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Judge Accused of Spanking Inmates Resigns

Ethics charges have been dropped against an Alabama judge accused of helping friends and family by reducing their sentences or changing their status. The Judicial Inquiry Commission moved to dismiss the charges less than a day after Judge Herman Thomas resigned from the bench, WKRG.com reports. A criminal investigation, however,…

Oct 3, 2007 12:35 PM CDT

Supreme Court Stops TX Execution

The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a stay of execution for a Texas death-row inmate in a move that suggests it may agree to halt lethal injections in additional cases. The court yesterday agreed to block the execution of Carlton Turner Jr., convicted of killing his adoptive parents, the New…

Sep 28, 2007 3:45 PM CDT

AL Prosecutor Rebuked By State AG

An Alabama prosecutor who testified in support of a convicted murderer in his successful appeal of his death sentence has been rebuked by the state attorney general. Robert E. Owens, the Shelby County district attorney and the prosecutor in the case in which LaSamuel Gamble was convicted, testified that it…

Sep 15, 2007 2:40 AM CDT

Katrina Tax Break Promotes Luxe Condos

Federal tax breaks billed as providing rebuilding aid for areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama that were devastated by Hurricane Katrina are promoting construction of luxurious homes far inland. As red tape and disorganization, among other issues, delay rebuilding in some of the most severely damaged areas, the tax breaks…

Aug 14, 2007 6:45 PM CDT

Girl, 11, in DUI Case, Clocks 100 in Chase

An 11-year-old Florida girl has been charged with drunken driving after a high-speed chase in Alabama in which she clocked more than 100 mph before sideswiping another vehicle and crashing her family’s car. The girl, whose name wasn’t released because she is a juvenile, also faces charges of speeding, leaving…

Jul 6, 2007 8:45 PM CDT

Convicted Governor Blames Karl Rove for Recommended 30-Year Prison Term

The controversy over alleged White House politicization of the federal prosecution process has moved beyond concern about the perhaps politically motivated dismissals of nine U.S. attorneys to a new issue–the cases they did, or did not, pursue. Now Don Siegelman, a former Democratic governor of Alabama, is contending that he…

Jun 27, 2007 1:46 AM CDT

‘Mockingbird’ Legacy: Remembrance of Racist Times Past

Although it is a novel, rather than non-fiction, Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” has, perhaps more than any other book, impressed into the minds of many a consciousness of the racist justice system that characterized the segregated American south for much of the last century. An instant best-seller after…

Jun 13, 2007 9:53 PM CDT

Indictment for Shooting that Changed History

The district attorney wasn’t releasing the name of the man indicted yesterday for a 1965 killing in Alabama that helped inspire a 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. But the lawyer for retired police officer James B. Fowler told the New York Times that the indictment likely names…

May 10, 2007 2:19 PM CDT

Judge Orders Wal-Mart Shoplifters to Wear Signs

In a punishment reminiscent of the pillory of times past, two convicted shoplifters were ordered by an Alabama judge to wear signboards outside a local Wal-Mart proclaiming “I am a Thief I Stole from Walmart.” One defendant proclaimed her innocence, saying that when she was apprehended, she had been trying…

May 7, 2007 11:39 PM CDT

Defense Lawyer: Alabama Militia Raids Overblown

A lawyer for one of six alleged militia members recently arrested during an early-morning sweep in Alabama reportedly says the affair – in which 2,500 rounds of ammunition, hundreds of hand grenades and a machine gun were confiscated – was “much ado about nothing.” Scott Boudreaux’s client, a major in…

Apr 28, 2007 1:52 AM CDT

Soda Theft Defendant: ‘I Should Have Had a V-8’

Arrested and eventually given a suspended sentence for stealing a soda from a convenience store, apparently while in an inebriated state, the defendant in a Mobile, Ala., case reportedly was still unbroken after pleading guilty to a reduced third-degree theft charge. Reminded by the judge that he had spent some…

Apr 26, 2007 3:28 AM CDT

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