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Nelson Blanco was accused of stabbing two 7-year-olds in 2003. Rhode Island found him incompetent again and again, then let him go. Now a 2-year-old is fighting for her life.
Police arrested Pastor Matthew Meinecke, not the crowd that attacked him. The Ninth Circuit called it a heckler’s veto, and Seattle paid.
Judicial Watch pried 249 pages of FBI records on Thomas Crooks loose, including a redacted chat thread and drone logs. At this pace the full file takes 12-plus years.
Two years after declining charges, the Tompkins County DA says he relied on campus police and will now take the Chi Phi case to a grand jury after a civil suit.
Angela Lipps was arrested at gunpoint over North Dakota bank fraud she had nothing to do with. Bank records cleared her. Her lawsuit says police never checked.