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When He Was 16, This Man Threw One Punch—and Went to Jail for Life
Will the Supreme Court give him, and hundreds like him, a chance at freedom? The defendant, Taurus Buchanan, stood charged with second-degree murder—accused of throwing, at the age of 16, a single, deadly punch in a street fight among kids. If convicted, an automatic sentence would fate him to spend the rest of his life in prison, with no hope for parole. A section chief in the East Baton Rouge District Attorney's Office had told Clayton that securing a murder conviction...
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26-year-old Hacker Sent To Jail For 334 Years, Highest Ever For A Hacker
A 26-year-old hacker, Onur Kopçak, from Turkey, was sentenced to 135 years in prison on Sunday for stealing 11 people’s credit card information. This new prison sentence is served on top of his previous 199-year sentence from 2013. As a result, Kopçak will now serve a record 334 years in prison. This new sentence hs been approved by Mersin third Criminal Court of General Jurisdiction where he was accused of selling the stolen credit card records to other cyber criminals.
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Lawrence Phillips found dead in prison at age 40
Former Nebraska running back Lawrence Phillips was found dead in prison. Phillips, 40, was facing the possible death penalty in the alleged murder of his former cellmate at Kern Valley State Prison.
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Former Oklahoma officer sentenced to 263 years in prison for sexual assaults
A judge on Thursday sentenced Daniel Holtzclaw, the former Oklahoma City police officer convicted of raping and sexually assaulting eight different women while on duty, to 263 years in prison – a resounding win for his victims, who had called for Holtzclaw to spend the maximum number of years behind bars. Judge Timothy Henderson read the sentence before a packed courtroom in the Oklahoma County courthouse. Dozens more people were crammed...
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While 'affluenza' teen went free, similar case led to prison
One 16-year-old drove drunk, ran a red light and crashed into a pregnant woman's car, killing her and her unborn child. Another drunken teenager rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of people assisting a stranded driver, killing four. Jaime Arellano went to prison. Ethan Couch went free. The stories of the two Texas teens illustrate how prosecutors' decisions in similar cases can lead to wildly different outcomes. The poor immigrant from Mexico...
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Alleged killer's alibi includes heroin, dog walking and more heroin
Alan Bienkowski fought back tears as he told an Ocean County jury about his 10-15 bags of heroin a day habit and the four times he unsuccessfully tried to kill himself. "I'm surprised I'm still living," said the 58-year-old Manchester Township resident, who is on trial for the brutal murder of his elderly neighbor Anthony "Tony" Verdicchio in 2013.
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Albert Woodfox released from jail after 43 years in solitary confinement
Albert Woodfox, the longest-standing solitary confinement prisoner in the US, held in isolation in a six-by-nine-foot cell almost continuously for 43 years, has been released from a Louisiana jail. Woodfox, who was kept in solitary following the 1972 murder of a prison guard for which he has always professed his innocence, marked his 69th birthday on Friday by being released from West Feliciana parish detention center. It was a bittersweet birthday...
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Inside the Brutal San Quentin Prison Marathon
One day a year, the men locked up in California's oldest prison get a shot at glory. Thieves, killers, and dope dealers lace up their shoes and race around the yard for the longest and hardest run of their lives. It's The San Quentin Marathon, and it feels something like freedom. By Jesse Katz.
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'Shawshank' fugitive captured after 56 years on the run to be released
The man known to many simply as the “Shawshank fugitive” for his 56 years on the run from an infamous Ohio correctional facility was cleared for release by a parole board this week. Frank Freshwaters, 79, escaped from the Ohio State Reformatory in 1959, after serving two years for parole violation in a manslaughter case. The reformatory was later immortalized as the filming location for the 1994 drama The Shawshank Redemption...
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The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice
“Count” Victor Lustig was America’s greatest con man. But what was his true identity? By Jeff Maysh.
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The First Time Texas Killed One of My Clients
An attorney pieces together a life cut short. By Burke M. Butler.
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How a Ragtag Gang of Retirees Pulled Off the Biggest Jewel Heist in British History
The police and public gasped at the audacity of the Great Hatton Garden heist of 2015, where millions in cash and jewels were taken from an underground vault in London’s diamond district. Mark Seal investigates the unorthodox daring of the perpetrators—and the high-tech investigation that snared them.
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Judge bars state from adding boy to state's sex offender list
A federal judge has blocked Nebraska from putting a 13-year-old boy who moved here from Minnesota on its public list of sex offenders. Senior U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf said if the boy had done in Nebraska exactly what he did in Minnesota he would not have been required to register as a sex offender "and he would not be stigmatized as such."
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Poor white kids are less likely to go to prison than rich black kids
It's a fact that people of color are worse off than white Americans in all kinds of ways, but there is little agreement on why. Some see those disparities as a consequence of racial discrimination in schools, the courts and the workplace, both in the past and present. Others argue that economic inequalities are really the cause, and that public policy should help the poor no matter their race or ethnicity. When it comes to affirmative...
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What It’s Like to Almost Get Executed
I was supposed to be executed one minute after midnight on February 10, 2004. In the lead up to that day, I was moved to a new cell where prison guards could check in on me every hour to “make sure I was all right.” The prison also started sending a psychiatrist — it was clear that they wanted to make sure I was not going to commit suicide. This went on for a few days, and then things slowly started to get more intense. I was awakened in the middle of the night...
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Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
In the fall of 1958 Theodore Kaczynski, a brilliant but vulnerable boy of sixteen, entered Harvard College. There he encountered a prevailing intellectual atmosphere of anti-technological despair. There, also, he was deceived into subjecting himself to a series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments -- experiments that may have confirmed his still-forming belief in the evil of science. Was the Unabomber born at Harvard? A look inside the files. By Alston Chase. (June ’00)
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Caught in the Act
A sampling of meticulous mug shots, along with about forty crime-related images from American tabloids, police files, security cameras, and photographers both anonymous and widely known, comprise the fascinating exhibition “Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play,” currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Michael Greenberg.
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Rule Targets Prosecutors Who Don't Reveal Innocence Evidence
As four men sat in prison for a murder they didn't commit, records show that state investigators sent proof of their innocence to a North Carolina prosecutor, but he never revealed it to the convicted men. He didn't have to. Nothing in North Carolina's legal standards requires a prosecutor to turn over evidence of innocence after a conviction. The four, along with a fifth who also was convicted, were eventually cleared through the work...
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Oscar Pistorius is a ‘broken’ man, psychologist tells sentencing hearing, saying he’s ‘despondent’
Oscar Pistorius is a “broken” man whose mental state has deteriorated over the last two years and he should be hospitalized and not jailed, a clinical psychologist testified for his defence Monday on the opening day of the former track star’s sentencing hearing for murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Prosecutors immediately challenged that opinion of Pistorius in their cross-examination, charging that the double-amputee Olympic athlete confronted a police witness at the courthouse on an earlier occasion.
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What You Should Know About Your Local Prosecutor: Travesties in Criminal Justice That Are Mostly Ignored
In many jurisdictions, prosecutors are elected officials, and municipal courts operate with relative transparency, yet voters are ignorant of deep injustices that go on every day.
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