22 year old female teacher arrested for alleged rape of student

I. A Courtney Louise Jarrell, who is a 22 year old high school math teacher /coach in Riverton High School in Utah, was charged with object rape, a first-degree felony, and forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony. The person she is accused of rape is a 17 year old...

Medical marijuana patient to get a felony at illegal checkpoint

George Hotz, who has a medical marijuana prescription in the state of California, was arrested at a Homeland Security checkpoint in the state of Texas. He was charged with having 1/2 a pound of marijuana. Quite a lot huh? Not really, he actually had less than 1/2 an ounce of...

Your right to nullify as a juror to veto unjust prosecutions

I am writing to remind my fellow Americans about jury nullification. It is a reminder to citizen jurors that they don't have to be a rubber stamp for the government in an unjust prosecution. Even before we were a nation, under common law, the right for jurors to reject unjust...

Illegal strip search and concussion for baggie of marijuana

In Beloit, WI, local police got a call of suspected drug use. An officer found a 16 year old boy in a parked car, with two others. He told the teenager to get out. After patting him down for weapons and drugs, the officer, Kerry Daugherty, saw a bulge in the boy's pants....

Singer Fionna Appled arrested for marijuana an

Fiona Apple was a bigger star when I was younger, back in the 1990s. Not so big now. In fact, for those under 25, many of them probably never even heard of her. Well, she is still singing professionally and she was arrested on September 19th. She was arrested at a so called...

Found not guilty, but still have arrest record

Do you know that if you were acquitted of a crime and not found guilty, you have no right to have the arrest record of that alleged crime, expunged or sealed? So, prospects with a future employer would be harmed by a crime that your fellow citizens did not convict you. Or,...

Why do we tolerate prosecutors breaking the law for convictions?

The man in this case got 18 years in prison for robberty and murder, with 14 of that on death row. He was wrongly convicted. Was it an innocent mistake of the criminal justice system? No, it was because of the prosecution witholding evidence that would have shown he was not...

Does chanting at politician's speech equal a felony?

In this case four Occupy San Diego protestors were arrested after interrupting the mayor of that city's speech. I am not really that opposed to their arrest. In a public assembly one doesn't have an absolute right to yell a protest. It's a balancing act between freedom of...

Why were rights of anti-NATO protestors violated by Chicago P.D.?

This is video of four Chicago cops interrogating the political activies a few men who were stopped for turning into a driveway to turn around. Yes, they were stopped for that. Since these men were later arrested for alleged terrorism in a raid with a warrant not even signed...

The war by the police on your right to film, continues

Ian Van Kuyk is a student at Temple University, in Philadelphia, PA. I have been to Philadelphia a couple of times, it is a beautiful city. He, along with his girlfriend were arrested on March 14, 2012. Heinous crime, they committed? Not really, they were arrested because he...

Schools suppress speech rights and bus driver fired

Germantown (Wisconsin) High School teacher Eric Glass is facing sexual assault charges for sexual relations with a 17 year old student at his high school. While this action is wrong, because society has to draw the line somewhere when it comes to an age of consent, Mr....

Police abuse, pro-marijuana protest banned and gay rights

In this case out of New Jersey, a female cop named Ragina Tasca, who stopped a beating of an emotionally disturbed man, might (or by this time already has) lost her job on the Bogota, New Jersey Police Department. The other cops had ran out of their police car and attacked...

How drug sniffing by police dogs is bogus and not probable cause

Dogs are considered by the courts, as proof of probable cause, in drug cases. But, why? The fact is, it is often hit or miss with dogs sniffing for drugs. Their police handlers, intentional or not, can affect how often a dog gives a false positive for drugs in a car, or other...