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Crime, Murder, Privacy, Social Networking Websites, Technology
Prosecutorial Misadventures with MySpace Evidence
The practice of “oversharing” on social networks has been a boon for law enforcement. Investigations regularly involve checking out people’s Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn profiles. Thus, it’s probably unwise to post about your involvement in a crime. Or about threatening a witness set to testify against your boyfriend. While investigating Antoine Griffin, a murder suspect […] -
Attorney Misconduct, Crime, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Murder, Small Law Firms, Trials
Mistrial After Judge Is 'Astonished' By Touro Grad's Incompetence
Look, Touro Law students and alumni, please don’t get mad at me. I’m just the messenger. The Washington Post is reporting that a D.C. Superior Court judge, William Jackson, declared a mistrial in a murder case on Friday so that the defendant could fire his lawyer. The attorney, Joseph Rakofsky, a 2009 graduate of Touro […] - Sponsored
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Deaths, Department of Justice, Federal Government, Murder, Suicide, Townsend and Townsend and Crew
Two Suicides and a Murder
We really don’t like writing about murders, suicides, and murder suicides here on Above the Law. They are always sad, the loss of human life is always tragic, and it’s really hard to be funny/snarky/edgy when people have died. That said, we have to go where the news takes us, and so we press on […]
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Crime, Deaths, Murder, Suicide
Pillsbury Winthrop Associate Found Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide
Clare Lenore Stoudt, a 35-year-old mother of five, was found dead in her home over the weekend. Stoudt was a tax associate at Pillsbury Winthrop. According to the ABA Journal, authorities believe that Stoudt may have been the victim of a murder-suicide: The father of her three youngest children, Reginald Van Graves, 49, also was […] -
ACLU, Murder, Violence, War on Terror
The ACLU, Suspected Terrorists and American Policy on Killing Them -- A Wedding Crashers Screenplay
Ed. note: This post is by “The Gobbler,” one of the two writers under consideration to join Morning Dockette as a Morning Docket writer. As always, we welcome your thoughts in the comments. I was asked to cover the lawsuit filed yesterday by the ACLU against the Obama administration regarding its policy of keeping a […] -
Crime, Murder
Barnes & Thornburg Partner is Victim in Apparent Murder-Suicide
If you stick to the coasts, you might not have heard of Barnes & Thornburg. But it’s one of the biggest and best firms in Indiana. Unfortunately today we bring them up because of tragedy. A partner at the firm, Mary Jane Frisby, was found dead in her home. She appears to be the victim […] -
Crime, Money, Murder, Prisons, Rape, Reader Polls
How Should Years of Wrongful Imprisonment Be Valued?
In Friday’s Non-Sequiturs, while linking to an interesting article about a man who served 27 years in prison for a rape he did not commit, I used an intentionally inflammatory blurb: Would Michael Green, exonerated of rape charges by DNA evidence, be worth $2.2 million today if he hadn’t gone to prison? Just asking. Judging […] -
Deaths, Lawyerly Lairs, Murder, Real Estate, Robert Wone
Lawyerly Lairs: Haunted House
If you are superstitious, then the house shown at right (click to enlarge) — 1509 Swann Street NW, Washington, DC — is not the house for you. It is the house in which promising young lawyer Robert Wone — a former associate at Covington & Burling, and general counsel for Radio Free Asia at the […] - Sponsored
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Crime, Murder, Robert Wone, Trials
Verdict in the Robert Wone Trial is Not Guilty
In August 2006, Robert Wone, a promising young Asian-American attorney, was murdered while staying at a friend’s house in Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. Wone, then general counsel for Radio Free Asia and a former Covington & Burling associate, was stabbed to death. The housemates claimed that Wone had been attacked by an intruder, but […] -
Bad Ideas, Murder, Pro Se Litigants, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: You Just Suck. Don't Take It Personally.
You don’t know how to ask a question. You don’t know how to offer things into evidence. You keep making stupid speeches. You keep saying you are good at this. You are not. I do not say this to insult you. — Justice Carol Berkman to Robert Camarano, a pro se litigant representing himself in […] -
Crime, Guns / Firearms, Murder, Old People, Violence
Las Vegas Courthouse Shooter Had Murderous Past
Monday’s shootout at the Lloyd George Courthouse in Las Vegas can be described as tragic, frightening, and now, surreal. Reports are out this morning that the gunman, Johnny Lee Wicks, previously served prison time for killing his brother. The ABA Journal collects the information: Stories by the Associated Press, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and the […] -
Crime, Guns / Firearms, Murder, Old People, Violence
Las Vegas Shooter Follow-Up
Details continue to roll in about Johnny Lee Wicks, the shooter during yesterday’s gunfight at the Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse in Las Vegas. Apparently Wicks set fire to his own house before heading to the courthouse. ABC News reports: The senior citizen who is being blamed for a Las Vegas courthouse shooting that killed a […] -
Crime, Guns / Firearms, Murder, Violence
Breaking: Shooting at Federal Courthouse in Las Vegas
A deputy U.S. marshal and a court security officer were shot this morning when a gunman opened fire in the lobby of the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse in Las Vegas. The gunman was shot in the head and killed near the courthouse. The identity of the shooter and possible motives for the shooting are […]
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Deaths, Guns / Firearms, Howrey LLP, Kids, Murder, Old People, Suicide
Update: Grandma May Have Been Triggerwoman in Howrey Associate Murder-Suicide
In yesterday’s post regarding the tragedy that left a Howrey associate, Elizabeth Fontaine (pictured), and three of her family members dead, we promised to keep you posted on new developments. We now bring you this update, from the Orange County Register: Sheriff’s investigators believe they know how four people, including two young sisters, died in […] -
Deaths, Howrey LLP, Kids, Murder, Suicide
Howrey Associate Dead in Family Tragedy
Tragedy struck the Irvine, CA, and Houston offices of Howrey earlier this week. The ABA Journal reports: A Howrey intellectual property lawyer was found dead along with her daughters and mother Monday in an apparent murder-suicide. Associate Elizabeth Fontaine, her two daughters and her mother were killed on the same day that a California judge […] -
Boutique Law Firms, Deaths, Litigators, Murder, My Job Is Murder
My Job Is Murder: Of Constables and Clues
Ed. note: Welcome to ATL’s first foray into serial fiction. “My Job Is Murder,” a mystery set in a D.C. appellate boutique, will appear one chapter at a time, M-W-F, over the next few weeks. Prior installments appear here; please read them first. Susanna Dokupil can be reached by email at sdokupil@sbcglobal.net or on Facebook. […] -
Crime, Deaths, Food, Lawsuit of the Day, Murder
Lawsuit of the Day: I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream
The dispute between Tremayne Durham and Rob Chambers started so innocently. Durham wanted to sell ice cream. Chambers makes ice cream trucks. Durham asked Chambers to make him an ice cream truck. Yay. Who wants a Bomb Pop? But Durham changed his mind. He asked Chambers to refund him the $18,000 he paid to Chambers […] -
Lawyer of the Day, Murder, Violence
Taking the Adversarial System A Little Too Far
Mental note: Do not mess with lawyers in South Carolina. Don’t believe me? Just read the Charlotte Observer: Conway Attorney Irby Walker was charged today with trying to hire someone to kill another attorney, according to police. Walker, 58, was charged with solicitation of a felony after Doug Thornton told police Sept. 11 that Walker […] -
Crime, Exercise, Guns / Firearms, Murder, Violence
LA Fitness Shooter Worked at K&L Gates(And discussed K&L layoffs in his diary.)
Last night, George Sodini, 48, walked into an LA Fitness Center near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and opened fire on those exercising inside. Early reports say he killed three women and injured up to 15, including his ex-girlfriend. He then turned the gun on himself. Sodini’s LinkedIn profile says he was a systems analyst at K&L Gates. […] -
Crime, Deaths, Law Schools, Murder, Violence
Tragedy At Southwestern School of Law
It’s a pretty sad time at Southwestern School of Law. The National Law Journal reports: The recent murder of a 17-year-old girl who was abducted near the Los Angeles campus of Southwestern University School of Law has sent shockwaves through the law school. The victim’s mother, Deborah Drooz, a partner at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, […]