Today, December 19, the bipartisan United States Sentencing Commission voted unanimously to publish proposed amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines for the amendment cycle ending May 1, 2025 (watch the meeting). These proposals stem from public input the Commission has received in recent years, including more than 1,200 pages of [...]
Husband Pleads Guilty to Being an Accessory After the Fact - Photo from Law and Crime A Pineville, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court on October 15 for the kidnapping and murder of a pregnant Arkansas woman and her victim’s unborn child. Amber Waterman, 44, was sentenced by [...]
Note: View the fifth superseding indictment here. An indictment was unsealed in the District of Columbia charging leaders of the violent drug trafficking organization known as Los Zetas, and its successor organization, Cartel del Noreste (CDN), with engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise; drug trafficking conspiracy; firearms offenses; and international money [...]
The Associated Press Shared from molawyersmedia.com Many states have laws designed to keep children away from convicted sexual offenders on Halloween night, such as curfews for those on offender registries and requirements to keep their porch lights off. But a Missouri law mandating a sign at the offender’s home [...]
By Ken Wallentine for Lexipol United States v. Brown, 2024 WL 3838738 (4th Cir. 2024) Detectives were monitoring the Instagram feed of a known gang member, J.S., and saw a video with J.S. and six other men brandishing firearms at an apartment complex early one morning at approximately 0500. The men [...]
By Ken Wallentine, Editor of Lexipol State v. Wiskowski, 2024 WL 3034325 (Wisc. 2024) How can anyone sleep through the noise and smells at a McDonald’s drive-through window? Michael Wiskowski did … at least, until a worker woke him. The worker also called the Plymouth (Wisconsin) Police Department. Just [...]
Trooper Michael Proctor’s suspension due to inappropriate text messages serves as a stark reminder that anything written can become public and impact a case By Terrence P. Dwyer, Esq. for Police1.com The adage that three can keep a secret if two are dead, often attributed to Benjamin Franklin though its [...]
By Matthew Holloway for Law Enforcement Today News In a landmark decision that could have profound repercussions for the American judicial system, the United States Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling penned by Justice Neil Gorsuch that juries rather than judges must decide the facts of a case, such as determining [...]
Correy E. Stephenson, Special To Missouri Lawyers Media The constitutional validity of the sex offender registry act was before the Missouri Supreme Court on May 14 in a case involving a defendant whose record has been closed. In 1997, John Doe pleaded guilty to sexual assault and deviate sexual [...]
By Ken Wallentine for Lexipol Flores v. Henderson, 2024 WL 2141769 (10th Cir. 2024) Shamikle Jackson called 911 stating that two people were dead inside an apartment and he was holding others hostage. Jackson claimed it was a “life-threatening emergency” that was “happening now.” He said he was armed with [...]
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