http://blog.lawinfo.com Lawyer Blog | Attorney Blog | Read and Post Fri, 09 May 2008 04:02:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Going to court is not how most people prefer to spend their time. In fact, most of us would have ore anxiety about going to court than having to speak in public. Why? Because there is probably a lot at stake when you go to court - ... http://blog.lawinfo.com/2008/05/08/should-you-take-your-case-to-court/ BENSALEM, Pa. (AP) _ Police say they had no trouble tracking down a robbery suspect, because the victims had taken his picture while chatting with him at a bar a short time before the theft. The suspect, Andre Smith, struck up a conversation with a group of women at a bachelorette ... http://blog.lawinfo.com/2008/05/08/police-victims-own-photo-helped-cops-nail-robbery-suspect/ By TOM HAYS and DAVID B. CARUSO Associated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) _ Hundreds of demonstrators led by the Rev. Al Sharpton clogged intersections and snarled traffic across the city to protest the acquittal of three officers involved in the shooting death of an unarmed black man on his wedding ... http://blog.lawinfo.com/2008/05/08/protesters-who-snarled-traffic-arrested-in-new-york-city/ By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) _ Partners of Chinese women who were forced to have abortions are pressing the Supreme Court to make it easier to get asylum in the United States. The Bush administration is resisting the male partners' efforts to get asylum, even though the Republican congressman ... http://blog.lawinfo.com/2008/05/08/chinas-family-planning-rules-at-issue-in-us-asylum-cases/ By BRENDAN RILEY Associated Press Writer CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) _ The state that pioneered the quickie divorce is witnessing a potentially ugly breakup that has the governor of Nevada fighting to get back into his own mansion. Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons filed for divorce last week after moving out of the ... http://blog.lawinfo.com/2008/05/07/nevada-governor-wants-his-mansion-back-and-his-wife-out-1st-ld-writethru/ By ALLISON HOFFMAN Associated Press Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) _ San Diego State University has suspended six fraternities after a sweeping drug investigation that landed dozens of students in jail on suspicion of openly dealing drugs on campus. The probe _ prompted by the cocaine overdose death last year of a freshman ... http://blog.lawinfo.com/2008/05/07/6-fraternities-suspended-in-drug-probe-at-san-diego-state-u-2nd-ld-writethru/ PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Fifteen Philadelphia police officers have been taken off the street as authorities investigate a video showing three suspects being kicked and beaten by city police. A spokesman for Mayor Michael Nutter says the mayor stands behind the police department but his first glance of the video does appear ... http://blog.lawinfo.com/2008/05/07/15-philly-officers-taken-off-street-after-videotaped-beating/ By DAVID TIRRELL-WYSOCKI Associated Press Writer CONCORD, N.H. (AP) _ A former congressional candidate convicted of faking his disappearance after a car crash two years ago was arrested Tuesday on a warrant for violating his bail conditions. A prosecutor said he asked that bail be revoked after Gary Dodds' wife reported to ... http://blog.lawinfo.com/2008/05/06/ex-nh-candidate-convicted-for-fake-disappearance-arrested/ By PAUL ELIAS Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ A judge plans to allow three of six Chinese crew members who have been held in the United States since their ship spilled 53,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay to return home in the next few weeks. The captain, however, ... http://blog.lawinfo.com/2008/05/06/judge-plans-to-let-half-of-bay-spill-crew-return-to-china/ By SAMUEL MAULL Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) _ A lovesick former mental patient was convicted Tuesday of stalking and harassing Uma Thurman for more than two years, showing up on her front doorstep and movie set and sending the actress a series of creepy love letters. Jack Jordan, a 37-year-old ... http://blog.lawinfo.com/2008/05/06/new-york-jury-convicts-man-of-stalking-actress-uma-thurman/