, North Carolina)
Dad is identified as RODNEY BURTON.
http://www.witn.com/news/crime/headlines/POLICE--Person-Of-Interest-In-Baby-Death-Commits-Suicide-193645611.html
Posted: Wed 4:09 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Updated: Thu 2:20 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Police ID Marine Father In Baby Death Investigation
Jacksonville police have identified the Marine who they say shot himself yesterday as they were about to question him in his baby's death.
Police say 22-year-old Corporal Rodney Burton was stationed at Camp Lejeune.
They say Burton shot himself in his truck which was parked in the driveway of a home in Trent Woods. Police would not say why they believe Burton went to Craven County on Wednesday.
Police say Burton, the baby's father, was a person of interest in the child's death.
Police say the baby boy's airway was blocked by an object and he died later at Onslow Memorial Hospital. The boy's death is a homicide investigation, but police say they have no other suspects.
They say Burton was interviewed Tuesday, but never arrested.
Police say the father of a baby who was found not breathing at a home in Jacksonville yesterday took his own life today in Trent Woods.
Jacksonville police say the 11-month old died at Onslow Memorial Hospital after they got a call shortly before 3:00 p.m. to the home on Banks Street.
The child's father, who police say was a person of interest in the case, was found dead this afternoon in a pickup truck outside a home on Camelia Road in Trent Woods. The Craven County SWAT team was called to the house for assistance.
Trent Woods police would only say the man was a U.S. Marine, but they have not yet released his name.
Jacksonville police say they will hold a news conference this morning at 10:00 a.m. to release more information on this case.
http://www.witn.com/news/crime/headlines/POLICE--Person-Of-Interest-In-Baby-Death-Commits-Suicide-193645611.html
Posted: Wed 4:09 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Updated: Thu 2:20 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Police ID Marine Father In Baby Death Investigation
Jacksonville police have identified the Marine who they say shot himself yesterday as they were about to question him in his baby's death.
Police say 22-year-old Corporal Rodney Burton was stationed at Camp Lejeune.
They say Burton shot himself in his truck which was parked in the driveway of a home in Trent Woods. Police would not say why they believe Burton went to Craven County on Wednesday.
Police say Burton, the baby's father, was a person of interest in the child's death.
Police say the baby boy's airway was blocked by an object and he died later at Onslow Memorial Hospital. The boy's death is a homicide investigation, but police say they have no other suspects.
They say Burton was interviewed Tuesday, but never arrested.
Police say the father of a baby who was found not breathing at a home in Jacksonville yesterday took his own life today in Trent Woods.
Jacksonville police say the 11-month old died at Onslow Memorial Hospital after they got a call shortly before 3:00 p.m. to the home on Banks Street.
The child's father, who police say was a person of interest in the case, was found dead this afternoon in a pickup truck outside a home on Camelia Road in Trent Woods. The Craven County SWAT team was called to the house for assistance.
Trent Woods police would only say the man was a U.S. Marine, but they have not yet released his name.
Jacksonville police say they will hold a news conference this morning at 10:00 a.m. to release more information on this case.
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Beam Spent $4.2 Million on FCPA Probe in 2012 - Wall Street Journal (blog)
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Beam Spent $4.2 Million on FCPA Probe in 2012
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Corruption Currents, The Wall Street Journal's corruption blog, digs into the ever-present and ever-changing world of corporate corruption. It is a source of news, analysis and commentary for those who earn a living by finding corruption or by avoiding it.
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Gessen Briefly Detained During Visit to Pussy Riot Member - The Moscow Times
Gessen Briefly Detained During Visit to Pussy Riot Member
The Moscow Times
Police on Thursday briefly detained the leader of Radio Liberty's Russia service, journalist Masha Gessen, on suspicion of videotaping classified facilities while visiting an imprisoned Pussy Riot member. Gessen, the Russian-American former editor of ...
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Woman accused of Arizona lover's murder sobs at death scene photo - Yahoo! News (blog)
Yahoo! News (blog)
Woman accused of Arizona lover's murder sobs at death scene photo
Yahoo! News (blog)
Reuters/Reuters - Jodi Arias breaks down after being asked by prosecutor Juan Martinez if she was crying when she stabbed Travis Alexander and when she slit his throat, in Maricopa County Superior Court in …more Phoenix, Arizona, February 28, 2013.
Woman accused of Arizona lover's murder gave conflicting evidenceReuters
Jodi Arias resumes testimony in Arizona murder trialBoston Herald
Jodi Arias is seen during her court trial, Feb. 25, 2013. (ABC NEWS)ABC News
Mediaite -San Jose Mercury News -MiamiHerald.com
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African American Wrongful Convictions Throughout History
By Edwin Grimsley, Case Analyst*
Editor's Note: In honor of Black History Month, we present a two-part series examining historical wrongful conviction cases of African-Americans and highlighting stories of racial injustice, both then and now.
Racially disparate treatment has permeated the United States criminal justice system throughout history. During the Jim Crow era, blacks were legally barred from voter rolls in several southern states and were therefore barred from serving on juries. In this era of racial strife, the police, prosecution, defense attorneys, judges and jurors were almost always white. Cross-racial misidentifications, forced confessions, all-white juries, and blatant racism led to the wrongful convictions of countless innocent black people.
Between the 1870's and 1960's, a significant number of black defendant/ white victim allegations never made it to trial. The Tuskegee Institute Archive estimates approximately 3,500 lynching deaths of blacks. How many of the lynched were actually innocent will forever be a mystery.
The presumption of innocence barely arose in the case of Ed Johnson, arrested for sexually assaulting a white female in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1906. The victim was allegedly knocked unconscious with a leather strap. Johnson became a suspect when a witness claimed that he saw him carrying a leather strap, though Johnson denied owning one. Johnson provided numerous alibi witnesses at trial. Nevertheless, he was convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to death. While the U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution, a mob broke through the jail and brutally murdered Johnson in a public hanging. Johnson's tombstone reflects his professed innocence, "God Bless you all. I AM a Innocent Man." In February 2000, his conviction was finally posthumously overturned.
A quarter century later, the Scottsboro Boys convictions raised public awareness about racial injustice and galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. In 1931, a fight occurred between black and white boys on a freight train traveling through the town of Scottsboro, Alabama. The police rounded up all black boys riding on the train and ultimately arrested nine black boys, ranging in ages from 12 to 19 years old. Two white girls then came forward alleging that they were gang raped on the train. All nine defendants claimed innocence. After four separate one-day trials with all-white juries, eight of the nine were convicted and sentenced to death.
Their appeals would last over 20 years. On re-trial, one of the rape victims testified that the rape was fabricated, yet all-white juries again returned guilty verdicts. In the end, after facing multiple re-trials, all of the Scottsboro boys had their convictions dropped or were sentenced to lesser charges. The Alabama Legislature recently introduced a bill to posthumously exonerate the nine Scottsboro Boys.
Meanwhile, a landmark Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Mississippi case addressed concerns about confessions obtained through violence. In 1934, after a white farmer was killed in Mississippi, three black sharecroppers were arrested for the crime. Ed Brown, Arthur Ellington, and Henry Shields were all beaten and tortured into confessing. Even more ludicrous, the police did not dispute torturing the defendants, who appeared visibly in pain as they sat through their trial. An all-white jury convicted the three and sentenced them to death by hanging. In 1936, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the convictions, arguing that coerced confessions cannot constitute evidence in a court of law. This historic ruling paved the way for the Miranda rulings to come decades later. Ellington, Shields and Brown were never fully exonerated because they took short plea deals for fear of facing another unjust re-trial.
Black women were also subjected to the same unequal treatment in the criminal justice system. In 1945, the state of Georgia executed Lena Baker for killing a white man who had kidnapped and assaulted her. She claimed that she had shot him in self defense. Baker was convicted by a jury of white men and became the only woman ever executed by electrocution in Georgia. In 2005, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles granted Baker a pardon saying that the state had committed a grievous error.
Finally, wrongful convictions based on racial bias were not just a Southern phenomenon. In 1948, the "Scottsboro Boys of the North," also known as the Trenton 6, were arrested for the killing of a white furniture store owner in Trenton, New Jersey. Witness descriptions of the assailants ranged from "two to three black men" to "two to four light-skinned teenagers." The six black men who were arrested did not match the descriptions. Five of the Trenton 6 signed inconsistent confessions, which they maintained at trial were coerced. All provided rock-solid alibis. Nonetheless, an all-white jury convicted the Trenton 6 and sentenced them to death. On appeal, their convictions were overturned due to weak evidence and the perjury of the medical examiner. After multiple re-trials, four of the Trenton 6 were acquitted, and two were found guilty of lesser sentences.
These cases, and many others, showcase decades of racial bias in the criminal justice system. Because media reports and public outrage expose only the most prominent wrongful convictions, we will never know how many innocent African-Americans were falsely convicted or executed. My part-two blog post will illustrate similarities of these historical injustices to contemporary stories of DNA exonerations of African-Americans.
*with research assistance from Communications Intern Angel Whitaker
Editor's Note: In honor of Black History Month, we present a two-part series examining historical wrongful conviction cases of African-Americans and highlighting stories of racial injustice, both then and now.
Racially disparate treatment has permeated the United States criminal justice system throughout history. During the Jim Crow era, blacks were legally barred from voter rolls in several southern states and were therefore barred from serving on juries. In this era of racial strife, the police, prosecution, defense attorneys, judges and jurors were almost always white. Cross-racial misidentifications, forced confessions, all-white juries, and blatant racism led to the wrongful convictions of countless innocent black people.
Between the 1870's and 1960's, a significant number of black defendant/ white victim allegations never made it to trial. The Tuskegee Institute Archive estimates approximately 3,500 lynching deaths of blacks. How many of the lynched were actually innocent will forever be a mystery.
The presumption of innocence barely arose in the case of Ed Johnson, arrested for sexually assaulting a white female in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1906. The victim was allegedly knocked unconscious with a leather strap. Johnson became a suspect when a witness claimed that he saw him carrying a leather strap, though Johnson denied owning one. Johnson provided numerous alibi witnesses at trial. Nevertheless, he was convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to death. While the U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution, a mob broke through the jail and brutally murdered Johnson in a public hanging. Johnson's tombstone reflects his professed innocence, "God Bless you all. I AM a Innocent Man." In February 2000, his conviction was finally posthumously overturned.
A quarter century later, the Scottsboro Boys convictions raised public awareness about racial injustice and galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. In 1931, a fight occurred between black and white boys on a freight train traveling through the town of Scottsboro, Alabama. The police rounded up all black boys riding on the train and ultimately arrested nine black boys, ranging in ages from 12 to 19 years old. Two white girls then came forward alleging that they were gang raped on the train. All nine defendants claimed innocence. After four separate one-day trials with all-white juries, eight of the nine were convicted and sentenced to death.
Their appeals would last over 20 years. On re-trial, one of the rape victims testified that the rape was fabricated, yet all-white juries again returned guilty verdicts. In the end, after facing multiple re-trials, all of the Scottsboro boys had their convictions dropped or were sentenced to lesser charges. The Alabama Legislature recently introduced a bill to posthumously exonerate the nine Scottsboro Boys.
Meanwhile, a landmark Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Mississippi case addressed concerns about confessions obtained through violence. In 1934, after a white farmer was killed in Mississippi, three black sharecroppers were arrested for the crime. Ed Brown, Arthur Ellington, and Henry Shields were all beaten and tortured into confessing. Even more ludicrous, the police did not dispute torturing the defendants, who appeared visibly in pain as they sat through their trial. An all-white jury convicted the three and sentenced them to death by hanging. In 1936, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the convictions, arguing that coerced confessions cannot constitute evidence in a court of law. This historic ruling paved the way for the Miranda rulings to come decades later. Ellington, Shields and Brown were never fully exonerated because they took short plea deals for fear of facing another unjust re-trial.
Black women were also subjected to the same unequal treatment in the criminal justice system. In 1945, the state of Georgia executed Lena Baker for killing a white man who had kidnapped and assaulted her. She claimed that she had shot him in self defense. Baker was convicted by a jury of white men and became the only woman ever executed by electrocution in Georgia. In 2005, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles granted Baker a pardon saying that the state had committed a grievous error.
Finally, wrongful convictions based on racial bias were not just a Southern phenomenon. In 1948, the "Scottsboro Boys of the North," also known as the Trenton 6, were arrested for the killing of a white furniture store owner in Trenton, New Jersey. Witness descriptions of the assailants ranged from "two to three black men" to "two to four light-skinned teenagers." The six black men who were arrested did not match the descriptions. Five of the Trenton 6 signed inconsistent confessions, which they maintained at trial were coerced. All provided rock-solid alibis. Nonetheless, an all-white jury convicted the Trenton 6 and sentenced them to death. On appeal, their convictions were overturned due to weak evidence and the perjury of the medical examiner. After multiple re-trials, four of the Trenton 6 were acquitted, and two were found guilty of lesser sentences.
These cases, and many others, showcase decades of racial bias in the criminal justice system. Because media reports and public outrage expose only the most prominent wrongful convictions, we will never know how many innocent African-Americans were falsely convicted or executed. My part-two blog post will illustrate similarities of these historical injustices to contemporary stories of DNA exonerations of African-Americans.
*with research assistance from Communications Intern Angel Whitaker
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Glenn C. Loury: Even If Every Convict Were Rightly Sentenced, America's Vast, Racially Skewed Incarceration System Would Still Be Morally Indefensible
Why are there so many African Americans in prison? It is my belief that such racial disparity is not mainly due to overt discriminatory practices by the courts or the police. But that hardly exhausts the moral discussion.
Glenn C. Loury
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-c-loury/
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The Crazy Way One Ex-Wife Got Revenge
Frustration with an ex can drive people to do crazy things -- like drive a car into their ex-husband's home. That's exactly what Kathy Lee...
Kelsey Borresen
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelsey-borresen/
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Report: Las Vegas Strip murder suspect arrested in LA - USA TODAY
Report: Las Vegas Strip murder suspect arrested in LA
USA TODAY
He was charged with three counts of murder after police said fired gunshots from a Range Rover into a Maserati about 4:30 a.m. on Feb. 21 as the vehicles sped along up the main drag of casinos and hotels. The driver of the Maserati, Kenneth Cherry Jr., ...
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Elijah Anderson: Emmett and Trayvon: How Racial Prejudice Has Changed in the Last 60 Years
In Till's day, a black person's "place" was in the field or in the back of the bus. If a black man was found "out of his place," he could be jailed or lynched. In Martin's day -- in our day -- a black person's "place" is in the ghetto. If he is found "out of his place," he may be treated with suspicion, frisked, arrested -- or worse.
Elijah Anderson
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elijah-anderson/
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Stepson faces murder charge in Harper Woods man's gun slaying - Detroit Free Press
Stepson faces murder charge in Harper Woods man's gun slaying
Detroit Free Press
The stepson of a Harper Woods man gunned down in his own home earlier this month has been charged in the killing, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office. Andrew Keith, 43, of Detroit is being charged with open murder, larceny of $1,000 to ...
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Kira Trevino Update: Husband charged with murder after blood found ... - CBS News
CBS News
Kira Trevino Update: Husband charged with murder after blood found ...
CBS News
Jeffery Trevino was charged with felony second-degree murder Thursday morning in connection with Kira Trevino's Feb. 21 disappearance. His bail has been set at $500,000. Jeffery, 39, first reported his 30-year-old wife missing to St. Paul Police ...
St. Paul man charged with 2nd degree murder in wife's disappearanceMinneapolis Star Tribune
Jeffrey Trevino, 39, charged with second degree murder of his wife KiraDaily Mail
Husband charged with murder in missing woman caseKARE
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Man, 28, charged with attempted murder after firing shots into traffic near US-23 - Detroit Free Press
Man, 28, charged with attempted murder after firing shots into traffic near US-23
Detroit Free Press
Elmore Ray was arraigned on 11 felony charges: four counts of assault with intent to murder, four counts of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder, one count of possession of a short-barrel shotgun, one count of possession of a ...
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Republican Blames Violent Video Games, Music For Newtown Massacre
Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) on Thursday became the latest lawmaker to attribute the December massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. to violence...
The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-wrigley/
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Science Thursday - February 28, 2013
A Vermont crime lab questions its blood alcohol testing results, a massive case review will be delayed in St. Paul, and recent lab problems in Massachusetts affect the state budget. Here's this week's round up of forensic news:
Blood alcohol testing machines in a Vermont state crime lab were not properly maintained or calibrated, leading to inaccurate results. In a recent trial, two lab analysts testified about submitting complaints about the faulty testing equipment to the lab supervisor.
Thousands of past drug convictions are still pending review in St. Paul after a judge delayed her decision in a related case. The hearing is now rescheduled for May 3. The lab's drug testing unit has been shuttered.
City Council members allocated money to hire more staff for the Austin, Texas Police Department crime lab to deal with a serious backlog of cases. Criminal judges and defense attorneys are urging the lab to hire more staff immediately.
At a recent state budget hearing in Massachusetts, lawmakers discussed how two recent scandals affected the backlog of crime lab testing. These cases, specifically the one at Hinton State Lab, significantly impact nearly every budget within the criminal justice sector.
The disagreement between the Denver district attorney and the police chief over lab personnel became a public sparring match recently. Accusations over a lack of professionalism have criminal justice experts wondering if the departments can still work together effectively.
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Jodi Arias Breaks Down At Sight Of Crime Scene Photos, Sends Trial To Early ... - Mediaite
Jodi Arias Breaks Down At Sight Of Crime Scene Photos, Sends Trial To Early ...
Mediaite
Halfway through her fifth day under cross examination in the trail over the murder of Travis Alexander, defendant Jodi Arias broke down crying when confronted with crime scene photos of her dead ex-boyfriend. Prosecutor Juan Martinez asked Arias to ...
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Man Hit By Car After Allegedly Biting Off Girlfriend's Brother's Finger
An Albuquerque man hit by a car was actually running from his girlfriend and her brother after he bit the brother's finger off, police say....
Hilary Hanson
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-hanson/
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Kyle Bella: How 60 Seconds of Violence Last Two Years
Though I am better, I must still confront the idea that what has happened is never really gone forever, even though I wish I could scrub that memory away forever. I wish there was a way to get rid of those punches and the feel of asphalt against my bleeding knees.
Kyle Bella
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kyle-bella/
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Husband Accused Of Murder After "Head And Torso-Shaped Stain' Found
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Prosecutors on Thursday charged a Minnesota man with murdering his missing wife, after investigators found blood traces throughout the couple's home...
AP
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-mccormack/
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