Images of a handgun and marijuana, among other pictures, as well as text messages sent and received from Trayvon Martin's phone, will be introduced as evidence at trial if prosecutors seek to attack George Zimmerman's character during Zimmerman's upcoming murder trial.
As Michael Pearson and David Mattingly report for CNN, this evidence is said to "paint a different picture," say defense attorneys, of the teen who Zimmerman shot and killed in alleged self-defense.
Continue reading Attorney: Evidence Will 'Prejudice The Jury' In Trayvon Martin Shooting
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A quote of the Sebastian River High School softball coach says it all:
"It should have been settled at a lower level instead of getting as big as it did. There's been freshman girls on my team talking about dating senior baseball players. It shouldn't be that big of a deal."
For one 18-year-old senior, it is a big deal. She's facing felony sex offense charges for a relationship she had with a 14-year-old freshman, a relationship which apparently began when both were minors.
Continue reading High School Senior Charged For Relationship With Freshman
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Our local CBS affiliate reports that the Maryland attorney general has given the green light to the new gun-control bill, saying that it passes constitutional muster. The A.G. delivered his legal opinion to Gov. Martin O'Malley, who is expected to sign the bill into law tomorrow.
Critics of gun-control measures generally contend that the measures infringe on an individual's putative constitutional right to own and possess firearms.
Supporters of gun-control measures generally contend that some measure of gun control, such as limits to the type of weapons that can lawfully be obtained, would work to reduce gun violence and gun-related deaths in our society.
Continue reading Maryland Gun-Control Bill Constitutional, Awaits Governor's Signature
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It's never easy reading about wrongful convictions. John O'Brien with the Post-Standard reports that a man in New York spent almost a decade behind bars for a violent crime he didn't commit. He was convicted after a coerced confession and sentenced for his wife's attempted murder. It turned out that another man, apparently at random, entered the couple's apartment and beat her severely with a hammer.
He might be smart, but that doesn't mean he doesn't make honest mistakes like the rest of us. As Brian Doherty writes for Reason, a smart high school honors student made what some people might call a "dumb" mistake, by showing up to school in the morning with a shotgun in his pickup truck.
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A 7-year-old was suspended over playing guns with a classmate, using his pencil as the "gun," and making shooting noises with his mouth, as 7-year-old boys playing guns tend to do. In playing guns the boy ran afoul of his school's zero-tolerance policy regarding weapons, as Jesse Walker writes for Reason.
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April 20 is marijuana day, so to speak, and Mark Russell with Newser reports that one 25-year-old man took his celebrations to a whole new level with a 4-foot, 2-pound joint. It almost goes without saying, but this was above the limited amount of marijuana you can possess under California law, leading to drug possession charges against the man.
Russell characterizes the size of the joint as bigger than a loaf of French bread.
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The U.S. Supreme Court came out against deportation for certain marijuana possession offenses, according to the Associated Press, ruling that possession of small amounts of marijuana should not warrant the automatic deportation of legal immigrants.
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There seems to be no shortage of stories about sex charges involving teachers and students. The NY Daily News seems to aggregate these types of stories for traffic-generation purposes - though that's just mere speculation. But, even so, it does highlight the fact that these cases draw a lot of attention.
And it's not just the public, but prosecutors, too, who pay attention.
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"This is my jail," said the leader of the Black Guerilla Family while on the phone from inside the Baltimore City Detention Center. "You understand that? I'm dead serious. I make every final call in this jail."
Not only was it apparently his jail - at least before federal authorities brought drug charges (for smuggling) - but the leader is thought to have gotten four guards pregnant, fathering five kids.
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