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Police team-ups beat Nigeria’s scammers Globally, Nigeria has become associated with what is known as “advance fee” or 419 fraud. Virtually anyone with an email account will be familiar with this crime, which involves sending emails or faxes to potential victims around the world, sucking them into a highly attractive but utterly false financial deal. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) Jan. 28, 2004 – Medicines such as codeine and Valium and potent hormones with instructions written only in Chinese are among the latest illegally imported drugs intercepted by the government. The Food and Drug Administration’s spot inspection of shipments from Canada and elsewhere netted 1,728 medicines unapproved for sale in this country. The agency […]

United States 6th Circuit Court of Appeals Reports U.S.A. v. THORPE, 05-2220 (6th Cir. 12-27-2006) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JAMES THORPE, Defendant-Appellee. No. 05-2220. United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. Argued: November 2, 2006. Decided and Filed: December 27, 2006. Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206. Appeal from the United States District […]

Book Title: Everybody’s Guide to Small Claims Court (Everybody’s Guide to Small Claims Court National Edition) (Paperback) by Ralph E. Warner, Linda Allison (Illustrator) Editorial Reviews: Associated Press Step-by-step advice on how to prepare your case, how to file it, and perhaps most importantly, how to collect if you win. Los Angeles Times Takes you […]

A discussion of drug tests as a part of the criminal justice system. Drug tests are administered in a variety of everyday contexts – especially in the job market. Here we discuss the subject as it applies to the criminal justice system. Probably the most common use of drug testing is for people who have been […]

A former public defender recounts his first experience with a lie detector test and argues for their place in American courtrooms. I vividly remember my first lie detector test. It wasn’t I who was being tested but rather a client charged with rape. I was relatively new to the criminal defense business, having recently been […]