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Porn video shot on Coliseum grounds
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum field is the place where the USC Trojans play football, two Summer Olympics were staged, John F. Kennedy accepted the Democratic presidential nomination and Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass. It was also a location for...
Tags: Corporate Crime, Los Angeles Police Department, Pornography, Justice System, Bankruptcy
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Recall the McDonald's tea 'spitting'? S.C. teen wishes you didn't
When Marvin Washington Jr. was arrested last month for allegedly spitting into a customer's sweet tea at a McDonald’s in Simpsonville, S.C., the incident made news around the globe. When the charges were dismissed a few weeks later? The media barely...
Tags: DNA, Judges, Boy Scouts of America, Colleges and Universities, Crime, Law and Justice
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Realignment plan for California prisons causing new friction
The first four times Pamela Morris was released from prison, she would go to her state parole officers or they would occasionally make unannounced solo visits to make sure she wasn't committing new crimes. But after Morris completed a state sentence...
Tags: Laws, Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles Police Department, Punishment, Local Government
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Sinaloa cartel, Zetas push Mexico's drug violence to new depths
CULIACAN, Mexico — The cartel henchman nicknamed "El Loco" was reported behind the latest atrocity in Mexico's ever-more-depraved drug war: mutilating 49 people and piling their bodies — heads, hands and feet missing — by the side of a...
Tags: Politics, Murder, Blackmail and Extortion, Gulf Cartel, Kidnapping
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A father photographer's loving eye: Why Etan Patz's case haunts
There's something haunting about the images of Etan Patz -- all, of course, taken before he vanished in 1979 while walking to school. That's because the images were no mere family snapshots. Etan's father, Stanley, was a professional photographer. So...
Tags: Laws, FBI, Media Industry, Photography, Etan Patz
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Yes on the SAFE California Act
Carlos DeLuna was, in all likelihood, murdered by the state of Texas on Dec. 7, 1989. It's hard to come to any other conclusion after reading an exhaustive analysis of his case published online by a Columbia law school professor and his students. And...
Tags: Politics, Laws, Career and Workplace, Death Penalty, Criminal Laws
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Hearing held on bill to put curbs on the spy in your pocket
You may already suspect it, but yes, your cellphone is essentially stalking you. But don't chuck it out your car window quite yet. For the most part, your phone is benign, benevolent and incredibly useful. However, the information it collects about you is...
Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Politics, Laws, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Justice System
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Documents shed more light on Trayvon Martin shooting
ATLANTA — On the night George Zimmerman fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, a witness said he saw some of the scuffle — and described a black man in a dark hoodie on top of a white or Latino man, punching him...Tags: Murder, FBI, Justice System, Police Investigations, Lawyers
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Fugitive Mayes kills himself; abducted girls safe
Associated PressAs a SWAT team closed in, a fugitive accused of killing a Tennessee mother and daughter before disappearing for nearly two weeks with her two other children killed himself Thursday evening, allowing authorities to safely recover the kidnapped girls,...Tags: Laws, Murder, FBI, Criminal Laws, Kidnapping
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The secret life of your cellphone
Concerned that mobile phone networks are becoming surveillance tools, the American Civil Liberties Union recently asked hundreds of local law enforcement agencies whether they've tracked people's movements through their cellphones. Most of those that...
Tags: Laws, Companies and Corporations, Edward J Markey, Justice System, Economy, Business and Finance
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'Bait Car' TV show busts sheriff's detective with video
L.A. NOWThe reality TV show “Bait Car” is supposed to catch car thieves in the act. Undercover cops park a rigged car on the side of the road, conspicuously leaving the keys inside, while a television crew waits nearby for an...... -
'Bait Car' sting turns tables on detective
The reality TV show "Bait Car" is supposed to catch car thieves in the act. Undercover cops park a rigged car on the side of the road, conspicuously leaving the keys inside, while a television crew waits nearby for an unsuspecting passerby to take the...
Tags: Laws, Companies and Corporations, Mental Health, Defendants, Police Arrests
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