By The Admin on April 22, 2010
Aaron Cooper, CNN
- Three men were sentenced to prison for forcing an African-American man out of a South Carolina convenience store, threatening him with a chainsaw and stealing his car, an incident the Department of Justice said was fueled by hate.
Thomas Blue Sr., 49, owner of the convenience store, was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years [...]
Posted in Criminal Justice
By The Admin on October 14, 2009
CNN
- An attorney for convicted Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad, who is scheduled to be executed November 10, will seek clemency from Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine on October 22.
Jonathan Sheldon said he will also file an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on November 2. He posted the dates Tuesday on his law firm’s Web [...]
Posted in Criminal Justice, State & Local News
By The Admin on June 29, 2009
CBS
- A Duke University official has been arrested and charged with offering a 5-year-old boy for sex.
Frank Mccorkle Lombard, the school’s associate director of the Center for Health Policy, was arrested Wednesday, June 24 after an Internet sting, according to the FBI’s Washington field office and the city’s police department.
A confidential informant claimed to have [...]
Posted in Criminal Justice
By The Admin on May 17, 2009
Errol Louis, New York Daily News
- The State of Georgia has been trying to execute Troy Anthony Davis for more than 15 years, despite compelling evidence that he did not commit the murder for which he is sentenced to die.
Davis has been to death’s door three times – most recently, he was 90 minutes from [...]
Posted in Criminal Justice
By The Admin on May 14, 2009
Marvin King, TheLoop21.com
- Some of my more recent columns at TheLoop21.com have focused on the devastating role of unemployment and the underground economy on the black community. One aspect of this is that blacks are more likely to need to relocate in order to find economic success. Another, more insidious aspect of poor local economics [...]
Posted in Criminal Justice, Race
