“If you’re charged with a crime and have enough money, you can hire a good lawyer, who’ll get you off.” True or False?
Answer: It depends! (Okay, I’ve been a lawyer for 30+ years) Here’s the best lawyer money can buy.
The idea that money can get you the best defense lawyer to get you out of trouble …
I just returned from three weeks in India and saw how their democracy works—somewhat like ours and in many ways, totally different. One of the newest efforts has actually been the law for decades: abolishing the caste system. As a result, India has developed a sort of Affirmative Action process much like the U.S. started in the 1960s. …
Local prosecutor, Pete Orput, in an effort to stop juvenile drug crimes in Minnesota, has made an unusual move: he’s charged a group of people with murder in the death of a teenager, Tara Fitzgerald, who died as the result of taking synthetic LSD. Can he win and convict all of the group? And how does he think …
Off the coast of California smugglers used their 30 foot boat to ram a Coast Guard boat, killing Chief Petty Officer, Terrell Horne. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/us/smuggling-is-on-the-rise-off-southern-california-coast.html?scp=1&sq=coast+guard+officer+dies&st=nyt&_r=0 Could this tragedy be a hint of a serious threat to the United States?
With the increased vigilance across the land borders of our country, more smuggling has gone to sea. Of course, …
Imagine–a janitor who works quietly by day so that no one suspects him of any criminal activity. By night, he masterminds a global network of money transfers, smuggling, recruiting of young men to fight overseas, and warfare in Somalia.
In federal court in Minneapolis a jury found Mahamud Said Omar guilty of recruiting as many as 20 young …
In the last post, I looked at the huge and tragic problem of worldwide trafficking of humans–particularly young people and 
children. The FBI estimates that from 600,000-800,000 humans are trafficked around the world. That is, they are forcefully taken from their homes and families. Many people assume that most of these trafficked children come into the U.S. …
Recently, law enforcement in Minnesota busted a human trafficking network that was bringing-in young Somali girls for cheap “slave” labor and the sex industry. We in Minnesota like to think we have a squeaky-clean community free from the big-city problems like trafficking.
Not true. Minnesota is actually one of the target states for human traffickers with the FBI …
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