Murder
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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 […] - Sponsored
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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 […]
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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 […] -
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, 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, […]
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