"A man at the house also called. He sounded as if he had been drinking, and he said a woman was throwing cheese all over the house and his wife was acting 'nutso.' The man said the fight was not physical, but a woman…
Even though we see her having sex with a 15-year-old boy. Q : Do you ever have any trepidations about approaching controversial material like abortion in "Revolutionary Road" or statutory rape? Winslet: I'm so so…
"Bad language doesn’t make you a criminal." Says Edward Genson , representing Governor Blagojevich. It's true, of course, that "just talking," even in "bad language," is not a crime. Nevertheless…
Says the WSJ. Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation team would have preferred to let the sale of the Senate seat go through and to catch the crime on tape. In fact, the timing of the arrest was dictated by the Chicago Tribune: …
An eye for an eye, in Iran. [A] spurned suitor poured a bucket of sulfuric acid over [Ameneh Bahrami's] head, leaving her blind and disfigured.... Courts usually order families of the accused to pay "blood money" fo…
The Supreme Court declines to hear 2 cases about "victim impact" evidence in death sentencing, and 3 Justices protest: In the cases denied review on Monday, the evidence was composed of a 20-minute videotape in one cas…
He has confessed to shooting his father and another man. One body was upstairs in the house, and the other was outside. MORE: Arizona law generally holds that a child lacks competency to be held responsible for a homicide. Howev…
The college did not appreciate his on-line confession of a crime. Here 's Phil Busse's Huffington post item, called "Confessions of a Lawn Sign Stealer": [T]he oversized 4 x 8 foot mini-billboard in front of the…
Wow! Incredibly tame. Maybe because, as you can see from this video -- once you make it past the man in shorts -- the City of Madison put 200 cops on State Street: The Wisconsin State Journal reports: Freakfest started as an att…
Explaining the Palin email hacking. I'm slightly interested in the lingo and folkways of these internet people -- previously discussed here . It's important to understand that there are people like this.
After my weekend jaunt to Hilton Head Island, I've got so many unread comments to review for spam and other delete-able things. I enjoy reading the good comments too, but it's really hard when I've fallen behind. I…
"You say... 'Steve.. how can I be a millionaire... and never pay taxes?' First... get a million dollars. Now... you say, 'Steve... what do I say to the tax man when he comes to my door and says, "You... have…
When California voted for Proposition 215, they were picturing terribly ill patients and modest houseplants, but, of course, it doesn't stop there. The NYT reports : [P]atients need a prescription to acquire medicinal marijua…
"... the former is vaguely inspired by the idea of the latter." Sasha Volokh disses Madison in the comments to a Volokh Conspiracy post by Judge Paul Cassell . The post is about whether it's ethical for a judge to …
The L.A. Times takes note of an attitude change in Madison, Wisconsin: They'd stop to chat with Scanner Dan, the grizzled guy with a walkie-talkie buzzing at his hip as he asked for change. They'd offer odd jobs to a man …
Here 's some timely analysis by law and religion prof John Witte Jr. (It's especially timely for me because it's the subject of the Constitutional Law exam I'm working on grading right now... as I take a break to …
So wrote Justice White in Coker v. Georgia , and this week, the Supreme Court takes up the question whether the death penalty could nevertheless be constitutional when the victim is a child. Those facts alone are a powerful argu…
Instapundit links to this Denver Post story about 2 male students who distributed a parody — "The Monthly Bag" — of the feminist newsletter — "The Monthly Rag." Here 's a PDF of the 1-page flier (via Ace…
Title: "The Loneliness of the Pro-Hillary Blogger." Topics and times: Why Hillary should stay in (until June, anyway) (07:36) Is Hillary a wounded wife, or does she just play one on TV? (06:27) Ann defends making fun of…
NY Post headline about Judge Weinstein's decision in the Polizzi case: Maverick Brooklyn federal Judge Jack Weinstein issued the ruling in a child-porn case over which he presided - chastising himself for not telling the ju…