According to a report commissioned by the city, more than 20,000 burglary, theft, assault and hit-and-run cases were not investigated in 2013. When I stumbled onto this story the explanation given was that HPD is understaffed. This may be some of the reason this happened, but I am not buying that this is the only
The 14th Court of Appeals reversed Jaime Arturo Zamora’s 2011 capital murder conviction this week. Why? Common sense – you can’t sustain a conviction based solely on the testimony of people who are already in trouble. There was no evidence connecting him to the shooting except testimony of his alleged accomplices. Zamora was serving life
Two BP employees were charged with manslaughter in connection with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 offshore oil rig workers. Prosecutors have asked the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate the charges after U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. threw out 11 counts of “seaman’s manslaughter.” Duval said the seaman’s manslaughter law
Yet another example of a glorified hall-monitor run a muck, an Oakland High school guard brutally attacked a student, allegedly punching, handcuffing and dumping a handicapped student out of his wheel chair. The Officer, Marchell Mitchell, has been charged with child abuse and fired. The details of this situation are deplorable. Mitchell was trying to
