In 2016, conservative Nueces County, Tx., elected Mark Gonzalez, a 38-year-old Democrat and self-described “Mexican biker lawyer covered in tattoos,” as district attorney. Gonzalez had never prosecuted a single case: For his entire 10-year career, he specialized in getting accused criminals off the hook, working...
Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed an $87 billion budget that was $28 million short in prison funding. Now, to close the gap, the Florida Department of Corrections is eliminating programs that prepare inmates for their return to the community, reports the Miami Herald. The agency...
Six months before the midterm elections, Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign will soon run into a dead zone of sorts. Former prosecutors expect him either to wrap up, or lie low and take no visible steps until after the...
Hi everyone! You’re favorite Trademarkologist-in-training is back! I apologize for not blogging last month but my husband, Chris, and I were at the 2018 Masters Tournament® in Augusta, Georgia! If that’s not a “get-out-of-work-free card” then I don’t know what is! Tickets to the Masters® have...
Many readers were puzzled by a statement the Supreme Court released last month “respecting” a long-pending petition for certiorari in a bankruptcy case. The unusual statement, written by two justices, indicated that the court might lack a quorum and seemed designed to urge the lower...
A federal agent shot in the face Friday in Chicago was the fourth law enforcement officer wounded in the past year in an area where warring gangs have been stepping up their firepower, the Chicago Tribune reports. The agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,...
Violent crime is becoming more common in small towns and cities across Iowa, outpacing a rise in urban centers, the Des Moines Register reports. Law enforcement officials say drug use and a lack of mental health services across the state are helping push crime numbers...
Calls to the National Domestic Violence Hotline involving firearms were up more than 75 percent last year, reports USA Today. The surge, after a year that had a 50 percent increase in gun-related domestic violence reports, is attributed to increased publicity about mass shootings. Nearly...
Do you know specifically what you want to get out of your firm? How much money you want to take home, how many hours you want to work (including vacations), the kind of work you want to be doing, and the impact (if any) that...
They are the “good guys with guns” the National Rifle Association says are needed to protect students from shooters: a school police officer, a teacher who moonlights in law enforcement, a veteran sheriff. But in a span of 48 hours in March, the three were responsible...