The guy just can't seem to stay out of trouble:
SANFORD, Fla. - George Zimmerman entered a no contest plea to resolve a misdemeanor charge of stalking a private investigator in the latest run-in with the law for the neighborhood watch leader who killed Trayvon Martin.
Don't know how you "stalk" a PI - generally, it's the other way around. In any case, it seems clear that George has serious mental problems, and should probably be removed from society.
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A year ago, KrebsOnSecurity warned that “Informed Delivery,” a new offering from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that lets residents view scanned images of all incoming mail, was likely to be abused by identity thieves and other fraudsters unless the USPS beefed up security around the program and made it easier for people to opt out. This week, the U.S. Secret Service issued an internal alert warning that many of its field offices have reported crooks are indeed using Informed Delivery to commit various identity theft and credit card fraud schemes.
USPS has been so lax about this that literally anyone can sign up for "Informed Delivery" with your address, making it easy for ID thieves to stop by and pick up any of your mail that they might find useful. Yet another reason to invest in a locking mailbox.
Last month, WKMG’s Clickorlando.com wrote that a number of Belle Isle, Fla. residents reported receiving hefty bills for credit cards they never knew they had. One resident was quoted as saying she received a bill for $2,000 in charges on a card she’d never seen before, and only after that did she get a notice from the USPS saying someone at her address had signed up for Informed Delivery. The only problem was she’d never signed up for the USPS program.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday issued its most strongly worded policy statement against spanking children.
It's supposedly ineffective and harmful.
My mom and dad never got the memo. Oh well.
46-year-old Gail Cleavenger of DeBary, Florida must have received the message and taken it to heart. Too bad.
When the 15-year-old returned from school to his home in DeBary, Fla., on Friday, police say, he called 911. “He’s probably one of the top three sociopaths I’ve ever come across,” Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said during a news conference Saturday. “He wanted to tell everyone how smart he was for what he did to his mom.”
He strangled her to death.
In an interview with investigators, the teen, with what seemed like a sense of pride, Chitwood said, recounted the steps he took to hide his mother’s body. He tied her legs together, placed her in a wheelbarrow, loaded her into a van and buried her beneath a fire pit at a nearby church.
He poured bleach into the hole to mask the smell of decomposition.
What a smart guy.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The anti-Semitic truck driver accused of gunning down 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue pleaded not guilty on Thursday to federal charges that could put him on death row.
He was caught, and injured in a shootout with police, so why is he pleading not guilty?
Easy: it would be malpractice if a defense attorney allowed his client to plead guilty at arraignment. The burden of proof is on the state for a good reason: it's a massive machine that grinds up both the innocent and the guilty. The defense exists to protect the defendant from being more fodder. There's no reason for anyone to not force the state to meet that burden, particularly since the odds are always against the defense from the get-go.
So they always plead not guilty, even when caught with their pants around their ankles.
After all, it only costs taxpayers.
"The more I think about it, ol' Billy was right: kill all the lawyers; kill 'em tonight."
- Get Over It - The Eagles
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Edmund Zagorski is due to be fried tonight at 7 p.m. Tennessee time. For his final meal, he's selected pickled pig knuckles and pig tails.
Death row inmates are usually given $20 (£15.50) to spend on a special meal before they are put to death.
Oh, let's not shilly-shally around about it - he's going to be executed because he was convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of two men - John Dotson, 35, and Jimmy Porter, 32 - in 1983. He was found to have shot them and, for good measure, slit their throats.
It's long past time for his removal. He's not going to be "put to death", he's going to be killed.
Some apologists argue that Old Sparky is inhumane, but how humane was his treatment of two other people? Frankly, I don't care how he goes, as long as he's gone. And it looks as though he's come to the realization that this time, they're really going to kill him.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — If Tennessee electrocutes Edmund Zagorski on Thursday (Nov. 1), it will be in an electric chair built by a self-taught execution expert who is no longer welcomed in the prison system and who worries that his device will malfunction.
Comforting, isn't it?
In two Florida executions in the 1990s, smoke and flames shot from the condemned inmates' heads. In 1999, blood spilled from under an inmate's mask.
Well, you probably want to adjust the amps on those things.
But it must be said that none of the inmates complained.
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We don't have Whitey to kick around any more:
Boston gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger Jr. has been killed behind bars shortly after he was transferred to a federal prison in West Virginia. He was 89.
Transferred to a different prison and killed there the very same day, and just ahead of Halloween.
Organized crime boss Bulger had been convicted in 2013 of killing at least 11 people and was serving a life sentence. He was one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives for 16 years until his 2011 arrest in Santa Monica, California.
His life sentence lasted five years.
Prison life can be hard on a guy.
And in Chiraq, things continue apace:
Over this past weekend, at least 42 people were shot, five of them fatally, including a 16-year-old boy, according to data kept by the Tribune. Nearly half of those shootings occurred in the Englewood police district on the South Side and the Harrison and Austin districts on the West side -- neighborhoods that have borne the brunt of violence this year.
Fortunately, they have strict gun laws in that toddlin' town.
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So the creepy porn lawyer gets two:
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman is asking the Department of Justice and FBI to open a second investigation into whether attorney Michael Avenatti made false statements to Congress about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
I think we already know the answer. It'll be interesting to see if they build prison cells large enough to contain his mouth.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. - A former employee convicted of stealing nearly $400,000 from a hospital in western Washington state has been sentenced to a year in jail. The Olympian reports 46-year-old Davina Gilroy of Aberdeen was sentenced after pleading guilty in Grays Harbor Superior Court earlier this month to first-degree theft.
She has to pay an unspecified amount of restitution to the hospital's insurance company. Probably be easier to just give the hospital back their four Tylenol tablets.
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Central Oregon:
A Bend man was “hunted” in his own home by a neighbor wielding an AR-15 before he shot and killed the intruder in a double-fatality shooting that rocked a quiet north Bend neighborhood this weekend, according to Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel. Hummel said at around 12:30 a.m. Saturday, Kyle Scott Adams, 33, was alone in his home at 20774 NE Sierra Drive when he was awoken by his neighbor, Tyler William Herrick, 33, standing in his bedroom.
Adams told Herrick to get out, which he did. But then he returned as Adams and his room-mate were discussing the incident. Herrick fired a shot through a window, striking Adams in the head. His room-mate ran upstairs, retrieved his pistol, and hid in a bathroom.
Hummel said Herrick climbed through the shattered window and “methodically” walked room-to-room hunting Pebbles, who was hiding in the bathroom of the master bedroom upstairs. When Herrick entered the master bedroom, Pebbles shot and killed him.
The room-mate, Mr. Pebbles, will face no charges. The investigation continues, but current speculation is that Herrick suffered a “monumental mental health collapse.”
Fortunately, Pebbles was able to retrieve his weapon and go "Bamm-Bamm" on Herrick.
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