- Scottish officers have confirmed that Nicholas Rossi, lengthy needed within the U.S. for a wide range of crimes, can be extradited. As chances are you’ll recall, Rossi as soon as faked his personal dying to flee prosecution, and after being positioned in Scotland he began insisting he’s an Irish orphan named “Arthur Knight,” a declare that some discovered lower than credible. See, e.g., “Suspect Claiming Mistaken Id Says Somebody Tattooed Him With out His Information” (Nov. 14, 2022). A court docket lastly rejected the declare in August, and the federal government cleared the way in which for his extradition earlier this month.
- A choose in Oklahoma might lose her job after it got here to gentle that she had been texting and scrolling by social media throughout a lot of a homicide trial over which she was presiding. It wasn’t simply the variety of texts she despatched (over 500, all to the identical individual) but additionally their less-than-respectful content material. “Why does he have child palms?” she requested in regards to the prosecutor. The choose additionally speculated that one juror was carrying a wig and that one witness had no enamel. The chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court docket has really useful that she be faraway from the bench, in order that’s most likely how that’ll come out.
- “A British Columbia man … claims he walked bare out of his bathe to discover a feminine uniformed Mountie standing in his bed room” could possibly be the start of a scene in a sure kind of film, apart from the phrase I disregarded of the quote: “who’s suing the RCMP[.]” The plaintiff says he was “shocked, confused, and embarrassed” by the sudden Mountie encounter and was later angered to be taught they have been joking about it down on the station. There could be one thing to this, as a result of police claimed they entered his house after the door “flung open” after they knocked on it they usually then felt obligated to ensure nobody was injured inside. Since they have been there to serve him with a site visitors ticket, that appears particularly unlikely.
- An lawyer isn’t allowed to “rummage” by a litigation opponent’s Dropbox account, a choose dominated earlier this month, ordering the Robins Kaplan agency to return paperwork it took from the account and to pay $156,000 in sanctions. A 3rd-party vendor by chance disclosed the hyperlink in discovery, and a Robins Kaplan lawyer then disclosed the week-long rummaging in a letter to the opponent, threatening to make use of a few of what it discovered if the opponent didn’t dismiss the lawsuit. The court docket held the rummaging was improper and that the later try and “weaponize” the data made issues worse. The agency says it is going to enchantment the sanction. Sorry, it says it “seems to be ahead” to interesting the sanction, in order that should imply it has a extremely good argument.
- A Texas man was arrested in August after his lacking spouse’s physique was present in a black duffle bag. The person had filed a missing-person report and reported a black duffle bag lacking from the couple’s house, presumably opining that his spouse had left of her personal accord. However he appears to have undermined that concept by telling investigators that he had been arrested for, in his phrases, “shedding his spouse’s physique and never hiding the physique very properly.” As I’ve suggested earlier than, it is best to maintain your mouth shut should you get arrested, however should you do communicate, please make some type of amusing confession.
- Folks journal experiences that movie star convicts Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos, fraud, 11 years) and Jen Shah (Actual Housewives of Salt Lake, fraud, six years) have develop into associates within the federal jail camp they now share. That is primarily based, nonetheless, on the testimony of Shah’s publicist, so who is aware of. “They’re each rehabilitating and have bonded over being on this journey of constructive change,” the publicist mentioned, which I assume is a publicist’s means of describing a stint in federal jail for fraud. The publicist additionally claimed that Shah (mentioned to show a health class known as “Sha-mazing Abs”) is studying to be “a greater individual,” which I assume is a publicist’s means of claiming “somebody who doesn’t conspire to defraud the aged.”