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Slevin, before and after 22 months in solitary confinement. In a stunning case of prison abuse, Steven Slevin, 59, will receive $15.5 million for his 22-month ordeal in solitary confinement in a New Mexico jail. Slevin was arrested in 2005 for DWI, allegedly in a stolen vehicle (he had actually borrowed the car from a […]

Patrick Gallagher of Lansdale, PA is suing the Penthouse Club in Philadelphia for injuries he allegedly sustained at the club during his November 2010 bachelor party. Gallagher, the groom-to-be, was lying at the bottom of a pole when one of the exotic dancers slid down and landed on him with such force that she ruptured […]

An Assistant District Attorney has gotten himself into some trouble after allegedly deciding it would be a good idea to bring some of his marijuana stash into court with him. 43 year-old Jason Cantrell was chatting with New Orleans police officers at the Orleans Parish magistrate court when a joint fell out of his pocket. […]

A prominent New York defense attorney has been censured by the New York Appellate Division’s Committee on Professional Standards for a picture he took during a trial in 2011. Attorney Terence L. Kindlon, a 65 year-old Vietnam War veteran, was defending Kevin Powell, a former Army captain. Powell was charged with assault in 2010 for […]

Doylestown is one of the latest cities in a nationwide trend of aggressive prosecution of “chalk” offenders. Police departments across the country are cracking down on some of the hardest criminals out there, operating right in broad daylight: kids with sidewalk chalk. The two Doylestown teenagers were drawing harmless pictures of a whale and sea […]